Pennsylvania
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Report: Fossil Fuels "Unreliable" During Deep Freeze
A new report found forced power outages in this winter's extreme weather only added to "unreliability" in the fossil-fuel sector. The PJM …
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
PSEA Call to Action: More Funding To Solve School Staffing Crisis
The shortage of school teachers and staffers has reached a crisis level in some public schools. An education advocacy group is making recommendations …
Monday, March 20, 2023
Report: PA Child Welfare Workforce Faces Low Pay, Turnover
A recent report on the child welfare workforce shortage looks at how worker turnover, recruitment, and retention are impacting children and families …
PA Group Pushes to Educate Voters Ahead of Municipal Primary
As the municipal primary election fast approaches, there is an urgent push for more voter education in Pennsylvania. More than 8.7 million …
PA: New Legislation To Prevent Future Train Derailments
Hoping to avoid future train disasters like Norfolk Southern's derailment in East Palestine, a bipartisan group of Pennsylvania lawmakers has …
PA Groups Urge State To Address Abandoned Well Problem
Groups in the Keystone State are urging the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to move forward quickly and implement some of the sugg…
PA Group: Stronger EPA Soot Standard Would Save Lives
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing tougher air-quality standards for soot pollution, and a Pennsylvania clean-air advocacy group said …
Call to Action: More Funding for PA Career and Technical Education
A Pennsylvania advocacy group wants the state budget to include more funding for Career and Technical Education programs, or CTE, for high school …
PA Educator Explores Antarctica, Falkland Islands with Fellowship
A Pennsylvania educator is one of 50 teachers from around the U.S. and Canada who received a Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship, an honor that came with a …
PA Now Tasked with Public-School Funding Revamp
It's been two weeks since a Commonwealth Court judge ruled Pennsylvania's system of funding public schools is unconstitutional and must be revamped…
Palestinian Advocates Applaud New Info from U.S. Education Dept.
The U.S. Department of Education has a new fact sheet about religious discrimination from its Office for Civil Rights, and Palestinian advocates are …
More Black Mentors Urged for Pennsylvania
A new study shows despite a long-term increase in mentoring over time, there has still been recent backsliding with Generation Z, who appear to be …