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Dear Coke, It's not us, it's you. The American Beverage Association, lead by Coca-Cola, has plastered the city with its “grocery tax” campaign to mislead us into thinking Mayor Kenny’s proposed soda tax will annihilate our wallets at the checkout counter. Their...

96% of PA school districts still in a hole Education spending for the current year got a $108 million boost compared to last year, with Coatesville, SE Delaware County and Norristown saw increases of more than $1 million. While Philadelphia, with its 200,000 students,...

Lead not just in pencils... Early this week, lead levels in three Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania schools were found to contain three times the federal standard of acceptable lead. In response to the reports by WFMZ-TV, the Allentown and Bethlehem school districts shut off...

Don't Stop ('till we get enough) With Governor Wolf affixing his signature on the state budget, we’re finally turning the page on one of the saddest chapters of Pennsylvania’s legislative history… well, not exactly. School Districts are still tending to the gaping...

A horror at $1000 a day In an unlicensed facility in Berks County, women and children are being unlawfully imprisoned under dangerous and abusive conditions. Last year, a guard was arrested for raping a 19-year-old mother seven times. One rape was witnessed by an...

Bypassing Art Failure The research is clear and it likely matches your gut feeling on the matter: Art and music are vital to development, boosting critical thinking, empathy and tolerance. So is this what we’re delivering in our schools? For Philadelphia’s 130,000...

Kudos: Mayor Kenney Delivers on 2 Promises to PCCY As a mayoral candidate, Jim Kenney was an early signer of Pledge for Philadelphia’s Children, a PCCY led effort backed by 26 of the most respected youth-serving organizations in the city. As Mayor, he wasted little...

A Cure for Overmedicating Kids 43% of PA children in foster care prescribed psychiatric drugs--more than 3X the rate of other low income children on Medicaid Too often, kids demonstrating behavioral issues because of a traumatic experience just get what’s easy or...

Move over Budget Impasse: Supreme Court hamstrings school districts Ruling makes fiscally responsible budget impossible especially in Southeast PA The aftershocks of this week’s stunning decision on the Philadelphia SRC could very well be felt in school districts...