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Blowing past the Pa. budget deadline; Calls to lock up Pa. students' phones in schools, expand Sunday hunting

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Work by state lawmakers to complete a new budget is on track to blow through Monday’s start of the new fiscal year.

The state Senate Education Committee is advancing a plan targeting cell phones in schools. If enacted, it would fund a pilot program requiring students’ phones to be locked up.

State House Republicans are trying to advance at least one part of a package of legislation concerning antisemitism in schools. It would require schools to post any curriculum they have regarding the Holocaust.

The Hemmings Motor News Great Race gets vintage and antique cars out of garages and museums and back on the road. Hundreds of spectators lined downtown Lewisburg to watch as the annual race passed through Union County.

Hunting on Sundays in Pennsylvania would be greatly expanded under a proposal that received approval from the state House.

A 9-year-old Amish girl is dead after a horse pulled her down a road in in Lancaster County.

Each week, as part of our commitment to transparency in our journalism, Scott Blanchard, WITF’s director of journalism, takes us behind the scenes to pull back the curtain on editorial decisions, discussions or approaches.

 

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