Author: PCG | Posted: 6. January 2012 11:03
Tallahassee, FL, January, 2012 – The Florida Department of Education has contracted with PCG Education to support 10 rural school districts to build internal leadership capacity to assist in their school turnaround efforts. The 18-month project includes development, dissemination, and use of customized training modules and a rural leadership model for the state of Florida. PCG is partnering with three FL consortia partners to provide onsite professional development and strategic planning support to leadership teams in the participating district. [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 26. September 2011 09:42
Atlanta, GA, September, 2011 – PCG Education recently worked with Atlanta Public Schools to launch the Teacher Effectiveness Dashboard (TED). Funded by the Gates Foundation, TED is a custom Web application that combines multiple streams of principal assessment and student outcome data to help school and district leaders identify, nurture, and support effective teaching practices. [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 22. September 2011 03:27
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. - Sept. 19, 2011 – Today Pearson announced an agreement with PCG Education to provide PowerSchool, the industry-leading student information system (SIS), with robust, integrated functionality to address the special-education needs of today’s schools and districts. [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 11. July 2011 08:11
Cranston Public Schools of Rhode Island recently selected PCG Education to provide Medicaid billing services for school-based health-related services. PCG Education, a division of Public Consulting Group (PCG), has recovered more than $2.25 billion in federal Medicaid reimbursement on behalf of school district clients, more than any other U.S. vendor. [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 7. April 2011 04:39
Princeton, NJ, March 2011 – The State of New Jersey has extended for two years PCG Education’s contract to provide school-based Medicaid billing services, special education data management, and the development and implementation of NJ SMART, the state’s longitudinal student data system. [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 18. October 2010 06:18
PCG Education recently presented its “P20 State Core” logical data model at the Education Information Management Advisory Council (EIMAC), a national working group with representation from all 56 state education agencies. [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 20. August 2010 10:35
Boston, MA, August 2010 – A New Zealand school has contracted with PCG Education to pilot the firm’s BehaviorPlus™ behavioral intervention solution. The pilot will also provide an opportunity for other schools and officials within New Zealand’s Ministry of Education to preview BehaviorPlus™. The tool offers a best practices approach for behavioral intervention, based on the universally accepted principles of Applied Behavior Analysis and Positive Behavior Supports. [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 20. August 2010 10:20
Missoula's schools are going to look a lot different very soon because - for example - Fran Albrecht's 6-year-old daughter Googled "scrambled eggs." [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 6. August 2010 04:09
On August 4, 2010 the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) announced the award of 49 grants from the $650 million Investing in Innovation (i3) fund. Like Race to the Top, i3 is a competitive grant program. Nearly 1,700 school districts, schools, and nonprofit organizations submitted applications with proposals for education innovations. [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 6. August 2010 04:06
On August 4, 2010 the U.S. Senate took action that cleared the last major hurdle in the passage of a bill to provide $26 billion in federal aid to states to save teachers’ jobs and bolster floundering state economies. A $10 billion appropriation in the emergency spending plan included in H.R. 1586 is intended to prevent the loss of an estimated 140,000 jobs in local school districts across the country. [More]
