What’s coming for K-12 education under PA’s new Democratic trifecta?
🔵moratorium on new cyber charters
🔵add’l cuts to cyber charter funding
🔵cuts to B&M charter funding
🔵dismantling of EITC/OITC
🔵charter teacher layoffs
@Malliard @shesanti @ScottFMartin @dwkeefer @RepGleim
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I hope charter school parents are paying attention. Josh Shapiro promises not to leave your kid behind, but remember that when your charter school needs to close because of funding cuts- courtesy of PA House & Senate Democrats.
@Malliard @PaEdChoice @shesanti
We’re investing the most we ever have in Pennsylvania students — and it’s paying off.
Graduation rates are UP all across our Commonwealth. Absences are down. We’re now a top state in the nation for public education.
But our kids deserve even more — that’s why we’re going to keep delivering for them.
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2028 will all be about “Who can play ‘moderate’ best?” And it won’t be Josh Shapiro without the @PASenateGOP reining him in.
Amidst post-election "vibe shift", @JoshShapiroPA gets only the briefest mention in @PuckNews overview of 2028 Democrat Presidential field
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Doubt it that @JoshShapiroPA is going to opt-in, now.
Pennsylvania House and Senate Democrats will work to gut the state’s EITC and OITC programs, too.
It’s going to be tough going for PA’s students.
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Josh Shapiro’s record shows him to be one of the most radical politicians out there but he fools many as being a “moderate” because of his focus on messaging.
Pennsylvania (my home state) has over 1.5 million independent voters, making up almost 17% of the total electorate.
If you want to win elections, you have to win moderate voters.
Moderate voters flatly rejected the far-right messaging that captured the last two years of the Trump administration and turned winning policies into political liabilities.
Continuing to push the same message—and elevating the same people—doesn’t look like a winning strategy if anyone on the right is serious about regrouping for the 2028 election.
This from Shapiro is worth noticing:
“We're putting a check on Donald Trump's corruption and his small, selfish enablers – and we're ready to move this country forward in a better, more hopeful, more positive direction.”
Americans are tired of reactionary, angry messaging. They want hope. They want normalcy.
Owning the libs might get clicks but it’s not convincing voters.
Why can’t we focus on making things more affordable?
Maybe he should just run roughshod over PA for at least two years and help the GOP flip the legislature.
Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, women's fundamental freedoms have been under threat — especially as Donald Trump and his allies have pulled out every stop imaginable to try and rip away a woman’s right to choose.
I’ve stood up to him every step of the way, and kept abortion safe, legal, and accessible here in Pennsylvania. But in my second term — we’re putting an end to the uncertainty.
Under a Democratic trifecta, we will codify abortion rights into our Commonwealth’s Constitution — so no one, not even the President, can come for a woman’s right to choose.
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In 2011, Gov. Tom Corbett was accused of cutting education funding when federal stimulus money ran dry. Democrats and the media decried the “gutting of public education.”
In 2027, Gov. Josh Shapiro & PA House/Senate Dems will likely cut charter school funding.
We need the PA GOP to be there to make noise when it happens. Don’t let the media ignore it.
@EQCWright @Malliard @shesanti @JimBearCreek
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Charter schools are also in huge trouble with the Democratic trifecta.
But hey- we were told to vote blue up and down the ballot and punish every single Republican because of DJT.
@PaHouseDems have already voted to eliminate Pennsylvania’s Education Improvement Tax Credit scholarship program. Expect it to go on the chopping block under @JoshShapiroPA's "Trifecta." Sorry, kids.
Fiscal outlook is about to be awful with our new Democratic trifecta.
What taxes are we gonna come up with?
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Yup- we’re looking at a Democratic PA legislature at least until 2030.
I think Republicans are going to have a pretty tough time taking back the PA Senate in 2028. Dems, meanwhile, have at least 3 really clear pickup opportunities. There’s a very real chance they end up expanding their majority instead.
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In Pennsylvania, we now have a Democratic trifecta that will likely work to strip funding from the existing EITC/OITC program and cut funding to charter schools.
If your family uses school choice, here's what last night means for you.
Texas has a new governor who wants to end vouchers. But the program is law, and only the Legislature can undo it. Families who just started using it this year still have it.
Democrats won governor races in Iowa, Ohio, and Georgia, and they took Congress. Iowa's new governor wants income limits and audits on ESAs. Most of the winners didn't run on full repeal.
Tennessee went the other way. Their new governor wants scholarships open to every family.
Arizona's school chief race is still too close to call, and ESAs are on the line there too.
In Chicago, the teachers union and its allies spent at least $2.4M on the school board president race. Their candidate lost 49 to 31.
Voters also turned down huge school bonds in Texas and North Dakota. Washington's parents' rights measure is trailing.
So some states will try to shrink choice and others will grow it. Either way, the real fight moves to the legislatures, and lawmakers listen to parents who show up. If choice changed your kid's life, tell your legislator now.
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Congratulations Pennsylvania, as you now see the Democrat priorities. Not cheaper gas or utility prices, not better infrastructure, not affordable housing or better schools.
Abortion, raising a minimum wage no one makes, and having the state pay for Philidelpia and Pittsburghs mass transit.
TRIFECTA DELIVERED.
Pennsylvanians just came together to flip the State Senate for the first time in over THREE DECADES — delivering a Democratic trifecta that’s ready to raise the minimum wage, codify reproductive freedom, invest in mass transit, and so much more.
I’m so proud to have supported Chris Thomas, Eileen Hartnett Albillar, Mark Pinsley, and Brian Wrightson from Day One in their campaigns.
Now, the real work begins — and we’re ready to get shit done.
Russ Diamond is the GOAT.
Great post.
ELECTION REFLECTIONS from a 6-time Trump voter:
I've supported Trump because I always viewed him as an agent of change. Yes, he's sometimes indelicate; brash even. But at every election where his name was actually on the ballot, he offered what the Democrats didn't - basic ideas on policy that put America and her people first.
His second term started out well, essentially closing the border to the absolute flood of illegal immigration of the previous administration, the notion of DOGE rooting out fraud, and policies that attempted to strengthen the domestic economy.
But he flinched on the Epstein files. And then he launched military action against Iran that certainly appeared to run counter to his stated stance against messy foreign conflicts and impacted everyday Americans where it always hurts the most - energy prices.
Add those factors to the underlying decade-long hatred of Trump by the left and others who just don't like his personality, along with a completely feckless US Congress that accomplished next to nothing for two years, and you have a recipe for exactly what happened on November 3rd all across the country.
Trump's name wasn't actually on the ballot, but his record - and that of Congress - was. And it trickled down to the most local of races here in Pennsylvania. As a result, Democrats have won the day in glaring fashion.
Electoral victories and political majorities are swell, but they come with the responsibility to govern. They also tend to highlight divisions that already exist as subsets of those majorities. Only time will tell how well these majorities function over the next two years, both nationally and here in Pennsylvania.
For the Republican party, the post-Trump era begins today. We can still be hopeful that the second half of his second term as President is successful, but we also need to look further down the road to determine our party's direction for the future.
We don't have to compromise our values to do that. We don't have to resign ourselves to accept being in the minority as permanent. And we certainly can't afford to be afraid of our own shadows.
But we do need to engage with the people, be good listeners, and stay true to our word. I have always tried to do these things, and will continue to do so to the best of my ability.
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Thank you for your work in holding the line over the years, @PASenateGOP.
I’m worried for all the families out there that rely on the EITC/OITC programs and those that send their kids to any charter school.
School choice is in trouble in PA come January.
Keep the PA Senate 🔴, voters!
Don’t let Shapiro live out his blue dreams with a trifecta!
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I've always fought for you and freedom.
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Gov. Shapiro and PA House Democrats’ treatment of school choice over the last several years has once again pushed me to vote a straight 🔴 ticket.
A Democratic trifecta means dismantling of all school choice in PA.
Make the right choice tomorrow, PA.
@Malliard @PaEdChoice
“Every” child is clearly a blatant lie.
Children in cyber charter schools faced cuts to their funding under Josh Shapiro two years in a row. PA House Democrats planned to expand those cuts to B&M charter schools last June.
@PaEdChoice @Malliard @shesanti