While charter-school enrollments — and costs — are growing in Philadelphia’s collar counties, their academic results constitute a “mixed bag,” with cyber-charter pupils in particular performing worse than those in… Read More
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has created a new statewide task force to examine ways to improve safety for the state’s schoolchildren. WHYY, March 15, 2018 Full story
Jonathan Bauer, principal at Upper Merion Area HS, testifies on school safety today at House Education Hearing on behalf of the PA Principals Association.
The US House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on a bill to fund more security at schools. On the Senate side, the Judiciary Committee will hold a widely anticipated hearing… Read More
Organizers say nearly 3,000 walkouts — including dozens across the midstate — are set in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged following the massacre of… Read More
Wednesday morning, at 10 o’clock, students at schools across the country will walk out of their classrooms. The plan is for them to leave school — or at least gather… Read More
The student walkouts being planned Wednesday in some area schools won’t be a traditional protest demonstration with bullhorns and marches. Some won’t even be outside, after school officials raised concerns… Read More
The bills are virtually identical. They seek to amend the Pennsylvania Election Code, which allows a county board of elections “wherever possible and practicable” to select schoolhouses, municipal buildings or… Read More
As schools around the country brace for student walkouts following the deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida, principals and superintendents are scrambling to perform a delicate balancing act: How to let… Read More
The Bureau of School Leadership and Teacher Quality reviewed and updated the following Certification Staffing Policies and Guidelines effective February 1, 2018. CSPG 13 – Emergency Permits Many changes and… Read More