PA families appear to embrace tougher school vaccination rules
The numbers aren’t in yet, but the new state vaccination requirements seem to be getting more kids immunized earlier, officials say. Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 13, 2017 Full story
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House OKs GOP’s no-new-taxes borrowing package
Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives is sending the Senate a no-new-taxes borrowing package to help plug state government’s $2.2 billion budget gap. The GOP-penned measure passed, 103-91, late Wednesday night,… Read More
Pennsylvania House GOP hits wall on budget-balancing plan
Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives put off preliminary votes Tuesday on measures designed to plug the state government’s $2.2 billion budget gap with money siphoned partly from public transportation and environmental… Read More
Arming teachers not a replacement for hiring trained school security professionals, groups say
With the focus turned to back to school, a gun control advocacy group wants to remind Pennsylvanians of legislation lurking in the House of Representatives’ hopper that would allow school personnel… Read More
New report on PA charter school growth finds ‘stranded costs’ linger five years later
A new study finds that expanding the charter school sector in Pennsylvania creates a significant toll on traditional public school systems, which, based on an array of fixed costs, can’t… Read More
Pennsylvania House returns, with fight over $2.2B unresolved
Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives returned to the Capitol on Monday for its first session in seven weeks, but a divided Republican majority argued over a new budget-balancing plan and provided… Read More
Charter schools spin off building ownership to nonprofits, reap money from quirk in state law
Charter schools in Pennsylvania are universally led by nonprofit entities, but some also do business with separate tax-exempt corporations created to serve their specific needs. Sometimes, that has raised questions. … Read More
National News: Teaching Sept. 11 to students who were born after the attacks
“Never forget” became a national rallying cry after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Yet America’s schools — where collective memory is shaped — are now full of students who… Read More
Waking up is hard to do — especially for school
A new Rand Corporation study says a nationwide move to 8:30 a.m. school start times could contribute $83 billion to the U.S. economy within a decade. It would lower dropout… Read More
Pennsylvania House GOP to test budget-balancing plan in growing stalemate
The state House plans to return to session for the first time in seven weeks as a lengthening budget stalemate is drawing warnings by Democratic Governor Tom Wolf that he’s… Read More