Rep. Curt Sonney  is a GOP top dog in the Pennsylvania Education Committee, and he's never been known as a close friend of public school...

This week Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed the bill that will delay using the Keystone Exams (our version of the Big Standardized Test ...

We have a budget problem in Pennsylvania. You could call it a budget "crisis," but that makes it sound like it just sort of happen...

HB 805 -- a bill to #protectexcellentteachers -- just passed the Senate Education Committee by a vote of 6-3. #HB805 #PAbudget — Studen...

This week the Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted to postpone the use of the Keystone Exam (Pennsylvania's version of the Big St...

In one of my many side jobs, I'm a columnist at a local paper. After some of us were sent off for training in PVAAS back in October of 2...

Philadelphia schools joined the ranks of school districts that figured they could save a buck by sub-contracting their substitute teaching w...

Last Thursday, schools started to feel the impact of our elected legislators' perennial inability to get their job done. Thursday was ...

Its financial recovery plan rejected by the state , Chester Uplands School District now faces the grim reality that it cannot meet its payro...

In Pennsylvania, opening a charter school, particularly a  cyber-charter, has long been just like printing money in your garage (only you wo...

Not just any legislator. Today we're talking about Mike Folmer . Folmer is the Vice-chair of the Education Committee, a businessman (see...

You may recall that State Senator Lloyd Smucker has been trying to sell the idea of an Achievement School District , and that he even brough...

Can you guess who the highest-paid educator in Pennsylvania is? It's Abington School Superintendent Amy Sichel, who on July 1 will see...

As i wrote earlier this week, some Pennsylvania legislators have been looking at an Achievement School District for the Quaker State. This i...

Pennsylvania is joining the list of states contemplating an Achievement School District . This is a great mechanism for replacing public sch...

In what was not exactly the surprise ruling of the century, the Pennsylvania courts have finally put an end to the drive to privatize York c...

From Students Matter to Campbell Brown, reformsters have been working to erode teacher job security and end the use of seniority in furlough...