In the midst of budget negotiations and ahead of a potential votes on bills that, collectively, would represent the largest redistribution of taxpayer dollars away from Pennsylvania public schools and… Read More
Attention Elementary Members: American Rescue Plan (ARP) Principal Engagement Survey In March 2021, the American Rescue Plan was signed into law. The funding package provides $122 billion in direct K-12… Read More
School districts could get a slight discount on payments to cyber charter schools and would maintain their authority to approve charter schools in the latest iteration of a school reform… Read More
Nearly nine in 10 school officials statewide (87.7%) say they plan to use $6 billion in federal COVID-19 relief money to fill the gaps created by a year of lost… Read More
Even before the pandemic, university-based principal-preparation programs knew they had to change to keep pace with issues including the rapidly diversifying student body, the largely white teaching force, and principal-graduates… Read More
COVID-19 challenged schools in ways no one could have imagined. In 2020, The Inquirer asked a group of educators, parents, and students across the region about their hopes and fears… Read More
House Bill 1595 would phase in all basic and special education funding through Pennsylvania’s six-year-old “fair funding formula,” adopted with only three votes in opposition in both houses but which is… Read More
Rural districts are an often-overlooked part of the complex American education system, even though 9.3 million students — or 1 in 5 nationally — attend a rural school. These districts are typically… Read More
Pennsylvania parents have shown strong support for public schools during the covid-19 pandemic, which is a statewide trend that has been borne out at many local districts. Of parents who… Read More
As time tightens for a state budget deadline of July 1, education funding is taking a position front and center for the looming talks. A late-arriving pair of Republican education… Read More