Even a modest stipend would create enormous questions of long-term funding for the cash-strapped county.
By Todd Shepherd
Beth Ann Rosica: Shapiro boasts of education improvements while most students are not proficient in math
The state of Pennsylvania spent $16.8 billion last year to fund public education, and the return on investment is abysmal. In 2024, 53 percent of students were proficient in reading and writing, while only 40 percent were proficient in math. Last year, we conducted an in-depth analysis of fourteen school […]
Richard Koenig: Mary Gay Scanlon flails against the Musk bogeyman
From time to time, I get missives from the office of Mary Gay Scanlon, a Democrat who represents me (in a manner of speaking) as the member in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District, which comprises a slice of Philadelphia and a fair expanse of its western […]
Howard Lurie: Thinking about birthright citizenship
“Birthright citizenship” is the belief that the US Constitution automatically makes anyone born within the United States a citizen of the US even if the child’s parents entered the country illegally. The basis for the birthright citizenship belief is the following provision of the Fourteenth Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in […]