Education

This fall, there were nearly 250,000 fewer students enrolled in college than a year ago, according to new numbers from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

Christina worried when she found her 16-year-old boyfriend, Jacob Goyette, drunk and crying at school in the spring of 2018.

Efforts are increasing to help students who aren’t getting enough nutritious food; by one estimate, as many as one-third suffer from ‘food insecurity’

The idea is that by following through with the plan laid out by the jury, the student would ideally come to understand the gravity of his actions.

The Board of Education met for the final time in 2019 on Thursday, approving five-year renewals for six charter schools.

Thrive NJ Coalition’s ‘report card’ gives New Jersey sex ed programs just a ‘C’ grade, saying schools should spend more time on the subject.

The city agencies tasked with oversight have failed to enforce Philadelphia’s post-Flint crisis water quality standards.

Increasing numbers of catchment families are enrolling in their local District schools in this section of Northwest Philly.

Kids will need parents’ permission to earn the excused absence.

Students at Westminster Choir College worry an address change will mean the end, with nine months to move, and no shovels in the ground.

About 1,500 Philly students attend Chester campuses run by the charter organization seeking to take the district over.

Over the past decade, Philly's public schools experienced an average of one lockdown every other day, leaving many students with nightmares.

The district argues the Pa. Human Relations Commission doesn’t have the authority to dictate how it educates its students or spends its money.

In what would be a first in Pennsylvania, Chester Community Charter School is pushing to take over all traditional K-8 education in its home district in Delaware County.

Five years ago, Philadelphia police found a girl nearly naked in a snowy, abandoned lot. That dark day led to a brighter future for special needs kids.