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...
Apr 28, 2015
(This is an opinion column from a Citified insider.) Most Americans know that the federal tax laws are filled with carefully crafted tax breaks for certain special interests. What Pennsylvanians need to know is that our state’s tax system is also riddled with...
Apr 28, 2015
Haverford Township School director and chairman of the Delaware County School Boards Legislative Council Larry Feinberg will serve as moderator for a panel discussion on public school funding in southeastern Pennsylvania, 7 p.m., April 29, at Springfield High School,...
Apr 27, 2015
When it comes to the budget for the William Penn School District, Rafi Cave can’t tell you what will happen next. “We have no idea,” Cave, the vice president of the school board, said. “We can’t forecast the current method.” The current method’s lack of a funding...
Apr 23, 2015
Aristotle once said that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” and we are learning this concept holds true in education. An emerging strategy, known as “collective impact,” provides an opportunity for individuals and organizations that would otherwise work...
