by Susan Spicka | Feb 13, 2018 | blog
In December Republican leaders rigged the Senate Education Committee hoping they might secure enough votes to pass Senate Bill 2, the education savings account voucher bill. Senator Dan Laughlin (R-Erie), who opposed Senate Bill 2, resigned and Republican leadership...
by Susan Spicka | Feb 1, 2018 | blog
Last week Governor Tom Wolf stood with PA public schoolchildren who are being harmed by our state’s current school funding system. He filed a response in PA’s school funding lawsuit urging the court to move the case toward trial expeditiously. Maura McInerney, legal...
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 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,...
by Susan Spicka | Oct 26, 2017 | blog
After a confusing series of events that took place on Tuesday, October 24, the education savings account/DeVos school voucher bill, Senate Bill 2, remains in the Senate Education Committee, where lawmakers may vote on it in the future. Initially, the Senate Ed...
by Susan Spicka | Oct 20, 2017 | blog, Latest News from Ed Voters
On Wednesday, October 18th, mostly along party lines, the PA House passed an amended School Code with significant attacks on public education buried deep in the 75-page bill. The School Code is an omnibus bill, a single document that requires a single vote, but...
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