Residents, officials discuss school funding problems
A recent state Supreme Court decision on a school funding lawsuit is a step toward giving every public school student in Pennsylvania a better chance for a quality education, one… Read More
School tax increase limits for 2017-18 released by state
School districts have an idea how high they will be allowed to raise property taxes for the 2018-19 school year after the Pennsylvania Department of Education released late last week… Read More
October 18, 2017 AEDY Webinar titled, The State of the State AEDY Program: The Best is Yet to Come
The Pennsylvania Department of Education’s (PDE) Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth (AEDY) Team will provide a webinar on October 18, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. The webinar is titled, The State… Read More
2017 Standards Aligned System (SAS) Institute Innovative Students…Innovative Educators
Note: Registration for this event will open on October 9, 2017. Go to www.iu5.org to access the registration link. December 3-5, 2017 PDE’s SAS Institute, Innovative Students…Innovative Educators, is scheduled… Read More
PA Principals Association, Early Learning Advocates in Lancaster Urge Support for Substantial Invest
LANCASTER, PA (Oct. 4, 2017)—Representatives from the Pennsylvania Principals Association, the statewide Pre-K for PA campaign, School District of Lancaster and Lancaster County Head Start today discussed high-quality pre-k and… Read More
PA Principals Association, Early Learning Advocates in Mechanicsburg Urge Support for Substantial In
MECHANICSBURG, PA (Oct. 4, 2017)—Representatives from the Pennsylvania Principals Association, the statewide Pre-K for PA campaign, Mechanicsburg Area School District, United Way of the Capital Region, the Learning and Play… Read More
National News: Want change in education? Look beyond the usual suspects (like Finland)
Something big is happening here. Governments, nonprofits, donors and educators are gearing up to try to solve two intractable, and seemingly disparate, problems — at the same time. The first… Read More
Pennsylvania lawmakers eye higher hotel tax in budget fight
Pennsylvania’s hotel tax rate would nearly double and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh would have the nation’s two highest combined state-and-city hotel taxes under a proposal surfacing Tuesday in the House of… Read More
The charter effect: Some charter school heads earn big paychecks compared to other public school lea
Even among the charter schools — both brick-and-mortar and cyber — there’s a wide range of compensation that, in some cases, doesn’t appear to always be tied to academic achievement… Read More
No action on latest bid to end three-month budget stalemate
Lawmakers returned to the Pennsylvania Capitol amid a three-month-old budget stalemate Monday, but optimism from top Republican lawmakers about an evolving proposal to fill a $2.2 billion revenue gap did… Read More