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Join PA Principals Association on June 23, 2015 for its first annual Principals’ Lobby Day. Meet with legislators at the Capitol and make your voice heard on important issues! Click… Read More
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Cyber Schools Would Have to Check Truancy Under Pennsylvania Bill
What began as a conversation between two local children’s advocates recently made its way to the state House of Representatives in the form of a bill to address truancy in… Read More
School Board Calls for Drastic Measure to Highlight Pension Crisis
The Quakertown Community School Board (Bucks Co.) recently called for all school boards to participate in an act of civil disobedience by violating state law and withholding their September pension… Read More
CATS System
As you know, the Career and Technical Education System (CATS), serves as the official record of a school entity’s approved career and technical education program and is used to verify… Read More
Carroll To Propose Moratorium on Keystone Exams as Graduation Requirement
State Rep. Mike Carroll, D-Luzerne/Lackawanna, will introduce an omnibus Public School Code bill that would establish a moratorium on Keystone Exams being used as a requirement for graduation. Carroll said… Read More
Pa. Must Change Public School Funding
Pennsylvania’s school funding system is broken, and students in classrooms across the state are paying the consequences. Recent cuts in state funding, combined with the fact that the state does… Read More
Fair Distribution, Not Simply More Money, the Answer for Pa. Schools
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, Pennsylvania schools are the most inequitably funded in the entire country, with poorer school districts receiving 33.5 percent less in education funding than… Read More
Cost of Business: Exploring Public School Legal Fees in Pennsylvania
As part of PennLive’s look at legal fees charged to the Harrisburg School District, we also delved into legal fees charged to public school districts and charter schools across the… Read More
Borrowing To Replenish Depleted Pensions
Facing a shortfall of more than $50 billion in his state’s pensions, and with no simple solution at hand, Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania is proposing to issue $3 billion… Read More
Wagner Says Schools in PA Not Underfunded, Wolf Continues Push for More $
Senator Scott Wagner (R-York) is sick of what he calls the myth of underfunded schools in Pennsylvania. He so wanted to make his point that he chartered a helicopter and flew… Read More