Education

As students around the globe participate in Earth Day, a new NPR/Ipsos poll finds 55% of teachers don't teach or talk about climate change.

More than 200 people showed up to the latest school board meeting on Monday night as the board passed a “biological sex” policy for bathrooms and locker room use.

The school board put the idea on hold in January pending the outcome of lawsuits from parents and teachers.

The faculty union at Rutgers has avoided a strike, but adjunct professors are still waiting for a contract.

'The minute we vote on this, we open ourselves up to a lawsuit,' one school board member said.

The proposed funding is not tied directly to objective measures of student need, nor to a teacher's cost of living.

"Whenever I find something is going to discourage me, I would just pray, and then believe that everything is going to be all right."

Mastery Charter Schools suspended a student after she had a sexual encounter in a school auditorium. But her guardian now says it was rape, and she’s suing.

A new bill in the Statehouse would require every school district in Pennsylvania to test for radon and inform parents of the results.

Patti Saylor's son, Ethan, died after an encounter with law enforcement when he was 26. She believes the incident could have been prevented with better disabilities training.

Delaware State University has partnered with the African Peer Review Mechanism to help bridge the gap between Africa and its “Sixth Region.”

In-state tuition and fees for Pennsylvania’s public four-year universities are among the highest in the nation.

The suit holds two Pa. departments responsible for constitutional violations and other infractions against children sent to the prominent Delaware County reform school.

What was once limited to small-scale side hustles has mushroomed into so-called essay mills on the Internet, becoming a global industry.

New workers for electric power companies and other utilities like natural gas and water are in demand across Pennsylvania and the rest of the country.