It’s no secret the State Legislature faces two big challenges in this year’s budget: providing fair and adequate funding for schools and closing a $2 billion deficit. What few people realize however is that Pennsylvania gives away twice as much in sales tax breaks...
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School Play To Go
Ready to put on your own SCHOOL PLAY? School Play is portable, adaptable, and free! We encourage unlimited performances by any group of people who feel motivated to help spark a conversation about public education and its value to us all. You can create formal...
School Play: Write Your Legislator
Tell you local legislator to put education center stage. Voices from across the Commonwealth make it clear: we need to address how the state funds its schools. Click here to contact your House and Senate members and urge them to work with their colleagues to...
School Play: Supporters
PCCY is grateful for the extraordinary dedication of the creative team of Arden Kass, Seth Bauer and Ed Sobel and the many contributors who made this play possible: Anonymous Barbara & Ted Aronson The Berwind Foundation Bob Victor Brian &...
School Play: About The Play
Is public education a constitutional right, an ethical obligation, or a line item? Is money spent on public education “a wasted drop in a cracked bucket?” If my kids aren’t in a public school, why should I even care? School Play, a documentary-style theatre piece,...
School Play: Characters
Click below for a listing of the characters whose quotes on education funding is the basis of the script for School Play.
School Play: Get Involved & Present School Play Yourself
Present School Play yourself! Following the Philadelphia Premiere on April 9, School Play will be available to anyone and everyone to present around the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Our goal is to have performances in each of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties before June’s...
School Play: Creative Team
Arden Kass (writer) is an award-wining playwright, independent producer of her own interdisciplinary theatre pieces and two-time PA Council on the Arts Fellow. She also writes musicals, TV, video and film scripts, has published essays and features, written 3 Biography...
School Play: Performance Details
School Play: A live theatre collaboration between playwrights Arden Kass, Seth Bauer and Director Edward Sobel for Public Citizens for Children & Youth. If you would like more information about presenting School Play in your own community, please fill out this...
Pledge for Philadelphia’s Children 2015
The Pledge for Philadelphia's Children commits our next mayor to championing school funding, achieving universal high-quality Pre-K access, establishing a higher minimum wage, expanding participation in childhood hunger prevention programs, upgrading City healthcare...