For literally everyone here who didn't read the article, it's because it's one of their oldest warehouses. Another warehouse in the area with up to date robotics automation will be taking over the work.

It's cheaper to go to West Virginia as an out of stater than PSU in-state. Let that sink in for a moment.

Your terms are acceptable.

They're not allowed to print excerpts because that would violate the paper's decency guidelines. Just like last week when the TV stations had to cut away from the Desantis press conference when he was showing actual pages from the books.

That right there should tell you everything you need to know.

> Party that screams “parental choice” won’t let others make those choices.

You're free to purchase any book you want to read to your child at home. Nobody is taking that away from you.

> he complainers, who often do not have kids at the high school

As opposed to 99.9% of the posters here who also do not have kids at that high school?

If you need to resort to bullying and intimidation to make your point, you're probably on the wrong side of history.

> Quite literally you can log into a cyber charter, walk away, and get counted as present. Counting those kids as present is fraud. You cannot do that at public school.

I went to school in the hood, you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

Stop the lies

>> Charters are often selective in who they admit

>A charter school shall not discriminate in its admission policies or practices based on intellectual ability or athletic ability, measures of achievement or aptitude, status as a person with a disability, English language proficiency, or any other basis that would be illegal if used by a school district. Further, a charter school may not use achievement tests, entrance examination tests, enrollment forms, admissions interviews, or other means of testing a student’s intellectual ability, disability status, English language proficiency or other basis that would be illegal if used by a school district to grant or deny admission. A charter school also may not require a student to obtain or maintain a particular grade point average to be admitted to the charter school. The chartering school district may conduct periodic audits of the school's applicants, accepted students, and enrolled students.

https://www.education.pa.gov/Policy-Funding/BECS/Purdons/Pages/CharterSchools.aspx

Only when you compare all charters to all traditional public schools.

The flaw in that analysis is that the students going into charters are not coming from all schools, but highly concentrated from the worst schools. Additionally there are a multitude of socio-economic factors that contribute to those students underperforming anywhere they attend, but the comparisons are always made against a broader set of students.

> Parents don’t have a choice when it comes to their money funding a largely unregulated and underperforming industry known as public schools. A new bill could change that.

Fixed that for you

> These charters cost taxpayers obscene amounts of money to educate habitually absent students who graduate after literally doing nothing.

And that's different than many other public schools how?

My experience with this was horrible. My old state refused to turn over a clean title unless their plates were returned first.

PA wouldn't give me plates without the title. I ended up turning in the old plates to MD, then driving backcountry roads with no plates to pick new ones up at a notary in PA.

Campus flyers

As soon as I read they've been threatening students with bad grades for showing up to class I lost all sympathy.

Well they're learning something this week. The meaning of FAFO

> Receivership isn’t going to help it.

In that case just disband the district entirely and give the parents full vouchers.

> The county system in Maryland seemed to be a lot more equitable than the district system in PA.

Absolutely. It also has a handy side-effect of keeping teacher wages low since nobody wants to travel a full county over to negotiate a raise.

I was shocked when I moved to PA to see teachers make a lot more with a lower cost of living.

From a purely engineering standpoint, yes, it could be done, that's not the problem. The problem is you're either going to balloon the cost to a level where aviation fuel would need to hit $1000/gal before taking the train is more economical, or you're going to be adding so many curves that you'll never hit bullet train speeds.

Giving this an 'A' for effort, but most of this is not going to work for a lot of reasons.

I don't want to get into it too deeply, but I did want to call attention to one curious item...

> Amtrak Empire Service : Cleveland – Erie – Buffalo – Albany – NY – 1x daily

If you ever wanted to see a bullet train from NYC to Chicago, Erie would likely be the only stop in PA. Going this route, you have a net elevation change of 500', a maximum gain of 1,000', and even then the grade is virtually nil spreading it out of hundreds of miles. Additionally, You can take advantage of some very long, very straight stretches along the lakeshore segment.

Going across PA means tunnels, bridges, elevation gain, and lots of curves. All of which will quickly remove the bullet speed from your bullet train.

Thanks goodness for global warming. We need all the break we can get to help Europe and Ukraine right now.

Great, but the dead guy still doesn't get to vote for a house leader.

So Republicans have broken the rules worse, and that makes it ok for the Democrats to break the rule a little bit less?

Are you on drugs?

The Democrats do not have a majority of living sworn-in members of the state house. They're going to lose this case and lose any moral high ground to complain about muh democracy.

I understand that the arguments about voter intention and who will actually be serving in government may be compelling and at odds, but this is all the Democrats doing.

They could have chosen not to run someone who was of an age where waking up dead any given night was not an absurd probability. They could have chosen other people to run for higher office who wouldn't need to vacate their house seat. They could have won more races.

But they didn't do these things, and that's why we are where we are today.

Is there any precedent for a vacant seat being allowed to cast a vote that changed the outcome anywhere ever?

For all the gaslighting obstructing and projection I'm seeing, it appears the legal case the Democrats are pushing is weak on a good day.