Education

Khalid Mumin, who has been superintendent of the Lower Merion School district in suburban Philadelphia for a little over a year, will be nominated after Shapiro is inaugurated

Pennridge students share insight on their experience with a policy up for vote in Central Bucks School District that may censor classroom decor and conversations.

New Jersey requires the Board of Education to create statewide information literacy standards, teaching students to assess a variety of sources.

Starting with the class of 2023, Pa. students must graduate through one of five new “pathways,” two of which rely on scores from mandatory end-of-course Keystone exams.

The messages, one of which instructed children not to wear masks, were painted on the sidewalks outside Meredith and Nebinger Elementary Schools in South Philly.

The lawsuit, which the parties first filed in 2014, argues that the state’s funding of K-12 education is inadequate to the point that it violates the state’s constitution.

The mask mandates follow rising COVID, flu, and RSV cases across the Delaware Valley.

The state will distribute up to $50,000 each to 33 career and technical centers and two school districts that were selected through a competitive grant process.

Band selection is highly competitive with participants selected more than a year in advance. About 80 bands apply each year for 13 slots.

Philly public schools won’t open Friday due to predicted bad weather and learning will happen online only, district officials said.

Superintendent Tony Watlington announced six new sub-offices in the district’s central office and several new hires, including a new chief financial officer.

A new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT has thrilled the Internet with its superhuman abilities to solve math problems, churn out college essays and write papers.

Philadelphia school board members Reginald Streater and Mallory Fix-Lopez were elected Thursday night to serve one-year terms as president and vice president of the board.

Less than 30% of third graders in Philly public schools scored proficient or higher in reading last school year. A new program challenges students to read more at home.

Student loan borrowers were left confused Tuesday morning after receiving an email reversing course on their student debt relief applications.