by Susan Spicka | Jul 18, 2018 | blog
Last week petitioners in Pennsylvania’s school funding lawsuit filed a brief and affidavits refuting the claim made by the Republican leader of the PA Senate, Joe Scarnati, that the lawsuit was rendered moot because the state adopted a school funding formula in...
by Susan Spicka | Jun 23, 2018 | blog
As we head into summer, public education advocates should be proud that their hard work over the past year has paid off. The thousands of phone calls you made and emails you sent from every corner of the commonwealth have kept anti-public education legislation from...
by Susan Spicka | Jun 10, 2018 | blog
On Tuesday, June 12, the PA Senate Education Committee will consider Senate Bill 1198, legislation that would: Continue to mandate labeling schools as successful or failing based primarily on students’ standardized test scores using the School Performance Profile...
by Susan Spicka | May 11, 2018 | blog
Education Voters of PA, like many other small non-profit organizations, works with a fiscal sponsor, a larger organization that provides services and supports that allow us to focus on our mission rather than on bookkeeping and administrative duties. I am pleased to...
by Susan Spicka | May 3, 2018 | blog
School safety has been a hotly-debated topic in Harrisburg in recent weeks with the House and Senate Education Committees holding hearings on how best to protect students and education workers. Families and students were not permitted to testify at either hearing....
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