by Steven Fynes | May 12, 2014 | Education
Everyone agrees that the School District of Philadelphia is in dire financial straits. What they cannot agree on, however, is what they are willing to do to get out of them. The District says it needs $216 million to avoid an additional 1,000...
by Steven Fynes | Apr 22, 2014 | Education
PCCY has long advocated for a restoration of the nearly $1 billion cut from public education during Governor Corbett’s first year in office. Now there is a new argument against restoring the cuts: they never happened. In fact, the Governor and some of his...
by Steven Fynes | Apr 11, 2014 | Education
While the city continues to reel from the assault on a conflict-resolution specialist by a student at Bartram High School, we must look at the conditions that allowed it to happen and what can be done about them. Dangerous things can happen when you mix increasing...
by Steven Fynes | Apr 3, 2014 | Education
We have long known that disparities in access to early childhood education lead to an achievement gap later in school and in life. Now we know that access is not the only disparity that needs to be addressed. According to a new study by the Department of...
by Steven Fynes | Mar 19, 2014 | Education
Governor Corbett has taken a lot of heat for cutting nearly a billion dollars from education during his first year in office, money he has not yet replenished. Recently, the Governor explained that this was necessary due to the $4 billion deficit he inherited...
by Steven Fynes | Feb 13, 2014 | Education
Governor Corbett recently announced his 2014-15 budget, and its focal point is an increase in education spending. But a solution to Pennsylvania’s public school funding crisis it is not. In fact, not only is it short of where it needs to be to meet the...
