A Stunning Priority in the PA House Budget—Tax Dollars for Private Schools

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From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/): Advancing the Betsy DeVos school privatization agenda has emerged as a top budget priority for PA House members, even though this will provide very little or no benefit to the communities many rural lawmakers represent. On … Continued

We Must Have Missed the Memo (on pre-k investments)

Posted at http://thirdandstate.org/2017/april/guest-blogger-we-must-have-missed-memo Apr 10, 2017 11:55 am | Guest Blogger by Jin David Kim, Communications Director, PCCY Some state representatives, siding with the research and the will of the people they represent, have boarded the quality pre-k train only … Continued

Who Pays for School Property Tax Elimination?

Posted at http://keystoneresearch.org/sites/default/files/KRC_WhoPaysPT.pdf By Mark Price An analysis of school property tax burdens in Pennsylvania Executive Summary Far from providing relief for working families, recent proposals to eliminate school property taxes in Pennsylvania would increase taxes on the middle class … Continued

Philadelphia’s School District Finds Creative Ways to Ensure Kids Eat Breakfast

Posted at http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/education/102125-philadelphias-school-district-finds-creative-ways-to-ensure-kids-eat-breakfast Newsworks.org, March 12, 2017 Since moving school breakfast into the classroom, Philadelphia’s H.A. Brown School has seen participation increase from 30 percent of students to more than 70 percent of students. Wayne Grasela, the school district’s senior … Continued

POWER’S Fight for Education Funding and How We Got Where We Are

This is a guest blog from POWER. By Ethel Goldberg, POWER Education Team member About six years ago, Rabbi Eli Freedman of Congregation Rodeph Shalom wrote an article for our congregational bulletin, where he asked the question, “What issue or issues … Continued

The Separate, Unequal Education of Students with Special Needs

The Hechinger Report “Children … all over the country – with diagnoses including ADHD, bipolar disorder and, increasingly, autism … are often placed in separate classrooms within public schools and spend large numbers of hours on computers using technology that … Continued