Gov. Tom Wolf’s bid to boost basic education funding by $200 million in 2016-17 was cold comfort to superintendents who are considering raising local taxes, taking out loans and eliminating… Read More
The Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA) recently conducted a survey with districts to determine what impact the budget impasse has had on them currently and in the future. The results… Read More
Gov. Tom Wolf is scheduled to release his 2016-17 budget proposal for the fiscal year that begins July 1. After an unresolved fight with the Republican-controlled Legislature, the Democrat is… Read More
Eleven weary months later, Gov. Tom Wolf is about to deliver a second budget proposal that he says will narrowly focus on boosting school funding while raising taxes to pay… Read More
In response to a recent postponement of the Keystone Exams as a requirement for high school graduation, officials in area school districts have expressed relief that the problematic standardized tests… Read More
Gov. Tom Wolf plans to ask the General Assembly to invest another $60 million into state funding for preschool programs in 2016-17 on top of $30 million more that he… Read More
Pennsylvanians may be fed up with the state budget impasse, but the people sitting at the negotiating table aren’t betraying any such disgust. Click here for full article. Source: WHYY… Read More
Five million students took the new Common Core exam known as PARCC last year, most of them by logging onto a computer. But about one in five took the exam… Read More
This morning, Governor Wolf signed Senate Bill 880 which places a two-year moratorium on using the Keystone Exams as a state graduation requirement. The bill states: “…the use of the… Read More
School districts are required under state law to submit their finalized budgets for the 2016-17 school year by June. But because the annual budgets are largely based on what districts… Read More