Public Education

Superintendents say vulnerable children in Pa. lose critical links to the outside world and caring adults when their parents enroll them in cyber charters.

A former chairman of Pennsylvania’s Board of Education, Larry Wittig, has been permanently banned from US Olympic sports for sexual misconduct involving a minor.

The training provides a glimpse of how Pa. schools could change if armed teachers become a new normal in classrooms.

Pennsylvania did not increase funding for the operating budgets of community colleges this year. Advocates say the pressure on low-income students has grown unsustainable.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said Tuesday he would use his executive power to hold charters to “the same ethical and transparency standards of public schools.”

Through a Right-to-Know request, Keystone Crossroads obtained summaries of what schools across the state plan to purchase with an unprecedented level of state grant funding.

Amid ongoing debate about guns in Pa. schools, some school administrators have been quietly armed for nearly a year, a Keystone Crossroads investigation has found.

A flurry of hotly-debated education proposals have been decided in this year’s Pennsylvania budget. Here are the latest updates on six major issues.

Wolf talked about the state’s most pressing issues in the midst of budget season during a live Q&A show hosted by Keystone Crossroads.

The school board put the idea on hold in January pending the outcome of lawsuits from parents and teachers.

The proposed funding is not tied directly to objective measures of student need, nor to a teacher's cost of living.

A new bill in the Statehouse would require every school district in Pennsylvania to test for radon and inform parents of the results.

School board members in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are pushing for higher standards for charter schools. They say the state appeals board undercuts their efforts.

The fight to boost education funding brings lots of people together — teachers, superintendents, politi ...

Even as school districts across the country have become more aware of how trauma can affect learning, there’s been little concrete policy on the state or federal level.