Jenifer Morales-Garcia and Vernell Garvin introduce Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, who is sitting behind them, on Wednesday, as their fifth-grade commencement speaker. The 45 fifth graders proceeded into the auditorium for their graduation while a song called "Conquerer" played in the background.
The strategies that Donald Trump's now-defunct educational company used to woo customers have plenty of echoes of the presumptive Republican nominee's current pitch to voters, based on newly disclosed court documents about Trump University. Hillary Clinton leapt on the parallels Wednesday, using them to cast Trump as a "fraud" who peddles false promises to Americans but cares only about his personal gain.
In vetoing a bill this week that would have stripped seniority protections from public school teachers, Gov. Tom Wolf raised a valid concern. The bill, which passed the Republican-controlled Legislature along predictable party lines, would have allowed districts to lay off teachers for general economic reasons rather than for specific declines in enrollment, as the law requires now.