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With school scheduled to open in two weeks, the local teachers union’s president Jerry Jordan called the delay “simply absurd.”

Emails from Bucks County’s health commissioner have been shared widely on social media over the last week, fueling an already heated debate over COVID safety plans in schools.

Masks? Vaccine mandates? An update on the changing Covid-19 restrictions in the Delaware Valley. Plus, a new model putting therapists in New Jersey public schools.

Less than a week before schools are set to reopen in Florida's Broward County, local union officials say three educators have died of complications from the coronavirus

A fast-growing school district in Middletown, Delaware reflects the nationwide lack of school bus drivers.

With 87% of students learning remotely or in a hybrid mix of online and in-person, it’s difficult to compare newly released test scores with prior years.

Gov. John Carney extended Delaware’s public health emergency, ordering students and teachers to mask up regardless of vaccine status.

New funding requirements will help Delaware students younger than third grade get the extra help they need to start their school careers.

The Montgomery County district is one of the latest to tweak its back-to-school plans, based on new recommendations from local and federal officials.

In a letter sent Monday, PFT union president Jerry Jordan says he supports a “negotiated” COVID-19 vaccine requirement for his members.

A lawyer representing a group of N.J. parents suing over school masking policies is vowing to fight Gov. Phil Murphy’s latest executive order to require them this fall.

N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy announced that students, faculty, staff, and visitors will be required to mask up when schools reopen in September.

District workers will also help families register their children for school and give parents info about COVID-19 mitigation efforts.

A summer literacy program has been expanded to rec centers to help kids learn in person, in their neighborhoods, after a year of virtual school.

The event, a collaboration between the School District of Philadelphia and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is part of an effort to get kids over 12 ready for classes.