Education

In his first major policy announcement since winning election, Philadelphia Mayor-elect Jim Kenney formalized a campaign promise to creat ...

Pediatricians prescribe many things, but a prescription for books may surprise parents. Research shows many parents don’t re ...

Does Pennsylvania’s school rating system make the grade? In a recent ...

The Philadelphia School Reform Commission hosted a marathon meeting Thursday night featuring a slate of nearly 70 public speakers. The bu ...

Caitlyn Bordon, a senior at Millersville University, thought she was hearing firecrackers or distant thunder, but it would turn out to be ...

For many Philadelphia families, the city’s special admissions magnet schools are key resources that keep them from moving out of to ...

Philadelphia Schools Superintendent William Hite intends to present a new plan for covering teacher vacancies after months of dissatisfac ...

Some of Gov. Tom Wolf’s friends in organized labor are making some noise about the lack of a Marcellus Shale drilling tax in the em ...

Fourteen potential Philadelphia charter operators submitted applications for proposed new schools by the November 15 deadline.  That ...

Without local revenue options, school districts could be left without the money they need. Tiny preschoolers and K-12 school stude ...

After a scare Tuesday, leaders in the Pennsylvania Capitol said that the framework of a state budget agreement is still intact. Th ...

Sources in the Pennsylvania Capitol say that the framework reached Monday for a state budget agreement includes a $400 million increase t ...

The war against heroin has enlisted new recruits. Three Bucks County school districts added naloxone (also known by the band-name Narcan) ...

What if you found out you weren’t really who you thought you were? A West Chester University project is using DNA to unearth ...

The results of Tuesday’s Pennsylvania Supreme Court election could have wide-ranging implications for a number of high-profile case ...