Rural voters are fighting #schoolchoice farce in multiple states. Funded by wealthy donors happy to dismantle public ed & leave us with few options to strengthen our communities. It's a slick shell game. We're not playing. paysonroundup.com/opinion/school…

I presented my budget to our state legislature 186 days ago. Since then, the Senate has only been in session for 25 days. And now we’re days away from devastating service cuts to SEPTA — 2 weeks before school starts for the 55,000 kids that rely on SEPTA’s buses and trains to

All 1.7 million PA public school students will be back in their classrooms in four weeks. The @pasenategop must fulfill their constitutional responsibility by immediately passing a budget that adequately funds all school districts, especially those chronically underfunded.

Financial myths and exaggerations fuel Pa.’s cyber charter school debate This is the first of a two-part series looking at how cyber charter schools are funded compared with traditional public schools. .Oliver Morrison .PennLive.com pennlive.com/news/2025/08/f…

💰1/3 Wondering what issues are holding up the PA budget? Our Fix Harrisburg team has posted reports on three top sticking points. The latest report: Vouchers in Pennsylvania: School Choice or the School’s Choice? fixharrisburg.com/problem fixharrisburg.com/stories/vouche…

PA Schools Work condemns the flat budget passed by PA Senate Republicans, which would be a devastating cut to public education funding in Pennsylvania. This unserious budget proposal effectively reverses the progress made in addressing educational inequity. Public Interest Law Center

New: Pennsylvania’s budget impasse is deepening. The state Senate passed proposals to fund public transit and government operations Tuesday evening that Democrats immediately rejected as unserious. spotlightpa.org/news/2025/08/p…

Pa.’s largest cyber charter hides detailed financial report, as lawmakers debate reforms The decreased transparency comes as lawmakers in Harrisburg have been debating changes to how cyber charter schools are regulated. .Oliver Morrison .PennLive.com pennlive.com/education/2025…

A new report by PennLive.com details how Pennsylvania’s largest cyber charter school, CCA, just slammed the door on public transparency. This is taxpayer money being spent with zero accountability. Lawmakers must fix this broken system. pennlive.com/education/2025…

There have only been 14 instances of voter fraud across 149 ballots in Pennsylvania over the last 10 years, Carter Walker’s analysis finds. And of the instances, just two could have been potentially prevented by proposed stricter voter ID rules spotlightpa.org/news/2025/08/p…

A leadership lesson:

"Local public school districts – already underfunded by the state by $4 billion – pay over $1 billion in cyber charter tuition a year because, when a local student enrolls in a cyber charter, school districts pay that cyber charter what the district spends per student."

Auditor Generals from both parties, almost %100 of PA School Boards Association members recommend major cyber charter reform. HB 1500 passed PA House in June. PA Senate Republicans leaders have blocked this & other bills to increase cyber school transparency. Who do they represent? fixharrisburg.com/stories/why-th…

PA: Pressure Grows and Cyber Charters Continue to Stonewall There is a lot of noise these days around the issue of funding cyber charters in PA. But cyber charter operators are still betting that simply refusing to talk about the topic will save them. curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2025/08/pa-pre…

'Put our students first': Pa. school districts facing financial strain as state budget remains unresolved wfmz.com/news/area/lehi… via WFMZ-TV 69News

So many #bipartisan solutions blocked for years by leaders who answer to donors, not voters. The more we understand this, the more we want to fix it. Auditor Generals from both parties have made the same recommendations. PA Senate Republicans leaders still say no. fixharrisburg.com/stories/why-th…

PA: School Choice Lobby (And Jeff Yass) Spends Big CURMUDGUCATION .Peter Greene curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2025/08/pa-sch…

Pa. budget stalls again: What will it take to break the cycle of delays? witf.org/2025/08/21/pa-…

Yass has donated millions to politicians over the years — one in three Pennsylvania legislators have received campaign contributions from him, including 24 out of 28 Senate Republicans (an astonishing 85% of their caucus).