Pennsylvania’s school districts can expect to pony up more money to cover for their pension costs next year but perhaps they can find some relief in knowing it won’t be… Read More
Total spending, class size and teacher quality are important. So is a school’s culture, including how school staff work together and learn from each other, and how they respond to… Read More
Let’s talk about student mental health. Save the date for Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m. ET for our next #NAESPchat, where we’ll look to each other for best practices… Read More
Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary Teresa Miller joined the more than 88,000 people nationwide who filed public comments on a planned rule change to the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program. As did… Read More
Propane costs half the price of diesel, the current fuel of choice for most school bus fleets, and has lower nitrogen oxides, or NOx, emissions and greenhouse-gas emissions than diesel.Click… Read More
Party leaders in the state legislature will be asked to figure out how many rank-and-file lawmakers support various plans to cut or get rid of school property taxes as a… Read More
Pennsylvania will require public schools to allow students to apply personal finance class credits toward high school graduation requirements. Gov. Tom Wolf signed the bill this week and it will… Read More
Just how widespread vaping had become among teenagers might not have entered the public consciousness until this summer when the first lung injury deaths — many of them teenagers — from vaping became known…. Read More
As many as 3.6 million gifted children are being overlooked in school — more than the 3.3 million U.S. public school children already labeled as gifted. That’s according to a… Read More
At a Monday morning news conference billed as an update of an ongoing audit of the Harrisburg School District, state and local officials spent less time taking about the real-time… Read More