Education

The district hopes to replace 4% of its bus fleet with electric buses every year, eventually bringing the total to 20% electric.

Last year, Richard Gordon, who is now the principal of Paul Robeson High School for Human Services in West Philadelphia, was named the National Principal of the Year.

Along with the trauma and isolation of this past year, some students also found a new, and urgent, sense of community.

The judge reversed a Pa. Human Relations Commission finding that barred the district from using imagery including negative Native American stereotypes.

Wingard, a West Chester native, will be the first Black president in the university’s 137-year history.

GOP leaders and Gov. Wolf are again at odds over dueling visions of “school reform.” Lawmakers say the pandemic has only raised the stakes.

Hallahan was the first all-girls Catholic School in the U.S., opening its doors in 1901.

Parents in Council Rock and Central Bucks are divided over decisions this week that buck CDC guidance to end mask mandates in schools.

Universal Audenreid’s renewal comes with stiff stipulations in ‘surrender clause’

Superintendent William Hite praised the class of 2021 for its resilience in the face of COVID-19 and its many, rippling disruptions.

A group called Police-Free CSD is working with the school board to recraft the memorandum of understanding with the local police department.

Black and Latino students are far less likely to qualify for admission to the district’s most selective schools and far more likely to be suspended.

The policy grew out of necessity — very few students this spring have taken or will take the state test due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The district released a proposed schedule this week that would move some high school start times to an hour or two earlier, some starting at 7 or 7:30 a.m.

According to a new study, taxpayers are, in essence, funding racehorses at three times the rate they are investing in students in state universities.