Education
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State High Students Earn Penn State CHAMP Award
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Four State College Area High School students were awarded the Penn State Community Hero Ambassador Master Participant Award on June 4 at a ceremony at the Penn State Outreach Building on the University Park campus.
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Student Loan Payments Have Restarted. Here’s How to Manage the Impact to Your Credit Score
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NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of Americans are seeing their credit scores drop now that the U.S. government has resumed referring missed student loan payments for debt collection. But there are things you can do to help your score rebound. Courtney Alev, consumer advocate at Credit Karma, said it’s understandable that people have missed payments because of the mixed…
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SCASD to Hold Support Staff Job Fair
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The State College Area School District will hold a Support Staff Job Fair as it looks to fill numerous positions for the 2025-26 school year. The event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m on Thursday, June 26, at the Panorama Village Administrative Center, 240 Villa Crest Drive. All community members with a…
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SCASD Accepting Applications for Interim School Board Position
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State College Area School District is accepting applications for an interim school board member, and the board anticipates selecting a candidate on July 1. The school board on Monday discussed the process for appointing someone to temporarily fill the seat being vacated by Dan Kolbe, who said earlier this month that he is resigning on…
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SCASD Reaches Settlement in Lawsuit Over Parochial School Student Participation in Extracurricular Activities
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Eligible parochial school students who reside in the State College area can participate in public school extracurricular activities, according to the terms of a settlement of a federal lawsuit. State College Area School District and the Religious Rights Foundation of PA recently agreed to the consent order following mediation in the case, which was filed…
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Two Centre County High Schools Alter Graduation Plans Because of Rain
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Forecasted rain with the possibility of lightning has forced two Centre County high schools to make changes to graduation ceremonies scheduled for Friday. Penns Valley Area High School will move its ceremony indoors on Friday and State College Area High School has rescheduled graduation for Saturday. For Penns Valley, the ceremony will be held at…
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SCASD Board Approves Final 2025-26 Budget With Tax Increase
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The State College Area School Board on Monday unanimously approved a final $211.5 million 2025-26 budget that includes a 4% real estate tax increase. The increase — which is the maximum allowable this year under the state’s Act 1 index — is a 2.0369 mill addition that brings the district’s millage to 52.9597 mills. For…
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Cyber Charter Reform That Could Save Public Schools $616M Advances With Unclear Future in Pa. Senate
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At least some of its concepts have support in both chambers, but the issue has always been complicated by the commonwealth’s tricky education politics.
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State College School Board Member Stepping Down This Month
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Updated 3:52 p.m. June 3. A State College Area School Board member is moving out of state and will resign from his position later this month. Dan Kolbe will step down effective June 18 because he and his family are relocating to Chicago for work, he wrote in his letter of resignation and said in…
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SCASD Awarded $400K in State Grants for Solar Arrays at 2 Schools
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State College Area School District was awarded nearly $400,000 in state grants this week to install solar arrays at the planned new Park Forest Middle School and the renovated and expanded Mount Nittany Elementary School. A $300,000 Solar for Schools grant will fund a 630 kW array at the new Park Forest Middle School to…