Education

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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 ...

A 15-member commission created to produce an objective formula to distribute state aid to Pennsylvania’s public schools is not goin ...

Too often we hear school officials, experts, advocates, and yes, even journalists throw around terms like “block grants” and ...

Yoga balls have helped one Delaware County teacher become a finalist for this year’s Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year. Pam G ...

For many kids, summer means swims at the pool and a reprieve from homework. But for many others, it can mean their first taste of employm ...

A new survey says former Penn State President Rodney Erickson was the highest-paid public college president in fiscal year 2014, with nea ...

These two essays were written by students in Katherine Cohen’s 7th-grade English class at Greenberg Elementary in Northeast Philade ...