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
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
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
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
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
The current eight-month provisional window for immunization presents a very real risk for children to become infected.
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
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 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.