Education

The declines many school districts reported last year have continued, an NPR investigation finds. What educators don't know is where those students have gone.

Neither the state nor any school district in Pennsylvania require the COVID-19 vaccination to attend school.

At Panther Valley Elementary in the heart of coal country, students struggle to learn in a leaky school building where needs run deep.

This year, Olga Rosario is focused on re-establishing classroom norms, routines, and expectations. It’s a challenge.

Identifying individuals who may have been overlooked for child care jobs in the past is one of several ways providers are trying to solve unprecedented staffing shortages.

“We could pretend to chalk it up to a strategy,” said a digital marketing coordinator, “but it really was just an accident.”

With remote learning, many parents took on the role of part-time teacher to their children.

More than half of Pennsylvania 3- and 4-year-olds don’t have access to public preschool programs, even with slow, steady state funding increases over the past several years

Superintendent Hite said the change was a step towards becoming more “equitable and inclusive.”

Removals still happen and disparities based on race, gender, and disability status persist. Some advocates fear the pandemic could stall or reverse recent gains.

Eric Pryor, current president of Harlem School of the Arts, will lead PAFA through the school’s transition from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Students and community organizers say there needs to be more transparency about the number of mental health professionals and police officers in schools.

Some Black parents believe teaching the history of anti-Black racism would help children understand the harm behind it and where it originated.

The state’s former deputy secretary of K-12 education took the stand in a long-awaited trial over Pennsylvania’s system for funding public education.

The Red Clay School District could vote this month on a plan to protect the privacy of transgender students, allowing them the experience of all school activities.