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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

Joe Egan, right, a representative of The Buckeye Firearm Foundation, at a Tamaqua School Board meeting in November 2018. Board member Nicholas Boyle, left, and School Board President Larry Wittig, confer with him. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Citing technicality, Pa. school district scraps first-of-kind policy to arm teachers

The Tamaqua Area School District will scrap a groundbreaking policy that would have allowed teachers and staff to carry weapons anonymously on school grounds.

6 years ago

Educators fire off rounds during a concealed carry class for teachers Sunday, June 10, 2018, at  Adventure Tactical Training in Farmer City, Illinois. The class was designed to help teachers feel less vulnerable in the wake of a number of recent school shootings across the country.  (David Proeber, The Pantagraph via AP)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Some Pa. superintendents have been quietly armed in schools — and parents probably don’t know it

Amid ongoing debate about guns in Pa. schools, some school administrators have been quietly armed for nearly a year, a Keystone Crossroads investigation has found.

6 years ago

William Marx points out one of the districts that crossed four counties as an image of the old congressional districts of Pennsylvania are projected on a wall in the classroom where he teaches civics in Pittsburgh on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Gerrymandering in Pa.: Why the risk is (still) real

Pennsylvania wasn't affected by the recent gerrymandering ruling regarding. But the decision is a reminder of the risks of skewed congressional district boundaries.

6 years ago

Dr. Christian Macedonia led the military's Gray Team of doctors and scientists charged with finding the
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law
PA Post

Whistleblower: Lancaster General settlement with DOJ fails to address core problems

Penn Medicine has agreed to pay $275,000 to the Department of Justice to settle allegations that Lancaster General Hospital submitted false claims to Medicaid

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signs the main appropriations bill in a $34 billion budget package that passed the Legislature this week at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, June 28, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Money

After a week of ‘passions,’ Pennsylvania’s budget is finished

Governor Wolf has now committed to signing all the components immediately, except one.

6 years ago

Gov. Wolf signed the  budget on Friday June 28, 2019. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Seven big takeaways for education in the new Pa. budget

A flurry of hotly-debated education proposals have been decided in this year’s Pennsylvania budget. Here are the latest updates on six major issues.

6 years ago

(Pennsylvania Supreme Court/WESA)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

SCOTUS decision doesn’t impact Pennsylvania’s redistricted Congressional map

The decision does not impact Pennsylvania’s recently redistricted map, because the case was based on the state constitution.

6 years ago

People gather during a rally to coincide with the Supreme Court hearings on the redistricting cases in Maryland and North Carolina in front of the Supreme Court on March 26. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

SCOTUS rules partisan gerrymandering is beyond the reach of federal courts

In a 5-4 decision SCOTUS ruled that partisan redistricting is a political question and court can't judge if extreme gerrymandering violates the constitution.

6 years ago

Ralph at his home in West Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Historic Pa. law to automatically seal millions of criminal charges starting Friday

Starting Friday, 40 million criminal charges in Pa. will be eligible for automatic sealing, potentially giving thousands of residents a second chance.

6 years ago

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The Shipley School, in Bryn Mawr benefitted from more than $500,000 in OSTC and EITC scholarship funds in 2017-18. It reported serving zero low-income students that year. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

‘Trapped’ on the Main Line: Expensive private schools benefit from Pa. tax credits but report zero low-income students

Many schools that benefit are located in the state’s wealthiest suburbs, where students have access to some of Pennsylvania’s highest-rated public schools.

6 years ago

Listen 5:34
Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa.
Keystone Crossroads
Money

Pa. lawmakers cosign $34 billion budget, but negotiations aren’t over

Pennsylvania House Republicans have started moving the main spending bill for next year's state budget, and it seems likely the Senate and Governor Tom Wolf will support it.

6 years ago

Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol building Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Money

Pa.’s year-end surplus is official. But it won’t last long.

The IFO said that the commonwealth can count on ending the year with $910 million to spare. But the number dwindles when factoring in the amount the state overspent.

6 years ago

Keystone Crossroads hosted a live interview with Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf (Joanne Cassaro/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Cash for the poor? Yes. Arming teachers? No. And 4 other highlights from #AskGovWolf

Wolf talked about the state’s most pressing issues in the midst of budget season during a live Q&A show hosted by Keystone Crossroads.

6 years ago

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Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf delivers his budget address for the 2019-20 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Money

Governor vetoes $100M private schools bill in Pennsylvania

Gov. Tom Wolf is vetoing budget-season legislation to substantially ramp up taxpayer support for private and religious schools in Pennsylvania.

6 years ago

Janel Turner, (bottom right), her husband, and two of her sons, at their home in Philadelphia’s Nicetown neighborhood. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community
Broke in Philly

Half of Philadelphia households struggle to make ends meet

A new report from the United Way found that nearly two million households in Pennsylvania have a hard time paying for basic necessities like housing and food.

6 years ago

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