School Performance Profiles will offer academic ratings for each building based on a 100-point scale. Scores for all 3,200 traditional, charter, cyber and technical schools in the state will be available online beginning Sept. 30.

PRAVDA Op-Ed: When Pravda.ru editor, Dmitry Sudakov, offered to publish my commentary, he referred to me as “an active anti-Russian politician for many years.” I’m sure that isn’t the first time Russians have heard me characterized as their antagonist.

On July 22, 2011, Warner told his own board that he and his team had valued the incinerator at no more than $45 million, but that the original $45 million sale price of the incinerator had swollen to $124 at the behest of Dauphin County commissioners, who needed to bail out themselves and bond insurer AGM.

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Kathleen Kane says she’s not going to run for governor next year. Her reelection campaign as attorney general, assuming she wants to keep that job, is more than three years away. Yet she is holding a high-dollar fundraiser Sept. 30 at Comcast headquarters in Philadelphia.

“The sale of the incinerator – the time [for that] has come, but leaves much of the burden on residents:,” Reid said. “For 20 years, the poorest people in Dauphin County will have to pay $190 tipping fees.”…

HUFFINGTON POST: The crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday during a complicated, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany, with officials declaring it a “perfect” end to a daring and unprecedented engineering feat.

Hoch noted the rates and tonnage minimums for the city and Dauphin County are based not on service costs, but the Lancaster Solid Waste Management Authority’s anticipated debt obligations related to its acquisition of the facility…

The Lancaster District Attorney, Craig Stedman, has determined that no felony charge should be placed against a teenage high school student due to the concealment of the death of a presumed still born child.

The increased rate of denials coincides with a change in state law. Before Pennsylvanians apply for welfare, they now must seek at least three jobs and document their efforts…

The stench of 32 years of injustice, internal corruption and shenanigans that made Pennsylvania government a laughingstock was supposed to end last year. Thought to be the best candidate ever fielded by Democrats for Attorney General, Kane defeated Patrick Murphy in the primary

Russian President Vladimir Putin saw a chance to “get into step with us by easing an immediate American difficulty, but solving a common problem,” Kissinger said…