Recently released PSSA scores show slow rebounds from pandemic learning disruptions, and schools across the Lehigh Valley are working to assess literacy and math instruction to support further growth.

The annual Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, or PSSA, tests will be given statewide on the same day as Take Your Child to Work Day. And that is not going over well with some parents.

School districts across the Pittsburgh region have spent the past few months working with teachers and students to get used to a new online platform and tools for the statewide assessment test.