Public Education

A constitutional change before Pennsylvania voters could lower property taxes and shake up school funding. Or it could do nothing at all.

A woman who lost her daughter in the Connecticut elementary school massacre still steels herself to tell the story. She does so to help others prepare for the next tragedy.

Days after negotiations to balance Pennsylvania's late budget collapsed completely, lawmakers, the governor, and their staffers are still trading barbs.

Pa. budget impasse has put funding for Pennsylvania’s state-related universities in jeopardy. Without it, in-state students will likely see a tuition spike.

In a decision that could eventually shake Pennsylvania’s educational landscape, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a lawsu ...

Every state in the U.S. was required to submit a proposal to the federal government by last week on how it will comply with the new feder ...

Every state in the U.S. was required to submit a proposal to the federal government by last week on how it will comply with the new feder ...

A new report finds that teachers in traditional public schools are almost three times as likely to be chronically absent as teachers in c ...

For years in Pennsylvania, school funding coming from state government was criticized as being irrational, unpredictable, and too-tied to ...

A new study finds that expanding the charter school sector in Pennsylvania creates a significant toll on traditional public school system ...

What’s the point of public school? To foster academic and critical thinking skills? To prepare students for the workforce? A ...

What’s the point of public school? To foster academic and critical thinking skills? To prepare students for the workforce? A ...

Nearly two months after the state’s budget deadline, lawmakers still haven’t reached a consensus on how to pay for the spendi ...

Part four of our Ontario series

It’s early February, and Savannah Zayas is just four months away from proving the world wrong. When she became pregnant in middl ...