Mr. Bunch: your own numbers undermine your premise. What you care about is tearing us apart.
By Wally Nunn
Budgeting board trying to suppress key education-funding statistic, says state rep
A sentence saying higher school budgets does not necessarily lead to higher achievement-test scores is now the basis of a quiet fight in Harrisburg.
By Todd Shepherd
Pennsylvania Democrats call for $3.75B in education spending
“This budget year is about opportunity and need coming together,” said Rep. Matt Bradford, D-Montgomery. But a Republican spokeswoman said the proposal was “more of the same old, same old.”
By Victor Skinner
Catholic school parents, teachers challenge recruiting allegations in federal civil rights suit
“This was about putting kids first,” say parents suing the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Organization, which has determined that a series of school transfers were done in violation of rules against athletic recruiting.
By Kevin Mooney
Lenny McAllister: Education reform must empower students and parents, not systems
Education reform should be a bipartisan effort, but public school bureaucrats and education unions stymie progress.
By Lenny McAllister
Wally Zimolong: The American Federation of Teachers threatens a virtual strike
The teachers’ unions seek to continue their policy of extorting the voters of Pennsylvania.
By Wally Zimolong
Priscilla Lo: Education is an essential service; it is time to shift our focus back to our kids
The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers’ plan to suspend in-person schooling disproportionately harms the students who depend on it the most. We must set aside self-interest and tackle fear head-on for the sake of our kids.
By Priscilla Lo
Pennsylvania school board member to parents: ‘I don’t work for you’
A York Suburban School District School Board member created controversy when he wrote a recent op-ed to concerned parents and declared, “I don’t work for you.”
By Victor Skinner
Hroncich + LeBlond: Academics and sports — why isn’t it all about the kids in Pennsylvania?
One Western Pennsylvania private school faces PIAA backlash after families vote with their feet.
By Colleen Hroncich and Marc LeBlond
Bill to increase caps on school-choice tax credit programs clears Pennsylvania Senate committee
“You have a human factor here,” says Sen. Mike Regan. “Save a kid’s life, what’s that worth? What’s that worth to you?”
By Victor Skinner