Public Education

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.

The standardized tests scores of chronically absent students will no longer count against teachers, schools, and the state.

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale released a report calling for the state to get rid of its high school standardized test and replace it with the SAT or ACT.

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.

Gov. Tom Wolf is vetoing budget-season legislation to substantially ramp up taxpayer support for private and religious schools in Pennsylvania.

The study says the overall quality of Pa. charter schools is brought down by poor performing cybers. But some brick and mortar charters in cities are a bright spot.

A one-time cash subsidy would remediate the worst conditions in Pa. public schools — with most of the money going to Philadelphia.

More than 200 people showed up to the latest school board meeting on Monday night as the board passed a “biological sex” policy for bathrooms and locker room use.

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 ...