Someone overdosing on heroin at school may not be on many parents’ minds, but more Western Pennsylvania districts are starting to stock an overdose antidote. Click here for full article…. Read More
School leaders in Pennsylvania waited almost nine months for a state budget. Now a $30 billion spending plan is in place, but they are still waiting. Click here for full article…. Read More
There was a collective sigh of relief and some celebration last week when Gov. Tom Wolf let what’s left of the 2015-16 state budget lapse into law without his signature… Read More
From Matthew Stem, Deputy Secretary, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education: As we approach the PSSA and spring Keystone testing windows, I’d like to offer a reminder to all LEAs… Read More
So what do we mean when we say “Kicking the can down the road”? In the latest chapter of Pennsylvania’s ongoing impasse over the state budget, the legislature was doing the… Read More
John B. King Jr. talks about his priorities for a tenure that may be short-lived: implementing the new education law, high-quality preschool and college access, to name a few. Click… Read More
The Campaign for Fair Education Funding’s mission is to ensure that Pennsylvania adopts and maintains an adequate and equitable system of funding public education. CFEF has assembled news stories about… Read More
The 2015-16 budget that the Governor is allowing to become law will permit schools that have been pushed to the brink by the budget impasse to remain open and their… Read More
In calculating Highlands SD’s 2016-17 school budget, Superintendent Michael Bjalobok said district officials have to use their imaginations (Allegheny Co.). Click here for full article. Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, March 21,… Read More
Frustrated taxpayers and concerned parents of school children came out to vent Monday at a meeting to address the ongoing state budget impasse. More than 300 went to the Hanover… Read More