Keystone Crossroads Archive

School board members in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are pushing for higher standards for charter schools. They say the state appeals board undercuts their efforts.

One sheriff in northwestern Pennsylvania is wondering how many more guns his office will seize.

State Rep. Thomas Murt says those bills represent just 1 percent of all bills he’s ever backed.

The fight to boost education funding brings lots of people together — teachers, superintendents, politi ...

The first of nine meetings drew more than 50 people in Williamsport Thursday evening.

Among their arguments: shutting down the proposed injection sites would violate the group’s Judeo-Christian convictions.

Even as school districts across the country have become more aware of how trauma can affect learning, there’s been little concrete policy on the state or federal level.

Federal officials are asking gun owners to immediately destroy or turn over bump stocks after a nationwide ban took effect this week.

Bridgette May has a salary under $45,000 a year.

They already got rid of it once before, in 2012. But the program landed back on the GOP chopping block after the state Supreme Court revived it last year on a technicality.

In this time of mass shootings, schools are feeling the pressure to make changes to how schools are constructed in an effort to keep intruders out.

Gov. Tom Wolf is once again pushing for a severance tax on Pennsylvania’s natural gas producers — this time by focusing on how the money could be used for schools.

A real estate developer who wants to remain anonymous has offered a building in the Kensington area to Safehouse, the ex-governor, a member of the board, told a D.C. crowd.

The majority of absentee ballots are rejected in Pennsylvania for lateness, and the rejection rate is increasing.

Presentations ran the gamut from so-called “soft” solutions like mental health counseling to “hard” solutions like metal detectors and armed staff.