Education

Amid ongoing debate about guns in Pa. schools, some school administrators have been quietly armed for nearly a year, a Keystone Crossroads investigation has found.

In neighborhoods with limited access to healthy foods, school gardens can help close the gap — for students and the wider community.

There are no national standards on how to teach about slavery, although it is often recommended as a topic in curriculum at the state and local levels.

Kindness is about more than sensing someone else's pain. It's also about wanting to do something about it — and then actually being helpful.

Some supporters of increased gun restrictions urged him to veto Senate Bill 621.

Cheyney University came out of the weekend with a pair of victories.

A flurry of hotly-debated education proposals have been decided in this year’s Pennsylvania budget. Here are the latest updates on six major issues.

Two Philadelphia public schools will move into a new building owned — and mostly financed by — Drexel University. Some worry it could spur gentrification.

Suburban Philadelphia communities are clashing with their districts over how their overcrowded schools should handle growing populations.

Many schools that benefit are located in the state’s wealthiest suburbs, where students have access to some of Pennsylvania’s highest-rated public schools.

Belmont Charter wants to buy a building it already rents from the School District of Philadelphia. It would be an unprecedented move, if approved.

A new study shows that many students enrolled in Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools are not getting a quality education.

Though there are guidelines around restraint and seclusion in schools, there are no federal laws governing how they can be used

On Wednesday, around a thousand activists took a trip to the Capitol to call for change to the fair funding formula.

Will author and artist Eric Carle's famously peckish creation be munching his way through some birthday cake?