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The district’s budget for the 2014-15 school year is roughly $2.6 billion. The SRC and Superintendent William Hite h ...

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 ...

Too often we hear school officials, experts, advocates, and yes, even journalists throw around terms like “block grants” and ...

These two essays were written by students in Katherine Cohen’s 7th-grade English class at Greenberg Elementary in Northeast Philade ...

For years, many public education advocates have been howling about the way Pennsylvania funds cyber charter schools. ...

 The state runs two public employee pension plans that share a parallel narrative. One plan is for teachers and school employees, ca ...

How much do Pa. teachers make? A lot, relatively speaking. The average starting salary for a teacher in Pennsyl ...

“Hold Harmless” protects funding for some school districts, and means less funding for other districts in need. ...

Webster Elementary school in Kensington is used to serving those with profound needs.

In the first year of his plan, Governor Wolf wants to increase pre-K through higher education spending by $1 billion. ...

If you guessed Philadelphia, you’d be dead wrong. Fifth in an occasional ...

Political and legal pressure for a state education formula is mounting. A statewide coalition of advocacy groups is pushing Harrisburg to ...

School districts complain that the amounts have not kept up with costs. In 2014, the state modestly increased funding while making some c ...

With education funds scarce in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the debate over how charter schools get their money has never been more ...

Pennsylvania’s system for distributing its state education aid has been rated by some surveys as one of the most regressive in the ...