While school districts across Pennsylvania are adjusting to a mask mandate and trying to maintain some normalcy during the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, they are also struggling to simply transport students amid… Read More
Gov. Tom Wolf visited the Norristown Area School District in Montgomery County on Wednesday to outline steps the state said will protect against COVID-19 in schools. The governor said the… Read More
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is coming back early from its summer recess to challenge the Wolf administration’s new school mask mandate. The move by the Republican-controlled lower chamber is… Read More
Pandemic aside, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that schools have one full-time nurse for every 750 students. Now, when students and schools may need nurses more than ever, it’s… Read More
Gov. Tom Wolf announced the statewide mask order last week. It took effect at 12:01 a.m. September 7. The governor had said he wanted to leave the issue of masks to local… Read More
The Republican leader of the state Senate and a group of parents have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Wolf administration’s new mask mandate for Pennsylvania schools. Click on… Read More
To assist schools in supporting students in the return to in-person learning, the U.S. Department of Education released a new resource, “Strategies for Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Address… Read More
After a summer of angry school board debates over mandatory masking at schools, Gov. Tom Wolf stepped up and took the heat himself Tuesday, defending his administration’s new order –… Read More
Pennsylvania has reversed course Tuesday, issuing a mask mandate for K-12 schools, according to officials briefed on the matter. Click here for more. Source: ABC27 News, August 31, 2021.