Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted Tuesday to stop Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s use of a formula that targets extra subsidy money for school districts hardest-hit by past spending cuts,… Read More
The Pennsylvania House moved to the state Senate Tuesday a fiscal code bill that could, in some ways, serve as a double for the Republican legislative majority’s policy platform. Click… Read More
How can schools get kids to cut down on bullying? Go to the kids, according to the results of a new study. Click here for full article. Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer,… Read More
Pennsylvania’s House Republican leaders formalized opposition Monday to distribution formulas for state aid to public schools that they say Gov. Tom Wolf has unilaterally and improperly implemented with the partial… Read More
House Democrats blocked an effort Monday to check another item off of Pennsylvania’s 2015-16 budget checklist. Click here for full article. Source: PennLive.com, Jan. 11, 2016.
Public sector unions in Pennsylvania and across the nation are keeping a close watch on a court case that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear on Monday that could dramatically… Read More
The Pennsylvania School Boards Association sued Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and the Republican-controlled state House and Senate on Friday, saying it is illegal and unconstitutional to withhold state and federal… Read More
For the first time since July, billions in electronic money transfers began rocketing out of the Pennsylvania Treasury to school districts, county governments and state vendors. With it seemed to… Read More
Local public school officials say payments from the state — catching them up on funds they should have received over the past six months — have begun rolling in. And… Read More
In a protracted battle over finalizing the 2015-16 state budget in a divided government, Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration managed to pick yet another fight with Republican lawmakers. Click here for… Read More