The Pittsburgh school superintendent will be leaving at year’s end with almost four years remaining on his contract. He is headed for new challenges
Quoted in Monday’s Tribune Review, the new president of the Pennsylvania State Education Association-the teachers’ union-says he wants to work with the Governor and
Why can’t they just get along down in DC and solve this debt ceiling problem? The mournful cry of the folks who do not
Facing many challenges at the same time, from “uncertain federal and state funding” to “declining school enrollment” to “increasing costs”, the most telling piece
The following paragraph is taken verbatim from a sitting member of Pittsburgh’s City Council and illustrates perfectly how the City got into financially distressed
As we wrote in a blog earlier this year, the Neshaminy School District in southeastern Pennsylvania had a teacher strike, the first in the
In a recent op-ed piece a business owner made an incredible statement. “My business would be hurt far more by allowing the tax cut
An annual growth rate of about 3% per year in expenditures; no increases to existing taxes and no real proposals for new types; still
An op-ed so full of logical errors that the mind boggles to see so many crammed into one article has just appeared in a
Wages and health care: those are the two “biggies” for Allegheny County as it negotiates with collective bargaining units representing more than 5,100 of
