{ "program": "National Deaf Education Data Index", "state": "Pennsylvania", "state_number": "38", "postal_code": "PA", "version": "2.0", "released": "2026-10-11", "baseline": "SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025)", "as_of": "2026-10-11", "url": "https://www.ndedi.org/states/pa/v2.0/", "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.23308779", "publisher": "Novara Consulting Group LLC", "summary_terms": "Free summary layer: use with attribution (STD-004 v1.0 section 3).", "formulations": { "none_found": "NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.", "idea_obligations": "Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program." }, "plain_language_summary": "Pennsylvania has no state-run school for the deaf. The Commonwealth closed its last one, in Scranton, in 2009 and handed its pupils to a private school. Today two private chartered schools, the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Pittsburgh and the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Philadelphia, teach in American Sign Language and English, charge families nothing, and are paid by the home district and the state under one section of the School Code; one state budget line of 73.1 million dollars in 2024-25 funds them with the two chartered schools for the blind. Three approved private schools also serve deaf pupils, two teaching listening and spoken language rather than sign. Most everyday deaf education staff sit in the 29 regional intermediate units, which supply teachers of the deaf, interpreters and audiologists to member districts: 27 of the 29 publish such a service. The state counted 2,524 pupils with a hearing impairment, including deafness, and 78 who are deafblind in December 2024, by home district, hiding any count of ten or fewer. We read the websites of all 807 districts, charter schools, intermediate units, career centers and schools in the frame. Seventy-two publish their own deaf or hard of hearing staff, program or service: 22 districts, 27 intermediate units, one career center, the fifteen Mastery charter campuses, Agora Cyber Charter School, the two deaf schools, the blind school with a deafblind program and the three approved private schools. Three hundred eighteen mention deaf pupils only in an eligibility list, a screening notice or a related-service list; 363 publish nothing on the subject; 52 could not be read after two attempts; two charter schools have closed. No district page says which pupils attend a deaf school, and neither deaf school publishes a sending-district list or an enrollment figure.", "frame": { "statement": "The frame is every local education agency and deaf-serving school Pennsylvania carries as a unit of educational responsibility, built from the EdNA Educational Entities and Administrators extract of 4 October 2026 (the state directory, re-verified against the v1.0 extract of 17 September: six entities added, none gone, no web address or status changed) and the CCD 2024-25 LEA universe beside it: 500 school districts, 179 charter schools including the cyber charter schools (each its own local education agency under 22 Pa. Code Chapter 711, so all are audited individually), 29 intermediate units, 74 career and technical centers, 9 special program jointures (the four of v1.0 and five EdNA additions entered as corrections at the owner's direction of 4 October 2026), 8 state juvenile correctional institutions, the four chartered schools for the deaf and the blind named in Public School Code section 1376.1, three approved private schools serving deaf pupils and Royer-Greaves School for the Blind as a boundary row: 807 units. Every unit with a web address was read in the rendered browser on 4 and 5 October 2026 (attempt one), the failed hosts, recaptures and no-URL rows on 5 and 8 October (attempt two), the Mastery network host and eighteen v1.0 evidence pages on 11 October (the build), the EdNA and CCD address fields compared with the host read on every row (D-043), and every keyword hit reviewed by the compiler against its capture on 11 October. No state-operated deaf school exists: Act 50 of 2009 abolished the Scranton State School for the Deaf.", "frame_count": 807, "exhaustive": true, "sample_rule": "", "class_exclusions": [ { "class": "Approved private schools not serving deaf pupils (the 44 other non-chartered approved private schools of the PDE directory)", "count": 44, "basis": "Public School Code section 1376 schools licensed for other exceptionalities; swept as a class at v1.0 on their own pages (0 PROGRAM, 1 MENTION, 36 NONE FOUND, 7 NOT VERIFIABLE; zero promoted) and re-checked against the May 2026 directory at v2.0 (the same 37 non-chartered entries, seven with a DHH license mark: Clarke, DePaul and Pressley Ridge in frame; The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh, Davidson School, HMS School and McGuire Memorial publish no deaf program and stay out of frame as the v1.0 sweep found)." }, { "class": "Camden, New Jersey campuses of the Mastery network", "count": 5, "basis": "Read on the shared host on 11 October 2026 (Cramer Hill, McGraw, Molina, East Camden Middle, Mastery High School of Camden) and set aside as New Jersey units; no hit on any of them." }, { "class": "Millersville University (EdNA type Other LEA) and the county early intervention programs", "count": 1, "basis": "Outside the frame as at v1.0; the 34 county and joinder early intervention programs are Department of Human Services contractors, not local education agencies." } ], "deaf_blind_boundary": "Deaf-blindness is carried where the instruments name it: PennData prints a Deaf-Blindness column (78 on December 1, 2024, after 60, 51, 59, 55, 63, 57, 65, 75 and 73 in the nine earlier years; by home district almost always suppressed); the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Project at PaTTAN publishes no count on the pages read. The two chartered schools for the blind are boundary entities coded on their own rows (Overbrook MENTION on its audiology service; WPSBC PROGRAM on its deafblind programming with interveners, audiological services and a Deaf Blind Resource Team), Royer-Greaves School for the Blind a boundary row (NONE FOUND: \"Students with both hearing and visual disabilities enroll\" in a dual-sensory program line, one hit on a blind school's page), and the intermediate units' Deaf-Blind Resource Teams (IU 1, AIU 3, LIU 12, IU 13, BLaST IU 17, MCIU 23 and others) are recorded on the IU rows. The four chartered schools sit under one statute and one appropriation line, two for the deaf and two for the blind, and the appropriation publishes no per-school split.", "readable_subset": 755, "weak_evidence_count": 39 }, "normalizations_in_force": [ "MENTION requires a hearing term on a held capture (FRM-004 as applied here): the Chapter 14 or IDEA disability list on a district page (deafness, hearing impairment, deaf-blindness: the eligibility recital, the commonest form), or the support-type recital: the PDE template \"deaf or hearing impaired support, for students who primarily need assistance with deafness\" and the definition \"Deaf and hard of hearing support, for children who require services related to deafness or hearing impairment\".", "MENTION also rests on the school nurse's mandated hearing screening by grade under Public School Code section 1402 (nurse hearing screening, which v1.0 had not applied; about 40 rows), and on a related service named only as a list item under D-037 (\"Audiology\", \"Hearing Support\", \"vision and hearing therapies\", \"audiologist services\" among related or ACCESS-reimbursable services).", "MENTION further covers a hearing specialist named among evaluators, an intermediate-unit-provided hearing support or teacher of the deaf named on a district page (the operator in its own fields under D-038), an evaluation or Child Find area naming hearing, and a chartered school, approved private school or the chartered schools as a class named in a placement list or policy.", "NONE FOUND holds where the only hits are boilerplate: the USDA nondiscrimination statement naming American Sign Language (20 units), the Section 504 major-life-activities recital (\"seeing, hearing, speaking\"), public, Act 34, Section 780, due process, expulsion and records hearings, hearing officers, interpreters for parents with limited English proficiency, \"hearing from\" and \"hearing about\", the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and an insurer's hearing-benefit link.", "A delivery mechanism named without a hearing term (an intermediate unit, neighboring districts, approved private schools as a class) is NONE FOUND with the mechanism recorded (PMT-006 section 6, as New York and Louisiana applied it); FRM-004 section 2 reads such a naming as MENTION, and the difference is logged as a conflict for LOG-001 rather than resolved here.", "PROGRAM requires the unit's own deaf or hard of hearing staff, program or service on its own site or published program description: 22 districts (the two cities, North Allegheny, Somerset, Methacton, Neshaminy and the others), 27 of 29 intermediate units, Philadelphia AVTS on the district's page, the fifteen Mastery campuses, Agora Cyber CS, the two chartered schools for the deaf, WPSBC's deafblind program and the three approved private schools serving deaf pupils.", "The weak flag marks a PROGRAM resting on a staff category or a single related-services staff list (IU 5, IU 6, IU 9, IU 19), a district's own statement that it provides or operates the support without a staff member, classroom or provider named (Abington, Wallenpaupack, Williams Valley, Bentworth, York Suburban, Conneaut, Punxsutawney, Neshaminy), or one sentence on a network page (the fifteen Mastery campuses).", "The weak flag also marks the template statement \"Hearing Support Services are provided for students who have an identified impairment in hearing\" shared word for word by four districts (Armstrong, California Area, South Fayette, Upper St. Clair): 39 weak rows in all, every one listed for the January 2027 deep review (the owner, 11 October 2026).", "Three recitals that v1.0 coded differently on the same words are aligned: the Chapter 14 definition \"Deaf and hard of hearing support, for children who require services related to deafness or hearing impairment\" is MENTION wherever it appears (Neshaminy, coded PROGRAM at v1.0 without the flag, keeps PROGRAM with the flag on the support listed among its own programs and its ACCESS reimbursable \"Interpreter services\" and \"Audiology\").", "A district's own statement of provision is PROGRAM (weak) wherever it appears (Punxsutawney and Armstrong raised from MENTION), and the template provision statement is PROGRAM (weak) at all four districts that carry it (California Area gains the flag).", "NOT OPERATING is coded only where the evidence is definitive (the owner's rule of 11 October 2026): Midland Innovation and Technology CS on its own closure notice effective July 30, 2025, still posted on 11 October 2026 (read live), and Premier Arts and Science CS on CCD 2024-25 Inactive with 0 operational schools, a host dead on both days and a 404 on the host one search found.", "Math Civics and Sciences CS (CCD Inactive but a live home page) and the five EdNA-addition jointures (no web presence, no CCD row) are NOT VERIFIABLE with the deep review mark until the January 2027 deep review decides whether they are NOT OPERATING (the owner, 11 October 2026).", "NOT VERIFIABLE carries the deep review mark (D-040) where two attempts on two days (4 and 8 October 2026; the retry units 4 and 5; River Valley 4 and 11) found no readable page and one D-039 search found no site: 20 listed-host units (\"deep review, access\"), 17 no-URL rows and The New Academy CS (\"deep review, no source\"), six retry units, River Valley SD (a placeholder, then an SSL error), Keystone Academy CS (its address repurposed), Math Civics and Sciences CS and the five jointures: 52 rows.", "All 52 NOT VERIFIABLE rows are listed for the January 2027 deep review (the owner, 11 October 2026). The four hijacked EdNA addresses (Governor Mifflin, Laboratory CS, First Philadelphia Prep, West Phila. Achievement) were never opened; Governor Mifflin and First Philadelphia were read on hosts one search found.", "Twelve units were read on a current host one D-039 search found after the listed address failed on both days or no address was listed (Pittsburgh-Mt Oliver IU 2, the Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences, Wyoming Valley West, Jeannette City, Northeastern York, Belmont, Memphis Street Academy, First Philadelphia Preparatory, Governor Mifflin, Young Scholars of Central PA, Inquiry, Pennwood Cyber on its operator's host), each coded from that host with the search as its route.", "D-043: 679 rows read at the listed EdNA or CCD address (an empty flag); 42 \"address not taken from the state directory\" (the host read is on a different registered domain from the directory's: the superseded hosts of the v1.0 stale-web log); 43 \"no website in directory\" (the juvenile institutions, the network campuses the directory lists under their network, the no-URL rows, the jointures).", "D-043, continued: 31 \"listed address did not answer\"; 5 \"address held for the unit was wrong\" (the hijacked addresses, Keystone Academy); 4 \"listed address is a dead page\"; 2 \"listed address redirects to a new domain\"; 1 \"listed address mistyped in the directory\" (The New Academy CS, https://-/).", "Units sharing a host were read once under the host row and coded from that read with the sharing stated: the seven other Propel campuses, three KIPP schools, MaST II and III, four Universal schools, Provident CS West, Hazleton Area SD and Warren County SD (the districts share hosts with their career centers); the fifteen Mastery campuses on the network's Specialized Services page read 11 October 2026.", "Eighteen v1.0 PROGRAM or MENTION rows whose quotations the crawl did not re-find were re-read live by the compiler on 11 October 2026: thirteen confirmed (content in lazy-loaded accordions or Finalsite blocks the parser did not hold, or a page the crawl missed; IU 19 and IU 29 keep PROGRAM, weak); five fell to NONE FOUND because the v1.0 evidence page now redirects or answers 404 (Corry Area, Oley Valley, Chester Community CS, Erie City, Valley View), listed for the January 2027 deep review.", "The eight state juvenile correctional institutions have no website of their own; their v1.0 NONE FOUND rested on the state Department of Human Services facility pages and is carried on the last version's record (trail section 3) with the deep review mark.", "The identified counts by unit are PennData Table 12's by home district (December 1, 2024): Hearing Impairment including Deafness carried where printed (52 rows, sum 1,070) and null where suppressed (\"*\", 10 or fewer, 623 rows) with the suppression stated in the row note; Deaf-Blindness likewise; intermediate units, centers, jointures, the chartered schools and the approved private schools carry null because the table has no row for them.", "The asl_course field records a course, class or club on the unit's pages with the catalog caveat (7 rows: PSD, WPSD, CAIU 15, Pressley Ridge, Parkland, and the Sign Language Club at Shenandoah Valley and the ASL Club at Pine-Richland as clubs); enrollment is not carried on any row (no instrument read publishes it by unit alongside the frame).", "NONE FOUND is a statement about publication on the unit's own site, not about service delivery: every Pennsylvania pupil is counted in the home district, the chartered schools appear nowhere in PennData, and neither chartered school for the deaf publishes a sending-district list." ], "method_limitations": "Nine limitations bound this run. First, the closure read is a keyword screen over the pages the probe reached in the rendered browser (a per-unit page cap from the home page and the special-education paths on 4 and 5 October; the failed hosts and recaptures on 5 and 8 October), so a program published deep in a site, inside a document, or in content the probe's parser did not hold (lazy-loaded accordions, Finalsite-rendered blocks) can be missed; the compiler review of every one of the 2,457 hits against its capture and the eighteen live re-reads of 11 October reduce but do not remove this. Second, 52 units are NOT VERIFIABLE with the deep review mark after two attempts on two calendar days and one D-039 search each, and twelve were coded from a live host a search found rather than their listed address; all move to the deep review scheduled for January 2027 (the owner, 11 October 2026). Third, the Mastery network host assigned to fifteen campus rows was read in neither closure attempt and its program sentence was read live on 11 October without a DOM snapshot (the automated download is blocked in this Chrome), as were Midland's closure notice and the eighteen re-reads; those captures are text only (the seven re-reads whose first read retained only the digest were read again the same night, the digest unchanged, and the full text filed). Fourth, the identified population is PennData's count by home district with a suppression rule that hides 623 of 675 rows, so the FRM-002 publication measure is carried as a floor and marked unsupported; no instrument read gives a count by place of education, and the chartered and approved private schools appear nowhere in the book. Fifth, the five EdNA-addition jointures entered the frame as corrections with no web presence and no CCD row, and whether they operate any school is undecided until the deep review. Sixth, several instruments stand on the v1.0 record marked as such and were not re-read: the PDE funding, ACCESS, contingency fund and IDEA-B pages, the DCED tax credit pages, the palegis.us bill searches, the OPTION members list and the Scranton School's own site; the federal 618 files fetched on 4 October were not carried into the figures. Seventh, the Pressley Ridge host refused the compiler's deeper read on 11 October (a Wordfence block) and the row rests on a two-page capture and the v1.0 full read. Eighth, no Internet Archive lookup was run, so every source rests on the Index's own captures and digests. Ninth, the mechanism rule applied here (a delivery mechanism named without a hearing term is NONE FOUND with the mechanism recorded, under PMT-006 section 6) differs from FRM-004 section 2 as written, and the conflict is logged for LOG-001 rather than resolved in this file.", "tallies_by_code": [ { "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 72, "percent_of_frame": 8.9, "percent_of_readable": 9.5 }, { "code": "MENTION", "count": 318, "percent_of_frame": 39.4, "percent_of_readable": 42.1 }, { "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 363, "percent_of_frame": 45, "percent_of_readable": 48.1 }, { "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 52, "percent_of_frame": 6.4, "percent_of_readable": null }, { "code": "NOT AUDITED", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": null }, { "code": "OUT OF FRAME", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": 0 }, { "code": "NOT OPERATING", "count": 2, "percent_of_frame": 0.2, "percent_of_readable": 0.3 } ], "tallies_by_type": [ { "agency_type": "Approved private school for the blind (boundary row)", "code": "MENTION", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Approved private school serving deaf pupils (Public School Code section 1376)", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 3 }, { "agency_type": "Career and technical center (area vocational-technical school)", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Career and technical center (area vocational-technical school)", "code": "MENTION", "count": 11 }, { "agency_type": "Career and technical center (area vocational-technical school)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 61 }, { "agency_type": "Career and technical center (area vocational-technical school)", "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Charter school (its own local education agency under 22 Pa. Code Chapter 711)", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 16 }, { "agency_type": "Charter school (its own local education agency under 22 Pa. Code Chapter 711)", "code": "MENTION", "count": 42 }, { "agency_type": "Charter school (its own local education agency under 22 Pa. Code Chapter 711)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 95 }, { "agency_type": "Charter school (its own local education agency under 22 Pa. Code Chapter 711)", "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 24 }, { "agency_type": "Charter school (its own local education agency under 22 Pa. Code Chapter 711)", "code": "NOT OPERATING", "count": 2 }, { "agency_type": "Chartered school for the blind (section 1376.1; boundary row)", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Chartered school for the blind (section 1376.1; boundary row)", "code": "MENTION", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Chartered school for the deaf (Public School Code section 1376.1)", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 2 }, { "agency_type": "Intermediate unit (regional service agency, Public School Code Article IX-A)", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 27 }, { "agency_type": "Intermediate unit (regional service agency, Public School Code Article IX-A)", "code": "MENTION", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Intermediate unit (regional service agency, Public School Code Article IX-A)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "School district", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 22 }, { "agency_type": "School district", "code": "MENTION", "count": 262 }, { "agency_type": "School district", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 198 }, { "agency_type": "School district", "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 18 }, { "agency_type": "Special program jointure", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Special program jointure", "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 3 }, { "agency_type": "Special program jointure (EdNA addition, 4 October 2026)", "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 5 }, { "agency_type": "State juvenile correctional institution (education by the serving district)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 7 }, { "agency_type": "State juvenile correctional institution (education by the serving district)", "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 1 } ], "operator_silence": [ { "provider": "Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (with the Scranton School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children)", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 3, "affirmative_list": [ "300029840 Western PA School for the Deaf", "107653802 Hempfield Area SD", "107658903 Yough SD" ] }, { "provider": "Pennsylvania School for the Deaf", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 1, "affirmative_list": [ "300517000 Pennsylvania School for the Deaf" ] }, { "provider": "DePaul School for Hearing and Speech", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 2, "affirmative_list": [ "300022250 DePaul Institute", "107653802 Hempfield Area SD" ] }, { "provider": "Clarke Pennsylvania", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 1, "affirmative_list": [ "326510169 Clarke Pennsylvania Inc" ] }, { "provider": "Pressley Ridge School for the Deaf", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 1, "affirmative_list": [ "303020022 Pressley Ridge School for the Deaf Program" ] }, { "provider": "PaTTAN Deaf/Hard of Hearing initiative", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] } ], "publication_against_identified_population": { "supported": false, "identified_population": { "value": 2524, "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 3, "note": "Hearing Impairment including Deafness, ages 5 to 21, the Table 10 state total on the December 1, 2024 child count (Pennsylvania prints one category; deafness is not separated); Deaf-Blindness 78 beside it. By home district (Table 12) only 52 of 675 LEA rows print an unsuppressed hearing count (sum 1,070) and 623 print the suppression mark for 10 or fewer, so the population cannot be placed in units for more than 42 percent of it." }, "published_programme_capacity": { "value": 397, "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 25, "note": "The unsuppressed Hearing Impairment including Deafness counts of the local education agencies coded PROGRAM at v2.0, recomputed from the coverage rows: 397 of the 1,070 unsuppressed (37.1 percent), or 15.7 percent of the state total of 2,524 as a floor. Intermediate units, the chartered schools and the approved private schools carry no Table 12 row and add nothing to the numerator; a district whose count is suppressed adds nothing whatever it publishes." }, "note": "The FRM-002 measure is not supported for Pennsylvania as a ratio over the identified population: the state publishes the identified population by home district with a suppression rule (10 or fewer printed as \"*\") that hides 623 of 675 rows, and no instrument read gives a count by place of education. The partial figures are carried as floors and marked as such. The measure says nothing about where pupils are educated: a district that publishes nothing may send every deaf pupil to its intermediate unit, a chartered school or an approved private school, none of which appears in the table's rows." }, "indicators": [ { "indicator": "Identified population, hearing impairment including deafness (state instrument, PennData)", "figure": { "value": "Hearing Impairment including Deafness 2,524; Deaf-Blindness 78; students with disabilities 348,430 (ages 5 to 21, December 1, 2024, Table 10)", "year": "2024-25 (December 1, 2024)", "source_n": 3, "note": "Pennsylvania prints one category; deafness is not separated. Table 2 (ages 3 to 21) prints 2,846, of which 264 are aged 3 and 4; 2,846 less 264 is 2,582, not 2,524, a 58-pupil difference between tables of one publication, recorded not resolved. The chartered and approved private schools appear nowhere in the book." } }, { "indicator": "Ten-year series (state instrument)", "figure": { "value": "Hearing Impairment including Deafness 2,660 (2015-16); 2,665; 2,629; 2,521; 2,692; 2,594; 2,605; 2,588; 2,510; 2,524 (2024-25); Deaf-Blindness 60; 51; 59; 55; 63; 57; 65; 75; 73; 78; students with disabilities 270,333 to 348,430", "year": "December 2015 to December 2024", "source_n": 5, "note": "Flat to slightly falling while the all-disability total rose 78,097; the ten books' Table 10 row totals as read at v1.0 (the earlier nine books not held)." } }, { "indicator": "LEA-level child count by disability (state instrument)", "figure": { "value": "675 LEA rows by home district: 52 print an unsuppressed Hearing Impairment including Deafness count (sum 1,070), 623 print the suppression mark; the 29 IU-region totals sum to 2,524; the largest printed count Pittsburgh SD 36", "year": "2024-25 (December 1, 2024)", "source_n": 4, "note": "Suppression rule: 10 or fewer printed as \"*\". No row for any chartered school, approved private school or intermediate unit as a provider; the table is by \"Home District\". The 52 counts are carried on the coverage rows." } }, { "indicator": "Educational environments (state instrument)", "figure": { "value": "Published by IU region in Tables 11 and 11A (ages 6 to 21 by placement category and disability); no deaf-school row", "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 3, "note": "Pupils placed in chartered or approved private schools appear only inside their home district's counts; the statewide hearing row of Table 11 was not extracted for this file." } }, { "indicator": "Enrollment at the deaf schools", "figure": { "value": "WPSD \"more than 450\" (all programs, birth to 22, 53 counties); PSD \"over 200 students (ages 2-21)\"; DePaul, Clarke and Pressley Ridge NOT PUBLISHED; the Scranton School 81 at its opening in 2009", "year": "May 2026 directory; 2009", "source_n": 6, "note": "No PennData row and no PDE report gives a per-school enrollment; section 1376.1(f.4) requires the annual report to publish \"the approved tuition rate ... and full-time equivalent enrollment\" and the May 2026 directory publishes the rates only (RECORDS_REQUESTS)." } }, { "indicator": "Chartered schools named in statute", "figure": { "value": "Exactly four: the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, the Overbrook School for the Blind, the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children and the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf", "year": "Current text", "source_n": 7, "note": "Two deaf, two blind; no count drift between the statute, the PDE page (\"four PA chartered and 33 non-charter APSs\", v1.0 record) and the appropriation line." } }, { "indicator": "Approved private schools licensed for deaf and hard of hearing", "figure": { "value": "Seven of the 37 non-chartered entries carry a DHH mark: The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh (The Day School), Clarke Pennsylvania, Davidson School (Elwyn), DePaul Institute, HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy, McGuire Memorial, Pressley Ridge School for the Deaf Program", "year": "May 2026", "source_n": 6, "note": "Only Clarke, DePaul and Pressley Ridge publish a deaf program on their own sites; the other four read NONE FOUND in the v1.0 carve-out sweep (the Day School has no website in any source)." } }, { "indicator": "Approved tuition rates, deaf schools (the section 1376.1(f.4) publication)", "figure": { "value": "Day: PSD $92,345.29; WPSD $86,228.00 (5-Day Residential $149,863.00); DePaul $71,288.09; Clarke $52,979.43; Pressley Ridge $108,536.68 (5-Day Residential $285,080.74)", "year": "2025-26", "source_n": 6, "note": "\"rates ... are for the 2025-2026 fiscal year and are provided so that the LEAs can estimate the amount of funds to be deducted from their June 1, 2026, Basic Education Payment\"; the directory is a byte original at v2.0." } }, { "indicator": "Placement criteria: a published framework for choosing between a chartered school for the deaf, a district or intermediate unit program, and an approved private or listening and spoken language placement (FRM-005 section 4)", "figure": { "value": "None found on the pages read. The PDE Approved Private Schools, Deaf and Blind page names the PDE-4010 placement approval process and no criteria; the May 2026 directory prints rates and school descriptions; 22 Pa. Code 14.131(a)(1)(iii) prescribes what the IEP communication plan must address and not where the pupil is placed; the PaTTAN Deaf/Hard of Hearing pages carry competencies and practices; the WPSD, PSD, DePaul and Clarke admissions pages each describe their own intake; the Department of Health newborn hearing page, the ODHH page and the OCDEL early intervention page carry no placement guidance", "year": "2026 (pages read 4 to 11 October)", "source_n": 28, "note": "Sources checked, each named whether or not it produced anything: 28 (the PDE page, the document checked for this indicator), 6, 8, 15, 17, 18, 20, 12, 13, 14. The measurement is of the pages this file read, not of every page on each site. No communication mode guide of the Florida kind was found either; the two objects are kept separate (FRM-005 section 4)." } }, { "indicator": "Educational interpreter qualification", "figure": { "value": "EIPA 3.5 for the assigned grade level, or state registration under Act 57 of 2004, plus 20 hours of staff development a year", "year": "In force since July 1, 2008", "source_n": 8, "note": "22 Pa. Code 14.105(b) (Chapter 14 fetched 5 October 2026 with its digest); school interpreters are exempt from Act 57 registration under section 4(b)(7) but \"shall comply with regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education\"; Act 143 of 2024 left the exemption unchanged (source 29); PaTTAN restates the standard (source 15)." } }, { "indicator": "Communication plan in the IEP", "figure": { "value": "Required: \"the IEP must include a communication plan to address the language and communication needs, opportunities for direct communications with peers and professional personnel in the child's language and communication mode ... and assistive technology devices and services\"", "year": "In force", "source_n": 8, "note": "22 Pa. Code 14.131(a)(1)(iii); \"Deaf and hard of hearing support\" is one of the nine support types an IEP must name; 14.102 carries the 34 CFR 300.113 duty to check hearing aids and the external components of surgically implanted devices (a line Juniata Valley reproduces)." } }, { "indicator": "Teacher certificate for the deaf and hard of hearing", "figure": { "value": "\"Special Education - Hearing Impaired PK-12\" (the source's hyphen; CSPG 62 Hearing Impaired PK-12); \"CSPG 41 American Sign Language ASL\" the ASL teaching guideline", "year": "As published 8 October 2026", "source_n": 16, "note": "Both guidelines captured as rendered pages at v2.0 (the v1.0 record rested on the fetch tool's reading of the list)." } }, { "indicator": "American Sign Language as a world language", "figure": { "value": "\"American sign language is a world language\" (22 Pa. Code 4.25(d), v1.0 capture); CSPG 41 governs the ASL teaching certificate; 7 frame units publish an ASL course, class or club on the pages read", "year": "In force", "source_n": 8, "note": "The seven: PSD, WPSD, CAIU 15 (community classes), Pressley Ridge, Parkland SD (v1.0 record), Shenandoah Valley (a club) and Pine-Richland (a club)." } }, { "indicator": "Newborn hearing screening (EHDI)", "figure": { "value": "Act 89 of 2001 (the IHEARR Act); the 1-3-6 standard: screened within the first 30 days, diagnosed within 3 months, intervention within 6 months", "year": "In force", "source_n": 12, "note": "No screening, referral, diagnosis or enrollment figure on the page read on 8 October 2026 (rendered capture); no annual report located (RECORDS_REQUESTS)." } }, { "indicator": "Early intervention (Part C) governance", "figure": { "value": "OCDEL \"is a dual deputate of the Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Department of Education (PDE)\" (v1.0 record); infant-toddler services funded through DHS and preschool through PDE; 34 county and joinder early intervention programs", "year": "Current", "source_n": 14, "note": "Act 212 of 1990 (v1.0 capture) names the lead agencies and lists \"deafness/hearing impairment\" among the eligibilities of the three-to-five year old; for infants and toddlers \"sensory impairments, including vision and hearing\" is an example of a diagnosed condition with a high probability of delay, and whether a diagnosed hearing loss is automatic rests on DHS regulations not read." } }, { "indicator": "Deaf child's bill of rights or LEAD-K statute", "figure": { "value": "None found: bill-text searches for \"deaf child\", \"deaf children\" and \"language equality\" returned 0 results in the 2021, 2023 and 2025 sessions (v1.0 capture); the only education bills returned (SB 663 of 2025, HB 1680 of 2023) propose a model curriculum about hearing loss for all pupils and died in committee", "year": "2021 to 2026", "source_n": 29, "note": "Not re-searched at v2.0; the finding is \"no bill found by these searches on 17 September 2026\", not an absence in law." } }, { "indicator": "Interpreter registration act amended", "figure": { "value": "Act 143 of 2024 (SB 1274): adds \"deafblind\", replaces the office examination with approved certification (RID NIC or CDI, Texas BEI advanced or master), adds alternative pathway programs and video remote interpreting, four provisional renewals; school interpreter exemption 4(b)(7) retained verbatim", "year": "October 31, 2024", "source_n": 29, "note": "The v1.0 bill-text capture; ODHH's page (source 13) describes the registry the act creates." } }, { "indicator": "Directory accuracy: EdNA web addresses", "figure": { "value": "Four EdNA addresses are hijacked (Governor Mifflin SD, Laboratory CS, First Philadelphia Preparatory CS, West Phila. Achievement CES; never opened at v2.0), Keystone Academy CS's address renders an SEO agency page, Discovery CS's redirects to an unrelated host, River Valley SD's is a \"Coming Soon\" placeholder, HOPE for Hyndman CS's and Christopher Columbus CS's do not resolve; 42 units were read on a different registered domain from the directory's; 43 carry no website in EdNA or the CCD", "year": "4 and 8 October 2026", "source_n": 1, "note": "The D-043 fields on every coverage row; the EdNA extract of 4 October (every administrator) explains the six v1.0 absences as features of the chief-administrator extract, not openings." } }, { "indicator": "Auditor General oversight", "figure": { "value": "Two performance audits of the Scranton State School for the Deaf (released 30 January 2007 and 11 December 2009), held as byte originals; no audit of WPSD, PSD or any approved private school found (search of 8 October 2026); 98 intermediate unit audits 2007 to 2019, none since, and a 2025 audit of five cyber charter schools (v1.0 record)", "year": "Search of 8 October 2026", "source_n": 11, "note": "The two Scranton audits were fetched and matched at v2.0; their contents were not extracted for this file." } }, { "indicator": "EITC and OSTC disability reporting", "figure": { "value": "From 2025-26 scholarship organizations must \"Identify whether a scholarship recipient was an eligible student with a disability\"; the OSTC maximum award for a special education student $15,000 against $8,500; no figure by disability published", "year": "2025-26", "source_n": 30, "note": "v1.0 record, not re-read; no education savings account or voucher instrument found on PDE pages read." } }, { "indicator": "Coverage result (this file)", "figure": { "value": "807 units: PROGRAM 72 (22 districts, 27 of 29 intermediate units, Philadelphia AVTS, the fifteen Mastery campuses, Agora Cyber CS, WPSD, PSD, WPSBC, DePaul, Clarke, Pressley Ridge), MENTION 318, NONE FOUND 363, NOT VERIFIABLE 52 (deep review mark), NOT OPERATING 2; weak flag on 39 PROGRAM rows; 3 units other than the deaf schools themselves name a chartered or approved private school for the deaf; 175 units record a delivery mechanism; 7 record an ASL course, class or club; the 44 other approved private schools OUT OF FRAME as a class, none promoted", "year": "2026 (4, 5, 8 and 11 October)", "source_n": 25, "note": "Against v1.0 (PROGRAM 67, MENTION 157, NONE FOUND 537, NOT VERIFIABLE 40, NOT OPERATING 1, five units unframed): 209 rows change code, listed in the verification trail's delta table; 163 are NONE FOUND to MENTION under the eligibility, screening and related-service rules applied to every hit, 4 NONE FOUND to PROGRAM on pages the v1.0 fetch could not open (North Allegheny, Somerset, South Fayette, Upper St. Clair), 17 NONE FOUND to NOT VERIFIABLE on hosts that failed both days." } } ], "identified_population_series": [ { "year": "2015-16 (December 1, 2015)", "identified_hi": 2660, "identified_db": 60, "source_n": 5 }, { "year": "2016-17 (December 1, 2016)", "identified_hi": 2665, "identified_db": 51, "source_n": 5 }, { "year": "2017-18 (December 1, 2017)", "identified_hi": 2629, "identified_db": 59, "source_n": 5 }, { "year": "2018-19 (December 1, 2018)", "identified_hi": 2521, "identified_db": 55, "source_n": 5 }, { "year": "2019-20 (December 1, 2019)", "identified_hi": 2692, "identified_db": 63, "source_n": 5 }, { "year": "2020-21 (December 1, 2020)", "identified_hi": 2594, "identified_db": 57, "source_n": 5 }, { "year": "2021-22 (December 1, 2021)", "identified_hi": 2605, "identified_db": 65, "source_n": 5 }, { "year": "2022-23 (December 1, 2022)", "identified_hi": 2588, "identified_db": 75, "source_n": 5 }, { "year": "2023-24 (December 1, 2023)", "identified_hi": 2510, "identified_db": 73, "source_n": 5 }, { "year": "2024-25 (December 1, 2024)", "identified_hi": 2524, "identified_db": 78, "source_n": 3 } ], "fiscal": [ { "channel": "Named appropriation / budget line", "status": "populated", "amount": 73051000, "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "General Fund appropriation to the Department of Education, \"PA Chartered Schools for the Deaf and Blind\": the appropriation section 1376.1(b) names as \"funds appropriated to the department for chartered schools\"; one line for four schools, two deaf and two blind", "citation": "Enacted General Fund appropriations (byte originals, 11 October 2026; source 9): $68,833,000 (2023-24 available), $73,051,000 (2024-25 enacted and revised), $79,893,000 (2025-26 enacted, +9.37 percent), $82,580,000 (2026-27 enacted, +3.36 percent); Public School Code 1376.1(b) and (b.2) (source 7)", "note": "No per-school split is published in the appropriation. The 2026-27 increase of 3.36 percent is 125 percent of the 2.69 percent rise in the special education appropriation, the escalator section 1376.1(b.2)(1)(i) prescribes (\"one hundred and twenty-five percent (125%) of the percentage increase in the appropriation for special education for the fiscal year prior\"). The 2025-26 increase of 9.37 percent is above the 9.01 percent the formula yields from the 2024-25 special education increase of 7.21 percent (1,386,815 to 1,486,815): 79,635 thousand (the unrounded ratio, 9.014 percent, applied to 73,051) against 79,893 enacted, 258 thousand apart, recorded and not resolved (no document read says what the difference carries). The arithmetic is the compiler's and the statute's formula is quoted (interpretation, marked).", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY 2023-24", "amount": 68833000, "basis": "available with supplementals, 2024-25 tracking run" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "amount": 73051000, "basis": "enacted (2024-25 tracking run); the same figure revised in the 2025-26 document" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2025-26", "amount": 79893000, "basis": "enacted" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2026-27", "amount": 82580000, "basis": "enacted" } ] }, { "channel": "General formula funding", "status": "populated", "amount": 1486815000, "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "The \"Special Education\" appropriation distributed under Public School Code 2509.5(bbb) by a weighted headcount in three expenditure categories reported under 1372(8): the categories are dollar ranges of expenditure per pupil, not disability categories", "citation": "Enacted General Fund appropriations (source 9): $1,386,815,000 (2023-24), $1,486,815,000 (2024-25, +7.21 percent), $1,526,815,000 (2025-26, +2.69 percent), $1,581,815,000 (2026-27, +3.60 percent); Public School Code 1372(8) (fetched 5 October 2026 with its digest, source 7) and 2509.5(bbb) (v1.0 capture): from 2022-23 the three-year average count in Category 1 times 1.64, Category 2 times 3.08 and Category 3 times 6.34 (Act 55 of 2022), with sparsity/size and equalized millage multipliers", "note": "No hearing-specific weight exists in any instrument read; a deaf pupil enters the formula by the cost of the services on the IEP. The Basic Education Funding line ($8,157,444,000 in 2024-25; $8,262,444,000 and $8,320,444,000 after) is the general apportionment and carries no deaf element.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY 2023-24", "amount": 1386815000, "basis": "available with supplementals, 2024-25 tracking run" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "amount": 1486815000, "basis": "enacted; the same figure revised in the 2025-26 document" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2025-26", "amount": 1526815000, "basis": "enacted" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2026-27", "amount": 1581815000, "basis": "enacted" } ] }, { "channel": "Special education funding mechanism", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "The placement rule: the district or charter school of residence pays \"the greater of forty percent (40%) of the approved tuition rate ... or the school district's or charter school's tuition charges\" and the Commonwealth \"the balance\"; PDE withholds the district share from state payments", "citation": "Public School Code 1376.1(b), (b.2)(3), (d) (source 7); the May 2026 directory's approved 2025-26 rates: PSD Day $92,345.29; WPSD Day $86,228.00 and 5-Day Residential $149,863.00; the directory: \"provided so that the LEAs can estimate the amount of funds to be deducted from their June 1, 2026, Basic Education Payment\" (source 6)", "note": "No charge to families (1376.1(d)); the district is credited with average daily membership for the child. The approved private schools under section 1376 run on the parallel \"Special Education-Approved Private Schools\" line ($148,848,000 in 2024-25, the baseline year; $162,264,000 in 2025-26; $167,721,000 in 2026-27) with the 2025-26 rates, the ones in force when the directory was read, published (DePaul $71,288.09; Clarke $52,979.43; Pressley Ridge $108,536.68 and $285,080.74).", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY 2023-24", "amount": 142200000, "basis": "Special Education-Approved Private Schools, available with supplementals (2024-25 tracking run)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "amount": 148848000, "basis": "Special Education-Approved Private Schools, enacted and revised" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2025-26", "amount": 162264000, "basis": "Special Education-Approved Private Schools, enacted" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2026-27", "amount": 167721000, "basis": "Special Education-Approved Private Schools, enacted" } ] }, { "channel": "High-cost / catastrophic aid", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "The Special Education Contingency Fund under 24 P.S. 25-2509.8 (the Secretary's authority): \"The total eligible expenses must be equal to or greater than $75,000\"; applications 17 November 2025 to 2 January 2026; \"Funds will be disbursed in the May 2026 Unipay\"", "citation": "PDE Special Education Contingency Fund guidelines PDF (v1.0 record, harness fetch; source 28)", "note": "Available to any district for a high-cost IEP; not deaf-specific; \"not all eligible applications will receive funding\"; no dollar amount of the fund was read. The guidelines read describe the 2025-26 application cycle; no 2024-25 cycle document was read, and the guidelines were not re-read at v2.0." }, { "channel": "Federal flow-through", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "IDEA Part B section 611 allocated through the intermediate units: \"Allocate to each eligible LEA at least 75 percent of the funds based on the number of children with disabilities\" (base year 1999-2000), 85 percent of the remainder by enrollment and 15 percent by poverty within the IU region", "citation": "PDE IDEA-B Section 611 page and the 2024-2025 IDEA-B Section 611 Approved Private Schools Guidelines (linked, not read; v1.0 record, source 28)", "note": "\"In no case may IDEA-B funds be used to supplant state and/or local funds\" (the section 611 guidance). No Pennsylvania IDEA dollar figure was read in either run; the federal 618 child count and environments file for 2024-25 and the personnel file for 2023-24 were fetched as byte originals on 4 October 2026 (their row extracts in 02_Data_Files/closure_2026-10-04) and their figures were not carried into this file." }, { "channel": "Interagency, tuition, and residential mechanics", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "Intermediate unit services billed to member districts (920-A) alongside Commonwealth subsidies (907-A, 918-A); Medical Assistance School-Based ACCESS (half of the amount billed for direct services returned to the LEA); the Early Intervention lines in two departments under one dual-deputate office", "citation": "Public School Code Article IX-A (v1.0 capture, source 7); PDE Special Education Medical ACCESS page (v1.0 record, source 28; chartered schools not in the eligible list as read); Enacted General Fund appropriations: Education \"Early Intervention\" $398,863,000 (2024-25 enacted; $424,774,000 revised) / $453,284,000 / $494,505,000 and Human Services \"Early Intervention\" $194,675,000 (2024-25 enacted; $185,250,000 revised) / $198,430,000 / $193,217,000 (source 9)", "note": "ACCESS: \"50% of amount billed for direct services is returned to the Local Education Agency\" (source 28). Pennsylvania's deaf education money runs through three channels that never name a deaf pupil: the IU contract, the ACCESS claim and the preschool and infant-toddler early intervention lines; the only deaf-specific line is the chartered schools appropriation.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "amount": 398863000, "basis": "Education Early Intervention (preschool), enacted (2024-25 tracking run); 424,774,000 revised in the 2025-26 document" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2025-26", "amount": 453284000, "basis": "Education Early Intervention, enacted" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2026-27", "amount": 494505000, "basis": "Education Early Intervention, enacted" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "amount": 194675000, "basis": "Human Services Early Intervention (infant-toddler), enacted (2024-25 tracking run); 185,250,000 revised in the 2025-26 document" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2025-26", "amount": 198430000, "basis": "Human Services Early Intervention (infant-toddler), enacted" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2026-27", "amount": 193217000, "basis": "Human Services Early Intervention, enacted" } ] }, { "channel": "The market layer", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "The Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) programs (DCED): the OSTC maximum award for a special education student $15,000 against $8,500; disability reporting by scholarship organizations from 2025-26", "citation": "DCED EITC and OSTC program pages (v1.0 record, source 30); no education savings account or voucher instrument found on PDE pages read", "note": "No figure by disability published; participation lists carry organizations and businesses, not pupils. Not re-read at v2.0." }, { "channel": "Statutory channel to the listening and spoken language sector", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "The approved private school route of Public School Code section 1376: DePaul and Clarke Pennsylvania are approved private schools licensed for DHH (the directory), paid at approved rates from the \"Special Education-Approved Private Schools\" line; both are OPTION Schools regular members (v1.0 record)", "citation": "Public School Code 1376 (fetched 5 October 2026 with its digest, source 7); the May 2026 directory (source 6): the 2025-26 rates, DePaul Day $71,288.09, 183 days; Clarke Day $52,979.43, 180 days (no 2024-25 rate sheet was read); OPTION members list (source 30)", "note": "The listening and spoken language schools and the signing schools draw on the same statute and parallel appropriation lines; no instrument read isolates the LSL share. Hempfield Area SD contracts DePaul for itinerant hearing support in its own buildings (coverage row 107653802)." }, { "channel": "Capital", "status": "not published", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "No capital appropriation or bond channel naming a chartered school for the deaf was located in the enacted General Fund documents read; the chartered schools are private corporations and the appropriation line is operating", "citation": "Enacted General Fund appropriations 2024-25, 2025-26 and 2026-27, Education pages (source 9); Public School Code 1376.1 (source 7)", "note": "Not published is the status of this file's read: capital budget documents were not among the seeds in either run." }, { "channel": "Oversight trail (FRM-003 section 4)", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "2007 to 2026", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "The Auditor General's audit series; section 1376.1(f)(4) (audit of the chartered schools and the 10 percent administrative cost cap, v1.0 capture); section 1376.1(f.4) (the annual report of rates and full-time equivalent enrollment)", "citation": "Auditor General performance audits of the Scranton State School for the Deaf (2007 and 2009, byte originals, source 11); the audit search of 8 October 2026 (no WPSD or PSD audit); the May 2026 directory as the (f.4) publication, rates only (source 6)", "note": "The oversight trail ends at the abolished state school: no public audit of either chartered school for the deaf was found, and the statutory annual report publishes rates without the enrollment the statute names." } ], "workforce": [ { "item": "Educational interpreter qualification required in K-12", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "EIPA 3.5 for the assigned grade level, or state registration under Act 57 of 2004, plus 20 hours of staff development a year (22 Pa. Code 14.105(b)); school interpreters exempt from Act 57 registration under section 4(b)(7)", "year": "In force since July 1, 2008", "source_n": 8, "note": "Chapter 14 fetched 5 October 2026 with its digest; PaTTAN restates the standard (source 15); Act 143 of 2024 left the exemption unchanged (source 29)." } }, { "item": "Interpreters working in schools (FTE)", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2023-24", "source_n": 3, "note": "PennData publishes no personnel table by title in the Statistical Summary; the federal 618 personnel file for 2023-24 was fetched on 4 October 2026 and its Pennsylvania rows extracted (02_Data_Files/closure_2026-10-04) but not carried into this file." } }, { "item": "Interpreter preparation programs in the state", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "not read: no search for interpreter preparation programs was run in this run; the ODHH page names the registry and the Advisory Council, not programs", "year": "2026", "source_n": 13, "note": "A re-run target; the Index records the gap rather than a figure." } }, { "item": "Teacher-of-the-deaf license or endorsement", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "\"Special Education - Hearing Impaired PK-12\" (the source's hyphen; CSPG 62 Hearing Impaired PK-12)", "year": "As published 8 October 2026", "source_n": 16, "note": "The certification staffing guideline captured as a rendered page at v2.0; the requirements were not extracted beyond the title and grade band." } }, { "item": "Teacher-of-the-deaf supply", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 3, "note": "No statewide count of certificate holders or teachers of the deaf located on the Department pages read; the intermediate units name their teachers of the deaf on their own pages (source 21) and WPSD states \"All of our teachers are certified teachers of the deaf\" (source 17)." } }, { "item": "Teacher-of-the-deaf preparation program in the state", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "not read: no search for teacher-of-the-deaf preparation programs was run in this run", "year": "2026", "source_n": 16, "note": "A re-run target; the Index records the gap rather than a figure." } }, { "item": "Shortage designation", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2026-27", "source_n": 16, "note": "No shortage designation naming deaf education was on the Department pages read; the Department's shortage-area instrument was not among the seeds." } }, { "item": "Educational audiologists working in schools (FTE)", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 3, "note": "No statewide count located. Intermediate units name their educational audiologists (IU 1 \"a full-time educational audiologist\"; AIU 3; MIU 4; IU 8 Dr. Ashlee McCloskey; LIU 12 Lauren Fulton, Au.D.; MCIU 23's Children's Hearing Center with two audiologists; BVIU 27) and WPSBC names its educational audiologist (sources 19 and 21)." } }, { "item": "Paraprofessional / sign language aide standard", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2026", "source_n": 8, "note": "Chapter 14 as read carries no sign language aide or notetaker standard; CSIU 16 lists a \"Communication Facilitator\" and Berks County IU 14 \"communication facilitators\" among its DHH program staff (source 21)." } }, { "item": "DeafBlind intervener standard and training", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "No intervener standard in Chapter 14 as read; the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Project at PaTTAN is the training body on the pages read and prints no intervener credential; WPSBC and Overbrook employ interveners", "year": "2026 (8 October)", "source_n": 15, "note": "The intermediate units' Deaf-Blind Resource Teams (IU 1, AIU 3, LIU 12, IU 13, BLaST IU 17, MCIU 23 and others) provide technical assistance to IEP teams (source 21)." } } ], "schools_programs_directory": [ { "id": "PA-001", "entity_name": "Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (WPSD)", "entity_type": "Chartered school for the deaf (Public School Code section 1376.1; private non-profit, state-funded)", "operating_authority": "A private non-profit chartered school governed by a board of trustees; one of \"the four (4) chartered schools for the education of the deaf or the blind\" named in Public School Code section 1376.1(a) (source 7); PDE \"recognized ... as a distinct and separate group of schools\" (source 28)", "city": "Pittsburgh (Edgewood)", "county": "Allegheny", "educational_setting": "Day and residential: \"With students traveling from all over Pennsylvania, WPSD places a major emphasis on providing as comfortable and nurturing a living environment as possible\" (student life page, source 17); referrals by audiologists, parents, physicians, districts and intermediate units with district and PDE approval (v1.0 record)" }, { "id": "PA-002", "entity_name": "The Scranton School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children", "entity_type": "Program of WPSD (a chartered school's satellite campus; not a separate roster unit)", "operating_authority": "Operated by WPSD since the 2009-10 school year, when Act 50 of 2009 abolished the Scranton State School for the Deaf (source 10; the v1.0 record of the school's history page)", "city": "South Abington Township", "county": "Lackawanna", "educational_setting": "Day and residential (Monday to Friday residence, v1.0 record)" }, { "id": "PA-003", "entity_name": "Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (PSD)", "entity_type": "Chartered school for the deaf (Public School Code section 1376.1; private non-profit, state-funded)", "operating_authority": "A private non-profit chartered school named in section 1376.1(a); a Board of Trustees (v1.0 record: chaired by Dr. Elizabeth Moore); \"founded in 1820 as the third school of its kind in the nation\" (v1.0 record)", "city": "Philadelphia (Germantown)", "county": "Philadelphia", "educational_setting": "Day school (the directory publishes a Day rate only); the Early Childhood Center; a play-based preschool pairing \"hearing children classrooms with Deaf and hard of hearing\" classrooms (source 18)" }, { "id": "PA-004", "entity_name": "Overbrook School for the Blind (OSB)", "entity_type": "Chartered school for the blind (section 1376.1; boundary entity)", "operating_authority": "A private non-profit chartered school named in section 1376.1(a); founded 1832 (v1.0 record)", "city": "Philadelphia", "county": "Philadelphia", "educational_setting": "Day and residential (not established on the pages read)" }, { "id": "PA-005", "entity_name": "Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children (WPSBC)", "entity_type": "Chartered school for the blind (section 1376.1; boundary entity with a deafblind program)", "operating_authority": "A private chartered school (\"on January 8, 1887, the Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind was chartered\", v1.0 record); named in section 1376.1(a)", "city": "Pittsburgh", "county": "Allegheny", "educational_setting": "Day and residential (\"Residential Program\" in the site navigation, source 19)" }, { "id": "PA-006", "entity_name": "DePaul School for Hearing and Speech (EdNA: DePaul Institute)", "entity_type": "Approved private school serving deaf pupils (section 1376); listening and spoken language", "operating_authority": "Private: \"Founded in 1908 by the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh and the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill\"; \"DePaul School is licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as an Approved Private School\" (about page, 4 October 2026, source 20); an approved private school since 1973 (v1.0 record)", "city": "Pittsburgh (Shadyside)", "county": "Allegheny", "educational_setting": "Day school; pupils approved by their district or intermediate unit \"are enrolled at DePaul School at no cost to the family\" (v1.0 record)" }, { "id": "PA-007", "entity_name": "Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech, Pennsylvania campus (EdNA: Clarke Pennsylvania Inc)", "entity_type": "Approved private school serving deaf pupils (section 1376); listening and spoken language preschool", "operating_authority": "Private non-profit; the Pennsylvania campus an approved private school (PDE directory, source 6)", "city": "Philadelphia (\"2 Penn Boulevard, Suite 220\", APS directory)", "county": "Philadelphia", "educational_setting": "Day preschool: \"Classes are led by experienced professionals ... trained in early childhood education, speech-language pathology, education of the deaf and the Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) approach\" (source 20)" }, { "id": "PA-008", "entity_name": "Pressley Ridge School for the Deaf", "entity_type": "Approved private school serving deaf pupils (section 1376); emotional support or autism; residential", "operating_authority": "Pressley Ridge (private non-profit); \"a year-round Approved Private School with a residential component\" (v1.0 record of the school's page)", "city": "Pittsburgh", "county": "Allegheny", "educational_setting": "Day and 5-day residential; pupils \"eligible for special education services as Deaf or hard of hearing as well as either Emotionally Disturbed or Autistic\" (v1.0 record)" }, { "id": "PA-009", "entity_name": "The intermediate unit layer (29 intermediate units)", "entity_type": "Regional service agencies (Public School Code Article IX-A)", "operating_authority": "\"Each school district of the Commonwealth shall be assigned to an intermediate unit ... Intermediate units shall be part of the public school system of this Commonwealth\" (901-A, v1.0 capture, source 7); boards drawn from member district boards (910-A)", "city": "29 regions covering every district", "county": "Statewide", "educational_setting": "Itinerant teachers of the deaf, DHH classrooms, educational audiology, interpreters and C-Print sold to member districts: AIU 3 \"All services are delivered by Teachers of the Deaf, Educational Sign Language Interpreters, and Educational Audiologists\"; BLaST IU 17 \"Any one of our 19 school districts may contract with us for itinerant services\" (source 21)" }, { "id": "PA-010", "entity_name": "School District of Philadelphia, Deaf and Hearing Impaired Support", "entity_type": "District program (the largest district; IU 26 read as part of it)", "operating_authority": "School District of Philadelphia, Office of Special Education and Diverse Learners (source 22)", "city": "Philadelphia", "county": "Philadelphia", "educational_setting": "In-district support: \"Types of Special Education Support - Learning Support, Life Skills Support, Emotional Support, Deaf and Hearing Impaired Support, Blind and Visually Impaired Support ...\" (the source's dash); \"Speech/language, deaf/hard of hearing and vision support can either be the student's special education support in the general curriculum or the support can be the related service\" (specialized services page, 4 October 2026)" }, { "id": "PA-011", "entity_name": "North Allegheny School District, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Support Program", "entity_type": "District program (district-operated classrooms)", "operating_authority": "North Allegheny School District", "city": "Pittsburgh", "county": "Allegheny", "educational_setting": "\"Deaf and Hard of Hearing Support classrooms are operated by the District at Peebles Elementary School, Carson Middle School, No[rth Allegheny Intermediate and Senior High]\" (source 23)" }, { "id": "PA-012", "entity_name": "Mastery Charter Schools network, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Support", "entity_type": "Charter network program (fifteen Pennsylvania campus charter schools, each its own LEA)", "operating_authority": "Mastery Charter Schools (the network operator; central office 5700 Wayne Avenue, Philadelphia)", "city": "Philadelphia", "county": "Philadelphia", "educational_setting": "Network-wide: \"Across the network, Mastery offers comprehensive specialized programming to meet the individualized needs of each student, including: Comprehensive Special Education Services ...\" (source 24)" }, { "id": "PA-013", "entity_name": "PaTTAN Deaf/Hard of Hearing initiative and the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Project", "entity_type": "State technical assistance (a project of the Bureau of Special Education)", "operating_authority": "Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network, a project of PDE's Bureau of Special Education; three regional offices (v1.0 record)", "city": "Harrisburg (central office); East Norristown; Pittsburgh", "county": "Statewide", "educational_setting": "Training and consultation, not direct service: the Evidence-Based Practices pages for Deaf/Hard of Hearing and DeafBlind (source 15); the PA Expanded Core Competencies for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing" }, { "id": "PA-014", "entity_name": "Scranton State School for the Deaf (abolished 2009)", "entity_type": "Former state-operated school", "operating_authority": "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Education, until 2009", "city": "Scranton", "county": "Lackawanna", "educational_setting": "Abolished: \"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Scranton State School for the Deaf and the Board of Trustees of the Scranton State School for the Deaf are abolished\" (Act 50 of 2009, section 6, source 10)" }, { "id": "PA-015", "entity_name": "Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ODHH), Department of Labor and Industry", "entity_type": "State office (coordinating body; interpreter registry)", "operating_authority": "Department of Labor and Industry; Act 37 of 1997 (ODHH); duties under the Sign Language Interpreter and Transliterator State Registration Act (Act 57 of 2004, amended by Act 143 of 2024) (sources 13 and 29)", "city": "Harrisburg", "county": "Dauphin", "educational_setting": "Advocacy, information and referral; \"maintains a list of state and provisionally-registered interpreters\"; the Advisory Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (source 13)" } ], "disclosure": { "relationships": [], "statement": "Novara Consulting Group LLC, the publisher of the Index, has no financial, partnership or funding relationship with any Pennsylvania body named in this file. The v2.0 re-audit was built in the Index's own sequence (the v1.0 file of 17 September 2026 and this re-audit under NAT-004 v1.6, wave 1 of D-058, placed in October 2026 by D-065); no body or person requested it and no one funded it, so it is not a funded build under D-061. The two co-founders' declarations of 4 October 2026 under GOV-004 Rule 4 record no relationship with any body named and no formal or informal contact with any Pennsylvania body. No party had editorial input, and no Pennsylvania body was contacted about this file before the notice stage.", "compiled": "2026-10-29" }, "notice": { "applies": true, "recipients": [ { "body": "Pennsylvania Department of Education (the state education agency; the Bureau of Special Education), once; PaTTAN is covered by this notice", "route_used": "the Department's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, Pittsburgh (with its Scranton School), a chartered school under section 1376.1, noticed as a state school", "route_used": "the school's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, Philadelphia, a chartered school under section 1376.1, noticed as a state school", "route_used": "the school's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Overbrook School for the Blind, Philadelphia, a chartered school under section 1376.1, noticed as a state school (boundary entity)", "route_used": "the school's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children, Pittsburgh, a chartered school under section 1376.1, noticed as a state school (deafblind program)", "route_used": "the school's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "DePaul School for Hearing and Speech, Pittsburgh, an approved private school and an auditory and oral school, noticed as a body the file documents", "route_used": "the school's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech, Pennsylvania campus, Philadelphia, an approved private school and an auditory and oral school, noticed as a body the file documents", "route_used": "the campus's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Pressley Ridge School for the Deaf, Pittsburgh, an approved private school, noticed as a body the file documents", "route_used": "the school's published contact route (Pressley Ridge), confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "School District of Philadelphia (the Office of Special Education and Diverse Learners), noticed as a state-level body by size", "route_used": "the district's published contact route for special education, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Department of Labor and Industry, noticed as the coordinating body", "route_used": "the office's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Pennsylvania Department of Health (the newborn hearing screening program, EHDI), noticed as the EHDI body", "route_used": "the program's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Office of Child Development and Early Learning, Department of Human Services (the Bureau of Early Intervention Services and Family Supports), noticed as the Part C body", "route_used": "the office's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf (PSAD), the state association of the Deaf, noticed under D-071", "route_used": "the association's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Hearing Loss Association of America, Pennsylvania (the state body or, failing one, the Pennsylvania chapters as published), noticed under D-071", "route_used": "the published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Intermediate Unit 1 (intermediate unit 1), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Pittsburgh-Mt Oliver IU 2 (intermediate unit 2), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Allegheny IU 3 (intermediate unit 3), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Midwestern IU 4 (intermediate unit 4), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Northwest Tri-County IU 5 (intermediate unit 5), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Riverview IU 6 (intermediate unit 6), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Westmoreland IU 7 (intermediate unit 7), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Appalachia IU 8 (intermediate unit 8), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Seneca Highlands IU 9 (intermediate unit 9), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it", "deferred": { "on": "2026-10-29", "reason": "Deferred to the next version on the program lead's decision of 12 October 2026: Seneca Highlands IU 9 publishes no address for any officer, and its route is an item of the January 2027 deep review. The unit may use the standing correction route at any time." } }, { "body": "Central IU 10 (intermediate unit 10), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Tuscarora IU 11 (intermediate unit 11), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Lincoln IU 12 (intermediate unit 12), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Lancaster-Lebanon IU 13 (intermediate unit 13), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Berks County IU 14 (intermediate unit 14), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Capital Area IU 15 (intermediate unit 15), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Central Susquehanna IU 16 (intermediate unit 16), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "BLaST IU 17 (intermediate unit 17), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Luzerne IU 18 (intermediate unit 18), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Northeastern Educational IU 19 (intermediate unit 19), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Colonial IU 20 (intermediate unit 20), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Carbon-Lehigh IU 21 (intermediate unit 21), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Bucks County IU 22 (intermediate unit 22), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Montgomery County IU 23 (intermediate unit 23), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Chester County IU 24 (intermediate unit 24), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Delaware County IU 25 (intermediate unit 25), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Philadelphia IU 26 (intermediate unit 26), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Beaver Valley IU 27 (intermediate unit 27), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "ARIN IU 28 (intermediate unit 28), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Schuylkill IU 29 (intermediate unit 29), noticed as a provider-layer body", "route_used": "the intermediate unit's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it" } ], "sent": "2026-10-12", "window_closed": "2026-10-26", "responses": [], "reason": "Notice under STD-005 goes to the Department in every case. The owner settled the list on 11 October 2026: the four chartered schools of section 1376.1 as state schools; the three approved private schools serving deaf pupils, the two auditory and oral schools among them (D-073); the School District of Philadelphia by size; the Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; the Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf and HLAA Pennsylvania (D-071); the Department of Health (EHDI) and OCDEL (Part C); and the 29 intermediate units as the provider layer. PaTTAN is covered by the Department's notice. Sent by a person from the contact of record on 12 October 2026 (Eastern) to 42 bodies; Seneca Highlands IU 9, which publishes no address, is deferred to the next version. The window closed 26 October 2026 with no response and no route failure; the fiscal correction made after the sends was not sent again." }, "contact_of_record": { "mailbox": "notice@ndedi.org", "postal": "Novara Consulting Group LLC, 18140 Zane St NW #159, Elk River, MN 55330" }, "changelog": [ { "version": "1.0", "date": "2026-09-17", "change": "First release: narrative, workbook (seven sheets), trail, prompt as issued, evidence source record, URL manifest (829 rows), captures and verification scripts (174 reconciliation checks, all pass). Frame of 802 units (500 districts, 179 charter schools each its own LEA under 22 Pa. Code 711, 29 intermediate units, 74 CTCs, 4 jointures, 8 juvenile institutions, the four chartered schools of 1376.1, three deaf-serving approved private schools, one blind boundary row): 67 PROGRAM, 157 MENTION, 537 NONE FOUND, 40 NOT VERIFIABLE, 1 NOT OPERATING, zero NOT AUDITED; 44 approved private schools OUT OF FRAME as a class, zero promoted. Findings: 1376.1(a) names exactly four chartered private schools; the district pays the greater of 40 per cent of the approved rate or its own tuition charge and the Commonwealth the balance, escalated at 125 per cent of the prior special education increase, which the 2026-27 line reproduces; Act 50 of 2009 abolished the Scranton State School for the Deaf and paid $3.3 million plus $27,273 a pupil to move its pupils to WPSD's satellite; 27 of 29 intermediate units PROGRAM against 17 of 500 districts (13 weak; nine IUs found only in the rendered browser); PennData prints one category, 2,524 \"Hearing Impairment including Deafness\" and 78 \"Deaf-Blindness\" on the December 2024 count, flat across ten years, with the chartered schools nowhere in it; 1376.1(f.4) requires full-time equivalent enrolment each May and the May 2026 directory publishes rates only; seven approved private schools are licensed for deaf pupils and four publish no deaf program; both OPTION members are approved private schools on the same statute as the ASL schools; Clarke's campus is in Philadelphia, not Bryn Mawr; the interpreter standard is EIPA 3.5 (14.105(b)), kept by Act 143 of 2024; the formula is 2509.5(bbb) with three expenditure-category weights; no LEAD-K or bill of rights bill; the Auditor General's trail ends at two Scranton audits and 98 IU audits to 2019.", "cause": "first release" }, { "version": "2.0", "date": "2026-10-11", "change": "Re-audit from the v1.0 standard (NAT-004 v1.6 section 3; wave 1 of D-058; D-065, the October placement). Frame re-verified on the EdNA extract of 4 October 2026 and CCD 2024-25 (807 units: five EdNA-addition jointures entered as corrections; 2 NOT OPERATING under D-045 on definitive evidence); closure read of every unit in the rendered browser on 4 and 5 October (attempt one) and 8 October (attempt two), the Mastery network host and seventeen v1.0 evidence pages read live on 11 October, every one of the 2,457 keyword hits reviewed by the compiler against its capture; coded 72 PROGRAM (39 weak), 318 MENTION, 363 NONE FOUND, 52 NOT VERIFIABLE (deep review mark, January 2027), 2 NOT OPERATING; 209 codes change from v1.0 (163 NONE FOUND to MENTION under the eligibility recital, the related-service and the nurse-screening rules; 4 district programs the v1.0 fetch could not open, North Allegheny among them). The D-043 route fields, the D-038 operator fields and the PennData Table 12 counts carried on every row (52 unsuppressed, sum 1,070); the FRM-002 measure tested and marked unsupported (397 of 1,070 as a floor). The count book, the May 2026 directory, the two Scranton audits and the two enacted appropriation documents held as byte originals with digests; the statutes and Chapter 14 re-read with browser digests; the statewide pages captured as rendered pages. Schema 1.3 modules (31 sources, 15 entities, ten FRM-003 channels with series, ten workforce items, seven records requests, the placement criteria indicator); the plain-language summary; the notice list of 43 recipients settled by the owner on 11 October 2026 (the 29 intermediate units individually; PSAD and HLAA Pennsylvania under D-071; the two auditory and oral schools under D-073). Baseline SY 2025. The v1.0 deliverables move to 05_Archive at release. Fiscal headline tied to FY 2024-25, the year funding the baseline school year, on 12 October 2026 (the 11 October build carried FY 2025-26); the series unchanged.", "cause": "re-audit" } ], "checks": { "release_checklist_version": "1.4", "passed": true, "run_date": "2026-10-30", "reconciliation_output_file": "38_Pennsylvania_reconciliation_output_2026-10-30.txt", "em_dash_count": 0, "ledger_run_ids": [ "R-2026-10-11-03", "R-2026-10-11-04" ], "custody": { "evidence_manifest_files": 3252, "evidence_manifest_check": "pass", "archive_snapshot_found": 0, "archive_no_snapshot": 0, "archive_lookup_failed": 0 }, "report_checks_file": "38_Pennsylvania_report_checks_2026-10-29.txt", "uk_spelling_count": 0 }, "deposit": { "repository": "zenodo", "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.23308779", "concept_doi": "10.5281/zenodo.23308778", "record_url": "https://zenodo.org/records/23308779", "deposited": "2026-10-12", "licence": "Summary layer under the free terms; the licensed files are restricted on the record (STD-004 v1.0 section 3)", "files_restricted": true }, "sources": [ { "n": 1, "title": "Pennsylvania Department of Education, EdNA (Educational Names and Addresses), Educational Entities and Administrators extract of 4 October 2026 by same-origin form POST (18,476 rows, 3,055,271 bytes, byte original with sidecar), deduplicated by AUN into 845 entities: 500 school districts, 173 charter schools, 29 intermediate units, 74 career and technical centers, 9 special program jointures, 8 state juvenile correctional institutions, 52 approved private schools; the directory instrument", "url": "https://www.edna.pa.gov/Screens/Extracts/wfExtractEntitiesAdmin.aspx", "access_date": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_method": "HTTPS fetch of the published file, byte original saved with its SHA-256 recorded (8 October 2026)" }, { "n": 2, "title": "NCES Common Core of Data, LEA Universe Survey 2024-25 (v.1a, 30 July 2025; ccd_lea_029_2425_w_1a_073025.zip, byte original with SHA-256 in its sidecar), the Pennsylvania rows derived to a 17-column extract (status, operational schools, charter flag, website by LEAID and AUN): Math Civics and Sciences CS and Premier Arts and Science CS Inactive with 0 operational schools; Pennwood Cyber CS, Vision Academy CS of Excellence, South East Youth Development Center New", "url": "https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/Data/zip/ccd_lea_029_2425_w_1a_073025.zip", "access_date": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_method": "HTTPS fetch of the published file, byte original saved with its SHA-256 recorded (8 October 2026)" }, { "n": 3, "title": "Pennsylvania Department of Education, Bureau of Special Education (PennData), Special Education Statistical Summary 2024-2025 (March 2026; 5,013,023 bytes, SHA-256 a4d38696..., byte original fetched 8 October 2026 and matched; the 17 September 2026 text capture beside it): Table 10 state totals ages 5 to 21 (Hearing Impairment including Deafness 2,524; Deaf-Blindness 78; total 348,430; December 1, 2024); Table 2 ages 3 to 21 (2,846, of which 264 aged 3 and 4); Tables 11, 11A, 12, 13", "url": "https://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/Portals/66/documents/PennDataBooks/Statistical_Summary_2024-2025.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "HTTPS fetch of the published file, byte original saved with its SHA-256 recorded (8 October 2026)" }, { "n": 4, "title": "PennData Statistical Summary 2024-2025, Table 12 \"Special Education Enrollments: LEA By Disability\" (December 1, 2024), derived extract of 17 September 2026: 675 LEA rows by home district by IU region; 30 printed Total rows summing to 348,448; the printed Hearing Impairment including Deafness IU totals summing to 2,524; 52 LEA rows print an unsuppressed hearing count (sum 1,070) and 623 print \"*\", the mark for 10 or fewer; no provider row for any chartered or approved private school or IU", "url": "https://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/Portals/66/documents/PennDataBooks/Statistical_Summary_2024-2025.pdf", "access_date": "2026-09-17", "retrieval_method": "v1.0 record (rendered cloud browser pane and harness fetch, 17 September 2026); not re-read at v2.0" }, { "n": 5, "title": "PennData Statistical Summary books 2015-2016 to 2024-2025, Table 10 printed row totals (the ten-year series file of 17 September 2026): Hearing Impairment including Deafness 2,660; 2,665; 2,629; 2,521; 2,692; 2,594; 2,605; 2,588; 2,510; 2,524 and Deaf-Blindness 60; 51; 59; 55; 63; 57; 65; 75; 73; 78 against totals 270,333 to 348,430 (December 1 counts, 2015 to 2024); the Statistical Summary index checked 8 October 2026 lists books through 2024-2025 only (no 2025-26 book on the run date)", "url": "https://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/Public-Reporting/Statistical-Summary", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser, live page captured as text and DOM at ingest" }, { "n": 6, "title": "Pennsylvania Department of Education, Directory of Approved Private Schools and Chartered Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, May 2026 (813,753 bytes, SHA-256 bbe399c6..., byte original fetched 8 October 2026 and matched; the v1.0 text capture and the Approved Exceptionalities extract beside it): the 2025-26 approved tuition rates (the section 1376.1(f.4) publication, rates only), school descriptions, and the DHH license marks on seven non-chartered approved private schools", "url": "https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/education/documents/instruction/special-education/aps%20directory.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "HTTPS fetch of the published file, byte original saved with its SHA-256 recorded (8 October 2026)" }, { "n": 7, "title": "Public School Code of 1949 as served on palegis.us, rendered text-frame reads of 5 October 2026 with browser-computed digests (sections 1371, 1372 and 1376) and the v1.0 full-text capture of 17 September 2026 (305,049 characters) for section 1376.1 (the four chartered schools for the deaf and the blind: the (a) list, (b) payment rule, (b.2) escalator, (d) no charge to families, (f.4) annual report), Article IX-A (intermediate units) and Article XVII-A (charter schools: 1725-A, 1725.1-A)", "url": "https://www.palegis.us/statutes/unconsolidated/law-information/view-statute?74&iFrame=true&txtType=HTM&SessYr=1949&SessInd=0&ActNum=0014.&chpt=13&subchpt=000.&sctn=76&subsctn=001.", "access_date": "2026-10-05", "retrieval_method": "same-origin fetch in the owner's browser with the digest computed at capture (5 October 2026)" }, { "n": 8, "title": "22 Pa. Code as served on pacodeandbulletin.gov, same-origin fetches of 5 October 2026 with browser-computed digests (code currency 56 Pa.B. 5370, 8 August 2026): Chapter 14 (203,226 bytes; 14.102 hearing-aid and implant checks, 14.105(b) the educational interpreter standard, 14.131(a)(1)(iii) the communication plan, the nine support types), Chapter 711 (110,821 bytes; charter schools as local education agencies), Chapters 15 and 16; v1.0 capture of Chapter 4 (4.25(d), ASL a world language)", "url": "https://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pacode?file=/secure/pacode/data/022/chapter14/s14.105.html", "access_date": "2026-10-05", "retrieval_method": "same-origin fetch in the owner's browser with the digest computed at capture (5 October 2026)" }, { "n": 9, "title": "Governor's Office of the Budget, enacted General Fund appropriation documents as byte originals (digests equal in browser and workspace): 2026-27 Enacted (338,194 bytes, SHA-256 a014cae7...), 2025-26 Enacted v2 (141,421 bytes, 60f13f57...) and the 2024-25 Enacted Tracking Run of 11 July 2024 (133,266 bytes, a1874298..., owner's direction): the Education lines for the chartered schools, approved private schools, special education and early intervention, and Human Services early intervention", "url": "https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/budget/documents/publications-and-reports/commonwealthbudget/2026-27-budget-documents/2026-27%20enacted%20budget%20-%20general%20fund%20appropriations%20web.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-11", "retrieval_method": "HTTPS fetch, byte original, SHA-256 equal in the owner's browser and the workspace (11 October 2026)" }, { "n": 10, "title": "Act 50 of 2009 (the Fiscal Code amendments; v1.0 whole-act capture): section 6 abolishing the Scranton State School for the Deaf and its Board of Trustees; section 1722-J(10), the $3,300,000 transition funding shared among chartered schools enrolling pupils of the former state school as of May 1, 2009, and $27,273 per such pupil for an approved satellite campus (2009-10); the unconsolidated acts capture also holds Act 57 of 2004, Act 89 of 2001, Act 212 of 1990 and Act 37 of 1997", "url": "https://www.palegis.us/statutes/unconsolidated/law-information/view-statute?94&iFrame=true&txtType=HTM&SessYr=2009&SessInd=0&ActNum=0050.", "access_date": "2026-09-17", "retrieval_method": "v1.0 record (rendered cloud browser pane and harness fetch, 17 September 2026); not re-read at v2.0" }, { "n": 11, "title": "Department of the Auditor General, performance audits of the Scranton State School for the Deaf: July 1, 2003 to February 24, 2006 (released 30 January 2007; 162,485 bytes, SHA-256 00a91dfb...) and July 1, 2005 to July 18, 2008 (released 11 December 2009; 192,426 bytes, SHA-256 e6d2daf9...), byte originals fetched 8 October 2026 and matched; the audit search of 8 October 2026 found no audit of either chartered school for the deaf (v1.0: 98 IU audits 2007 to 2019; a 2025 cyber charter audit)", "url": "https://www.paauditor.gov/Media/Default/Reports/stoScrantonStateSchoolfortheDeaf12112009.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "HTTPS fetch of the published file, byte original saved with its SHA-256 recorded (8 October 2026)" }, { "n": 12, "title": "Pennsylvania Department of Health, Newborn Hearing Screening page (rendered page captured 8 October 2026, 4,035 characters, SHA-256 6fd03075...): the Infant Hearing Education, Assessment, Reporting and Referral (IHEARR) Act (Act 89 of 2001) and the 1-3-6 standard; no screening, referral, diagnosis or enrollment figure on the page", "url": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/health/programs/maternal-health-and-infant-care/newborn-screening/hearing", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser, live page captured as text and DOM at ingest" }, { "n": 13, "title": "Department of Labor and Industry, Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ODHH) page (rendered page captured 8 October 2026, 6,272 characters, SHA-256 86502292...): advocacy, information and referral; the registry of state and provisionally registered interpreters under Act 57 of 2004 as amended by Act 143 of 2024; the Advisory Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing", "url": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dli/programs-services/disability-and-vocational-rehabilitation/odhh", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser, live page captured as text and DOM at ingest" }, { "n": 14, "title": "Department of Human Services, Office of Child Development and Early Learning, Bureau of Early Intervention Services and Family Supports page (rendered page captured 8 October 2026, 4,186 characters, SHA-256 a825178c...): the dual deputate of DHS and PDE; infant-toddler services funded through DHS and preschool through PDE (the v1.0 OCDEL pages); Act 212 of 1990 (v1.0 capture) names the lead agencies and \"deafness/hearing impairment\" among the eligibilities of the three-to-five year old", "url": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dhs/departments-offices/ocdel-info/ocdel-bureau-early-intervention-services-and-family-supports", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser, live page captured as text and DOM at ingest" }, { "n": 15, "title": "Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN), Evidence-Based Practices pages for Deaf/Hard of Hearing (14,604 characters, SHA-256 e5e8ab00...) and DeafBlind (12,743 characters, SHA-256 e9a099a8...), rendered pages captured 8 October 2026 (the former /Disabilities/Deaf-and-Hard-of-Hearing path answers 404): the PA Expanded Core Competencies for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, the educational interpreter standard restated (EIPA 3.5), the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Project", "url": "https://www.pattan.net/Evidence-Based-Practices/DeafHard-of-hearing", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser, live page captured as text and DOM at ingest" }, { "n": 16, "title": "Pennsylvania Department of Education, Certification Staffing Guidelines CSPG 62 Hearing Impaired PK-12 (7,639 characters, SHA-256 502fc900...) and CSPG 41 American Sign Language ASL (4,908 characters, SHA-256 248e6e8d...), rendered pages captured 8 October 2026: the certificate \"Special Education - Hearing Impaired PK-12\" and the ASL teaching certificate guideline", "url": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/education/programs-and-services/educators/certification/certification-staffing/staffing-guidelines/cspg-62-hearing-impaired-pk-12", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser, live page captured as text and DOM at ingest" }, { "n": 17, "title": "Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (wpsd.org), the school's own site read in the rendered browser on 4 October 2026 (17 pages, 93 keyword hits, two-file captures): the about, academics, admissions, outreach and administration pages; the Scranton School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children; the Deafblind Resource Team; the Forbes Road CTC partnership (the quotations carried in ENTITIES PA-001 and PA-003)", "url": "https://www.wpsd.org/", "access_date": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the owner's computer (Chrome extension), two-file capture" }, { "n": 18, "title": "Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (psd.org), read in the rendered browser on 4 October 2026 (8 pages, 42 hits): the academics page (the bilingual American Sign Language and English statement), audiology, the free Family ASL Classes (October and November 2026 sessions), the Early Childhood Education page, the DeafBlind students statement and the outreach services page (v1.0 record: Educational Audiology, Itinerant Hearing Support Teachers); quotations carried in ENTITIES PA-002", "url": "https://psd.org/", "access_date": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the owner's computer (Chrome extension), two-file capture" }, { "n": 19, "title": "Overbrook School for the Blind (obs.org, 17 pages) and Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children (wpsbc.org, 5 pages), read in the rendered browser on 4 October 2026: Overbrook's audiology service and a deafblind student with an intervener on its home page; WPSBC's Deafblind Programming page (intervener support, audiological services, the Deaf Blind Resource Team; v1.0: over 30 students with combined vision and hearing loss); Royer-Greaves School for the Blind (1 page); PA-004, PA-005", "url": "https://www.wpsbc.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1580443&type=d&pREC_ID=2714020", "access_date": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the owner's computer (Chrome extension), two-file capture" }, { "n": 20, "title": "DePaul School for Hearing and Speech (depaulhearingandspeech.org, 13 pages, 83 hits), Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech Pennsylvania (clarkeschools.org, 13 pages, 78 hits) and Pressley Ridge School for the Deaf (pressleyridge.org, 2 pages, 4 hits), read in the rendered browser on 4 October 2026 (quotations in ENTITIES PA-006 to PA-008). The Pressley Ridge host refused the compiler's deeper read on 11 October 2026 (a Wordfence block, not worked around)", "url": "https://www.depaulhearingandspeech.org/", "access_date": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the owner's computer (Chrome extension), two-file capture" }, { "n": 21, "title": "The 29 intermediate units, their own sites read in the rendered browser on 4 October 2026 (Pittsburgh-Mt Oliver IU 2 on www.pmoiu2.us, found by one search, on 8 October; Northeastern Educational IU 19's Description of Services panels expanded and read live on 11 October): the Deaf/Hard of Hearing program, hearing support, educational audiology, interpreter and Deaf-Blind Resource Team pages quoted in ENTITIES PA-009 and PA-010 and in the 29 coverage rows", "url": "https://www.aiu3.net/administrators-and-educators/special-education/special-education-related-services/deaf-hard-of-hearing-support-program", "access_date": "2026-10-11", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the owner's computer (Chrome extension), two-file capture" }, { "n": 22, "title": "School District of Philadelphia specialized services page (philasd.org, 17 pages, 15 hits; also the IU 26 and Philadelphia AVTS rows) and Pittsburgh Public Schools Hearing and Deaf Services page (pghschools.org, 13 pages), read in the rendered browser on 4 October 2026: Philadelphia's support types naming Deaf and Hearing Impaired Support, the interpreter request and the related-services list; Pittsburgh's speech and hearing support contact (quotations on the rows and in ENTITIES PA-013)", "url": "https://www.philasd.org/specializedservices", "access_date": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the owner's computer (Chrome extension), two-file capture" }, { "n": 23, "title": "North Allegheny School District, Program Strengths and Highlights page (read in the rendered browser on 4 October 2026; two-file capture): the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Support classrooms operated by the District at Peebles Elementary School, Carson Middle School and North Allegheny Intermediate and Senior High; the Total Communication approach; interpreters and audiological services under contract with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit (quotations in ENTITIES PA-011)", "url": "https://www.northallegheny.org/departments/special-education/program-strengths-highlights", "access_date": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the owner's computer (Chrome extension), two-file capture" }, { "n": 24, "title": "Mastery Charter Schools network, Specialized Services page (masterycharter.org, 12,091 characters, SHA-256 d5ed589c..., read live by the compiler on 11 October 2026, accordion text included) and 23 campus pages by same-origin fetch (Thomas Elementary 8,977 characters, SHA-256 19b25bc6..., one hit, Interpreters in the contact table): the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Support paragraph (quoted in ENTITIES PA-012); the host of the fifteen Pennsylvania campus rows, read in neither closure attempt", "url": "https://masterycharter.org/specialized-services/", "access_date": "2026-10-11", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the owner's computer (Chrome extension), compiler's live read, 11 October 2026" }, { "n": 25, "title": "Websites of the 807 units in the frame, closure read in the rendered browser: attempt one 4 and 5 October 2026 (723 crawl rows, 683 units captured, 1,110 page captures, 0 digest mismatches; recapture and payload sittings of 5 October to 700 units) and attempt two 5 and 8 October (33 held rows: 18 result files, 143 pages, 13 hits; 20 listed-host units NOT VERIFIABLE; 12 reads on hosts a D-039 search found); 718 result files, 2,273 capture files; 2,457 hits on 393 units reviewed 11 October", "url": "https://www.edna.pa.gov/Screens/Extracts/wfExtractEntitiesAdmin.aspx", "access_date": "2026-10-11", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the owner's computer (Chrome extension), two-file capture" }, { "n": 26, "title": "D-039 absence searches, one each: attempt2_2026-10-08/d039_searches_a2.jsonl (62 searches of 8 October: failed hosts, the 22 no-URL rows, The New Academy CS, Keystone Academy CS), build_2026-10-11/d039_searches_build_2026-10-11.jsonl (five searches of 11 October for the EdNA-addition jointures, none found), and the needhost findings of 5 October (Lewisburg Area SD www.lasd.us; Keystone SD www.keyknox.com; Admiral Peary AVTS www.admiralpeary.net; Pennwood Cyber CS on its Connections Academy host)", "url": "https://www.google.com/", "access_date": "2026-10-11", "retrieval_method": "one search per absence (D-039), the query and result recorded" }, { "n": 27, "title": "The build-day re-reads of 11 October 2026 (rereads_record_2026-10-11.json): Midland Innovation and Technology CS home page (1,436 characters, SHA-256 b45d9ed3..., closure notice effective July 30, 2025 still posted); IU 19, IU 29, City CHS, North Hills, Big Beaver Falls, Central Valley, Central Columbia, Abington Heights, Northern Potter, Saint Clair, Spring Grove (text captures with digests); Corry Area, Oley Valley, Chester Community CS, Erie City, Valley View (pages gone); two PDFs", "url": "https://www.mitcharterschool.org/", "access_date": "2026-10-11", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the owner's computer (Chrome extension), compiler's live read, 11 October 2026" }, { "n": 28, "title": "Pennsylvania Department of Education, Approved Private Schools, Deaf and Blind page (v1.0 record, harness fetch: four PA chartered and 33 non-charter APSs; the PDE-4010 process); PDE Special Education Funding and Fiscal Guidelines, Act 16 reporting, Contingency Fund guidelines (the $75,000 eligible-expense floor; disbursement in the May 2026 Unipay), IDEA-B Section 611 and Special Education Medical ACCESS pages (v1.0 record, harness fetch); not re-read at v2.0", "url": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/education/programs-and-services/instruction/elementary-and-secondary-education/special-education/nonpublic-schools/approved-private-schools-deaf-blind.html", "access_date": "2026-09-17", "retrieval_method": "v1.0 record (rendered cloud browser pane and harness fetch, 17 September 2026); not re-read at v2.0" }, { "n": 29, "title": "palegis.us bill text and keyword searches (v1.0 capture of 17 September 2026): SB 1274 of 2024 (Act 143 of 2024, PN 1951) amending the Sign Language Interpreter and Transliterator State Registration Act, the school interpreter exemption at section 4(b)(7) retained; SB 663 of 2025 and HB 1680 of 2023 (hearing loss curriculum, both died in committee); Bills By Keyword searches for deaf child, deaf children and language equality, 0 results in the 2021, 2023 and 2025 sessions; not re-read at v2.0", "url": "https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/HTM/2023/0/SB1274/PN1951", "access_date": "2026-09-17", "retrieval_method": "v1.0 record (rendered cloud browser pane and harness fetch, 17 September 2026); not re-read at v2.0" }, { "n": 30, "title": "Department of Community and Economic Development, EITC and OSTC program pages (v1.0 record, harness fetch): the OSTC maximum award for a special education student $15,000 against $8,500; scholarship organizations to \"Identify whether a scholarship recipient was an eligible student with a disability\" from 2025-26; OPTION Schools current regular members list (v1.0 record: Clarke Philadelphia and DePaul as members); not re-read at v2.0", "url": "https://dced.pa.gov/programs/educational-improvement-tax-credit-program-eitc/", "access_date": "2026-09-17", "retrieval_method": "v1.0 record (rendered cloud browser pane and harness fetch, 17 September 2026); not re-read at v2.0" }, { "n": 31, "title": "The Scranton School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children site (thescrantonschool.org; v1.0 record as characterized by the fetch tool: WPSD \"will begin providing education to deaf and hard of hearing students\" in the north-east from 2009-10; \"welcomed 81 students from preschool through 12th grade on September 8th, 2009\"; \"birth through the 8th grade\"); WPSD's own pages name the Scranton School as its program (source 17); not re-read at v2.0 as a separate host", "url": "https://thescrantonschool.org/", "access_date": "2026-09-17", "retrieval_method": "v1.0 record (rendered cloud browser pane and harness fetch, 17 September 2026); not re-read at v2.0" } ], "archive_status": [ { "n": 1, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 2, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 3, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 4, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 5, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 6, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 7, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 8, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 9, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 10, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 11, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 12, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 13, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 14, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 15, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 16, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 17, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 18, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 19, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 20, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 21, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 22, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 23, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 24, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 25, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 26, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 27, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 28, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 29, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 30, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" }, { "n": 31, "status": "NOT REQUESTED", "archive_url": "", "archive_timestamp": "" } ], "records_requests": [ { "gap": "Enrollment at the four chartered schools", "instrument_requested": "the section 1376.1(f.4) annual report with the full-time equivalent enrollment of each chartered school for 2024-25 and 2025-26, by sending district", "route": "Pennsylvania Department of Education, Bureau of Special Education (the published contact route; a Right-to-Know Law request through the Department's Open Records Officer if the report is not published)", "identifier": "", "sent": "", "status": "not sent", "source_n": 6 }, { "gap": "The per-school split of the chartered schools appropriation", "instrument_requested": "the 2024-25 and 2025-26 payments from the \"PA Chartered Schools for the Deaf and Blind\" appropriation to each of the four schools, and the district shares withheld under section 1376.1(b.2)(3)", "route": "Pennsylvania Department of Education, Bureau of Budget and Fiscal Management (the published contact route; Right-to-Know Law)", "identifier": "", "sent": "", "status": "not sent", "source_n": 9 }, { "gap": "The federal 618 figures for Pennsylvania", "instrument_requested": "the fall 2024 IDEA section 618 child count and environments and the 2023-24 personnel tables for Pennsylvania, from the byte originals fetched 4 October 2026", "route": "a read of the held files (02_Data_Files/closure_2026-10-04), not a request", "identifier": "", "sent": "", "status": "not sent", "source_n": 3 }, { "gap": "The teacher-of-the-deaf and interpreter workforce", "instrument_requested": "the count of active \"Special Education - Hearing Impaired PK-12\" certificate holders employed in public schools, educational interpreters and educational audiologists employed by districts and intermediate units, 2024-25", "route": "Pennsylvania Department of Education, Bureau of School Leadership and Teacher Quality (the published contact route; Right-to-Know Law)", "identifier": "", "sent": "", "status": "not sent", "source_n": 16 }, { "gap": "Newborn hearing screening and early intervention counts", "instrument_requested": "the number of infants screened, referred and diagnosed with a hearing loss under the IHEARR Act for 2023 and 2024, and the number enrolled in early intervention with a hearing-related eligibility", "route": "Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Family Health (the published contact route; Right-to-Know Law)", "identifier": "", "sent": "", "status": "not sent", "source_n": 12 }, { "gap": "The deafblind count", "instrument_requested": "the December 1, 2024 count on the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Project's census", "route": "PaTTAN, the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Project (the published contact route)", "identifier": "", "sent": "", "status": "not sent", "source_n": 15 }, { "gap": "The status of the five EdNA-addition jointures, Math Civics and Sciences CS and Keystone Academy CS", "instrument_requested": "whether each operates a school in 2025-26 and, if so, its address and web presence", "route": "Pennsylvania Department of Education, EdNA (the published contact route) and the Bureau of Charter Schools", "identifier": "", "sent": "", "status": "not sent", "source_n": 1 } ] }