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Montgomery County billionaire Jeff Yass, a professional gambler turned powerful Wall Street trader, has long been a major donor to conservative causes in Pennsylvania.

The University of Delaware’s Project MUSIC helps elementary and middle school students connect to music and dance through online workshops.

The financially distressed Delco district, now in receivership, is on the cusp of being dismantled. Three charter groups have submitted proposals.

Climate activists and ecologists oppose the Lower Merion School District’s latest plan to build playing fields for its overcrowded middle schools.

The Cheltenham branch of NAACP’s Youth Leadership Committee went public with a video sharing stories of discrimination at Springfield Twp. High School.

When kids leave foster care they have to make a decision: A job, or college? A new scholarship program tries to tip the scales toward education.

District leaders say calls to Philly Hopeline, the crisis hotline launched a year ago, are getting longer due to losses from the pandemic, gun violence, and racial trauma.

The advocacy from superintendents comes as the financial pressure on districts has increased due to a significant boost in charter enrollment during the pandemic.

The board seems to have become functionally non-existent as important disputes between Pennsylvania school districts and charter schools are in limbo.

The charter network, which enrolls about 14,000 students, started hybrid learning back in March, with some starting in April.

Of the students who made it through four years at Parkway Middle College, 95% are graduating with both a high school diploma and an associate’s degree.

WHYY’s `Morning Edition’ host Jennifer Lynn discusses a Chalkbeat retrospective on the bias and violence that spurred a student boycott.

The current dispute stems from Tinker v. Des Moines, the Vietnam-era case of a high school in Des Moines, Iowa.

WHYY asked students from its Media Lab how they were feeling about the Chauvin verdict. Here are some of their responses.

The majority of the board voted to follow the recommendation of a hearing officer to not renew Universal Bluford and Universal Daroff schools.