Planning for the ongoing improvement of leadership, teaching, and learning is essential to ensuring all students have access to a world-class education that equips them for college, career, and life.
Pennsylvania’s improvement cycle is rooted in evidence-based strategies that enhance student outcomes while maximizing the return on investment, ensuring resources are allocated to programs and practices with proven positive impacts. By creating, assessing, and adjusting throughout the cycle, local education agencies and schools are empowered to engage all stakeholders in working toward a shared vision of student success.
Chapter 4 specifies planning requirements for school entities. A school entity is defined as a local education provider (e.g., public school district, charter school, cyber charter school, AVTS, or Intermediate Unit). As part of these requirements, a school entity must submit to the Secretary for approval a comprehensive plan. This plan must be made available for public inspection and comment for 28 days, and then it can be approved by the board and then submitted to PDE. Comments can be directed to: brian.stamford@aiu3.net