SOUTHEAST REGIONAL NEWS
SOUTHEAST REGIONAL NEWS
Old schools, hot buildings: A ‘public health concern’?
When Rafi Cave dropped his daughter off at school Friday, it felt like a revelation — it was the first time since classes began Sept. 4 that children at Evans Elementary in Yeadon had a full day's instruction. "We're a week into school, and she hasn't met her reading...
The problem of rising property taxes is not going away
Much has been made of the inequities built into the state’s system of education funding. It has gotten so bad that a group of parents, headed by a family in the William Penn School District, has taken the state to court, looking for the opportunity to argue that the...
In high-tax Upper Darby, school bills going up again. The district has plenty of company.
by Meghan Bobrowsky, Staff Writer Property owners in the Upper Darby School District — where local tax rates already are among the highest in the region — will pay even more starting July 1. With officials warning of a potentially dire financial situation and...
How property taxes are crushing some communities
By Kathleen E. Carey, Delaware County Daily Times The issue of how to appropriately fund education has been a decades-long conundrum that has seen well-attended school board meetings, lawsuits, rallies and even doses of frustration shared by all sides of the debate....
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