Summary: Following a six-month study commissioned by the school board, consultants from Education Resource Strategies (ERS) unveiled their plan to reshape Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS).
A Policy Brief from January (Volume 15, Number 3) laid out the case that the School Performance Profiles (SPP) produced by the Pennsylvania Department of
The worst ranked Pennsylvania school district that offers K-12 education is back in the news. Wilkinsburg School District made it known a few months ago
Last November the superintendent of the Wilkinsburg School District was complaining that poor education performance was closely tied to a lack of resources (see Policy
The non-stop complaints about inequitable education funding in Pennsylvania have become tiresome. And the constant demands for ever more spending with no evidence that more
That’s what the Governor said in regards to the budget deliberations that are sure to grow into an impasse and then stretch beyond the start
Begun six years ago with great fanfare and grandiose goals, the Pittsburgh Promise seems to be falling well short of its primary objectives to improve the quality of education and raise high school enrollment at City schools.
In an effort to balance the State’s $3.2 billion budget deficit, the Legislature is looking to cut funding for Pennsylvania’s Education Improvement Tax Credit Program
The recent release of 2011-2012 PSSA test results showed a decline in the statewide percentages of student scoring at the proficient or advanced level (-1.4
As the Governor stumps to increase spending on public education, his efforts were boosted by a report from the Center on Education Policy, a public
