by Susan Spicka | Dec 13, 2017 | Press Releases
Susan Spicka, Executive Director of Education Voters of PA, issued the following statement about Republican leadership’s decision to rig the makeup of the Senate Education Committee: Senate Republican leaders demonstrated the lengths to which they will go in an...
by Susan Spicka | Dec 10, 2017 | Action Alerts, Take Action, Uncategorized
Late on Friday afternoon, the Senate Education Committee published online that it will be meeting on Tuesday, December 12th at 10:30 am in Room 8E-A in the East Wing of the Harrisburg Capitol to consider Senate Bill 2, the education savings account/Betsy DeVos school...
by Susan Spicka | Dec 4, 2017 | blog
At 2:00 am on Saturday morning, 51 US Senators voted to pass the Republican tax bill, a 479-page document that was so hastily written it had illegible policy changes scrawled in the margins. Senators were given the bill on Friday evening and told that they would have...
by Susan Spicka | Nov 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
In Harrisburg, almost four months late, lawmakers finally completed the 2017-2018 PA budget. In June, our legislature were happy to pass a $32 billion spending plan that protected programs and services important to their constituents, including a $100 million increase...
by Susan Spicka | Nov 2, 2017 | blog
Education Voters of PA supports the dissolution of the School Reform Commission and the return of the School District of Philadelphia to local control. Sixteen years of state control by the School Reform Commission have not solved the issues of the District. Instead,...
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