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.

Eighteen men incarcerated at SCI Phoenix said they see their donation as a small way to help disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, from the inside.

The music education organization has given away thousands of instruments to schoolchildren out of its Center City storage unit.

The Philadelphia Board of Education sought public input on the district’s next leader. Nearly 6,000 people weighed in.

“No parent should have to bury their 10-year old,” said the girl's mother. “I’m still in shock."

Pennsylvania’s school mask mandate was set to expire on Saturday. Now, the state Supreme Court said the mandate can stay in place while a lawsuit plays out.

At a town hall Tuesday, Philly students shared what they want to see in their schools and from the next superintendent, amid a search for the district’s new leader.

School districts around the country have been announcing extra days off to address staff shortages and mental health. For some, the unpredictability feels like a betrayal.

With the application deadline for Philly’s magnet schools looming, some parents say the district’s revamped admissions process is causing children “immense pain and stress.”

Plaintiffs say thousands of Pennsylvania students are being denied their basic right to a quality education because of inadequate and unfairly distributed state funds.

So far, school reopenings in Pennsylvania haven’t triggered a wave of COVID cases or hospitalizations.

On Monday, an agreement with protesters at one of the nation's top historically Black universities had been reached, the school announced in a tweet.

Hite’s decade-long tenure tells us a lot about the evolution of the school reform movement, shifts in Philly politics, and the merits of an above-the-fray leadership style.