Last week, Education Week published Quality Counts 2012, its annual report card for the nation and individual states for education performance. Pennsylvania ranked 7th in the nation for K-12 achievement… Read More
U.S. Rep. Todd Platts, R-York, announced [this afternoon] he will not seek a seventh term in office. Click here for full story.Source: pennlive.com, Jan. 17, 2012.
Applications are currently being accepted for two of the former Pennsylvania Governor’s Schools, the PA School for Global Entrepreneurship at Lehigh University and the University of Pittsburgh Health Career Scholars… Read More
In October 2011, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) announced that it would participate in the pilot year of Green Ribbon Schools, which was created by the U.S. Department of… Read More
Governor Tom Corbett announced that Pennsylvania has been awarded $41,326,299 under the federally-funded “Race to the Top” grant program. The funding will be used to supplement the state’s support of… Read More
Today, the White House announced that nine states — California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington – will receive grant awards from the $500 million… Read More
This week, the House amended and unanimously approved SB 1183 that creates the offense of institutional sexual assault in a school or child center setting. The bill was then returned… Read More
EF Professional Development Tours are a unique way to earn professional development hours and allow you to learn about educational practices in other countries with colleagues from your school and… Read More
Act 24 of 2011, signed into law on June 30, 2011, significantly amended Section 111 of the Pennsylvania Public School Code, which requires background checks for employees of public and… Read More
The Public School Employees’s Retirement System (PSERS) board on Friday set the employer contribution rate, which is shared by school districts and the state, at 12.36 percent of a district’ss… Read More