Education
The presence of school resource officers, sometimes called school police, comes with tradeoffs for Black students according to a new report.
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Fear, distrust, and an ethics office in chaos erode Penn State’s post-Sandusky reforms
An investigation of the Pa. university revealed widespread distrust in misconduct reporting systems and that the ethics office fell into chaos.
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Mapping last year’s partial survey lets you see where each school stands compared to the rest.
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Students in shortchanged Pennsylvania school districts plug away while lawmakers dither over funding
By pursuing funding equity in court, financially challenged Pennsylvania districts are following a well-traveled school reform path.
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Now hiring: Hundreds of job seekers flood School District of Philadelphia job fair
The district is hoping to fill 1,000 vacancies before the start of the new school year.
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Student loan forgiveness is on the way for more than 800,000 borrowers
The move will erase $39 billion in federal student loan debt.
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You could still be eligible for student loan forgiveness under this plan
"[It] has the potential to massively change student loan repayment in our country as we know it," says Dominique Baker, an associate professor of education policy at SMU.
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Philly school gets new name: Marian Anderson Neighborhood Academy
When students at the Chester A. Arthur School researched the namesake of their institution, they began the process of changing the name to reflect "who we are as a school".
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Impasse on funding for Pennsylvania universities could mean higher tuition
The state government approached two weeks without full spending authority on Tuesday. Funding for Penn State, the University of Pittsburgh and Temple is in limbo.
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Rutgers tuition is going up, along with room and board
The university raised tuition following deals with several unions and after receiving more state funding.
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Northwestern fires coach Pat Fitzgerald amid hazing scandal
Northwestern President Michael Schill says the culture within Fitzgerald's program was “broken” in some ways.
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New Jersey charter schools seek equal treatment to fund their buildings
Charter schools are public schools in the Garden State, except when it comes to funding buildings.
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Listen 5:36Kathy Carpenter was a prolific athlete in high school and college. Now she’s fighting for better treatment of transgender youth in sports.
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Cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania face rule changes under a Democrat-backed House bill
The bill passed 122 to 81 on Friday, with all Democrats voting for it, joined by 20 Republicans.
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