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In the Tank
Governor Corbett’s approval rating has tanked, in no small part because of what he is doing to education. A new poll out this week shows him at his lowest rating yet, with only 36% of voters happy with...
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What the Polls Say
Two polls out in the past week show some surprising findings for public education with important implications for our grassroots movement here in Pennsylvania. First, Americans are now clearly saying...
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Cuts Have Consequences
This should come as no surprise. When you cut close to a billion dollars from public education, there are going to be consequences. Just so we’re all clear on exactly why we’re in this fight for our...
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Voting for Public Education
This is it. We’re down to the wire – elections are tomorrow and while education has been a back-burner issue this campaign season, suddenly it seems that everyone wants to talk about it. So with the...
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Public Education as Social Justice
Many of us here in the grassroots talk about our movement for public education as a civil rights issue. But what does that mean? In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, whose life and legacy we celebrate...
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How Low Can He Go?
Just how low will our Governor go? Gov. Corbett’s approval ratings are in the tank, the lowest they’ve ever been. And he seems to be trying very hard not to talk about cuts to the state’s education...
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Pittsburgh is Lucky
School board elections used to be a rather sleepy affair. A few local people would pay attention and the average candidate expected to spend a few thousand dollars to run a campaign. But now some of...
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Budget Talk
As we get closer to the end-of-June deadline, our legislators are finally talking about the state budget. Yesterday, the Republicans in the PA House proposed their own budget in response to Governor...
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Bleeding Out
School districts across Pennsylvania are on life support. After massive defunding of public education by the state the past two years, schools have made so many cuts there is almost nothing left to...
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GERM Infection
Yinzercation is on vacation. I hopped across the pond to the Society for the History of Children and Youth conference to deliver a paper on student activism in our movement (comparing it to young...
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Movements Work
In celebration of Labor Day today, it’s a good time to remember that movements work. They’re messy, fractured, and can take an awfully long time, but they work. What we call the labor movement of 19th...
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What Pittsburghers are Really Saying about School Closures
It seems like everyone is talking about the Pittsburgh Public School district’s plan to close more schools. City Council. The Post-Gazette editorial board. The region’s leaders. But what about ordinary...
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What Pittsburghers are Really Saying about School Funding
Yesterday I shared with you what Pittsburghers are really saying about school closures. (If you haven’t already, please take a minute to check out this piece explaining why we must listen to the...
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What Pittsburghers are Really Saying about Class Size
This week we are looking at the results of the community survey our grassroots movement helped to create. We had nearly 1,000 people respond, mostly in person, with volunteers going door-to-door...
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What They Should be Saying
It’s a lot of chilly heads as eight Democratic candidates for Pennsylvania governor have already tossed their hats in the ring. All eight are eager to take on Governor Corbett, whose latest approval...
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Thankful Top Ten
A lot of my Facebook friends are posting a message every day this month detailing the things for which they are grateful. It occurred to me how easy it would be for me to fill a month’s worth of posts...
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From Bad to Worst
From bad to worse to – what’s worse than worse? A new report released this week shows that “the financial condition of school districts across the Commonwealth continues to deteriorate.” The...
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