The Penn Hills School District will soon send furlough notices to 64 of its 417 teachers for the upcoming school year. (Today)
A panel of educators convened by the nation's governors and state school superintendents on Wednesday proposed a uniform set of academic standards, laying out their vision for what all the nation's public school children should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation. (Today)
A year after Pennsylvania's new Right to Know law took effect, Mt. Lebanon School District is facing unexpected costs to comply with an increasing number of requests for e-mail correspondence. (Today)
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Kindergarten student Sami Garbowsky learns to use a walker at the Gill Hall Elementary School as their class learns about disabilities and how people live with them from Easter Seals of Western Pennsylvania Integration Support Specialist Betsy Smith. Gill Hall Elementary is in the West Jefferson Hills School District.
A presentation called Building Disability Awareness, sponsored by Easter Seals Western Pennsylvania, wasn't just a lecture. It was a hands-on experience. (Today)
Because Seneca Valley rejected a financing proposal for an $11 million building project at Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School, it will have to find another way to borrow the money. (Today)