Public Education

Educators, administrators, and advocates across Pa. said districts need to use some of the $4.5 billion in stimulus funding for schools to recruit and retain teachers of color

Along with the trauma and isolation of this past year, some students also found a new, and urgent, sense of community.

According to a new study, taxpayers are, in essence, funding racehorses at three times the rate they are investing in students in state universities.

Fund amounts will vary based on the amount of time a student spent in virtual school The max benefit will be about $1,200 per child.

The advocacy from superintendents comes as the financial pressure on districts has increased due to a significant boost in charter enrollment during the pandemic.

The board seems to have become functionally non-existent as important disputes between Pennsylvania school districts and charter schools are in limbo.

On Thursday, a group of about 20 Philadelphia high school students were asked to react to the Chauvin verdict. This is what they said.

The campaign launches amid Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposal for a $1.35 billion increase to the state’s K-12 education funding.

While the health implications of restarting classroom learning has been the subject of intense debate, the effectiveness of hybrid education has garnered less attention.

They say schools need an influx to remediate asbestos and lead, make electric and plumbing repairs and do other needed maintenance work.

The decision comes amid a dispute with the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, which opposes returning to buildings until all inoculated against COVID-19.

The announcement comes as the Philadelphia teachers union has staged a citywide protest against the school district for its attempt to bring some teachers back into buildings.

The biggest winners in terms of per-pupil funding would be York City, Allentown, Reading, Pottstown, Scranton, and Norristown.

Wolf’s fiscal plan is winning him plaudits from education advocates but few friends in the GOP-controlled legislature, who see a tax increase as a “non-starter.”

As the student enrollment plummeted in some places and surged in others, ‘hold harmless’ has added to the wide inequities that exist in Pennsylvania’s public schools.