Over a thousand people walked from Central Bucks West High School to the Bucks County Courthouse in Doylestown, PA on Saturday as part of the national March for Our Lives. The Doylestown march was spearheaded by Bucks Students Demand Action – a student-led group formed in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last…
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Early this morning my daughter and I drove my neighbor’s son to his detention at Pennridge High School. Pennridge is located in Perkasie, PA about ten minutes south of Quakertown and fifteen minutes west of Doylestown, the county seat of Bucks County. My passenger was one of the 225 Pennridge High School students who walked out…
Budgeting for Fear and Austerity: An Interview with Howard Bunsis
Budgeting for Fear and Austerity: An Interview with Howard Bunsis Howard Bunsis, the author of the “Bunsis Report” on the financial condition of Kutztown University and PASSHE, will be speaking on campus at 11 am in the Academic Forum, room 101. Bunsis is a professor of accounting at Eastern Michigan University who has been at the…
We Need College for All
We Need College for All In August 2017 I drove from Minnesota to Pennsylvania. The beautiful scenery distracted me from the life I was driving into – a life of student loans, debt, and worrying about how to make my education as useful and cost-efficient as possible. Having done a gap year I thought I was…
PASSHE Budget Games Exposed – Again: “Bunsis Report” Pushes Back Against Austerity
PASSHE Budget Games Exposed – Again: “Bunsis Report” Pushes Back Against Austerity A new report released to Kutztown University faculty Tuesday evening, promises to cause headaches for PASSHE administrators and university presidents who have used a narrative about a State System “budget crisis” to jack up tuition rates, gut faculty, and close academic programs. A…
Coalition Launches Opposition to PASSHE’s Corporate Agenda: Why CACHE, why now?
Coalition Launches Opposition to PASSHE’s Corporate Agenda: Why CACHE, why now? On September 12, 2016, APSCUF (the union of PASSHE faculty and coaches) filed an unfair labor practice against the Office of the Chancellor (OOC), then Chancellor Frank Brogan and the State System, for refusing to bargain with APSCUF in good faith. Despite this filing,…
Help Puerto Rican Teachers and Their Communities Survive Hurricane Devastation
Help Puerto Rican Teachers and Their Communities Survive Hurricane Devastation Mercedes Martinez is looking for water. The President of the Federacion de Maestros of Puerto Rico, an island teachers union, has taken to the soggy streets to find bottled water for friends and family. After Hurricane Maria, thousands of people including many local public school teachers have…
After Hurricane Harvey, Will Houston Public Schools be Charterized?
After Hurricane Harvey, Will Houston Public Schools be Charterized? It’s an all too familiar scene in America. A natural disaster devastates a major metropolitan city. And then the forces of profit and privatization use the chaos and uncertainty as cover to steal public services and turn them into mechanisms to increase their own bottom line. That’s what happened…
Just over a week before final exams, white-supremacists have returned to Kutztown University to plaster the campus with hate. On Thursday, students began finding the fascist posters linking to the neo-Nazi website, Daily Stormer. The Daily Stormer is run by the neo-Nazi, Ohio native Andrew Anglin. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Andrew Anglin is…
Denying Access: Transforming PASSHE’s Commitment to Working-Class Students
Denying Access: Transforming PASSHE’s Commitment to Working-Class Students Earlier this week the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (PBPC) and the Keystone Research Center (KRC) released the report, “Pennsylvania’s Great Working-Class Colleges.” The report highlights the success that the Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned university system, PASSHE, has had in moving students from lower income families into the top…
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