Hear the word “audit,” and you tend to think about your taxes. It’s that process everyone dreads when filling out the annual return — having the Internal Revenue Service crawl through every number, line by line, to find mistakes. The personal fear makes it seem like a bad word. It
One year into the COVID-19 crisis, the challenges faced by school districts, educators and students in pandemic times are widespread.
But rising to the top of the wish list for educators is getting more help for mental health support and relief from testing requirements, according to school officials who testified during Wednesday’s Pennsylvania Senate Committee Plan Hearing on the state of education.
The hearing, led by Sen. Scott Martin, R-13 of Lancaster County, and Michele Brooks, R-50 of northwestern Pennsylvania, heard testimony from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the Pennsylvania Department of Health, superintendents, teachers, students, parents and others detailing the barriers they are up against during the pandemic.