“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 New Colossus by Emma Lazarus … also known as the Statue of Liberty poem Political venom against immigrants […]
Read more "Political venom against immigrants betrays American principles!"By Joseph Batory So, there they stand, millions of true believers. They are a faithful cult, the immutable followers of a vision to Make America Great Again (MAGA). But what are those MAGA beliefs? To begin, MAGAites no longer have any need to read…or think… or analyze. Biased right-wing television stations and constant social media […]
Read more "The Blurred Vision of MAGA!!!!"The Philadelphia Inquirer “Letter to the Editor” Published on December 13, 2023 By Joseph Batory The recent Congressional inquisition of university leaders was yet another cleverly calculated episode of political posturing and manipulation. It would have been much more appropriate for these elected representatives to hold a hearing on the massive dysfunction and ideologically driven partisanship […]
Read more "More Congressional Malfeasance"Published in the Center City Concerned Citizens Review Philadelphia PA November, 2023 By Joseph Batory A disturbing recent presentation on the PBS News Hour by two respected political commentators recently emphasized that the upcoming presidential election will likely be decided by whoever has the most money via campaign contributions. Sadly, in that televised dialogue, these […]
Read more "Money Is Now All That Really Matters!"Published in The Philadelphia Inquirer By Joseph P. Batory September17, 2023 We are now living in an Orwellian era in which truth is fiction, observed reality is fantasy, documented news reports are fake, and scientific evidence is to be ignored. Thank heavens for Trudy Rubin’s columns in the Philadelphia Inquirer, especially the one on September […]
Read more "Herding the lemmings!!!"In the mid 1980’s, as a relatively new superintendent of schools in the Upper Darby School District who remembered all too well his days of growing up poor in Philadelphia, Joseph Batory decided to make “a bit of positive difference” each year for a worthy graduate of Upper Darby High School. And so, he initiated his […]
Read more "Joseph Batory Scholarship Awarded for 35th Consecutive Year"By Joseph Batory I have a dream, a song to sing To help me cope with anything If you see the wonder of a fairy tale You can take the future, even if you fail I believe in angels Something good in everything I see I believe in angels When I know the time is […]
Read more "Of course, I believe in Angels"By Joseph Batory Published in the Delaware County Daily Times April 29, 2023 Gun violence in Philadelphia has sadly become much too common, regularly publicized by the area news media. But this problem extends way beyond Philadelphia. And it has been perpetrated across the USA by an amoral organization, the National Rifle Association via contributions […]
Read more "Our nation has lost its way!!!"By Joseph Batory Published in the Concerned Center City Citizens Review April, 2023 It has taken almost ten years for justice to prevail regarding public education funding in Pennsylvania, but it has finally happened. In 2014, the Education Law Center and the Public Interest Law Center had filed suit charging that the Pennsylvania Legislature […]
Read more "Justice Finally Prevails!!!"Joseph Batory Author & Commentator on Politics and Education April 11, 2023 By Joseph Batory (…article rejected for publication by The Philadelphia Inquirer) Here are a few priorities to help to create some significant educational improvement in the School District of Philadelphia. Prioritize a “world class” education for each student. Test scores do indeed matter. However, […]
Read more "What matters most for School Improvement in Philadelphia’s public schools"
