Public Education

District spokesperson says the 18 linked cases are connected to several sports teams and a club working on a production.

Neither the state nor any school district in Pennsylvania require the COVID-19 vaccination to attend school.

At least five school districts in the Philadelphia suburbs are no longer requiring face masks to be worn by students and staff.

At Panther Valley Elementary in the heart of coal country, students struggle to learn in a leaky school building where needs run deep.

Pennsylvania schoolchildren may soon be attending classes unmasked under a state Supreme Court ruling throwing out the Wolf administration’s statewide mandate.

The two sides are set to argue their respective positions before the justices Wednesday in Philadelphia.

Residents waited hours to speak in support of diversity, equity, and inclusion, responding to transphobic and antisemitic remarks at a Nov. 9 board meeting.

The state’s former deputy secretary of K-12 education took the stand in a long-awaited trial over Pennsylvania’s system for funding public education.

Eighteen men incarcerated at SCI Phoenix said they see their donation as a small way to help disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, from the inside.

The music education organization has given away thousands of instruments to schoolchildren out of its Center City storage unit.

The Philadelphia Board of Education sought public input on the district’s next leader. Nearly 6,000 people weighed in.

Demonstrators called on SEPTA and the School District of Philadelphia to do more to make sure students are safe, and to support them when they are victimized.

Pennsylvania’s school mask mandate was set to expire on Saturday. Now, the state Supreme Court said the mandate can stay in place while a lawsuit plays out.

The landmark case could change the way Pennsylvania funds its public schools.

At a town hall Tuesday, Philly students shared what they want to see in their schools and from the next superintendent, amid a search for the district’s new leader.