As always, public education funding will be a centerpiece of the impending state budget battle. And, as always, many legislators will lament the negative impact of rising school property taxes, and then decline to do anything about it.One element of school financing they should and easily could ...
Obeying the law is the lowest common denominator of basic citizenship. Yet many politicians and government officeholders often portray legality as the full scope of their public duty.It鈥檚 disappointing that Gov. Josh Shapiro has invoked the minimal requirements of the state鈥檚 Open Records ...
For too long, there has been a stigma around mental health care 鈥� but that鈥檚 changing with this generation. Students across the commonwealth aren鈥檛 afraid to talk about their mental health and that鈥檚 what I hear every day.When I visited Parkland High School in Allentown recently, ...
It鈥檚 not easy becoming a teacher in Pennsylvania. I should know. As a student at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, I鈥檝e been working on becoming one for the past three years.I鈥檝e seen fellow education majors come and go, some lured to other job prospects with more earning ...
Gov. Josh Shapiro has a solid track record in the desperate struggle against the raging opioid epidemic.Before the COVID-19 pandemic eclipsed opioids as the nation鈥檚 most pressing public health emergency, Shapiro played a significant role as attorney general in the traditional enforcement ...
In many ways, we live in a political world that operates more on denial than possibility, and to be honest, it鈥檚 killing democracy.Candidate quality has been replaced by ideological purity on both sides, while virtual cottage industries have sprung up around the idea of replacing the 鈥渓oyal ...