Governor-Elect Tom Wolf

Needless to say that we won a MAJOR victory in electing Tom Wolf to succeed incumbent Governor Tom Corbett! Thinking in terms of students, teachers, and public education, here's my take on what this all means:

1.  We can begin to hold Wolf to his campaign promises as they relate to funding our schools and taxing the natural gas industry to help with that (not teachers...we are not a source of recurring revenue for schools, we're the teachers in them).

2.  The problems we face in Philadelphia and many other urban centers will not be fixed overnight. The solutions are as complex as the problems and will take a lot of hard work to begin to put places like Philadelphia back on the right foot. With the election of Wolf, we can make some progress in this area. He's not like his predecessor in that he is not bent on the destruction of everything in the Southeast part of the state.

3.  The SRC will not likely disappear in a year or maybe even two or three, even though we're working on it. In the interim, we at least have a governor who will likely appoint people who really are concerned and will at least make the attempt to work with parents, students, teachers and the greater Philadelphia community at large.

4. No one is perfect and there will be mistakes made. No matter who is in office, we all must be vigilant, watchful, involved, careful, and focused! We've seen the pseudo-democrat before. Wait, what's the term we use on twitter and the blogsphere? Neoliberal? I trust that we don't have that in Tom Wolf and that he really will be for the people of Pennsylvania as he seems he will be!

I'm sure there's more that I could say and that in the coming days and weeks there will be "post-script" type blog posts! Stay tuned...