Emergency fund to save Philadelphia child care gives out $1.5M in grants

Masking will be optional for students and staff except when determined necessary to fight an outbreak.

Test results for the 22-23 school year show that only 40% of students in grades 3-8 scored proficiently in English language arts, a 2 percentage point decline from last year.

For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate backers on each side of the so-called reading wars.