Federal COVID-19 relief funding will allow school districts to offer summer school, update buildings and provide additional mental health services. After a year of unprecedented challenges, the $423 million allocated… Read More
Act 136 of 2020 amended Section 1207.4(a)(5) of the School Code to permit the Secretary of Education to extend an emergency permit issued during the 2020-21 school year at the… Read More
The Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Office of Commonwealth Libraries and the Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research today announced the Libraries Connect Communities and Broadband Resources project, an… Read More
More than a year into the pandemic, how students are faring, and how much they’re learning, has drawn intense attention. Billions in federal aid are coming to schools to address… Read More
Voting for your next PRESIDENT-ELECT (a Secondary Member) will begin on Monday, March 29 through Monday, April 12, 2021 (at 10 a.m.). You will receive an invitation from Vote-Now via… Read More
Gov. Tom Wolf has proposed drastically changing the way public school districts in Pennsylvania are funded. As part of his annual budget proposal, he is calling for pumping more than… Read More
The Pennsylvania Department of Education and Department of Health on Monday announced new recommendations for schools — suggesting most should reopen for some degree of face-to-face instruction. The new recommendations… Read More
In response to the continued burden of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bureau of Special Education has extended the deadline and revised the application process for utilizing Response to Intervention (RTI)… Read More
The Pennsylvania departments of Health (DOH) and Education (PDE) today announced updated recommendations for K-12 schools on social distancing in classrooms and how to handle COVID-19 cases in school buildings…. Read More
Rep. Karen Boback, R-Luzerne, says the “alarming decline in civics knowledge among young Americans,” was the motivation for her new proposal, which requires students in grades 7-12 to take the… Read More