Brian Drapp, director of the Cumberland Valley School Board, quit on Monday citing the school board’s decision to reinstate former 30-Rock star actor Maulik Pancholy’s anti-bullying speech.
Pennsylvania resident Coleman Poses, advocates for additional accountability to ensure taxpayer-funded scholarships are properly allocated and accounted for.
Republicans may have suffered embarrassing school board defeats across Pennsylvania in 2023, but that’s not stopping them from working with anti-LGBTQ groups.
Pennsylvania ranks third in the nation for proposed book bans in academic libraries and public schools.
In his budget proposal, Gov. Josh Shapiro has called for $3 million to be set aside to provide period products to all public school students free of charge.
The Shapiro administration will move all standardized school assessment tests online in an effort to save more classroom time for instruction, create a user-friendly exam for students and relieve a burden from teachers and administrators.
Friday’s announcement is just the latest round of student debt cancellation enacted by the Biden administration, which has approved relief for more than 4.3 million people so far, including 112,510 people in Pennsylvania.
The PA Student Teacher Support Program received over 3,300 applications in the first two hours after launching on Thursday.
Starting on Thursday at 9 AM, student teachers in Pennsylvania will be eligible for up to $15,000 to help them through their student teacher training period.
The president’s plan builds on existing debt cancellation efforts and would extend loan relief to more than 30 million borrowers.
