Education
What is the purpose of the Pennsylvania Basic Education Funding Commission?
The day before the deadline in mid-June, the commission said they needed more time to come up with recommendations for a new formula to d ...
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UPDATED: In Harrisburg, a plan to stall, change Keystone exam
Testing might be over for Pennsylvania students this year, but debate about how one of the state’s standardized tests should change ...
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A play and pleas for Pa. school funding formula
The debate over how to fund Pennsylvania’s schools is heating up as the governor and lawmakers face a June 30 budget deadline. The ...
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City’s financial commitment to Philly schools only half-hearted, district says
Philadelphia’s City Council gave initial approval to a slate of tax increases and asset sales to support the cash-strapped city sch ...
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Union cries foul at Philly School District’s plans to outsource substitute teachers, medical care
The mother of a fourth-grader with medical needs at Lingelbach Elementary school in Philadelphia says private agency nurses did not work ...
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Schools in 40 Pa. counties would struggle with Keystone graduation requirement
A new brief details how complicated it could get to help students graduate who can’t pass those exams. Pennsylvania students ...
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Pa. school funding panel wants more time to issue report
A 15-member commission created to produce an objective formula to distribute state aid to Pennsylvania’s public schools is not goin ...
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Too often we hear school officials, experts, advocates, and yes, even journalists throw around terms like “block grants” and ...
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Pa. Teacher of the Year finalist makes sure kids have a ball while they’re learning
Yoga balls have helped one Delaware County teacher become a finalist for this year’s Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year. Pam G ...
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Pa. teens working harder to find summer jobs
For many kids, summer means swims at the pool and a reprieve from homework. But for many others, it can mean their first taste of employm ...
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ListenPenn State’s Erickson highest-paid public college leader in ’14
A new survey says former Penn State President Rodney Erickson was the highest-paid public college president in fiscal year 2014, with nea ...
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For and against standardized tests: Two student perspectives
These two essays were written by students in Katherine Cohen’s 7th-grade English class at Greenberg Elementary in Northeast Philade ...
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Non-native speakers feel lucky to graduate before Pa. Keystone test requirement
Starting with the Class of 2017, Pennsylvania students will need to pass standardized tests in literature, algebra and biology in order t ...
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ListenPhilly Council introduces framework of school funding strategy
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s plan to raise $105 million in recurring revenue for the city schools by hiking property taxes n ...
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Sanctions or success: Hundreds of Philly students opted-out of standardized tests this year
This spring, Tonya Bah sent a letter to parents with children at Wagner Middle School in West Oak Lane, where her daughter Fulani is in t ...
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