The bleak picture painted by a recent statewide survey on the 2017-18 school district budget outlook looks a lot like ones produced from the same survey done in the past… Read More
It’s budget crunch time in the Pennsylvania Capitol, and the state treasurer and auditor general ratcheted up the normal yearly pressure Wednesday with a warning: The state’s strapped. Philadelphia Inquirer,… Read More
As Pennsylvania’s school districts prepare to approve final budgets for the 2017-18 school year, many have confronted the need to raise taxes and make cuts to personnel or programs “just… Read More
A telecom technician by trade, Schuylkill County homeowner Ron Boltz is not your typical suit-and-tie Harrisburg lobbyist. He’s a self-taught policy wonk burning endless vacation days in an effort to convince… Read More
The PA Principals Association is holding its second annual Principal Advocacy Day at 9 a.m. on Monday, June 19, 2017 at The Capitol in Harrisburg, PA. Once again, a rally… Read More
A Senate panel voted Sunday night to change pension benefits for all new school employees and most state workers after 2018. The state Senate voted today on a bill to… Read More
The Republican-controlled legislature is racing to send Gov. Wolf a long-sought bill by week’s end that would overhaul retirement benefits in Pennsylvania’s two debt-riddled public pension plans. The Senate approved… Read More
But the numbers that appear to matter are the votes legislative leaders expect it will get in the General Assembly. HARRISBURG (June 4) – During a rare Sunday evening session… Read More
One of the oddities of this week’s public employee pensions debate is how so many of the state’s major public sector unions are sitting it out. They have, after all, reliably opposed… Read More
The Democratic Wolf administration and Republican legislative leaders have overcome deep partisan division with an agreement to do … well, not much. Senators conducted a rare Sunday session to advance… Read More