Laura Benshoff

A Chester County judge has scrapped a money-saving attempt by the Chester-Upland School District to merge the administration of its distr ...

A new report finds that Pennsylvania ranks 41st nationally, lagging behind New Jersey, Delaware, 37 other states and the District of Colu ...

In the wake of two charter schools closing last month in the middle of the school year, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission Monday ...

On any given night, about a third of Center City’s homeless — about 100 people — sleep in the concourse under Philadelp ...

Children who have experienced adversity can develop a host of developmental or behavioral challenges. The same goes for infants. N ...

Quaris Carter is not your typical undergraduate student. At 38, Carter lives in a halfway home and has taken some drastic measures to go ...

As police departments come under fire for their use of force – and the need to accurately assess and diffuse encounters with people wit ...

As of 2014, the Affordable Care Act mandates for the first time that insurance plans on the health care exchange, as well as Medicaid, mu ...

New Jersey schools reported a 9 percent decrease in bullying incidents for the 2013-2014 school year, according to a state Department of ...

North Philadelphia’s Wakisha charter school is closing its doors this Friday, only the second charter school in Philadelphia histor ...

For the first time, Philadelphia’s high school selection application — used by about 60 percent of district students to apply ...

On Nov. 16, Brett Downes was living on the street and hadn’t seen his probation officer in months. That’s the day he decided ...