Apr 23, 2015
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A bus full of young voters left center city Philadelphia this morning for Harrisburg, where they were meeting later in the day with state legislators to talk about education funding. Hopping on a bus parked on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the...
Apr 23, 2015
Pennsylvania’s lowest-performing schools could be given an ultimatum – reform quickly, or face relegation to a new, state-run district – under legislation to be introduced soon. The bill, crafted by State Sen. Lloyd Smucker (R., Lancaster), could...
Apr 22, 2015
HARRISBURG, PA (April 22nd, 2015) – A group of 50 young voters from southeastern Pennsylvania rallied in Harrisburg Wednesday to call on the Pennsylvania Legislature to adopt a fair and equitable funding formula for schools in this year’s budget. “Young voters like us...
Apr 20, 2015
laywright Arden Kass doesn’t just want you to know the statistics regarding school funding disparities in Pennsylvania — that the state’s poorest schools receive 33 percent less in state and local funding per pupil than the richest schools. She wants...
Apr 20, 2015
A play written about school funding has turned a political topic into a personal one. Playwright Arden Kass used interviews from 100 students, teachers and politicians from 30 different communities across Pennsylvania to create a play, titled “School Play,” to promote...
Apr 16, 2015
Ever see a play so good “not even Shakespeare could do it?” That was the reaction from William Penn School District Superintendent Joe Bruni on “School Play,” a recently performed production that tackles a subject Bruni knows all too well: the school funding dilemma....
