The Whiter, Richer School District Right Next Door
The Waterbury School District is quarantined within man-made, invisible walls, partitions that hug it on each side, forming taut, if unnatural, boundaries on the map. Full Story
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Don’t Call Them Test Companies: How the College Board and ACT Have Shifted Focus
These days the leaders of the College Board, which runs the SAT, have been making a surprising argument—that colleges and parents should stop taking the scores of its signature test… Read More
Flexible Instructional Day Program
With the passage of Act 64 of 2019, section 1506 was added to the Public School Code enabling public school entities the opportunity to develop a Flexible Instructional Day (FID)… Read More
2019 Pennsylvania State Literacy Plan
The 2019 Pennsylvania State Literacy Plan (PaSLP) is a detailed and comprehensive document designed to support the efforts of districts and charter schools in developing and implementing their own literacy… Read More
The Most Popular High School Plays And Musicals
Annie is out and Mamma Mia! is in, according to the new high school theater rankings from the Educational Theatre Association. The top spot for musicals went to The Addams… Read More
The cost of sending a kid to school has risen significantly
As more districts move to embrace technology, the cost of sending kids to school has risen exponentially. Full Story
Harrisburg School District expects to lose up to $1.5 million because of missing financial records
The Harrisburg School District is facing the loss of up to $1.5 million from federal grants because of poor record-keeping and financial records that vanished amid a mass firing of… Read More
How do you teach a kindergartner what to do when a shooter opens fire in school?
Since Columbine, schools have added security: locked doors, badges, cameras, and lockdown procedures, and now nearly two decades later, school administrators grapple with what more to do and how far… Read More
New plan for Pennsylvania: School property taxes out. Retirement income taxes in
Republican state Rep. Frank Ryan said this week he soon will file a bill that would eliminate the much-despised school property tax completely through shifts to several other taxes, with… Read More
High-schoolers get paid to learn solar in Philly. It’s about to become a program of study
After receiving a $1.25 million award from the Department of Energy, the Philadelphia Energy Authority is about to announce a clean energy program at a local technical high school starting in… Read More