by Susan Spicka | Oct 13, 2016 | Latest News from Ed Voters
State lawmakers widely acknowledge that Pennsylvania’s charter school law is flawed, outdated, and must be revised. Nevertheless, year after year, Harrisburg has failed to fix its own broken charter school law. Lawmakers have failed to protect taxpayers, they...
by Susan Spicka | Jul 14, 2016 | Latest News from Ed Voters
The 2016-2017 PA budget is now complete. Yesterday a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the PA House and Senate approved a revenue package and Governor Wolf signed it into law. This budget provides an increase of $200 million for K-12 Basic Education Funding, $20...
by Susan Spicka | Jul 6, 2016 | blog, Latest News from Ed Voters
Thanks to the very significant efforts of education advocates who contacted lawmakers with concerns, HB 530 (the harmful charter school legislation) has not gone up for a final vote in the House (yet). We are continuing to monitor HB 530 and other school code...
by Susan Spicka | Mar 31, 2016 | Latest News from Ed Voters, Uncategorized
FAQs about the $75 million CUT in state funding to schools in the 2015-2016 Republican budget **Need a PDF Version of this post? Click Here to get it!** In the 2015-2016 Republican budget, many members of the General Assembly failed to deliver state funding owed to...
by Susan Spicka | Mar 23, 2016 | blog, Latest News from Ed Voters, Press Releases
For Immediate Release 3/23/2016 Education Voters of PA’s reaction to Governor Wolf’s decision to allow HB 1801 to become law without his signature Susan Spicka, Director of Education Voters of PA, issued the following statement regarding Governor Wolf’s decision to...
by Susan Spicka | Mar 16, 2016 | Latest News from Ed Voters, Press Releases
For Immediate Release 3/16/2016 Education Voters of PA’s Statement on HB 1801 Susan Spicka, Director of Education Voters of PA, made the following statement about HB 1801, “We are disappointed that Republican leadership is moving yet another irresponsible,...
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