After seven years, Pennsylvania’s landmark school funding case is set to go to trial on Friday, giving educators and parents in low-wealth districts the opportunity to tell the court how students are harmed by a system that has resulted in some of the widest spending gaps among better-off and poor districts in the country. | From: Chalkbeat Philadelphia (Read more.)
El Programa de Asistencia General de Pennsylvania, de $40 millones, que asiste especialmente a adultos sin hijos menores, fue eliminado el 1ro de agosto. Este programa sirve especialmente a adultos discapacitados que no tienen ingresos y que no pueden trabajar. Este programa distribuyó estipendios a 11 mil residentes de Pennsylvania de los cuales 5,600 viven en Filadelfia, muchos de ellos sin techo. | Por el Inquirer (Read more.)
The $40 million Pennsylvania General Assistance program, essentially cash welfare for people without minor children, was eliminated on Aug. 1. Serving mostly disabled adults who have no income and can’t work, the program distributed stipends to 11,000 Pennsylvanians — 5,600 of them in Philadelphia, many of them homeless. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
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