The LNP | LancasterOnline Editorial Board has published numerous editorials focused on basic education funding in Pennsylvania. I hope this trend continues, at least until the state Legislature adopts a system of funding basic education that meets muster under the...
Pennsylvania lawmakers will embark on a historic effort this fall to reform the commonwealth’s education funding system that a state court earlier this year declared unconstitutional. Public education advocates said Thursday that to succeed in drafting a blueprint for...
This year’s landmark school funding decision was clear: Pennsylvania’s way of paying for public education isn’t working. Less evident is how Pennsylvania’s school funding actually works — and why so many schools are underfunded. Despite a 2016...
More Affordable Housing for More People in Pennsylvania Let’s Double Down, Triple Down Senator Hughes joined Mission First Housing Group for the grand re-opening of Monument Village, a 60-apartment affordable housing development in West Philadelphia. He...
William Sax didn’t mince words as he led a group of lawmakers through the sweltering halls of his workplace in July. “You thought it was bad for a couple of minutes here … we come here every day,” Sax, a social studies teacher and building representative at South...
As residents of Hempfield recently learned, the cost associated with school building projects can easily climb above $100 million. For decades, school administrators could turn to what was known as PlanCon to pursue state funding to help ease the local...
