Senate Appropriations Committee: Part I of an Education Budget Preview
The Senate Appropriations Committee met on March 30 to discuss the proposed 2015-16 education budget with Acting Education Secretary...
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The State of School Funding Inequality in PA
The Education Trust, an independent national education policy organization, recently released a report on the nation’s growing funding inequalities...
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Penn Brief on PA School Funding Policy: Three Things You Need to Know
Last November, the University of Pennsylvania’s Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) released a policy brief on how...
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Pennsylvania Ranks Worst in Education Funding Inequality
The Washington Post ran a story on March 12 about unequal education funding between the haves and have-nots in...
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Gov. Wolf’s Cyber Charter Reform Plan Would Help Public School Students
Governor Wolf’s proposed 2015-16 state budget, unveiled last week, proposes to reform cyber charter school funding so that it...
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Do Standardized Tests Measure Up?
The House Committee on Education is considering two bills that could change how student performance is measured in public...
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Racial and Class Segregation Worsen in PA Public Schools
A report by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project shows that racial and economic class segregation continue to worsen in Pennsylvania’s...
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Education Fact: Public School Enrollment Falls Across PA
Across the state, public school enrollment continued its long, downward trend with a 2.9% decrease since 2007-08. This isn’t...
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PA Fails Low-Income Preschoolers
A national education report card gave Pennsylvania a grade of D+ and a ranking of 41st among states for...
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For PA School Districts, the Rich Get Richer & the Poor Get Poorer
According to an Associated Press analysis, the gap between the haves and have-nots in public schools grew much worse...
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Pennsylvania Ranked 3rd Worst in Student Debt
Yesterday, the Washington Post reported on the toll student debt is taking on students on a state-by-state level. Not...
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State Sued Over School Funding
Six school districts, seven parents, the Pennsylvania NAACP, and the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools filed suit...
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