Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is set to lead the rest of the Harrisburg lawmakers into the realm of school reform, Yahoo! News reports. Very soon the governor is expected to announce his plan to address issues with public schools across the commonwealth. But many members of the General Assembly are probably holding their breath when it comes to education, as they had to pass a massive budget cut to that affected both basic and college-level education earlier in the year. Still education will be battling with a number of other topics that will be hot on the legislature’s plate…
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Don’t weep at urban violence; prevent it with better schools
Let us not linger too long wringing our hands and shedding our tears. Be assured that I write this as one who has shed many a tear over the loss of far too many young people shot and killed in north Minneapolis over the last 20 years. But I also get deeply angry over each untimely death–because this violence does not have to happen, says Gary Marvin Davison, former researcher and writer for the 2004 and 2008 editions of “The State of African Americans in Minnesota” for the Minneapolis Urban League and current director of the New Salem Educational Initiative in north Minneapolis for the StarTribune. What the wonderful youths and adults of north Minneapolis really need are our long-term effective actions, not after-the-fact weeping and lamentation. They need constructive efforts that build for the future more than they need commiseration over momentary calamity…
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