Pre-K Providers Make the Most of Every Dollar for Kids

MAKING EVERY DOLLAR COUNT Judging by the sticker shock many families face when enrolling their child into high-quality pre-k, you would think the best of the best providers would be rolling in the dough. Well, they’re not. In fact, they’re barely getting by according...

PA Budget Not a Guessing Game

LESS IS LESS Numbers don’t lie. Governor Wolf’s proposed budget would invest an additional $410 million in schools, with over $44 million coming to suburban districts in Southeast PA. The budget passed by the legislature and vetoed by the Governor underfunds Southeast...

WHY HIGH-QUALITY PRE-K INVESTMENTS CAN’T WAIT- July 20th, 2015

About 140,000 children will be born in Pennsylvania this year, and they’ll be preschool age in 2018. Those young learners don’t get to delay pre-k until we can make it more available, so we need to get to work now to make sure it will be there when they need it. There...

Unfair Education Funding is a Dirty Trick for Pennsylvania Schools

When a magician takes the stage, he will wave around a wand, a hat or a cape to distract the audience’s eyes from what is happening with his other hand. Like that magician, many in the state government want to distract us from the “other hand” of public...

Lies, Damned Lies, and the PA Budget

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...