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...
by Susan Spicka | Apr 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
We are hearing chatter in Harrisburg that some lawmakers on the Senate Education Committee are itching to vote on Senate Bill 2, the education savings account voucher bill, sometime before they go on break in May. Pennsylvanians who support public education have sent...
by Susan Spicka | Mar 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
While students throughout PA have been begging adults to take action to make their schools safer, some Republican lawmakers were in Harrisburg laughing and joking about wanting to watch students train to throw rocks at an active shooter in their classrooms. This...
by Susan Spicka | Feb 6, 2018 | Press Releases, Uncategorized
For Immediate Release Education Voters of PA Media contacts: Susan Spicka (HARRISBURG) February 6, 2018 – Susan Spicka, Executive Director of Education Voters of PA, made the following statement about Governor Wolf’s 2018-2019 budget proposal: Budgets are about...
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