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Thank the Senate for restoring higher ed funding
On Wednesday the Pennsylvania Senate passed SB 1466, the General Appropriations Act, which includes the full restoration of funding to the State System of Higher Education. The bill passed 39-8, and now goes to the House of Representatives for consideration.
The Senate budget proposal spends $27.6 billion – approximately $500 million more than Governor Corbett’s initial proposal – and restores the governor’s deep cuts to higher education institutions. While the legislation maintains funding for all state-owned, state-related and community colleges at current-year levels, the funding restorations come with the caveat that the state-owned and state-related universities will not increase tuition above the rate of inflation. read more…
Senate GOP budget that restores higher education funding passes committee, moves to full Senate vote
The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously passed a Senate GOP budget proposal this morning that restores funding to all state-owned, state-related and community colleges back to current-year levels. Next step for this version of the budget will be a full Senate vote, which could come as early as tomorrow (Wednesday, May 9).
For background on the Senate GOP budget proposal, check out Monday’s story from the Harrisburg Patriot-News. read more…
Social media usage during Legislative Assembly
As our spring Legislative Assembly gets underway tomorrow in Altoona, APSCUF is inviting all of our delegates to use social media throughout the weekend to help publicize and promote our causes.
If you’re tweeting from Legislative Assembly, we ask that you use the #apscufLA hashtag. We’ve set up a Tweetwall at http://apscufla.tweetwally.com to capture all tweets with this hashtag, so remember to use it! read more…
A quick look at Tuesday’s Primary election
Despite the weak voter turnout, Tuesday’s primary election night held some interesting surprises and upsets.
There were several hotly contested statewide races, including the Democratic primary for Attorney General. APSCUF did not endorse either candidate in the race, but other labor groups backed Patrick Murphy, who lost to Kathleen Kane. She will face republican Dave Freed in the fall. Tom Smith won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate and will face Senator Bob Casey in November. read more…
Make your voice heard: VOTE!
Tomorrow (Tuesday, April 24) is Pennsylvania’s primary election day. Polls are open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Please remember to vote.
Pennsylvanians will be voting in primaries for US President and Congress, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, for statewide offices (Attorney General, Auditor General and Treasurer), and there will also be a handful of Special Elections to replace legislators who have stepped down or moved to other positions in the last year.