Rivera on ‘Radio Times’: Education can ‘build a village again around our children’

This article was originally published in The Notebook. In August 2020, The Notebook became Chalkbeat Philadelphia.

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Pennsylvania Education Secretary Pedro Rivera appeared on Radio Times (WHYY-FM)today to discuss budgets, equitable school funding, PSSA score drops, community (non)investment, and how rigorous academic standards like the Common Core and PA Core standards "are based on upper-class, middle-class values."