Pennsylvania’s Senate is backing legislation that supporters say give school districts and private schools more options to hire armed security guards. The bill passed 32-17 on Tuesday, with a handful… Read More
In the wake of the Parkland shooting, Pennsylvania’s Legislature last year poured $60 million into school safety funding while also creating a statewide tip line to report threats of violence…. Read More
Legislation to substantially expand taxpayer support for private and religious schools in Pennsylvania won passage Tuesday in the Republican-controlled Legislature, although Gov. Tom Wolf is signaling that he will block… Read More
With no computer or internet at home, Raegan Byrd’s homework assignments present a nightly challenge: How much can she get done using just her smartphone? Full Story
This notification is to alert chief school administrators and others responsible for the oversight of Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth (AEDY) programs that the End-of-Year Reporting through the Safe Schools’… Read More
Schools in Pennsylvania are not required to have AEDs, according to Mary Newman, the executive director of the Pittsburgh-based nonprofit Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation. A state bill passed in 2014… Read More
Gov. Tom Wolf could find the first budget of his second term to be the easiest one yet. The state’s revenue picture looks rosier than it has in recent years… Read More
After more than a year of discussion and recommendations from multiple state and national-level groups about increasing school-based mental health services, a few more state legislatures have taken specific steps… Read More
Republicans in the state House and Senate are briskly moving a bill they say helps low-income students, and that Democrats say is unfairly routing money away from struggling public schools…. Read More
Seven years after the end of the Great Recession, states are still spending less per student in K-12 schools, and in nine states, per-pupil funding was down 10% in 2016… Read More