On September 28, 2015, the Pennsylvania Senate introduced and adopted Senate Resolution 195 (Sen. Pat Vance, R-31), recognizing October 2015 as “National Principals Month” in Pennsylvania. Join the Pennsylvania Principals… Read More
Whether it’s within the next month or six months from now, school districts in York County and across the state will run out of cash without a state budget. Click… Read More
In America, schools with a lot of minority students are chronically underfunded. Is that the case because these students are poor, and poor communities have fewer resources for funding their… Read More
Pennsylvania school districts have borrowed more than $346 million so far to get through the state budget impasse, the auditor general said Tuesday, as Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed a short-term… Read More
While it is hard to read the tea leaves from the second round of state budget talks on Monday, some might find reason to think that the sides may be… Read More
Following through on a promise made this spring “to create some civil disobedience,” six members of the Quakertown School Board were on hand recently to deposit a “check” for $3.4… Read More
State Education Secretary Pedro A. Rivera announced today that the department has released the results of the 2015 administration of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). Click here for… Read More
The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) is providing an opportunity for local education agencies (LEA) to attend a question and answer (Q&A) session that will address the details of the… Read More
Click here for the Hechinger Report Source: The Hechinger Report, Sept. 26, 2015.
Pennsylvania ranks second nationwide for the number of school districts with credit ratings that are the equivalent of “junk,” highlighting the challenges of a dwindling tax base coupled with increasing… Read More