by Steven Fynes | Jul 31, 2015 | Education
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...
by Steven Fynes | Jul 20, 2015 | Early Learning
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...
by Steven Fynes | Nov 7, 2014 | Education
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...
by Steven Fynes | Oct 2, 2014 | Early Learning
The best way to guarantee a child receives a successful education is with a strong start. The best way to ensure every child gets that strong start is by funding high-quality Pre-K programs. Unfortunately, Pennsylvania’s Pre-K funding covers fewer than 20 percent of...
