Education

Legislation to expand SEED scholarship availability could help more Delaware students earn degrees at community colleges.

Reginald Streater was picked by Mayor Jim Kenney to sit on Philadelphia’s Board of Education, one of three new board members to join in December.

Delaware’s public health director stressed a small percentage of post-shot infections should be expected because the vaccine isn’t 100% effective.

The all-male singing group is considered an unofficial ambassador of the Ivy League school, even as it excluded women’s voices.

The announcement comes as the district invites students in grades 6-9 back for in-person classes a few days a week starting May 10.

The dashboard has information on the number of tests performed, positive cases in schools, as well as cases confirmed off-site that have been reported to the district.

District officials say the summer classes will help students “narrow achievement gaps” after almost 15 months of virtual learning.

In the months since Floyd's killing in Minneapolis, educators say they've heard a demand from students for fuller Black history lessons beyond what was already offered.

The visit came on the heels of Superintendent William Hite’s announcement Monday that schools would open for third to fifth graders who elect to return starting on April 26.

As a result, a significant number of remaining, in-person school days could be dedicated to testing — which is required by the federal government.

Delaware State University students must be vaccinated before returning to campus. An in-person graduation ceremony is planned this spring.

The reckoning at Southern is being revisited in the wake of the killings last month in Atlanta of six Asian women and two others in what is being investigated as a hate crime.

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner says Gov. Wolf’s latest education funding proposal amounts to “the kind of anti-crime legislation that works.”

The Hope Center at Temple University released the results of a yearlong survey finding a majority of college students cannot afford basic life necessities.

Activists, including students, teachers, and community members, want the universities to contribute 40% of the property taxes they don't pay to the district.