PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia teacher plans to run about 100 miles to the state Capitol to stress the need for school funding.

Louis “Luigi” Borda is leaving for Harrisburg on Thursday. The 45-year-old marathoner hopes to run about 25 miles a day and will be tailed by a motorhome.

Borda wants education supporters from other school districts to join him as he passes through their communities.

Gov. Tom Corbett has proposed more than $1 billion in education cuts to close a budget gap. Lawmakers have yet to approve his plan.

Borda, who teaches geography and social studies at the Masterman school, is not the first person to run for education.

Athletes from at least two state universities ran to Harrisburg in March to protest proposed cuts to their institutions.

PITTSBURGH — The NAACP is asking local prosecutors to bring charges against three white police officers who beat a black high school arts student last year in Pittsburgh.NAACP general counsel Kim Keenan says national and local leaders of the group met with Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala on Tuesday.Keenan says Zappala agreed to review evidence gathered by federal authorities who opted not to bring charges against the officers involved in the January 2010 beating of then-18-year-old Jordan Miles.Miles says he was chased and beaten by three plainclothes police officers who never identified themselves as police.The officers say Miles was acting suspiciously although he turned out to be unarmed.Miles is pursuing a civil suit against the city.

SCRANTON — A federal jury convicted two northeastern Pennsylvania politicians of some bribery and extortion charges in a corruption case but acquitted them of mail fraud and other counts.Jurors deliberated for a little over six hours Tuesday before convicting Lackawanna County Commissioner A.J. Munchak of some conspiracy, bribery, extortion and tax evasion counts, The (Scranton) Times-Tribune said. But the panel acquitted him of all eight mail fraud counts as well as other bribery, extortion and racketeering and conspiracy counts.Former commissioner Robert Cordaro was convicted of multiple conspiracy charges along with money laundering, bribery, extortion, and tax evasion, but jurors acquitted him of all 12 mail fraud counts as well as one charge of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud and other counts, the paper said.Munchak said he plans to resign. Cordaro lost a re-election bid in 2007.Both said they were surprised and disappointed by the verdict and by the fact that jurors apparently believed the witnesses against them, engineering firm co-owner Don Kalina and West Scranton funeral director Al Hughes.Prosecutors accused the two of taking bribes from companies seeking county business and extorting companies that held lucrative government contracts. Their indictment last year was part of a larger probe targeting corruption in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties.