Susan Spicka, Author at Education Voters PA

All PA Public Schools to Close for Two Weeks

by Susan Spicka | Mar 15, 2020 | blog

On Friday, March 13, Governor Wolf announced that all public K-12 Pennsylvania schools and school district run pre-k programs will be closed for the next two weeks. Schools will not be required to make up the ten missed school days and no district will be penalized if...

THIS is charter school “transparency”

by Susan Spicka | Mar 5, 2020 | blog

THIS is what charter school “transparency” looks like under Pennsylvania’s broken charter school law. Six months ago, we set out with a simple goal—to find out how a single cyber charter school in Pennsylvania spends millions of taxpayer dollars on...

Take action now to support charter school reform in PA!

by Susan Spicka | Feb 25, 2020 | Action Alerts

We have helped build a movement to fix Pennsylvania’s worst charter school law in the nation in every corner of the commonwealth. Now it is time to take this movement to Harrisburg! Please click HERE and sign a letter to your state representative and...

What Gov. Wolf’s budget proposal means for your schools.

by Susan Spicka | Feb 5, 2020 | blog

Yesterday, Governor Wolf gave his budget address and outlined his priorities for 2020-2021. His budget proposal is welcome and reflects Governor Wolf’s continued support for public education. It also reflects the cold, hard reality that the Republican-controlled...