A Quarter Century of Decline: School Funding In Pennsylvania 1993-94 to 2019-2020
After controlling for inflation in education costs, Pennsylvania’s public school districts are funded below the funding level they were...
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Uncovering Pennsylvania’s School Funding Disparity by Income
Relative to what they need, Pennsylvania’s poorest school districts receive 35% less funding than its richest. The incredible inequities...
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Considerations on American Rescue Plan Funds for Pennsylvania’s Local Governments
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Small Businesses and Workers Still Need Help
The state budget enacted in late June has two glaring and interrelated missing pieces: it provides little support for...
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The Trouble with TABOR
UPDATED April 12: The Republican leadership of the House of Representative is poised to bring a dangerous constitutional amendment,...
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REPORT: Pennsylvania Distributes Emergency K-12 School Funding Backwards – The Fewest Dollars Go To School Districts With the Greatest Need
REPORT: Pennsylvania Distributes Emergency K-12 School Funding Backwards—The Fewest Dollars Go to School Districts With the Greatest Need Read...
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How the General Assembly Can Try to Steal the Election, Why It Would Be Wrong to Do So, and How to Stop It
There has been loose talk among right-wing activists calling on the General Assembly to intervene in the choice of...
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The General Assembly Cannot Unilaterally Stop Mail-In Ballots From Being Counted
Right-wing advocates and Trump supporters are urging the General Assembly to take action next week to override the Pennsylvania...
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Pennsylvania’s Essential Workforce is Disproportionately Women and People of Color: Demographics of Pennsylvania’s Essential Workers
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Choose Lives, Not Money: On a Proposed Amendment A04895 to SB 327, PN 1436
Governor Wolf has ordered all Pennsylvanians to stay at home except when necessary to engage in “tasks essential to...
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The Moral Equivalent of Wartime Equality: Public Policies in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Pennsylvania
The coronavirus poses a number of serious challenges to every country and to every state in the nation, and...
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Follow the Property Tax Money: The Wolf Plan and HB 504 Compared
Pennsylvania is highly reliant on local property taxes to fund its public schools, ranking near the bottom of all...
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