PA school begs for paper, spends $700,000 on refurbishing football stadium
February 18, 2020
By Victor Skinner
A paper shortage at a Pennsylvania school district is revealing important questions about the priorities in public schools, and it’s exposing issues in a broken system that have gone unresolved for years.
I am a school counselor at Sto-Rox, a low income school district in the #Pittsburgh area. We have completely ran out of paper for the rest of the year. Any #businesses willing to #donate paper to us?! @HeinzKetchup_US @PPG @dickssportingss @Alcoa
— Katie Couch (@Couch_Kitten) February 14, 2020
The story started with a post to Twitter by Sto-Rox school counselor Katie Couch, who alerted that the district will “completely run out of paper for the rest of the year.â€
Superintendent Frank Dalmas told the Pittsburg Post-Tribune the “surprising†paper shortage is the result of a “conservative spending budget.†The district received $19,011 per student in funding for the 2018-19 school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
http://eagnews.org/pa-school-begs-for-paper-spends-700000-on-refurbishing-football-stadium/
