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That’s video from Penn Action’s May 9 D.C. rally against vouchers. \u00a0Along with Action United and with help from the SEIU, the PSEA, USAction<\/a> and the Philadelphia Student Union, a bus of concerned citizens travelled from Bucks County and Philadelphia to Washington D.C. to protest against school vouchers. \u00a0 Pennsylvania’s Gov. Corbett joined his role model, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, in addressing the American Federation of Children, a pro-voucher, anti-public school organization. \u00a0We wanted to be there to let Gov. Corbett know that vouchers are not the solution to any problems Pennsylvania schools have – and that his $1.2B of cuts<\/a> are not helping. \u00a0 You can read and watch accounts of the event from a number of media outlets that covered the event.<\/p>\n Vouchers pull money from public schools (the estimate is that after three years of vouchers, about $1B will have been taken from public schools), leaving children behind in schools that need funds to improve. \u00a0The schools that receive voucher money are not subject to accountability standards and the vouchers are not enough to cover their costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xn6jbA9e1uE That’s video from Penn Action’s May 9 D.C. rally against vouchers. \u00a0Along with Action United and with help from the SEIU, the PSEA, USAction and the Philadelphia Student Union, a bus of concerned citizens travelled from Bucks County and Philadelphia to Washington D.C. to protest against school vouchers. \u00a0 Pennsylvania’s Gov. Corbett joined his role model, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, in addressing the American Federation of Children, a pro-voucher, anti-public school organization. \u00a0We wanted to be there to let Gov. Corbett know that vouchers are not the solution to any problems Pennsylvania schools have – and that his $1.2B of cuts are not helping. \u00a0 You can read and watch accounts of the event from a number of media outlets that covered the event. Politics PA UFCW Photos Philadelphia Inquirer and here Philadelphia Daily News (AP) Washington Post Pittsburgh Post-Gazette WHTM-TV 27 (ABC) Harrisburg Teamster Nation AFL-CIO Daily Kos\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[41,123],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-Zo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6132,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Politics PA<\/a><\/div>\nUFCW Photos<\/a><\/div>\nPhiladelphia Inquirer<\/a> and here<\/a><\/div>\nPhiladelphia Daily News <\/a>(AP)<\/div>\nWashington Post<\/a><\/div>\nPittsburgh Post-Gazette <\/a><\/div>\nWHTM-TV 27<\/a> (ABC) Harrisburg<\/div>\nTeamster Nation<\/a><\/div>\nAFL-CIO<\/a><\/div>\nDaily Kos<\/a><\/div>\nRhee First <\/a><\/div>\nSalon<\/a><\/div>\nThe Nation <\/a><\/div>\nUSAction <\/a><\/div>\nFox 43<\/a>, Philadelphia<\/div>\nBlogging Blue <\/a><\/div>\nRick Smith Show <\/a><\/div>\nWTOP, 103.5 FM<\/a>, Washington<\/div>\nWAMU<\/a>, NPR, Washington<\/div>\nCapital Times<\/a>, Madison<\/div>\n