The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) developed guidelines that only outline instructions for submitting modifications to the teacher observation/practice component of Pennsylvania’s Classroom Teacher Rating Form published June 22, 2013… Read More
Governor Tom Corbett’s budget provides record education funding and increases funding in early childhood intervention, early learning, childcare subsidies and health insurance enrollment efforts. Most notably, it includes a record… Read More
The Pennsylvania Legislature has approved a 2013-14 state budget that spends $28.375 billion. It adds $22.5 million in funding to the basic education subsidy line over an earlier House proposal and $32.5 million over what Governor Corbett proposed in February.
The application for the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDOE) inaugural Principal Ambassador Fellowship has been released.
The Local Education Agencies (LEA) who exceeded the one percent cap of proficient and advanced Pennsylvania Alternate System of Assessment (PASA) scores will have the opportunity to determine which student’s… Read More
The PA Principals Association Executive Committee is pleased to announce the hiring of Dr. Paul Healey as the new Executive Director. His experience as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, director of education and superintendent has prepared him to lead our association into the future.
On May 29, Pennsylvania House leaders introduced HB 1437, the House Republican budget proposal for 2013-2014. The proposal spends $28.3 billion, which is a $578 million or 2.1 percent increase… Read More
Article XVI-C of the Public School Code requires the disclosure of interscholastic athletic opportunities for all public secondary school entities in Pennsylvania.
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A new set of educational standards based on Common Core has run into late-in-the-game opposition along unusual political lines