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...
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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...
Education Activists From Philadelphia Area Depart For State Capital – CBSPhilly – August 25, 2015
A group of parents, children and education activists took a bus from Philadelphia to the state capitol Tuesday morning to call on state legislators to get a budget in place. About 50-people boarded the bus at the United Way on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to head to...
Chester Upland faculty, staff agree to work without pay during budget crisis – Delaware County Daily Times – August 27, 2015
More than 300 Chester Upland School District faculty members and support staff voted Thursday to work without pay if necessary after learning from Superintendent Gregory Shannon during their first day back at school that there are insufficient funds to meet the...
Pa. budget impasse now on Day 57. Does anyone care? – PennLive – August 26, 2015
Pennsylvania will end August in the same position it started, with no finalized state budget in place. After this week's failed attempts to nudge budget negotiations along, prospects of breaking this budget impasse — which entered its 57th day Wednesday — certainly...
Lower Bucks’ Morrisville district starting another school year on its own – WHYY Newsworks – August 26, 2015
Morrisville School Board president Damon Miller likens his predicament to being uncool at a middle-school dance. "You have to have two to dance, and there's no one coming to the dance with us at this time," he said. For three years, the Morrisville School District, a...
Wolf cancels state budget negotiations, no more talks this week – PennLive – August 26, 2015
The way Tuesday's state budget negotiations ended left Republican legislative leaders anticipating that when talks resumed on Wednesday, Gov. Tom Wolf would finally give them an answer as to whether he would accept a potentially budget-impasse-breaking offer that the...
New state lawmaker doesn’t get honeymoon – Delaware County Daily Times – August 25, 2015
Delaware County’s newest state legislator had baptism by fire Tuesday. Within three hours of being installed as representative for the 161st legislative district, Democrat Leanne Krueger-Braneky was on the House floor debating issues surrounding the long-overdue state...