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Keystone Crossroads Archive

 In 1971, John and Bonnie Raines and six other activists broke into the FBI offices in Media in order to expose the bureau's effort to suppress dissent. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Philly activists who burglarized Hoover’s FBI call for more whistleblowers

If all went according to plan, Raines and fellow anti-war activists would pull off a burglary that would go down in history as exposing J ...

8 years ago

 Members of Service Employees International Union march near City Hall in Philadelphia. (AP File Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Collective bargaining bills would apply public records, open meetings laws to contract negotiations

Some state lawmakers are pushing a package of bills that they say would make contract negotiations between government agencies and public ...

8 years ago

 Erie public school advocates rally in the state capitol in 2016 when Jay Badams (center) was superintendent. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
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Politics & Policy

Fair funding advocates decry Pa. leaders for playing politics with specialty school money

For years in Pennsylvania, school funding coming from state government was criticized as being irrational, unpredictable, and too-tied to ...

8 years ago

 Students attend class at Belmont Charter School in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Money

New report on Pa. charter school growth finds ‘stranded costs’ linger five years later

A new study finds that expanding the charter school sector in Pennsylvania creates a significant toll on traditional public school system ...

8 years ago

 The Pennsylvania Economy League ranked municipalities according to their tax base (high is good) and tax burden (low is good), then combined scores and used the resulting list to divide them into quintiles. Quintile 1 indicates a larger tax base and lower tax burden per household; 5 indicates the least tax base and most tax burden per household. (Source: Pennsylvania Economy League)
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Money

Municipal distress getting worse in Pennsylvania, new data show

The Pennsylvania Economy League released a report on Tuesday showing predictions in its last study have borne out. That’s no ...

8 years ago

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Education

National education poll finds Americans wanting more job and career skills training in school

What’s the point of public school? To foster academic and critical thinking skills? To prepare students for the workforce? A ...

8 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads
Education

National education poll finds Americans wanting more job and career skills training in school

What’s the point of public school? To foster academic and critical thinking skills? To prepare students for the workforce? A ...

8 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

A look ahead at Pennsylvania’s 2018 political races

Statewide political party leaders are starting to hone their messaging for — and against — candidates, more than a year before the mi ...

8 years ago

 Students approach South Philadelphia High School (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, file)
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Money

Pa. school leaders anxious, still stinging from 2015 as 2017 state budget talks again linger

Nearly two months after the state’s budget deadline, lawmakers still haven’t reached a consensus on how to pay for the spendi ...

8 years ago

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Health

New report recommends ways to prevent and respond to childhood lead exposure

The water and lead crisis in Flint Michigan and parts of Pennsylvania has shone a national spotlight on he problem of childhood lead expo ...

8 years ago

 A view of Reading, Pennsylvania from Museum Road. The city is carved out of the 6th U.S. Congressional District and included with Lancaster and Chester Counties. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. court to decide whether to hear partisan gerrymandering suit similar to case before U.S. Supreme Court

Leaders in the Pennsylvania General Assembly have asked Commonwealth Court to stay all proceedings until the U.S. Supreme Court issues a decision in a similar case.

8 years ago

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 Mamadu Balde, a Sierra Leonean man who's lived in the U.S. for nearly two decades, has been held in York County Prison since June 23. (Image courtesy of Balde's family)
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Politics & Policy

Feds fighting lawsuit over detention of Sierra Leone refugee in York County Prison

The ACLU of Pennsylvania is suing the federal government over the allegedly illegal detention of Mamadu Balde, a Sierra Leonean man who ...

8 years ago

Families wait for students outside Rose Avenue Public School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Ian Willms/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Part Four: While Pa. debates merits of Pre-K, Ontario goes all-in

Part four of our Ontario series

8 years ago

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Health

Behind the Headlines: Pennsylvania’s opioid crisis up-close

To be addicted ...

8 years ago

Savannah Zayas and her daughter Layla travel miles from home to find a safe, clean playground. (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
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Education

Don’t call it the Badlands: The story of Savannah Zayas

It’s early February, and Savannah Zayas is just four months away from proving the world wrong. When she became pregnant in middl ...

8 years ago

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