Tag: public education system

Education Equity Divides Pennsylvania Policymakers

The Center Square

For more than a decade, policymakers in Harrisburg – and the circle of education influencers that they attract – have struggled to define equity for public school students.

Now, with a court mandate baring down, the state must reimagine the free and fair public education system promised in its Constitution – the guarantee envisioned by revolutionary elected officials like Thaddeus Stevens, whose influence still looms large in the halls of the Capitol.

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State Representative Bruce Griffey: ‘I Will Consider’ Introducing a Bill That Tells the Federal Government the State of Tennessee Will Refuse Their K-12 Public Education Money

Julie Carr

Wednesday moring on The Tennessee Star Report, host Leahy welcomed State Represenative Bruce Griffey in studio host Leahy welcomed State Representative Bruce Griffey in studio to answer tough questions on federal funding for K12 public education in Tennessee.

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The Tennessee Star Report: Can America’s Schools Be Saved: How the Ideology of American Education is Destroying It

Julie Carr

In a special interview, Thursday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am – host Michael Patrick Leahy spoke with Can America’s Schools Be Saved: How the Ideology of American Education is Destroying It author, Edwin Benson about the origins of American education and how it’s affecting the minds of young students and teachers alike today.

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