SOUTHEAST REGIONAL NEWS
SOUTHEAST REGIONAL NEWS
Report: Special Education Costs Are Ballooning, As State Funding Lags Behind
According to a report issued by the Philadelphia-based Education Law Center, state assistance to school districts has failed to keep pace with the rising costs of special education. Expenditures have dramatically grown over the past decade, and the lack of support has...
Lower Merion school board joins other districts asking for fair school funding
LOWER MERION — The Lower Merion Board of School Directors this week joined a growing chorus of school boards across the region to pass resolutions asking for increases in funding for lower-income districts across Pennsylvania. The resolution grew out of a board...
12 of Pa.’s urban school superintendents: Harrisburg should do more to help our students | Opinion
There is a lot of talk in Harrisburg, from Republicans and Democrats, about growing Pennsylvania’s economy. They agree on some approaches such as infrastructure investment and workforce development, and diverge on others such as college affordability and higher wages....
Report: Good schools boost home values, more state funds needed
RIDLEY TOWNSHIP — A new report released Friday enforced the notion that property values are contingent on student achievement in local schools, and the state’s current education funding schemes play a role in that. A panel of lawmakers, realtors and policy analysts...
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