Congress to Vote on No Child Left Behind Rewrite in Early December
Congress is close to a vote to rewrite the No Child Left Behind education law. Click here for full article. Source: LancasterOnline, Nov. 24, 2015.
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SB76: Defenders of Property Tax Elimination Bill See Defeat as Near-Miss, Vow Fight Will Continue
Supporters of a proposal to transform the way public schools are funded were crestfallen by its narrow defeat in a Monday evening vote but conceded nothing. Click here for full… Read More
Editorial: Pa. Budget Compromise Fails Local Schools
For the past four and a half months, since the July 1 start of a new fiscal year, editorial boards have been urging Gov. Tom Wolf and state legislators to… Read More
Registration is Now Open for Summer Leadership Summit
The PA Principals Association in conjunction with three other educational organizations will be offering an Educational Leadership Summit in State College from July 24-26, 2016. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN, but… Read More
Congress Reaches Bipartisan Deal on ESEA!
Congressional education leaders on Capitol Hill have finally reached an agreement to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), otherwise known as No Child Left Behind. Yesterday a conference… Read More
RFP for July Educational Leadership Summit
We are excited to announce that four of the leading PA educational organizations (PA Principals Association, PA Association of School Administrators, PA Association for Middle Level Education & PA Association… Read More
Why Pa. Changed School Vaccine Rules
The current eight-month provisional window for immunization presents a very real risk for children to become infected.
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.