SAVE THE DATE for the 2018 PA Educational Leadership Summit, sponsored by the PA Principals Association, PASA, PAMLE and PASCD. This year’s Summit will be held from July 29-31,… Read More
Please click on the link below for important information from the PA Department of Education regarding immunization requirements. English-language version. Spanish-language version.
The state Senate passed a bill to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program through 2019 despite opposition from social conservatives to its inclusion of coverage for gender reassignment surgery. The… Read More
In a report released on Tuesday, the group of bipartisan education policy experts convened by Bellwether Education Partners and Collaborative for Student Success, cited a couple of strengths in the… Read More
A contentious proposal to let students use state money to pay for private school is getting another chance to make it onto the Senate floor. Senate Bill 2 would create… Read More
As schools grapple with the challenge of ensuring that their students are as safe as possible, the push to clarify whether schools can allow educators to carry firearms will likely… Read More
Lawmakers frustrated that young people know the ‘American Idol’ judges better than they know Supreme Court justices want schools to begin giving all students the citizenship test given to new… Read More
Pennsylvania taxpayers can expect to pay about $200 million more in fiscal 2018-19 for school teacher pensions. Or, a record $4.6 billion between state and local tax-funded contributions. PennLive, Dec…. Read More
The state Department of Education has provided more than $200,000 in grants for the training and compensation of school resource and school police officers to five school districts in the… Read More
This move buys teachers extra instructional time to ready students for the exams, which are used in teacher evaluations as well as to meet the federal accountability requirements. So instead… Read More