St. Marys Area School District to Host Free One-Night Show on October 13th St. Marys (September 18, 2015) – Pennsylvania’s school funding crisis will take center stage in School Play at the St. Marys Area High School, 977 South St. Marys Road, on Tuesday, October 13,...
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What If a Stopgap Budget Passes? – September 18, 2015
What If a Stopgap Budget Passes? – September 18, 2015
WHAT STOPS AND WHAT GAP IS CREATED IN A STOPGAP BUDGET? The Pennsylvania Senate just passed a bill that is called a "stopgap budget." House leadership has indicated they support this approach. The Governor has also expressed willingness to take this approach, if his...
Local Leaders Show Off Acting Skills To Highlight School Funding In PA – CBS Philly – September 17, 2015
Local leaders joined the cast of the drama School Play at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre Wednesday evening in an effort to highlight unfair school funding. Arden Kass is one of the co-creators of School Play. She says the drama consists of verbatim interviews they did...
Is it time for radical change in public education? – The Morning Call – September 14, 2015
Sen. Lloyd Smucker, a Republican and chairman of the state Senate Education Committee, is proposing legislation that could put poorly performing school districts under state control. That prompts the questions: Why are some districts failing, and would state takeover...
Schools are starving for arts education – The Philadelphia Public School Notebook – September 11, 2015
On Sept. 16, the drama surrounding education funding will take center stage as the Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Wilma Theater, and Arden Theatre Company will partner to stage a reading of School Play, a theater piece about Pennsylvania’s education crisis that was...
What does a five year old have to say about art? – September 11, 2015
STATE ACTION ON CHARTERS IS BAD NEWS Chronically underfunded school districts like Bethlehem, Chester-Upland, and Philadelphia have a legitimate ax to grind when it comes to payments to charter schools. Charter school enrollment continues to grow but the state...
Drama of Education Funding Hits the Big Stage in School Play
Famous Suzanne Roberts Theatre to Host Free One-Night Show on September 16th PHILADELPHIA (September 8th, 2015) – Pennsylvania’s school funding crisis will take center stage in School Play at the nationally-renowned Suzanne Roberts Theatre on Wednesday, September...
When they talk budget, Wolf and lawmakers can’t forget early childhood education: As We See It – The Patriot News – September 4, 2015
The sharp elbows of politics can sometimes be bruising, however unintentional the bump. As Pennsylvania's budget impasse stretches into its third month, across the commonwealth the impact of political gridlock is beginning to be felt. As PennLive's Jan Murphy notes in...
How the budget impasse is holding preschools hostage – Philadelphia City Paper – September 2, 2015
The Pennsylvania Board of Education's Pre-K Counts program, which launched in 2007 and helps more than 10,000 students, many of them low income, attend preschool in communities across the state, was slated for a huge expansion. Earlier this year, the state board told...