by Susan Spicka | Jul 21, 2022 | blog, Uncategorized
We are delighted to announce our brand new Education Voters Public Education Champion fellowship program. This program was created for parents and community members who care about their local public schools and are ready to step up and be vocal and engaged in...
by Susan Spicka | Jul 11, 2022 | blog
With more than $12 billion in surplus and one-time funds available to spend in the 2022-2023 state budget, we had very high hopes that the PA legislature would approve Governor Wolf’s proposed $1.75 billion increase for K-12 schools. We had also hoped for charter...
by Susan Spicka | Jun 23, 2022 | Action Alerts, blog
With less than a week to enact a budget by the June 30th deadline, Pennsylvania House and Senate members were sent home until Monday, June 27th to give their leaders time to negotiate the details of a final budget agreement with the Wolf Administration. Presumably...
by Susan Spicka | Jun 19, 2022 | blog
At this time one year ago, we told state lawmakers that it would take 20 years for poor school districts to be fully funded and that was no longer acceptable. We refused to lose another generation of students to historic and deep funding inequities. We...
by Susan Spicka | Jun 11, 2022 | Action Alerts
We met with the staff of Auditor General Timothy DeFoor in February to present his office with information about highly-questionable spending by Pennsylvania’s cyber charters and urged his office to conduct audits of cyber charter schools. We contacted his...
