Chris Satullo
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Hold harmless: funding protection or red herring?
“Hold Harmless” protects funding for some school districts, and means less funding for other districts in need. ...
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ListenHow is special education paid for in Pennsylvania public schools?
School districts complain that the amounts have not kept up with costs. In 2014, the state modestly increased funding while making some c ...
10 years ago
ListenThe mayoral issue bigger than any other: Who knows how to lead?
When Bill Clinton rand for president in 1992, he didn’t field debate questions on how he’d handle the explosion of the Intern ...
10 years ago
ListenWill Philly’s next championship canvas really be a Mo’ne?
In Mo’ne we trust. In Chip, Ruben, Ron and Sam, not so much. Before a mayoral forum I attended la ...
10 years ago
ListenHigh court has made it harder to punish deeds like Menendez’s
If what New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez is charged with doing wasn’t illegal, it was at least unethical and corrupt. Menende ...
10 years ago
ListenAn election is like a job search, but the bosses (voters) need to reclaim their place
It’s a simple idea … obvious, really. But it differs so much from the mental framework we normally use to talk about e ...
10 years ago
ListenFantasy draft — a rite of spring and a milestone of Boomer aging
So here’s a question: If you’ve been doing something for 30 years straight, but that something is somewhat ridiculous, is the ...
10 years ago
ListenEven the best of political reforms sits on shaky ground
The ants will always get back into the kitchen. That’s the sad truth about attempts to limit the corrupting effect that mone ...
10 years ago
ListenAsk not for whom the tax bell tolls, Philly
Go ahead, Mike, make my day. Tax me. I’ll pay it. With a smile. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter released his final p ...
10 years ago
ListenWisconsin, not Walker, has the bright idea on higher ed
Scott Walker had what he thought was a bright idea. It was this: Do away with the Wisconsin Idea. Now, one firestorm later, he’s ba ...
10 years ago
ListenPhilly? Cleveland? Could ‘rust’ be rising while the Sun Belt sets?
Next year, Republicans will hold their convention in Cleveland, the city where I was born and grew up. And Democrats will hold their conf ...
10 years ago
ListenCharters falter in Philly mostly because of a bad state law
The Philadelphia school system has received one of those Godfather-style “offers you can’t refuse.” ...
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