As the budget impasse drags on, the state has missed $1.75 billion in payments to school districts. Some school districts are drawing money out of their fund balances (savings accounts) to pay their bills. Districts that lack adequate fund balances must borrow from...

In Pennsylvania, our state law is supposed to protect children. Yet a loophole in Pennsylvania’s charter school law, combined with lax enforcement by the state agency responsible for overseeing cyber charters, leaves vulnerable children enrolled in these schools at...

We’re already well into August—nearly two months past Pennsylvania’s June 30th budget deadline—and the Senate continues to put forth unserious proposals. On Tuesday, August 12, the Pennsylvania Senate passed a $47.6 billion budget—about $3 billion less than the...