{"title":"Special Education Funding in Pennsylvania: The Effects of a Policy of Neglect","authors":"W. Hartman","doi":"10.15367/CJPPP.V18I1.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15367/CJPPP.V18I1.97","url":null,"abstract":"The past 10 years have seen substantial changes in special education enrollments and funding in Pennsylvania. School district enrollments have been declining slightly, while the number of special education students in charter schools has been increasing. District expenditures for special education have steadily increased, while state subsidies for special education have stagnated for the past six years and the state share of support has declined. This state policy choice has resulted in an increase in districts’ costs of over $500 million to replace the lost state share. Along with the charter school enrollment increases have come substantial district tuition payments to charter schools, totaling over $1 billion from 2009–2010 through 2013–2014. Over half of these payments, $550 million, are in excess of the charter schools’ reported expenditures for special education, providing charter schools with a disguised subsidy for their general operations. The new special education funding formula from the legislature, while a step in the right direction, has not yet provided enough new money to make any substantial difference for district budgets.","PeriodicalId":80972,"journal":{"name":"Commonweal (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66994250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immortality.","authors":"Andrew Lustig","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In December, the President's Council on Bioethics released Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness. Here, Lustig discusses the six-part report that provides a balanced but critical assessment of actual and prospective developments in biotechnology and seeks to anchor its discussion in shared moral and metaphysical concerns--the nature of human nature, and the social and political implications of unfettered choices in altering the human prospect through biotechnology.</p>","PeriodicalId":80972,"journal":{"name":"Commonweal (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"131 3","pages":"7-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24787968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Separated after birth.","authors":"Andrew Lustig","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bioethics has developed against a backdrop of increased concern for human and civil rights, including the rights of patients to decide about their own treatment. The recent case of Laleh and Ladan Bijani, the twenty-nine-year old Iranian conjoined twins who died in a Singapore hospital on Jul 8, after more than fifty hours of surgery aimed at separating them, highlights the tensions between respect for patient autonomy and professional medical judgment.</p>","PeriodicalId":80972,"journal":{"name":"Commonweal (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"130 16","pages":"8-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24787967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"End-of-life decisions: a failure to communicate.","authors":"Andrew Lustig","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lustig relates the importance of knowledge in bioethics and effective communication between patient and caregivers in dealing with dilemmas involved with therapy and end-of-life choices. He claims that it is necessary that the medical school curricula should incorporate specific strategies for better clinical communication, which may reduce the number of dilemmas encountered by professionals.</p>","PeriodicalId":80972,"journal":{"name":"Commonweal (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"130 14","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24787966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remaking ourselves? The ethics of stem-cell research.","authors":"T A Shannon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80972,"journal":{"name":"Commonweal (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"125 ","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26587839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Condoms, AIDS & Catholic ethics: open to the transmission of death?","authors":"J F Drane","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80972,"journal":{"name":"Commonweal (New York, N.Y.)","volume":" ","pages":"188-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24883719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Catholic legacy & abortion: a debate.","authors":"D C Maguire, J T Burtchaell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80972,"journal":{"name":"Commonweal (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"114 20","pages":"657-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24957563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Juan Luis Segundo, Faith and Ideologies","authors":"C. West","doi":"10.7916/D8GB2DW6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7916/D8GB2DW6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80972,"journal":{"name":"Commonweal (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"111 1","pages":"53-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71366450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}