Education

Some Philly-area college students returned to in-person class last week amid public health experts’ concerns about spreading COVID on campus.

A group of suburban Philadelphia parents has started a political action committee aimed at getting students back into school buildings.

CHOP doctors, pointing to evidence in Rhode Island, said going to school in-person may actually reduce a child’s risk of catching the coronavirus.

The city health department considers nurses the top priority for vaccination of the tens of thousands of school staffers in Philadelphia.

In a letter obtained by WHYY, the union president said it would be “foolish” to reopen schools before all staff are vaccinated.

Health Commissioner Thomas Farley recommended Philadelphia teachers who live in the surrounding suburbs try to get the vaccine in their respective areas.

The fifth annual MLK Voice 4 Youth contest shifted to an online competition this year, but that didn’t stifle the passion contestants brought to their speeches.

Changes aim to strengthen the panel by giving it more independence and ensuring that the curriculum it helps develop is used more widely in New Jersey schools.

Five decades later after Martin Luther King’s assassination, the neighborhood school is fighting to provide a high-quality education.

The 600 students initially identified by the Philadelphia school district are mostly those with complex needs and are a subset of the 21,000 district students with IEPs.

Chancellor Daniel Greenstein said he was “ashamed to admit” he had not studied how the university system has historically perpetuated racial inequity.

Even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across Delaware, Gov. John Carney says schools have proven to be safe spaces for students and teachers.

Rethinking everything about how the board does business, including long-held practices, is the impetus for the board’s new “goals and guardrails” initiative.

Families attending schools in affluent areas were about as likely to choose in-person instruction as families attending schools in low-income neighborhoods.

Scrapping lesson plans, teachers became facilitators and sources for correcting misinformation.