From the trauma and isolation of this past year, these students found a new sense of community, new sets of skills, new coping methods, and new ways to take care of others.
By Emily Rizzo/WHYY A feud between those valuing personal freedom and those prioritizing health concerns has been building for the past year. Now, it’s at boiling point.
In 2019, PASSHE students received $5,739 in state subsidies, while the per-horse rate works out to $15,271.
In a statement, Mayor Jim Kenney said he learned of a “very disturbing incident” in which Thomas Farley had bombing victims’ remains cremated and disposed of, rather than returning them to the family.
The federal relief funds are meant to make up for the added food expenses families faced without access to school meals.
District leaders say calls to a crisis hotline launched a year ago, are getting longer due to losses from the pandemic, gun violence, and racial trauma.
The advocacy comes as the financial pressure on districts has increased due to a significant boost in charter school enrollment during the pandemic.
The moves would not affect the other three state system schools in the midstate — Kutztown, Millersville, and Shippensburg.
A new coalition of more than a dozen education advocacy organizations, teachers, students, and leaders from across the state are demanding $100 million for Pennsylvania’s 100 most distressed school districts.
