The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) will be offering training on the 2016 Attributions for Federal and State Accountability Reporting. This training will use the 2016 Attribution Map, discuss the… Read More
For politicians, early childhood education is a case of a narrow window and a far horizon. In Pennsylvania, state legislators are too focused on that horizon. Click here for full… Read More
Though the Obama administration got to propose — and will get to finalize — the regulations on accountability for the Every Student Succeeds Act, it will be up to the… Read More
A bipartisan vote in the Pennsylvania House on Monday showed fresh momentum in efforts to change the state’s two large public-sector pension plans by directing new state and public school… Read More
The Pennsylvania Department of Education, Office for Safe Schools is conducting a short survey on the topic of bullying prevention and school climate improvement. Over 1,200 of your colleagues participated… Read More
Pennsylvania’s new education funding formula acknowledges that 74 school districts across the commonwealth face burdens so high, that it’s as if they must serve more than double their actual student… Read More
With just over three weeks left to the start of a new fiscal year, the sorry state of school funding has spread like a virus across the commonwealth. Local districts… Read More
Almost two decades after Pennsylvania authorized their creation, some public charter schools are doing great things for students and offering new ways to learn. However, both school district and charter… Read More
Five years ago, when a Bangor area man wanted copies of videos from his daughter’s school bus so he could expose bullying, the state told him the recordings were off-limits… Read More
Pennsylvania finally has a formula to help distribute state education funding, but we still lack is adequate state funding for education at any level – early childhood, K-12, community colleges… Read More