A new proposal by Gov. Josh Shapiro to provide vouchers to the lowest 15% of performing public schools in Pennsylvania in exchange for a larger increase in subsidies to the state’s public schools has failed to pass both houses of the Legislature. Therefore, the governor decided to drop the ...
While Gov. Josh Shapiro works to frame the failure of the student scholarship legislation as an argument over the budget negotiating process, it is important to note a failure he cannot credibly pass off on someone else.As a candidate, Shapiro openly and unambiguously proclaimed his support for ...
WASHINGTON - Time was, when the school year ended, parents worried about “summer learning loss.” Nowadays, there is less learning to worry about losing.This is the 40th anniversary of a blue-ribbon commission’s “A Nation at Risk” report that decried a “rising tide of mediocrity” ...