Why Pa. Changed School Vaccine Rules
The current eight-month provisional window for immunization presents a very real risk for children to become infected.
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PA Districts Anxiously Await End to Budget Standoff
Pennsylvania school administrators are hoping a five-month budget standoff that’s held up state education funding will end soon, even as they tally the toll of the belt-tightening measures they’ve been… Read More
Editorial: Hope for a Budget, with K-12 Funding
The boosts in funding to public schools that have been agreed to by both sides are perhaps the first true rays of light in Pennsylvania’s now 141-day-old budget stalemate. Click… Read More
School Leaders: Voter Referendum on Property Tax Hikes Would Mean ‘Slow Death’ for Public Education
School districts are hurting, and the remedy, say education advocates, is a state budget with sufficient funding that’s fairly distributed. Click here for full article. Source: LancasterOnline, Nov. 18, 2015.
Delay in Graduation Testing Requirement Wins House Panel Approval
Legislation to impose a two-year moratorium on the state’s graduation testing requirement won passage of the House Education Committee on Tuesday.Click here for full article. Source: PennLive.com, Nov 17, 2015.
ESEA to move to Conference Committee
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Reps. John Kline, R-Minn., and Bobby Scott, D-Va., announced that they have a framework for moving forward on a long-stalled rewrite of the… Read More
Hope Fading for a Thanksgiving Budget?
As the budget framework Gov. Tom Wolf and legislative leaders announced last week continues to take shape, some involved with crafting a plan to end Pennsylvania’s nearly five-month long budget… Read More
State Senate Nears Vote on Bill to Eliminate School Property Taxes
The Pennsylvania state Senate is nearing a vote on legislation to completely eliminate $14 billion in school property taxes by replacing the revenue with higher state taxes on sales and… Read More
PA School Officials Lobby to Keep Taxing Abilities
Tiny preschoolers and K-12 school students took Monday off to join school board members and exasperated parents calling for an end to Pennsylvania’s budget impasse, as Gov. Tom Wolf signaled… Read More
PA Principals Association Participates in Budget Action Day
The PA Principals Association joined today with PASBO, PASA, PSBA and other education organizations for Budget Action Day at the Capitol in support of education! … Read More