What Does Gov. Wolf’s Budget Mean for Your School District?

Each year, superintendents and business managers across Pennsylvania anxiously await the governor’s budget address. Click here for full article. Source: The Express-Times, Feb. 10, 2016.

Stalled Budget Casts Shadow Over Wolf’s New Plan

Gov. Tom Wolf’s new budget assumes he and Republicans can agree on a spending plan for the current year, finally reaching an elusive compromise that packages long-stalled conservative aims to… Read More

School Leaders: Wolf’s Budget Sounds Good, but Hard to Have Confidence

Gov. Tom Wolf’s bid to boost basic education funding by $200 million in 2016-17 was cold comfort to superintendents who are considering raising local taxes, taking out loans and eliminating… Read More

Districts Statewide Share How the Budget Impasse has Impacted Them and Their Students

The Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA) recently conducted a survey with districts to determine what impact the budget impasse has had on them currently and in the future. The results… Read More

Wolf to Float New Budget Plan Amid Fight Over Current One

Gov. Tom Wolf is scheduled to release his 2016-17 budget proposal for the fiscal year that begins July 1. After an unresolved fight with the Republican-controlled Legislature, the Democrat is… Read More

Wolf Calls for an ‘Honest Budget,’ Tax Increase

Eleven weary months later, Gov. Tom Wolf is about to deliver a second budget proposal that he says will narrowly focus on boosting school funding while raising taxes to pay… Read More

School Districts React to Postponement of Keystone Exams

In response to a recent postponement of the Keystone Exams as a requirement for high school graduation, officials in area school districts have expressed relief that the problematic standardized tests… Read More

Gov. Tom Wolf Asking for $90 million More for Preschool Programs

Gov. Tom Wolf plans to ask the General Assembly to invest another $60 million into state funding for preschool programs in 2016-17 on top of $30 million more that he… Read More

Seven Months Later, Optimism on Pennsylvania Budget

Pennsylvanians may be fed up with the state budget impasse, but the people sitting at the negotiating table aren’t betraying any such disgust.  Click here for full article. Source: WHYY… Read More

Report: Kids Who Took Common Core Test Online Scored Lower than Those Who Used Paper

Five million students took the new Common Core exam known as PARCC last year, most of them by logging onto a computer. But about one in five took the exam… Read More