Education funding taking center stage at state Capitol

As Pennsylvania lawmakers prepare to make the final push to pass a state budget, education funding is becoming a focal point on several fronts. Click here for full article. Source:… Read More

Despite skeptics, Cardona seeks ‘sustained effort’ in wake of ARP plans

The U.S. Department of Education this week released state plans to spend historical levels of federal aid funding provided by the American Rescue Plan — the last third of which the… Read More

July 2021 Special Education Table 8A Submission

In July 2021, local educational agencies (LEAs) assigned to this year’s reporting cohort will submit their data for Special Education Table 8A, Report of Children with Disabilities Evaluated July 1,… Read More

PA Schools Work Implores State Senators to Focus on Needed Funding for Public Schools

In the midst of budget negotiations and ahead of a potential votes on bills that, collectively, would represent the largest redistribution of taxpayer dollars away from Pennsylvania public schools and… Read More

NAESP wants to hear from YOU on principal consultation of COVID relief funds

Attention Elementary Members: American Rescue Plan (ARP) Principal Engagement Survey In March 2021, the American Rescue Plan was signed into law. The funding package provides $122 billion in direct K-12… Read More

Martin bill adds cyber charter discount for districts, cuts proposed commission to circumvent school boards

School districts could get a slight discount on payments to cyber charter schools and would maintain their authority to approve charter schools in the latest iteration of a school reform… Read More

Survey: PA School officials overwhelmingly say they will use COVID relief money to fill a year of lost learning

Nearly nine in 10 school officials statewide (87.7%) say they plan to use $6 billion in federal COVID-19 relief money to fill the gaps created by a year of lost… Read More

How the Pandemic is Already Changing Principal-Prep Programs

Even before the pandemic, university-based principal-preparation programs knew they had to change to keep pace with issues including the rapidly diversifying student body, the largely white teaching force, and principal-graduates… Read More

‘We’re forever changed’: Schools share challenges and lessons from the pandemic

COVID-19 challenged schools in ways no one could have imagined. In 2020, The Inquirer asked a group of educators, parents, and students across the region about their hopes and fears… Read More

Advocates say PA’s $3B surplus puts fair school funding in reach

House Bill 1595 would phase in all basic and special education funding through Pennsylvania’s six-year-old “fair funding formula,” adopted with only three votes in opposition in both houses but which is… Read More