Early Education: Pre-K Counts – $97.3 million, increase of $10 million, or 11.5 percent Head Start Supplemental Assistance – level at $39.2 million Early Intervention – $237.5 million, increase of $841 thousand, or 0.4 percent Basic Education: PA Assessment – $58.3 million, increase of $4.6 million, or 8.6 percent Ready to Learn Block Grant encompasses […]
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SB411 Reasons to Vote “NO”
1. The General Assembly would be violating the PA Constitution (Article 1, Section 27) if it enacts SB411 without first conducting an environmental impact assessment. As the PA Supreme Court recognized, the General Assembly must “consider in advance of proceeding the environmental effect of any proposed action on the constitutionally protected features.” The December 19 […]
President’s Message – March 2014
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH! While watching the news, absorbing the uneasy, unsettling and frightening realities of the continuing struggles across the globe for freedom, democracy, equality and human dignity, I am reminded that March is the month for acknowledging and celebrating Women’s History. I prefer to remember. REMEMBER THE LADIES! “In a letter dated March 31, […]
Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program comes to Pennsylvania
Developed by the Pew Charitable Trusts and IBM, ERIC uses several databases to compare voters across state lines. The system compares voter list data with Department of Motor Vehicle records, Social Security Administration records, the Postal Service’s national change of address registry and other databases to match voters across state lines; if the system concludes […]
Governor Corbett will deliver his budget address on Tuesday, February 4 at 11:30 AM.
The Governor has previewed one of his education proposals for the upcoming 2014-15 state budget. Governor Corbett intends to ask the Legislature to include $1 million in the budget for the Governor’s Expanding Excellence Program. The program would provide competitive funding to schools that have attained a 90 or higher on the School Performance Profile […]