May 13, 2015
The Philadelphia School District is exploring outsourcing its health services, officials said Wednesday – a move that might mean privatizing jobs now held by unionized school nurses. Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said the district, rocked by years of brutal...
May 13, 2015
THE CITY’S public school system is once again stuck in no man’s land, otherwise known as a new budget cycle. The city charter requires the school district to adopt its budget by May 30, but funding from the city and state are a giant question mark at this...
May 12, 2015
Be a champion for children! Join PCCY in Philadelphia and Harrisburg throughout the months of May and June to advocate on behalf of our region’s children. Click on the events below to sign up. K-12 Education Action Days Thursday, May 21, 2015: Action Day in...
May 11, 2015
Every Pennsylvania student deserves a quality education no matter where that student lives But Pennsylvania’s system for funding public schools is broken: We are one of only three states without a basic education funding formula to distribute adequate resources both...
May 8, 2015
Community Schools Coming to Philadelphia More than a million students in 3,000 schools across the nation attend schools that offer students and families access to a variety of social and health care services on-site, and common sense tells us that’s a good thing for...
May 6, 2015
#PABudget: Pennsylvania Leaves $19 Billion in Tax Breaks on the Table (audio) Donna Cooper, Executive Director of Public Citizens for Children and Youth joins Rick to discuss school funding and which is more important, tax credits for business or textbooks and...
