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.
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