selected news coverage from this week’s rallies

As readers of the XChange are aware, I’ve been a little behind posting news coverage from this past week’s rallies.  It’s been quite a week and I don’t see things slowing down in the foreseeable future.  Here’s some selected coverage of this week’s rallies.

Monday, March 28th “United We Stand, Underfunded We Fail” rally in Harrisburg

• “Hundreds of PA Students Protest Proposed Cuts” | The Times Leader
• “Students Converge on State Capitol in Protest of Proposed Spending Cuts” | WFMZ 69 News
• “Lock Haven Students Run to Protest Budget Cuts” | FOX 43 WPMT
• “Students Protest Funding Cuts” | Capitol Ideas/Morning Call
• “PA College Students Rally Against Proposed Budget Cuts” | ABC 27 WHTM
• “In Protest of PA Budget Cuts, Lock Haven U. Athletes Run 100 Miles to Capital” | Chronicle of Higher Education
• “Hundreds of Students Protest Proposed Education Cuts” | Patriot-News
• “Legislators to Restore Some Education Cuts” | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
• “Students Protest Higher Ed Cuts” | Morning Call
• “Monday Morning Coffee: The Students are Coming” | Capitol Ideas/Morning Call
• “Thousands of Students to the Capitol Steps” | CBS 21
• “State Budget Battle Begins: Students Protest Massive Cuts in Harrisburg” | The Loquitur, Cabrini College

Tuesday, March 29th “Rally to Defend Kutztown University” @ Kutztown

• “Legislators and Faculty Rally with Kutztown University Students” | Kutztown Patriot

More News and Opinion on Budget Cuts:

• Editorial: “Corbett Takes from Poor, Gives to Rich” | Daily Times – Deleware County
• “PA Education Chief Says Districts Should Have Planned Better, Should Consider Mergers” | The Mercury – Pottstown
• “Budget Cuts Pummel Public Colleges and U.S. Standing” | Reuters
• “How the Marcellus Shale Affects You” | The Keystone
• “Higher Education is the Key to Pennsylvania’s Future” | The Daily Collegian
• Editorial: “Keep Higher Ed Within Working Families’ Reach” | Centre Daily Times

There’s more out there, but I’m out of time this morning.  Happy reading!