A Better Deal for Kids

  CYBER CHARTER REFORM IS NO GAME Today’s state budget negotiations feel like a game of UNO – find a match, skip, reverse, lose a turn. It’s not a fun game for the schools and vital programs that have been dealt a financially losing hand with the budget delay....

Two Weeks and Counting… – Aug 8, 2025

  Students Going Back to School But PA Senate Still Stalling State Budget Negotiations With 447,330 PA students returning to classrooms in just two weeks, education advocates demand that the Senate GOP fulfill their constitutional obligation to adequately fund...

Reversing the Summer Slide – Aug 1, 2025

  SOME GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE “Aaliyah is learning so much at her summer program. She has fun, she learns a lot and gets to do things like museums and field trips that I can’t do,” said Aaliyah’s grandmother, Michelle, who is raising the...

Coming Up Aces for Kids – Jul 25, 2025

  WHO’S WINNING IN THIS GAME? PA students could hit the jackpot if the players in Harrisburg would agree on how to tax “video-gaming” terminals in bars, fire halls, taverns, and convenience stores. In a rare public display of intramural rivalry,...

What’s the Story in Harrisburg? – July 18, 2025

  FUNDING EDUCATION CAN’T TAKE A VACATION In about a month, kids are going to return to the classroom and schools still don’t know what resources they’ll have. The PA state budget is now three weeks overdue, the 14th time in 20 years that...

It’s Just Cruel… – July 11, 2025

  Federal Policy that Harms Children Should be A Non-Starter Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a ban on children living in the U.S. without legal citizenship status from receiving services in essential federally funded health care...