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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

Many districts in southwestern Pennsylvania would receive money under a proposal to raise all school district salaries to at least $45,000 a year. (Ed Mahon / PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

A $45,000 minimum salary for teachers, explained

The issue is expected to come up during education department budget hearings.

6 years ago

In this file photo, Pennsylvania State Police are seen in Philadelphia in  February 2018 (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. taxpayers continue funding state troopers in towns without cops after years of capitol debate

Republican leaders want to charge municipalities for state police service based on workload indicators like calls for service instead of the governor’s proposed population-dri

6 years ago

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Pennsylvania's corrections system tightened its legal mail security in September. The ACLU and other civil rights groups are trying to prove the move wasn't warranted. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

The trial over Pa.’s prison mail policy may be heading toward a settlement

The unprecedented security measures at the center of this trial involved giving inmates photocopies of their mail, while the prison temporarily stored the originals.

6 years ago

Senior Christian Sanchez caries the flag as the Cheyney University Wolves enter the O'Shields-Stevenson Stadium for the
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. public universities ‘treading water’ with declining enrollment, higher than average tuition

Enrollment across the 14 state-owned schools has decreased by 18 percent since 2010, dropping to less than 100,000 students in fall 2018.

6 years ago

Students at Lansdale Catholic High School in a 2017 file photo. (Emily Cohen/for NewsWorks)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Boon or ‘black hole’? Pa. private school scholarship program considered for major expansion

A tax-break program that routes millions to Pennsylvania private schools could grow much larger if a new bill becomes law.

6 years ago

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Visitors wait to enter the Supreme Court as a winter snow storm hits the nation's capital making roads perilous and closing most Federal offices and all major public school districts, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. The Supreme Court is ruling unanimously that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to the states. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

The end of civil asset forfeiture? U.S. Supreme Court ruling has advocates hopeful

The U.S. Supreme Court placed limits on the civil asset forfeiture, but Pennsylvania’s high court already reined in the program throughout the state.

6 years ago

Corrections officers arrive for a shift at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. (Marc Levy/AP)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Is Pa.’s prison mail policy legal? It might depend (in part) on how fast guards can read

A federal trial is underway on whether Pennsylvania's policy for handling legal mail sent to prisons violates inmates' First Amendment rights.

6 years ago

Critics of the law that is meant to stop witness intimidation, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, have called it redundant,  “excessively broad,” and potentially unconstitutional.(Junial/Bigstock)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

New law to curb witness intimidation in Pa. is criticized by watchdogs

Critics call the law redundant, “excessively broad,” and potentially unconstitutional.

6 years ago

At the 2018 meeting, Frank Wenzel, head of the Tamaqua teachers union, opposed the idea of having armed teachers in classrooms. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Tamaqua teachers continue legal fight against arming school staff despite court ruling

A Schuylkill County judge says she needs more information from the Tamaqua Area Education Association before ruling on a policy that would allow some staff to carry firearms.

6 years ago

Jack Schooner, 16, looks at Grand Theft Auto video game at GameStop in Palo Alto, Calif., Monday, June 27, 2011. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that it is unconstitutional to bar children from buying or renting violent video games, saying government doesn't have the authority to
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. weighs plan to tax violent video games to fund school security

The video game tax would pay for bulletproof glass and metal detectors at schools, but researchers say the proposal is misguided.

6 years ago

David Thornburgh, President and CEO of the Committee of Seventy, address the crowd at aDraw the Lines  PA event in Harrisburg on February 6, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Draw the Lines PA)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. citizens ‘slay the gerrymander’ in congressional mapping competition

Draw the Lines PA is a civic group that plans to host a biannual competition where people can make their own congressional district maps.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania has 500 school districts. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
Education
PA Post

Why are there so many school districts in Pa.? Here are four reasons

Pennsylvania has 500 school districts — nearly every one with its own full-time superintendent, hired by locally elected school board members.

6 years ago

(AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

The death of cyber charter schools in Pa.?

A proposal backed by a powerful Republican would steer families to district-run cyber programs and away from cyber charter schools.

6 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf speaks at a campaign rally for Pennsylvania candidates in Philadelphia, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Education
The Notebook

State’s charter appeals board still run by Corbett appointees

This is important for Philadelphia, where marginal applications are sometimes approved for fear of costly and ultimately successful appeals to the state board.

6 years ago

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
Education

Under Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan, one Pa. school district would receive $693,000 to raise teacher salaries

In a searchable database, you can see how much your school district would receive.

6 years ago

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