The Pennsylvania Department of Education annually limits the amount school boards can raise taxes in their upcoming annual budgets through the Act 1 index. The index was created in 2006… Read More
Some education advocates argue charter schools, publicly funded independent schools run by private companies or organizations, have been detrimental to the public school system. Others believe charter schools are the… Read More
According to the Pennsylvania State Education Association, Senate Bill 2 could siphon more than $500 million in state funding from public school districts. Watchdog.org, Jan. 26, 2018 Full story
More than three years after a coalition of districts and advocates first sued the state, Wolf now says the courts should determine whether the commonwealth’s education funding system violates the… Read More
A Cook County judge Thursday denied a request by a transgender student for equal access to the girls’ locker room at Palatine High School, ruling that state law only requires… Read More
Homeless youth are often under-counted and underrepresented, so in a continuing effort to get a picture of what youth homelessness looks like in Philadelphia, Valley Youth House and the city’s… Read More
State Republican leaders on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a Pennsylvania Supreme Court order to redraw the congressional district maps in the commonwealth, arguing that the state… Read More
School shootings rarely happen spontaneously or without a few classmates having a whiff it might happen. The solution? Finding ways to ensure kids can tell an adult without feeling like… Read More
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided the state’s congressional map illegally favors Republicans and must be redrawn. Here’s the background on the case. Allentown Morning Call, Jan. 24, 2018 Full story
Should you ban these devices in the classroom? Let students go whole hog? Or is there a happy medium? This seemingly simple topic ends up being what one professor and… Read More