A survey of Pennsylvania superintendents and school business officials offers a bleak portrait of the state of education in the commonwealth. Click here for full article. Source: WHYY Newsworks Keystone Crossroads,… Read More
Several local school districts soon will get the state money they’re owed for past school construction, but Pennsylvania still needs billions of dollars to upgrade schools statewide, two senators said… Read More
Pennsylvania high schools and middle schools will be held to the same anti-hazing law that governs colleges once a law signed by Gov. Tom Wolf Tuesday takes effect next month…. Read More
Pennsylvania has a new funding formula for basic education that will more fairly distribute money to school districts based on their unique needs. The new formula figures out how the state will… Read More
Formula now requires increased education funding to be successful
This Wednesday, June 1, marked the start of the official, 30-day countdown to pass a new state budget. But before state lawmakers catapult a spending plan onto Gov. Tom Wolf’s desk… Read More
Two months after the Legislature and the Wolf administration resolved the 2016 budget after a nine-month impasse, the damage from that delay mounts. Click here for full article. (Subscription may… Read More
One of the newest education policy disputes in Washington is beginning to mix with one of its oldest. Discussions about inequitable resources between well-resourced schools and their poorer counterparts overlap… Read More
High school graduation rates have been on the rise, but one national drop-out prevention organization is pushing to improve it further. They want the graduation rate framed as an economic… Read More
Not to peddle progress or optimism in a state familiar with neither, but there are flickers of hope in usually hopeless Harrisburg that could be suggestive of positive change. Click… Read More