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Scranton School Board Mid-April Update: PTAs & Fair Funding

April 14, 2019 By Tom Borthwick

Scranton’s kids have an issue. While we look at our district’s budget of $166 million and how we constantly experience shortfalls that require cuts and borrowing and tax increases, we are missing the biggest issue when we talk about how to address it: fair funding. According to the last state budget, a kid from Scranton […]

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Scranton School District: State Lifeline And A Look At How We Got Here

December 23, 2017 By Tom Borthwick

With news that the state is going to provide $2 million to the district as a kind of lifeline, there’s reason to celebrate this Christmas. There’s also reason to be cautious, because, based on the district’s Powerpoint from their raucous meeting last Monday, $2 million isn’t nearly enough to dig us out of this hole. […]

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Assault on Teaching: PA Senate Edition

May 17, 2016 By Tom Borthwick

The teaching profession has been systematically under assault for some time. Stop me if you’ve heard these: Teachers get summers off. Teachers are glorified babysitters. Teachers get paid too much. Teacher benefits are too high. All this ignores: That teachers are required to keep getting college credits, or we lose our jobs. Many of us […]

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Ain’t No Party Like a Tom Wolf Comes to Scranton Party!

March 28, 2014 By Tom Borthwick

… Because a Tom Wolf Comes to Scranton Party Don’t Stop! I hope you enjoy the Office reference and clunky title. On to the meat of it: I’ve been around the block enough to have my hopes and dreams (and really any kind of reasonable sense that the future will be alright) totally crushed by […]

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PA-Gov: A Totally Biased Primer for the Uninitiated

February 19, 2014 By Tom Borthwick

For the average registered homo sapien, the upcoming gubernatorial primary isn’t number one on the priority list. Maybe it’s putting food on the table. Or what case of beer to grab after work. I’m not disputing the importance of such necessities. Instead, I’m saying the race for governor affects those things, man. I mean. Minimum […]

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