Eric Becoats, William Penn School District.Amy Arcurio, Greater Johnstown School District.We honor our clients for taking a stand to change that system and fighting for public school funding that lives up to the promise in Pennsylvania’s State Constitution: a quality public education that prepares students for life after high school. Right now in Pennsylvania, the students who need the most have the least, because of where they live. They have one thing in common: because their communities are not wealthy, their students, like hundreds of thousands of other students across Pennsylvania, go without the basics and the support they need to reach their potential. The six school districts who took on the state legislature in court are from every corner of the Commonwealth-cities, small towns, and suburbs from the Cambria County to Carbon County.
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Our clients made the trial for a fair system of public school funding possible. The six school districts challenging Pennsylvania’s school funding system From left to right: Brian Costello, Wilkes-Barre Area SD Brian Waite, Shenandoah Valley SD Eric Becoats, William Penn SD Damaris Rau, SD of Lancaster Amy Arcurio, Greater Johnstown SD David McAndrew, Panther Valley SD. “Active in civil rights matters since participating in the Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964,” the association wrote, “his work covered a wide range of civil rights issues: attempting to empower African American communities in connection with the Model Cities program attacking police misconduct in the Rizzo era and reducing the use of deadly force increasing the numbers of African American and Latino police officers in Philadelphia by ending the use of discriminatory tests and improving income in the Black community through successful employment discrimination cases which returned millions of dollars from discriminating employers.” Six Superintendents Standing Up for Fair School Funding The superintendents of six petitioner school districts. Association for Nonviolence’s annual awards banquet. Churchill was honored as a Dum Major for Civil Rights at the Philadelphia Martin Luther King Jr. Churchill helped lead our litigation team in the school funding trial that concluded March 10, challenging Pennsylvania’s inadequate, inequitable, and unconstitutional system for funding public schools. In 2012, he successfully advocated for a class of special education students from Chester Upland School District to prevent school closures and require the state to provide sufficient funding for special education. He has fought in court for quality public education for all children in the Commonwealth over several decades. Churchill has helped win major victories in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania against housing segregation, police misconduct, employment discrimination, and more.
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His service and leadership has been foundational to the work of the Law Center since joining as pro bono co-counsel on one of our first cases-a landmark 1969 challenge to a federal housing development that would have worsened segregation in Philadelphia. This year, we will honor our of counsel Michael Churchill, who joined the Law Center in 1976 and served as co-director until 2006, with the Thaddeus Stevens Award in recognition of more than 50 years of dedication to advancing civil rights in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Honorees Michael Churchill during the school funding trial Michael Churchill Michael Churchill Michael Churchill
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