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Governor:Tom Corbett
Secretary of Education:Ron Tomalis
Quality Counts state grade:C+
Pre-K-12 enrollment:1,793,284
Number of school districts:690
Number of public schools:3,233
Number of public school teachers:129,911
Unadjusted education spending per student:$12,729
Percent minority students:28.8%
Percent of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch:38.3%
Percent of students with disabilities:16.5%
Percent of English-language learners:2.6%
NAEP Mathematics 2011 percent proficient
4th grade math:47.9%
8th grade math:38.9%
NAEP Reading 2011 percent proficient
4th grade reading:41.4%
8th grade reading:38.0%

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Superintendent William Hite has unveiled a sweeping plan to close 37 school buildings by next fall.
December 14, 2012 - Education Week
When she took over as principal in 2010, Saliyah Cruz thought Communications Technology High—now involved in a state-led cheating investigation—was a high-perfoming school.
November 28, 2012 - Education Week
The new measure would make such acts a summary offense or a misdemeanor, depending on the circumstances, rather than the felony child-pornography charge currently filed in those cases.
October 30, 2012 - Education Week
Lawmakers failed to agree on a bill to set up a commission looking into charter finance.
October 30, 2012 - Education Week
As the massive storm powers its way up the East Coast this week, millions of students will be missing two—or more—days of school.
October 29, 2012 | Updated: November 19, 2012 - Education Week
In 2009, three teenage girls at Greensburg Salem High School in Western Pennsylvania sent nude or seminude cellphone pictures of themselves to their boyfriends.
October 19, 2012 - McClatchy-Tribune
The U.S. Department of Education says the Pennsylvania Education Department "acted prematurely" when it changed rules for how charter schools can meet academic-performance standards on the annual PSSA achievement test.
October 16, 2012 - McClatchy-Tribune
Education experts characterize the near-sweep of the school's top management as highly unusual and potentially damaging in the long term.
October 15, 2012 - Digital Directions
An overhaul of Pennsylvania's special-education funding system is on hold this fall, awaiting agreement on proposed charter law changes, according to the chairman of the House Democratic Policy Committee.
September 28, 2012 - McClatchy-Tribune

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