From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/): After more than a year of taking extensive input from public education stakeholders at 30 sessions throughout the state, the Pennsylvania Department of Education released PA’s plan to comply with the Every Student Succeeds … Continued
Let’s not charge protesters for public safety costs when they exercise their First Amendment rights. By Elizabeth Randol, ACLU-PA Legislative Director Imagine if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., future Congressman John Lewis, and their compatriots in the civil rights movement … Continued
From the Every Child Matters Education Fund (http://www.everychildmatters.org/): Just when we think the healthcare fight is over, we hear about antsy insurance companies and states losing ACA marketplace options. So, what’s this latest wrinkle? It has to do with cost … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): Yesterday, news reports started circulating that President Trump is seriously considering terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This move would turn our nation’s back on immigrant youth who are valued members of … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): Right now, our communities are facing a heartless campaign to tear families apart by arresting and deporting moms, dads, and young people who have lived in the United States for years. Threats to the Temporary … Continued
Posted at https://www.thirdandstate.org/2017/august/evidently-you-can-make-stuff-commonwealth-foundation-and-house-gop-state-budget Posted by Marc Stier on August 24, 2017 10:17 am The Commonwealth Foundation, in recent op-eds and website posts, has presented a misleading analysis of the state budget, one that falsely claims that state spending has been increasing relative to … Continued
From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org): For the first time since 1979, carbon pollution from the transportation sector has overtaken electricity production as the greatest contributor to global warming in the U.S. We’ve got to make our cars more fuel … Continued
From the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (http://www.interfaithimmigration.org): CWS urges White House to end its anti-immigrant agenda Washington, D.C. – Today (August 23), media reports revealed a White House plan to use DREAM-ers – undocumented young people – as a “bargaining chip” … Continued
From Lancaster Against Pipelines (http://www.wearelancastercounty.org/): On August 23, US District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Schmel ruled that the property of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ and other hold out landowners who live in the path of the Atlantic … Continued
From the Detention Watch Network (https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/): We need you to join us in cutting off the flow of money that allows the Department of Homeland Security to deport and detain our community members. Money is one of the only barriers … Continued