National News: Prior to COVID-19, states cut $600B in ed funding since Great Recession
January 19, 2021 A pair of reports released last Thursday by the Education Law Center — "Making the Grade 2020" and "$600 Billion Lost: State Disinvestment in Education Following the Great Rec [...] |
Joint Letter - Biden, Casey, Toomey - Student Assessments
January 19, 2021 Currently, Pennsylvania’s system of standardized assessment of students (the PSSAs and Keystone Exams) are still slated to be administered this spring. While this may seem unreasonable and u [...] |
$2.2 Billion in COVID-19 Federal Funds to Help Schools in Pennsylvania
January 15, 2021 Pennsylvania is dedicating $2.2 billion in federal stimulus funds to K-12 school districts and charter schools affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to support food programs, technological improvements a [...] |
Schools That Teach
October 22, 2018 On Monday, Governor Tom Wolf announced his intention to sign Senate Bill 1095, which reduces the reliance on high stakes testing as a graduation requirement and provides alternatives for high school st [...] |
PA Education Leaders Rally at Capitol in Support of Pennsylvania Students and Public Education
June 19, 2018 Principals, superintendents and other education leaders and staff from the Pennsylvania Principals Association, the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators (PASA) and the Pennsylvania [...] |
Declaration of Emergencies
April 11, 2018 Act 4 of 2016, Section 1505, signed into law on February 16, 2016, allows the Secretary of Education to issue a weather, safety, or health related emergency declaration for a school entity or a charter [...] |