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No Cuts and No Excuses: PA Budget Must Include Full Adequacy Funding for Public Schools

All children in Pennsylvania are entitled to a comprehensive, contemporary, effective public education. Yet nearly two months past the Commonwealth’s budget deadline, 1.7 million public school students are returning to classrooms without state funding.

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The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community education, advocacy, and organizing to secure access to fundamental resources and services.

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Holding the Department of Justice accountable to remedy alleged redlining in Philadelphia, PA

In response to a troubling nationwide effort to weaken fair housing enforcement, civil rights groups are taking action to attempt to block the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) premature termination of a federal consent order that holds ESSA Bank & Trust accountable for alleged discriminatory redlining in majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in and around Philadelphia.

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2025 Annual Celebration • A Night of Impact

Join us at the Grand Belle at the Bellevue in Philadelphia as we celebrate the Law Center’s work to protect our fundamental civil rights across Pennsylvania and beyond!

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