Reprinted with permission of the Delaware County Daily Times Joseph Batory, Times Guest Columnist 08/03/17 In July of 2017, I made my fourth visit to the Omaha Beach invasion battleground in Normandy. As time has passed, what happened at Omaha Beach can easily be glossed over as just another World War II military victory. However, […]

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 Reprinted with permission of the Delaware County Daily Times By Joseph Batory, Times Guest Columnist June 7, 2017 “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” (From The […]

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Reprinted with permission of the Delaware County’s Daily Newspaper By Joseph Batory, Times Guest Columnist April 18, 2017 It was an “earth-shaking” moment in the Rotary world. In 1978, the Rotary Club of Duarte (California) “dared to admit women as members” in violation of the Rotary International Constitution. As a result, the Rotary Club of […]

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Published in the Center City Concerned Citizens Review          April 2017 By Joseph Batory … charter schools provide convincing evidence that there are better ways to educate students….And yet, most traditional school districts either ignore or actively resist innovation…..Few public educators can imagine, let alone undertake, such dramatic change. It is hard to believe that the […]

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Published on the national blog of NYU Professor Diane Ravitch  April 19, 2017     By Joseph Batory The man who received three million less votes that his presidential rival believes he has a mandate  “to make America great again” but what does this mean?  1. America’s supposed “man of the people” leader has surrounded […]

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  How the Art Museum area became the designated site for numerous “circus atmosphere” events is one of the great mysteries of Philadelphia. What a terrible misuse of Philadelphia’s artistic and cultural centerpiece!  The Art Museum area stands on its own merits.  Its museums and green environment are world class.  There is no “rhyme or […]

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Reprinted with permission of the Delaware County Daily Times By Joseph Batory, Times Guest Columnist 08/05/15 It’s a story that most of us know nothing about. There was actually an army from Poland along with the allied armies of the USA, England, France and Canada in the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, which marked […]

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Reprinted with permission of the Delaware County Daily Times Published March 17, 2017 By Joseph P. Batory, Times Guest Columnist Many historians attribute the fall of the Roman Empire to deteriorating governmental leadership in the form of political corruption and self-serving practices in Rome which eventually pervaded and ultimately doomed the 500 year old Roman […]

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Published in the Center City Citizen Review          Philadelphia PA                        March 2017 By Joseph Batory The betrayal of Pennsylvania public schools by the State legislature began in the early 1990’s when Pennsylvania government consciously destroyed its Equalized Subsidy for Basic Education (ESBE) formula. That method of State funding had been successfully used to bridge the wide […]

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