Education

The Ivy League school joins other prestigious colleges, including UPenn, in raising income limits for free tuition and other supports.

Union members are pushing for higher wages, improved staffing and free public transit for students.

The Children First report, released once a decade, highlights how mental health, violence, poverty and underfunding affects Philly schools and students.

The Philadelphia School District runs the farm, which has ambitious plans to train for careers beyond “cows and plows.”

“Students must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.

No transgender girls are on girls’ school teams, but the complaint seeks to have the state follow President Trump’s executive order, or pay the price.

St. Georges High School opens Delaware's largest Sean’s room, a student-centered mental health space offering peer support and resources to foster well-being and community.

Jameson has been serving as Penn's interim president after the university's former president, Liz Magill, resigned in December 2023.

The union members’ action comes after more than a year of unsuccessful contract talks.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the layoffs were intended to eliminate “bureaucratic bloat.” But she added this was the first step to a full agency shut down.

Overbrook students spend recess in a bare-bones concrete yard. Now, they’re working with Trust for Public Land to reimagine the space.

Philadelphia education leaders are raising the alarm as a massive Education Department staffing cut threatens federal programs.

College administrators say any reduction in aid is detrimental to the services they offer. Officials with the governor’s office say they are centering students in funding.

In the weeks since he took office, the Trump administration already has cut the department's staff in half and overhauled much of the department’s work.

After Tuesday’s layoffs, the Education Department’s staff will sit at roughly half of its previous 4,100, the agency said.