Jun 11, 2015
Street theater came to the steps of the Montgomery County Courthouse on Thursday to highlight the need for a fair school-funding formula in Pennsylvania. Three students in Villanova University’s master’s degree theater program took turns giving dramatic readings from...
Jun 11, 2015
The day after the Basic Education Funding Commission extended its deadline to deliver a recommendation for a funding formula for Pennsylvania basic education to the Legislature, public school administrators and teachers across the commonwealth took to their local...
Jun 11, 2015
NORRISTOWN School officials, parents, and activists are planning a rally at the Montgomery County Courthouse on Thursday morning to advocate for a new state education funding formula. A legislative commission that has been studying the issue for a year was due to...
Jun 5, 2015
GIVE US THE resources and we will have better outcomes. That was the message yesterday from dozens of school principals as City Council continues to debate the Philadelphia School District’s request for $103 million in new funding. In a letter delivered to...
Jun 5, 2015
Philadelphia city council has basically said “no way” to the mayor’s tax hike proposal to fund the school system. Now they’re working to come up with another way to raise money to at least cover the schools’ debts. NBC10’s Drew...
Jun 5, 2015
Several principals today testified before Philadelphia City Council in favor of Resolution 150518, which would mandate cursive writing in the Philadelphia School District’s curriculum, though the majority of their three minutes was spent pleading for lawmakers to...
