Public Education

Pa.'s 20-year-old charter law has been criticized by every side of the political aisle. A new report from Public Citizens for Children and Youth offers ideas for change.

Titusville’s story is echoed across many towns in Pennsylvania, where a solid middle-class workforce was once sustained by no more than a high school degree.

A new analysis found wealthy individuals and high-profit businesses in Pennsylvania and nine other states may make money when they donate to private school scholarships.

These new reports — heavy with charts and computations — will likely inform arguments made for and against property tax abolition.

The state Senate Education Committee is making a mid-session personnel change — switching out one Republican senator for another.

Senate Bill 2 would create education savings accounts — a similar concept to private school vouchers.

The legislation was spurred by a cafeteria worker in Western Pennsylvania who objected to a policy in the Canon-McMillan School District.

This wasn’t just any governance shake up. It was a bet that state government could and should help fix struggling school districts.

The much-debated School Reform Commission will likely be replaced by a nine-member school board appointed by Philadelphia's mayor.

Supporters of the Keystone Exams are grappling with the prospect that mandated statewide graduation standards are not to be.

Pennsylvania voters agreed to a ballot measure that will amend the constitution to let municipalities stop charging property taxes.

Gov. Tom Wolf has allowed a bill to become law that weakens teacher seniority protections and gives school districts more flexibility in their rationale for making layoffs.

When Pennsylvanians go to the polls next Tuesday, they’ll have a rare opportunity to vote to change the state constitution.

The Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would alter a wide range of state policies related to public education — including the weakening of seniority protections

Public education advocates gathered Wednesday in Southeastern Pennsylvania to celebrate a recent state Su ...