Education

Act 1 is a property tax relief bill passed by the Pennsylvania legislature in 2006 and amended in 2011. ...

Pennsylvania’s academically gifted students can go unchallenged and unfulfilled in public and private schools, but this fall they w ...

Summer vacation has already started for many teens across Pennsylvania, but legislators are hoping to put them to work soon. Offic ...

A bipartisan Pennsylvania commission unanimously recommended a new school funding formula Thursday that would account for several student ...

Changes at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Northwest Philadelphia are rankling many in the  community. Pat Pomroy, cu ...

The district’s budget for the 2014-15 school year is roughly $2.6 billion. The SRC and Superintendent William Hite h ...

Sometimes art is a vehicle for sharing an idea with others. Other times, the act of making it shows you something about yourself. ...

The school district of Philadelphia has announced that all schools will dismiss early at noon Tuesday due to excessive heat expected. ...

The use of tests as a public school graduation requirement beginning with Pennsylvania’s Class of 2017 is meeting resistance in the ...

The day before the deadline in mid-June, the commission said they needed more time to come up with recommendations for a new formula to d ...

Testing might be over for Pennsylvania students this year, but debate about how one of the state’s standardized tests should change ...

The debate over how to fund Pennsylvania’s schools is heating up as the governor and lawmakers face a June 30 budget deadline. The ...

Philadelphia’s City Council gave initial approval to a slate of tax increases and asset sales to support the cash-strapped city sch ...

The mother of a fourth-grader with medical needs at Lingelbach Elementary school in Philadelphia says private agency nurses did not work ...

A new brief details how complicated it could get to help students graduate who can’t pass those exams. Pennsylvania students ...