Education

After parents rejected an early proposal, Philly officials have found semi-permanent homes for 1,000 high school students displaced by asbestos, construction delays.

A former chairman of Pennsylvania’s Board of Education, Larry Wittig, has been permanently banned from US Olympic sports for sexual misconduct involving a minor.

Enrollment at Pennsylvania’s state universities once again took a downward tumble for the ninth consecutive year, dropping by 2.6% from last year.

Over 1,000 Philly students displaced by building, issues including exposed asbestos, could soon learn where they’ll attend school.

Both schools proposed as alternates for the 1,000 students being relocated by the School District of Philadelphia because of asbestos have also been found to contain asbestos.

The Philadelphia School District has spent over $100 million getting rid of the toxic substance.

Students from Benjamin Franklin High School and Science Leadership Academy have already missed eight days due to construction delays and asbestos.

The Philadelphia School District boasts about increasing attendance rates. But at Edison High School, some students are swiping in, then cutting class.

No matter how scary, office hours are a huge factor in a student's success. Not only in college, but even after — in the workforce and in life.

A 2018 ballot initiative allowed N.J. to borrow $500 million for schools, with $100 million for lead remediation. No money has gone out, two legislators say.

Ronnie C. Williams is jailed on 19 felony sex charges involving two minor boys. He can stay on the Colonial School Board until his case is resolved.

Lawmakers passed a bill in 2018 that added a student and a teacher to the state board in non-voting roles. The student must be in 11th or 12th grade.

The training provides a glimpse of how Pa. schools could change if armed teachers become a new normal in classrooms.

Pennsylvania has started to modernize its science curriculum, including a focus on climate change.

The School District of Philadelphia says students attending the climate strike on Friday will be marked as absent, unlike in New York.