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Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Taxpayer cost still TBD as union ratifies new state contract AFSCME Council 13, which represents about 27,000 (or nearly half of) state employees under Gov. Shapiro’s jurisdiction, has ratified…

Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Pa. pols line up behind presidential candidates The Erie Times-News gives a rundown of whom Pa. politicians are endorsing in the 2024 presidential race. Not surprisingly, multiple Democrats—including Gov.…

Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! WSJ: 'Calling Josh Shapiro's voucher bluff' The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board calls on Pa. Senate Republicans to use the yet-to-be-approved code bills to keep the school choice pressure…

Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Shapiro vetoes school choice program, signs budget Yesterday, the state Senate sent Gov. Shapiro the budget passed by both the House and Senate. Shapiro signed the bill, but followed…

Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Pa. Senate to send budget to Shapiro today The Pa. Senate is expected to convene today to send the budget—which passed both the House and Senate—to Gov. Shapiro. Shapiro…

Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Philly labor leader and Dem state rep. back school choice Last week I shared the op-ed by Philadelphia Building & Construction Trades Council head Ryan Boyer, in which he…

Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Budget impasse may soon impact schools “State payments to school districts normally start going out by the end of July,” the AP reports. However, “the standoff between Gov. Josh…

Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Some details emerge of Shapiro's closed-door union negotiations The actual cost to taxpayers of tentative contracts Gov. Shapiro negotiated with two government unions is yet-to-be-determined. But under the agreements—which…