Penn State Berks faculty member Abdullah Konak named distinguished professor psu.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from psu.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Itâs way past time that bullets stop earning frequent flier miles.
Right now you probably have a better chance of getting shot with hot lead in Reading than you do getting shot with a COVID-19 vaccination because of its glacial rollout.
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The first part of Moran s plan is to create a gun buyback program.
The second part is to explore creating an auxiliary police program that will empower residents to work with local police.
The third part is to partner with community organizations such as YouthBuild, Moms Demand Action, Village of Reading, Reading Recreation Commission, Olivet Boys & Girls Club and Reading School District.
The state of education in Pennsylvania is in a crisis that existed before a pandemic changed the face of public schools for now and the foreseeable future. It is a crisis tangled with the larger issues facing our nation a widening inequity gap among the haves and have-nots, a racial divide gaining awareness, and the partisan roadblocks that prevent action.
The cascading crises were laid out in a report by MediaNews Group staff writer Evan Brandt last week detailing the findings of a recent study on a specific aspect of school funding known as âhold harmless,â and its pertinence to local districts in Berks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties.
Five regional school districts, all with high minority populations living closer to the poverty line, are most harmed by Pennsylvania s famously unfair education funding structure, according to a new analysis by a good schools advocacy group.
Those districts are Pottstown and Norristown in Montgomery County, Reading and Antietam in Berks County, and Southeast Delco in Delaware County.
The 24-page study, recently released by Public Citizens for Children and Youth, places much of the blame on an aspect of Pennsylvania s school funding architecture called hold harmless.
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Contrary to its name, the practice â by which no school district receives less funding than it did the previous year â has harmed thousands of Pennsylvania school children, the majority of them black and brown, the study asserts.
Hilda I. Sorell, teacher, administrator, and social justice advocate, dies at 74 inquirer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from inquirer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.