by Susan Spicka | Mar 8, 2019 | blog, Uncategorized
Tom Corbett was voted out of office more than four years ago, yet his appointees continue to control the Charter School Appeal Board (CAB), a powerful body that can overturn school board decisions to deny charter school applications and strip communities of control...
by Susan Spicka | Nov 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
This week Pennsylvanians elected representatives in Harrisburg who will spend the next two or four years shaping education policy and determining how much funding our children’s public schools will receive. We must hold them accountable for every child’s education. We...
by Susan Spicka | Oct 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday, November 6, Pennsylvanians will elect a governor, 203 state representatives, and 25 (of 50 total) state senators. On Saturday, November 17th, Pennsylvanians will come together at eight historic regional advocacy summits to kick off a statewide movement to...
by Susan Spicka | Oct 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
We have developed this fact sheet, 2018-2019 Myth-busting PA’s EITCOSTC Programs, to highlight very serious problems with Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit programs, which siphon $160 million/year out...
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...
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