K-12

Educators tell NPR that the stress of teaching through the pandemic has affected their health and their personal lives.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney’s 2021 education budget priorities include college funding and additional support for community schools.

Teaching young learners in the pandemic has been challenging for many educators, but those instructing English language learners virtually face even steeper obstacles.

The campaign launches amid Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposal for a $1.35 billion increase to the state’s K-12 education funding.

A director and alumnus of America’s wealthiest boarding school claims he had to sue the institution to see how it spends the funds it receives from sales of Hershey bars.

The district said the program is meant to build intergenerational relationships between police and Black and Latino students, but any student can volunteer.

Reginald Streater was picked by Mayor Jim Kenney to sit on Philadelphia’s Board of Education, one of three new board members to join in December.

The announcement comes as the district invites students in grades 6-9 back for in-person classes a few days a week starting May 10.

The dashboard has information on the number of tests performed, positive cases in schools, as well as cases confirmed off-site that have been reported to the district.

District officials say the summer classes will help students “narrow achievement gaps” after almost 15 months of virtual learning.

In the months since Floyd's killing in Minneapolis, educators say they've heard a demand from students for fuller Black history lessons beyond what was already offered.

The visit came on the heels of Superintendent William Hite’s announcement Monday that schools would open for third to fifth graders who elect to return starting on April 26.

As a result, a significant number of remaining, in-person school days could be dedicated to testing — which is required by the federal government.

The reckoning at Southern is being revisited in the wake of the killings last month in Atlanta of six Asian women and two others in what is being investigated as a hate crime.

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner says Gov. Wolf’s latest education funding proposal amounts to “the kind of anti-crime legislation that works.”