Tag: Pennsylvania Department of Education

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Grow Your Career, Write Your Success Story at P.I.T. in Media

The Pennsylvania Institute of Technology in Media has grown far past its original mission to provide technical training for potential engineers.

Today, students can earn…

Commerce

Governor Orders Schools to Remain Closed for Rest of Academic Year, Delaware County COVID-19 Deaths Now at 28

Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf announced Thursday, April 9, that schools in the state will remain closed for the remainder of the 2019-20 academic year…

Commerce

Check Out How Delaware County High School Students Did On Last Year’s SATs

The Pennsylvania Department of Education recently published results from the 2019 SATs, showing that six Delaware County high schools are on Pennsylvania’s 100 highest…

Commerce

$1 Million Grant Will Help William Penn School District's Students From Pre-K to Third Grade

The William Penn School District is receiving a $1 million Ready to Learn Block Grant that will be used to maintain or expand the district…

Commerce

State Raises Some Delco School District Real Estate Tax Index Rates for Next Year

Eight school districts will be allowed to raise real estate taxes at a higher index rate for the 2020-21 school year, writes Kevin Tustin…

Education

Cheyney University Ends Fiscal Year with Balanced Budget, Surplus for First Time in Eight Years

Cheyney University has ended a fiscal year with a balanced budget and a surplus for the first time in eight years, making significant progress toward…

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Check Out How Delco’s High Schools Fared Among the Region’s 100 Highest-Scoring on the SATs

Thirteen public high schools in Delaware County are among the five-county region’s 100 highest-scoring public high schools on the SATs, writes Clara…

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State’s Department of Education Launches New School Assessment Site

The Pennsylvania Department of Education has launched a new website to collect statistics on the state’s public and charter schools for parents, teachers, and…

Education

New Filing in William Penn School District’s Landmark Lawsuit Over School Funding

The William Penn School District is one of the plaintiffs in a landmark lawsuit alleging that Pennsylvania’s new school-funding formula has failed to…

Education

Four Delco High Schools Among State’s Top 50 in Highest SAT Scores

Radnor High School ranks among Pennsylvania’s highest-scoring public high schools on the SAT, according to a report in the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Radnor…

Community

New Documentary Uses Penn Wood High School to Illustrate America's Digital Divide

Penn Wood and Lower Merion high schools are featured in a new documentary that recently aired on the National Geographic Channel about the digital divide…

Community

State Releases Average SAT Scores of All Public High Schools; See How Your District Stacks Up

The Pennsylvania Department of Education recently published the average SAT scores for every public high school in the state.

The newly released data is for…

Community

Assistant Super from Unionville-Chadds Ford to Lead Radnor School District

Kenneth Batchelor, the assistant superintendent for the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, has been hired for the top job in Radnor Township, writes Kathy Boccella…

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Delco Home to Two of the Top-Performing Public Schools in the State

Last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Education released School Performance Profile scores that measure the academic progress of 2,860 public schools across the state…

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Cabrini College to Become Cabrini University

President Donald B. Taylor has announced that Cabrini College will officially become Cabrini University effective July 1, 2016.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education granted Cabrini…