THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE RESOLUTION

INTRODUCED BY PETRI, BARRAR, CLYMER, D. COSTA, GABLER, HENNESSEY, MICOZZIE, MOUL, MURT, O'NEILL, PYLE, VULAKOVICH, WAGNER AND WATSON, APRIL 5, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, APRIL 5, 2011  

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Urging the Secretary of Education to immediately submit orders

for textbooks, instructional materials and instructional

equipment for loan to nonpublic schools.

WHEREAS, The welfare of this Commonwealth requires that the

present and future generations of school age children be assured

ample opportunity to develop to the fullest their intellectual

capacities; and

WHEREAS, To further this objective, the Commonwealth

provides, through tax funds of the Commonwealth, textbooks and

instructional materials free of charge to children attending

public schools within the Commonwealth; and

WHEREAS, Approximately one quarter of all children in this

Commonwealth, in compliance with the compulsory attendance

provisions of the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known

as the Public School Code of 1949, attend nonpublic schools; and

WHEREAS, Although their parents are taxpayers of the

Commonwealth, these children do not receive textbooks or

instructional materials from the Commonwealth; and

WHEREAS, The General Assembly enacted the provisions of

section 923-A of the Public School Code of 1949 to assure such a

distribution of such educational aids that every school child in

this Commonwealth will equitably share in the benefits thereof;

therefore be it

RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the Secretary of

Education be urged to immediately submit all orders for

textbooks, instructional materials and instructional equipment

for loan to nonpublic schools pursuant to section 923-A of the

act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public

School Code of 1949.