PRINTER'S NO. 509
No. 43 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY ITKIN, PERZEL, RIEGER, HALUSKA, CAPPABIANCA,
GODSHALL, GAMBLE, ROBERTS, PETRONE, ROONEY, COY, CORRIGAN,
SANTONI, RUBLEY, PESCI, FAIRCHILD, MUNDY, ROBINSON, KENNEY,
LAUGHLIN, PISTELLA, BISHOP, COLAFELLA AND TRELLO,
JANUARY 31, 1995
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
JANUARY 31, 1995
A RESOLUTION
1 Requiring a study to determine the feasibility of creating a
2 voluntary residential school program.
3 WHEREAS, Many child service professionals support group homes
4 and other stable alternatives to foster homes and similarly
5 unsettled living arrangements for disadvantaged children; and
6 WHEREAS, Many parents living on poverty incomes believe their
7 children are not being educated in an environment conducive to
8 learning, but they lack the resources needed to provide better
9 educational environments for their children; and
10 WHEREAS, The Commonwealth could help low-income parents send
11 their children to residential schools, on a strictly voluntary
12 basis, by applying each child's existing education and welfare
13 funds toward tuition; and
14 WHEREAS, Pennsylvania has an excellent model of a successful
15 residential school for disadvantaged children in the Scotland
16 School for Veterans' Children; therefore be it
1 RESOLVED, That the Joint State Government Commission report
2 to the General Assembly on the feasibility of creating a
3 voluntary residential school program; and be it further
4 RESOLVED, That the Joint State Government Commission appoint
5 a working group of legislators, educators, child care
6 professionals, and other interested public officials and private
7 citizens to assist in the development of the plan; and be it
8 further
9 RESOLVED, That the Joint State Government Commission report
10 its findings to the General Assembly by October 30, 1995.
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