by Steven Fynes | Oct 28, 2014 | Education
The last few years have been tough for Pennsylvania schools, with budget shortfalls forced on school districts around the state by draconian cuts to the education budget. With nearly a billion dollars less in the education coffers, districts have been forced to cut...
by Steven Fynes | Sep 8, 2014 | Education
September 8th, 2014This week, children throughout Philadelphia returned from summer vacation to find their schools in worse shape than when they left. Unfortunately, our legislators in Harrisburg decided to extend their own summer vacation instead of dealing with the...
by Steven Fynes | Aug 19, 2014 | Education, Sidebar Blocks
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by Steven Fynes | Aug 18, 2014 | Education
Thanks to chronic underfunding from the State, the School District of Philadelphia is $81 million short of what it needs to open this year and hundreds of millions of dollars behind the full funding it needs to educate our children. The Inquirer reports that the...
by Steven Fynes | Jun 13, 2014 | Education
In 2011, Pennsylvania legislators cut nearly a billion dollars from public education and left our schools shorthanded and without a funding formula. The budget cuts were needed, ostensibly, because Harrisburg—and therefore the taxpayers—could not afford the current...
by Steven Fynes | May 16, 2014 | Education
When it comes to the School District of Philadelphia, a lot of numbers get thrown around. $440 million requested. $216 million to keep the status quo. $120 million sales tax. With all these large numbers, it’s not hard to lose sight of what...
