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I would vote for both of them. Barletta is always in the homecoming parade. I wanted former husky Governor Mark Schweiker to run in the past.
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Originally posted by Bart View Post
Barletta is a Bloom grad, so there is some allegiance there.
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Originally posted by complaint_hopeful View PostIt's going to be interesting to see what happens to the fall enrollment for these institutions. I suspect the uncertainty will have an impact...which could throw this into chaos.
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Originally posted by IUPNation View Post
The state system schools will take a fatal blow if any of the Trumpanzee trash planning to run for Gubner winds up getting elected. I think any of their chances are slim as the majority of the residents of the Philly burbs hate all things Fat Nixon.
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It's going to be interesting to see what happens to the fall enrollment for these institutions. I suspect the uncertainty will have an impact...which could throw this into chaos.
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Originally posted by iupgroundhog View Post
But then you have legislators like Kerry Benninghoff (interviewed below). If you read this interview it is an amazing pile of double-speak. Why can't he just say that he doesn't support more funding for PASSHE? Because that's his position. He goes through all this absurd rigamorole to skirt clarifying what his position is. Clearly, he doesn't support PASSHE. I guess he recognizes its right to exist.
Benninghof is the majority leader of the PA House. To be clear, he is NOT the rep for Lock Haven. He is the rep for PSU, of course.
The rep for LH is a Trumpster who did introduce a bill last week to eliminate state sales tax on guns. No pun intended, but that is DOA. No word in her proposition how that decrease in revenue would be paid for. Ironically, she hasn't had one word to say about the integration. The bottom line is that the Republicans still don't care, even if the schools are in their respective districts.
https://www.lockhaven.com/news/local...ders-and-more/
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PA House Dems are hosting a hearing tomorrow on the consolidation. One of the organizers, Ryan Bizzarro, is a huge advocate for Edinboro.
https://www.pahouse.com/InTheNews/Ne...ase/?id=119745
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So, if this big report released yesterday is correct, they're telling me that when a state cuts public higher ed funding by 53% over 20 years it will see a similar decline in enrollment? To quote Clay Davis from The Wire, SHEEEEE-IT.
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This article was posted a couple days ago and it has a great chart in it towards the bottom:
We're 47th per capita for higher ed funding. 46th gets 5% more than us. 45th 28% more. 44th - 37% more.
The nagging question: How much more is Pennsylvania willing to spend on higher ed? | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
IF you increased the PASSHE payments from the state by 28%...we'd be in so much better shape.
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Originally posted by iupgroundhog View Post
But then you have legislators like Kerry Benninghoff (interviewed below). If you read this interview it is an amazing pile of double-speak. Why can't he just say that he doesn't support more funding for PASSHE? Because that's his position. He goes through all this absurd rigamorole to skirt clarifying what his position is. Clearly, he doesn't support PASSHE. I guess he recognizes its right to exist.
Benninghof is the majority leader of the PA House. To be clear, he is NOT the rep for Lock Haven. He is the rep for PSU, of course.
The rep for LH is a Trumpster who did introduce a bill last week to eliminate state sales tax on guns. No pun intended, but that is DOA. No word in her proposition how that decrease in revenue would be paid for. Ironically, she hasn't had one word to say about the integration. The bottom line is that the Republicans still don't care, even if the schools are in their respective districts.
https://www.lockhaven.com/news/local...ders-and-more/
I do think most if not all of the PA GOP silent opposition is because its:
a) jealousy of liberals earning a good living in a state job
b) foolishly believing that cutting spending will result in cutting taxes
c) having a problem with their tax dollars subsidizing the education of brown skinned Pennsylvanians
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
I get the chancellor's point that we don't have a lot of time due to individual schools eating through their reserves. But I also agree with Brewster that at best this plan needs a longer timeline to run analyses on the effect. It seems like the mission was to create a plan to merge the schools and stop there. There doesn't seem to be as much preliminary work done on how to make the mergers beneficial.
And I get the Chancellors desire to rush this through as the finances are bad. But you need actual implementation steps to move quick. You can't just approve this and hope that everyone figures out what needs to happen.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
I get the chancellor's point that we don't have a lot of time due to individual schools eating through their reserves. But I also agree with Brewster that at best this plan needs a longer timeline to run analyses on the effect. It seems like the mission was to create a plan to merge the schools and stop there. There doesn't seem to be as much preliminary work done on how to make the mergers beneficial.
Benninghof is the majority leader of the PA House. To be clear, he is NOT the rep for Lock Haven. He is the rep for PSU, of course.
The rep for LH is a Trumpster who did introduce a bill last week to eliminate state sales tax on guns. No pun intended, but that is DOA. No word in her proposition how that decrease in revenue would be paid for. Ironically, she hasn't had one word to say about the integration. The bottom line is that the Republicans still don't care, even if the schools are in their respective districts.
https://www.lockhaven.com/news/local...ders-and-more/
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