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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
It took more than five months for Pennsylvania lawmakers to agree on broad concepts for the state’s overdue budget. The bigger obstacle, as usual, may be hammering out the details…. Read More
There’s little debate at the Capitol that Pennsylvanians need a break on the property taxes they pay for local schools. A fierce battle is shaping up over how big and… Read More
The Pennsylvania School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS) has released its Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2015. The report is intended to provide financial,… Read More