While there has been great progress made with the implementation of the Pennsylvania Common Core in the Commonwealth, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has also received feedback from educators…
…in its current form calls for all students to test proficient in reading and math on annual state achievement exams by 2014. Mr. Tomalis previously had resisted applying for a…
How do you judge how good a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law, states are asked to use five measures of student success. The…
A festering dispute over the state’s 13 cyber schools, their funding and students’ sagging test scores is reigniting in Harrisburg. Click here for full article. Source: New Castle News, July…
…to the Education Department, Pennsylvania is in the middle of the pack among states when it comes to spending on these exams. ABC Channel 27, April 26, 2017 Full story…
A new bill in the Statehouse would require every school district in Pennsylvania to test for radon and inform parents of the results. Click here for full article. Source: WHYY,…
On September 1, the U.S. Department of Education released disastrous test results. Based on a sample of more than 7,000 9-year-olds around the country, two decades of academic progress in…
…mean in the Act 93 process? Essentially, the following test questions – answered affirmatively – would establish a “good faith” process: Is the final administrative compensation plan complete – terms,…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance for how students, teachers and school staff should quarantine and isolate if they test positive or have been exposed to…
…our commissioned research informed a third—cutting edge, predictive modeling of COVID-19 disease transmission to anticipate differences in transmission associated with different approaches to re-opening Pennsylvania schools. This research used publicly…