This month, the Basic Education Funding Commission (BEFC) will hold a series of hearings in cities around the Commonwealth to address chronic and unconstitutional failures to equitably fund public schools.
Menu
Tag Archives: Opinion
By Stalling on RGGI, Here’s What Pa. Residents are Missing | Opinion
In March, Pennsylvania passed up millions of dollars that could have gone toward tackling climate change and reducing energy costs for millions of Pennsylvania residents.
Keep Our Money in Pa.’s Public Schools Where it Belongs | Jill Sunday Bartoli | Opinion
Million-dollar payouts to CEOs and millions of dollars spent on advertising, have been well documented. Yet we let our own public schools — our great American experiment in education for all — become constitutionally inequitable and deeply underfunded.
Mission Trips are an Evangelical Rite of Passage for US Teens – but Why? | Opinion
According to some estimates, as many as 2 million youth and adults per year participated in Christian mission trips before the pandemic.
Funding the 500: Revisiting Pennsylvania Charter Schools After a Quarter-Century | Opinion
About 90% of the district’s kindergarten and first-grade students require some level of early intervention to put them on track for academic success, Arcurio told the Capital-Star in a recent interview.
Pa.’s Food Assistance Programs Need Legislative Support | Opinion
The House of Representatives recently passed its version of a proposed budget with dramatic increases in the state’s food assistance programs.
Saying That Students Embrace Censorship on College Campuses is Incorrect – Here’s How to Discuss the Issue More Constructively | Opinion
Such cynical distortions dominate discussions of higher education today, misinform the public and threaten both democracy and higher education.
Coca-Cola’s Biggest Challenge in Greening its Operations is its Own Global Marketing Strategy | Opinion
Operating on that scale creates a big carbon footprint. The company uses over 200,000 vehicles to distribute its products every day and runs hundreds of bottling plants and syrup factories across the globe.
Federal Reserve’s ‘Soft Landing’ Goal Has Become Bumpier with Rate Hike Plan Hit by Bank Turbulence | Opinion
Federal Reserve policymakers have targeted a “soft landing” for the U.S. economy since beginning their effort a year ago to tame runaway inflation by hiking interest rates. That is, they believed they could do so without sending the U.S. into recession.
Pennsylvania Must Fulfill the Constitutional Guarantee of Adequate Representation | Opinion
Sixty years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that the Sixth Amendment’s right to counsel requires a state to provide a competent attorney to any indigent person the state charges with a serious crime.