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OPINION: Pennsylvania students deserve better than a delayed state budget

In Pennsylvania, districts burdened by adequacy funding gaps, poverty isn't an abstract concept—it’s the daily reality for 70% of enrolled students. In July 2024, the Pennsylvania General Assembly delivered a landmark, bipartisan solution by codifying a new methodology for calculating the state's obligation to underfunded districts and integrating it into the 2024-25 state budget. In my home district, that alarming figure swelled to 77%.

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OPINION: Billionaire-backed groups are throwing money at Pennsylvania Supreme Court races. Here’s why that’s a problem

In Pennsylvania, state Supreme Court justices are up for retention vote every 10 years after they are first elected. Instead of pitting candidates against the judges, these retention elections provide a depoliticized way for voters to choose yes or no on whether they want judges to continue serving on the bench for another decade. 

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UPMC nurse joins union for her patients

For Clare Duffus, who has been a postpartum nurse at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Magee-Womens Hospital for the past four years, joining a union was a no-brainer.

She shared with The Keystone that caring for her patients and getting them better treatment was one of her main reasons for supporting the union.

Duffus and hundreds of her other colleagues will be joining the Service Employees International Union Healthcare Pennsylvania (SEIU HCPA) after they voted 402 to 305 in favor of the union last week.

✏️ 📹 Sean Kitchen
#Pittsburgh #Labor #UnionYes #Nurses #UPMC #Pennsylvania

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Gov. Josh Shapiro makes reelection case for 2026

Gov. Josh Shapiro defends his record and makes the argument for reelection in 2026 after Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced her campaign as a Republican candidate.

Shapiro spoke to reporters in Harrisburg on Tuesday after celebrating the elimination of call times and backlogs with the commonwealth’s unemployment compensation system.

✏️/📹: Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #Philadelphia #PAGov

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Philadelphia labor leader blasts ICE for being un-American

Philadelphia AFL-CIO President Daniel Bauder didn’t hold back when criticizing Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents while speaking at a press conference outside ICE’s Philadelphia field office on Thursday.

The press conference was organized by State Sens. Nikil Saval (D-Philadelphia) and Amanda Cappelletti (D-Montgomery) and called out ICE agents for operating as a secret police force.

✏️ : Sean Kitchen
📹 : State Sen. Nikil Saval
#Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #ICE #Immigration #Immigrants #Trump #Philly #DonaldTrump #Unions #UnionYes #AFLCIO

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