Many clubs have found ways to keep their summer programs open, but there isn’t the same hope for the after-school programming this fall.
Fully funding this program isn’t just about fairness. It’s about protecting the quality of education for all PA students.
Pennsylvania school districts rely on both state and federal funding. Both remain uncertain.
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
“They’re trying to send a message. They don’t believe that taxpayer funding should be used for these children,” said Amaya Garcia, who oversees education research at New America.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
Local resistance is blocking state legislation to bring Christian nationalism into public schools.
When school districts are required to overpay cyber charter tuition it means there are fewer resources available to invest in the education of their students.
Special education deserves more than reactive conversations and temporary concern. It deserves sustained investment, public recognition, and structural support.
Swegal hopes his movie will be a conversation starter that challenges viewers to feel empathy.
It’s unclear if Bucks County Sheriff’s deputies were involved.
“For a long time, people saw white supremacist politics and white nationalism as on the fringe of American politics. It has now become the mainstream of the American right, whose central foundation is within the Republican Party,” said Marc Morial, president of the Urban League.
“The DOJ seems dead set on acquiring personal information on voters, including driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers and dates of birth — records that are highly protected under federal law and under state law and which state election officials are sworn to protect,” said David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research.
“In Pennsylvania, our current law puts regulations around abortion care in the criminal code, and that is absolutely unacceptable. Health care is not a crime,” said State Senator Amanda Cappelletti.
