Twenty years ago, the Pennsylvania charter school law was signed. Since then, charter schools have been heralded as the savior of the public education system. Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 15, 2017… Read More
Pennsylvania state government will delay more than $1.7 billion in payments due largely to Medicaid insurers and school districts, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said Friday, amid an unprecedented cash crunch and… Read More
Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission meets Thursday for the first time since the new school year began. The five-member group — with a majority appointed by the governor — has overseen the city’s… Read More
The people of POWER and the lower-income people they represent want to be heard — and they want to be heard by the right people. That’s why they arranged a… Read More
The state government appeared on the edge, for the first known time, of missing a payment as a result of not having enough cash on hand amid a feud over… Read More
The numbers aren’t in yet, but the new state vaccination requirements seem to be getting more kids immunized earlier, officials say. Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 13, 2017 Full story
Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives is sending the Senate a no-new-taxes borrowing package to help plug state government’s $2.2 billion budget gap. The GOP-penned measure passed, 103-91, late Wednesday night,… Read More
Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives put off preliminary votes Tuesday on measures designed to plug the state government’s $2.2 billion budget gap with money siphoned partly from public transportation and environmental… Read More
With the focus turned to back to school, a gun control advocacy group wants to remind Pennsylvanians of legislation lurking in the House of Representatives’ hopper that would allow school personnel… Read More
A new study finds that expanding the charter school sector in Pennsylvania creates a significant toll on traditional public school systems, which, based on an array of fixed costs, can’t… Read More