by Susan Spicka | Sep 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Lawmakers will be in Harrisburg for just nine days before the end of the 2017-2018 legislative session. Any bill that isn’t passed into law by the end of this session will have to start all over again next year. This means that House Bill 97, the charter school...
by Susan Spicka | Aug 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
The beginning of the school year coincides with good news for Pennsylvania’s public school students. On Tuesday, August 21, Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court removed a major barrier that has kept the school funding lawsuit from going to trial! The court rejected a...
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...
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