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"We're here today, in the midst of one of the most challenging school years in American history," Miguel Cardona said in opening remarks to the Senate education committee

Tamara Russell, aka Revive P.O.C., hit the streets of Philadelphia to hear what residents think of the school district’s back-to-school plan.

The announcement comes amid calls by Philly officials and advocates to do more for school children during a school year turned upside down.

Wolf’s fiscal plan is winning him plaudits from education advocates but few friends in the GOP-controlled legislature, who see a tax increase as a “non-starter.”

Pictures of flimsy-looking window fans for the School District of Philadelphia angered many. Experts, however, say they can be effective — if used properly.

Under the plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1, Wolf will ask the Republican-controlled Legislature for what could approach $2 billion extra for public schools.

Community members will have a chance to weigh in on the new name.

Delaware’s northernmost and most populous county hasn’t reassessed the true value of property since 1983. The lawsuit said the omission has hurt low-income students.

Officials said there was no need to call a “snow day" and cancel classes since instruction is taking place digitally.

No formal vote on the matter was taken Thursday, as the board granted the district authority over the summer to reconvene classroom learning.

As the student enrollment plummeted in some places and surged in others, ‘hold harmless’ has added to the wide inequities that exist in Pennsylvania’s public schools.

The new plan calls for pre-K through grade 2 students to return on Feb. 22. But there are signs that the city’s teachers union will oppose.

Superintendent Katrina McCombs plans to close four neighborhood schools. Camden Education Association President Keith Benson hopes to appeal.

After five months of in-person instruction in more than 100 private schools in Philadelphia, health officials report nine outbreaks of COVID-19.

Pennsylvania’s school choice community has deep ties to conservative donors and politicians. Will that coalition hold together after the fractures of the Trump era?