The Rick Smith Show for 3-22-2017

Jerry Oleksiak, PSEA President joins Rick to share his organization’s plan to reign in the high stakes standardized tests children in Pennsylvania public schools are subjected, ways to use testing as a learning tool, and to refocus education on learning and not teaching to the test.  

Irwin Aronson, Labor Attorney joins Rick to discuss his opposition to Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to the US Supreme Court and explain why working people should be extremely weary of someone so extreme on worker’s issues being granted a lifetime on the highest court in the land.

Dr. Stephen Herzenberg, Executive Director of the Keystone Research Center joins Rick to rollout the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center’s  “Fair Share Tax” plan that will being an additional $2 billion into the state’s coffers to paid for education, Health and Human services, pave roads, and fill the states massive budget hole without raising taxes on working families.