From Hunger-Free Pennsylvania (http://www.hungerfreepa.org/): Join Hunger-Free Pennsylvania in urging the Pennsylvania Legislative Body to invest in SFPP which enables Pennsylvania’s charitable food providers to provide nutritious food to low-income families, children, seniors, and others threatened by hunger. PASS provides the … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/report-demonstrates-that-greater-investment-well-distributed-raises-school-achievement/ Last week the Educational Testing Service published an important report, Mind the Gap: 20 Years of Progress and Retrenchment in School Funding, Staffing Resources, and Achievement Gaps, on why it is important for school districts to have … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-05-25/civil-rights/lawsuit-seeks-to-silence-fracking-opponents/a52107-1 May 25, 2016 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window PITTSBURGH — The future of a lawsuit seeking damages from opponents of gas drilling near their homes and schools is in the … Continued
From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org): One of the most insidious things about global climate change is its essential injustice: It inflicts the most damage on those who did the least to cause it. From the low-lying Maldives to famine … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/reading-about-education-in-the-press-consider-the-source-and-demand-documentation/ At the end of last week a friend forwarded a column that had appeared in his local paper. It is short, pithy, and readable. Unfortunately, although it begins with some facts that are perfectly accurate about the … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/our-societys-deplorable-lack-of-attention-to-the-needs-of-children-and-parents/ A quarter of a century ago, Richard Louv, in a popular book—Childhood’s Future—wrote: “Today’s children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/how-charters-destabilize-public-school-districts-let-us-count-the-ways/ Three recent press reports—from Nevada, Chicago, Illinois, and Massachusetts—document how expansion of charter schools is undermining the public schools that serve the majority of students including those with the greatest needs. The same theory of charter school … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-04-12/livable-wages-working-families/pay-for-women-far-from-equal-across-pa-u-s/a51362-1 April 12, 2016 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window HARRISBURG, Pa. – The gender wage gap is costing women in Pennsylvania almost $19 billion a year, according to a study released … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/residential-resegregation-by-income-continues-across-americas-large-metropolitan-areas/ In 2011, Stanford University educational sociologist Sean Reardon and his Cornell University colleague Kendra Bishoff showed that while in 1970, only 15 percent of families lived in neighborhoods classified as affluent or poor, by 2007, 31 percent … Continued
From Oxfam America (http://www.oxfamamerica.org): The Global Food Security Act (GFSA) passed both House (last week) and Senate (last night (4/20)! Oxfam applauds this because it places strong, bipartisan Congressional support behind global efforts to tackle food insecurity and malnutrition around … Continued