News
School Vouchers Have Been a Disaster—Now Advocates Are Trying to Rename Them
What you need to know about education savings accounts, a kind of “super-voucher.”
Peter Greene
January 3, 2023
Peter Greene
News
Another Pennsylvania School District Clamping Down On Reading Rights
One Penncrest school board member called a school library LGBTQ+ book display “totally evil” and said Black Lives Matter is a “hate group.”
Peter Greene
January 2, 2023
News
Pennsylvania Takes Valuable Steps Forward to Help Teachers Create Anti-Racist Classrooms
Education writer Peter Greene takes a look at the state’s “culturally-relevant and sustaining education” guidelines, and what the anti-“CRT” crusaders are likely to target in response.
Peter Greene
December 8, 2022
News
Doug Mastriano’s education plan would gut Bucks County’s public schools
Defund public education? The Republican state senator has said that he would like to cut per pupil spending in half.
Peter Greene
June 27, 2022
Education
Doug Mastriano Would Be A Disaster for Public Education
The far-right GOP gubernatorial candidate’s ideas about education are even more extremist than you might think.
Peter Greene
June 17, 2022
Opinion
Congressional Inaction on Gun Control Forces Teachers and Students to Fend For Themselves
There’s an ugly damn implication in all of this – kids and teachers are dying because they are just too easy to kill. They have to make harder targets out of themselves. They have to learn to duck and cover and fight and flee.
Peter Greene
May 25, 2022
Education
Pennsylvania School Voucher Bill Advances
The bill robs public schools to pay private businesses, and it provides no accountability for taxpayers.
Peter Greene
May 9, 2022
Education
PA: What would charter reform save Bucks County taxpayers?
Bristol Township School District would save more than $2.3 million annually with funding reforms.
Peter Greene
April 25, 2022
Interview: Author Elaine Weiss on the Four Little-Known Activists Who Were the ‘Beating Heart’ of the Civil Rights Movement
February 22, 2025
Weiss speaks about her new book “Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement,” which comes out March 4.
Bucks County Labor Leaders Praise Renewed AFL-CIO and SEIU Alliance as Essential
February 21, 2025
The solution to Trump and Musk’s trickle down chaos is organizing and solidarity.
Control of Pennsylvania Supreme Court at Stake in 2025 Election
February 21, 2025
The Democratic-majority court has played a big role in defusing election challenges. Now Republicans are mobilizing for a takeover.
Trump’s Executive Orders Seek to Erase Scientific Truth
February 20, 2025
By denying the realities of sex, gender, and race, the White House’s statements worsen inequity and cause harm.
Deporting Millions of Immigrants Would Shock the US Economy, Increasing Housing, Food and Other Prices
February 19, 2025
Why isn’t the corporate media reporting about this more, or in many cases at all?
