Press Release

Peg Luksik, candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, will unveil her "Action Plan for School Choice" at a TOWN MEETING on Friday, October 2, 1998 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Cambria County Community College. The College is located in the former Glosser Store adjacent to Central Park in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. "I support the right of parents to choose the best educational experience for their own children without state control or financial penalty," said Mrs. Luksik.

"The Ridge voucher plan would put the state in the driver's seat and allow Harrisburg bureaucrats to have greater control over all schools, especially those which are private and religiously-affiliated. A recent headline in the Investor's Business Daily (July 23,1998) summarized the result of vouchers rather bluntly - `SCHOOL CHOICE OR BIGGER GOV'T .... Milwaukee's Reform Came Wrapped in Red Tape.' This, and many other ill-conceived educational experiments, are being foisted upon our children, their parents and all taxpayers without any justification. The role of state government should be limited to the monitoring of local school districts to ensure that they are effectively providing academic instruction to their students ... nothing more, according to Mrs. Luksik, whose profession is teaching.

Mrs. Luksik is the co-author, along with Pamela Hobbs-Hofecker, of "Outcome-Based Education: The State's Assault on Our Children's Values." She served as host of the television Program entitled, "The Learning Curve" on NET-TV for one year and as a grant reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education during the Reagan administration. The public is invited to attend the TOWN MEETING on October 2, 1998 for a discussion of the many problems facing our educational system in Pennsylvania.