Education

Less than a month after Upper Darby's outspoken police superintendent proposed arming teachers, the local school board passed a resolution saying it won't back the idea.

A shortage of physics teachers limits physics-taking, which limits the number of physics teachers

LaVerne Harmon’s elevation to the highest post at the nearly 50-year-old New Castle-based school was formalized Thursday during an inauguration ceremony at the Chase Center.

The lawsuit challenging Pa.’s school-funding scheme continued its slow climb through the legal system with oral arguments before the Commonwealth Court in Philadelphia.

A bipartisan group of state senators is plotting another attempt at legislation that has become something of a white whale in Pennsylvani ...

In February, a divided Christina school board approved the framework of a partnership with the Carney administration to consolidate five high-poverty, low-performing schools.

We are nearing that tipping point where women no longer feel isolated or lonely. We want to make it “normal” for women to choose engineering.

"All I can say to you is keep going, keep fighting, keep marching, keep mobilizing," U.S. Sen. Bob Casey tells high-schoolers calling for changes in gun law.

A struggling charter high school founded six years ago to prepare students for careers in public safety is getting help from the Colonial School District.

Could you teach computer class without a computer?

Kenney says funding the school district is critical, but council members aren't thrilled about his plan to hike property taxes.

As promised, Kenney's proposal would cover the school district's budget gap. The question now is how City Council members and taxpayers will react.

Planners hope a reimagined Bordentown School would recruit students from parts of the state that send large numbers of minorities to youth prison.

“It has been a gift to bear close witness to the truest of public servants,” Jimenez wrote.

When it comes to making schools safer, Delaware Gov. John Carney says teaching kids how to deal with the stress of life is an important element.