WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!           

Please contact your state representative and tell them to oppose House Bill 2063!!

PA Representative Joe Ciresi--a Democrat from Montgomery County (Representing Pottsgrove, Pottstown & Spring-Ford)--has introduced legislation (HB 2063) that would end the EITC & OSTC programs as we know them. Representative Ciresi’s bill can only be regarded as a significant attack on the freedom of parental choice in education in PA. 

WHAT THE BILL WOULD DO:

• Cut family income limits for students participating to 200% of the federal poverty level (This would cut the current family EITC & OSTC eligibility in half).
• Eliminate support level factors for families with students with a disability.
• Impose new reporting requirements on scholarship organizations to report data on every student given a scholarship, and for every applicant who was “denied.”
• Impose new reporting requirements on schools--affecting every nonpublic school in the state.
• Give the state carte blanche to impose new reporting requirements without legislative approval.