Public Education

Advocates worry that school districts will begin offering limited support to special education students. They’re especially worried about families waiving their rights.

Philadelphia is slowly moving school online. We spoke with families to hear about their hopes for this massive educational experiment.

After closing down “indefinitely,” Pennsylvania has made it official: K-12 schools are closed for the rest of the academic year. Here’s what’s next.

Prior to Monday’s announcement, Pennsylvania’s school-closure order extended through Monday, April 6.

When schools shuttered suddenly, teachers faced a question: What do I do now? Many of them got creative to stay in-sync with students.

Philly says it’s moving toward online education as fast as it can — buying thousands of devices for students who need them.

Some schools are running into a major legal hurdle in their attempts to offer online instruction during the current closures.

There are clear indications that Pa. might cancel standardized tests this year for students. What kind of impact could that have?

According to the city, “unexpected staff shortages” prevented some of the 50 city rec centers from opening that had been planned as daytime activity hubs.

Where low-wage immigrant labor undergirds the local economy, stress is put on other institutions — especially public schools, which face a mandate to educate all.

The Bridesburg school has a large deficit, a CEO on leave, and some sort of problem related to the identification of special education students.

It claims the district received test results from environmental studies, starting in at least 2016, that made officials aware of the issues, but they never informed students,

Trump and his allies are pushing hard for programs that divert tax dollars to private schools. And they’re centering the argument in Pennsylvania.

Crews in the Scranton School District are conducting air quality tests and making emergency repairs Thursday.

The governor says he’s planning to include the pitch in next week’s budget address, along with several other lead and asbestos-remediation plans.