by Susan Spicka | Sep 8, 2017 | blog
More than two months after passing a spending plan for the 2017-2018 budget, state lawmakers still have not approved a revenue package to fund the budget. In less than a week, the budget standoff in Harrisburg will turn into a budget crisis for Pennsylvanians. On...
by Susan Spicka | Aug 25, 2017 | blog
After more than a year of taking extensive input from public education stakeholders at 30 sessions throughout the state, the Pennsylvania Department of Education released PA’s plan to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the new federal education law...
by Susan Spicka | Aug 22, 2017 | Press Releases
For Immediate Release August 21, 2017 Education Voters of PA Media contacts: Susan Spicka Susan Spicka, Executive Director of Education Voters of PA, made the following statement at a joint press conference with the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center: For...
by Susan Spicka | Jul 28, 2017 | blog
Speaker Mike Turzai called the PA House to Harrisburg on Saturday, July 23 in the hopes of securing enough votes in his party to pass a revenue package to fund the 2017-2018 budget without new recurring revenues. He failed. After members of his own party rejected...
by Susan Spicka | Jul 21, 2017 | blog
More than three weeks into a state budget impasse, PA House Speaker Mike Turzai and his extremist followers have surfaced as the holdouts who are preventing the legislature from passing a responsible revenue package to fund the 2017-2018 state budget. This week Turzai...
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