As promised, Governor Tom Wolf vetoed legislation to double the funding for vouchers.
In his veto message, he said:
“We have public schools that are structurally deteriorating, contaminated by lead, and staffed by teachers who are not appropriately paid and overstretched in their responsibilities. Tackling these challenges, and others, should be our collective priority,” the governor said in his message.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
6% of the students are already getting 25% of the money! About one quarter of public education dollars are already going to private companies. 94% percent of Pennsylvania’s students are getting 75% of the public education budget. Public schools are already shortchanged in Pennsylvania. Some of those private companies are useless cyber charters that are overpaid for the wasteful baloney they peddle. Good for Governor Wolf in stopping the unprincipled, rapacious legislature and their crooked crony payouts.
That is an amazing head line for Education Week.
One can only hope that, indeed, it does capture the national party’s (dem’s) mood.
And that they actually follow through with that mood.
Governor Wolf is the kind of leader I feel blessed to have. I remember watching friends and colleagues lose jobs due to the budget cuts under his predecessor.
Wolf has also created plans to raise the minimum wage and to reduce the wage gap for female workers.
Good news indeed.
I can only hope this signals a budge in the opposite direction for PA. Growing up in southern-tier NYS, PA was our nearest nbr & not much different from us culturally. As a ’50’s kid on family trips South, you’d have to get nearly to WVA/ VA before the BIble Belt radio stations took over. (Sorry but I associate that directly w/ declining economy > changeover to red status.) Coal mining was already in decline then, but big biz was perking up in Phil & Pitts. But by late ’90’s when driving my kid from NJ to summer camp, the fundamentalist-Christian stations kicked in as soon as we got into mountainous northern PA. Gonna guess that’s about globalization/ offshoring/ further mfg decline in PA. So what made them comfortable enough to elect a Dem govr: fracking?