budget cuts

Students from across Pennsylvania rallied demanding Equity in Education.  This action was organized by Philadelphia Student Union, Project Peace, A+ Schools' TeenBloc & Juntos.  Over the course of the last year, Governor Tom Corbett has cut public education in Pennsylvania by more than $1 Billion, all the while increasing funding for prisons.  These unprecedented cuts have lead to school districts like Chester Upland laying-off fifty-three percent of their teaching staff, a precursor to the teachers finally working without pay beginning in January of this year.

Will you join students & parents from across Pennsylvania to demand that Governor Corbett make equitable school funding a top priority in the next budget?

Go to www.showloveforeducation.eventbrite.com to reserve your seat on the bus.

From Baltimore to Philadelphia, those in power are trying to cut funding from our schools and expand prisons. But youth from across the country are coming together to fight back and demand our human right to education.

EMERGENCY RALLY This Thursday, June 3, 9:15 AM, outside Room 400, City Council Chambers, 4th Floor, City Hall; then we'll Rally in front of the Mayor's Office on the 2nd Floor; Organized by the Coalition to Save the Libraries to protest proposed cuts to our neighborhood libraries, the Youth Violence Reduction Partnership, supportive housing, our parks and fire companies:

Across the state of New Jersey, high school students staged a one day strike Tuesday to protest cuts to the state's education budget.

The action was organized mainly through facebook, where an event page calling for a statewide walkout drew over 17,000 attendees.

With next year's budget proposals underway we are already seeing the hatchet for slashing budgets that brought about fears of government stand still last year.

Philadelphia is faced with a budget deficit of upwards of $100 million for fiscal year 2011. Over the five years that the city has to plan for, it's looking at a $500 to $700 million shortfall. This is a significant chunk of change to add on to the $2.4 billion already cut in the city's five-year plan last round.

On Monday people across the city remembered the eighty-seven souls that died in this last year either living on the streets or in shelters. Eighty-seven people!  This is a dramatic rise from the previous year and it is shameful.

On Tuesday July 14th nearly a hundred people gathered outside of Philadelphia City Hall, standing behind an empty kiddie pool bound in paper chains, to protest the closure of several public pools...

The Essential Services Coalition held a press conferences presenting the cuts and tax increases  in the budget passed by the city council for FY 2010.

Above you will hear the concerns of our city's residents about a budget that raises sales taxes, cuts library hours, summer jobs for youth, and charges for care at city health centers. They state that this budget is being balanced on the backs of the city's workers, and with the well being of city's poor abandoned.