Kids

Many families remain underconnected. They find themselves able to access the internet and the increasing number of tasks that rely on it with only sporadic success.

A group organized a virtual book drive so the community can buy titles the district has removed or has plans to remove from school libraries and lessons.

Vaccinations among the elementary school set surged after the shots were introduced in the fall, but the numbers have crept up slowly since then.

Plaintiffs say Pennsylvania’s school funding model is inadequate and inequitable, and that the state discriminates against students in poor districts.

The Philadelphia school district has struggled to keep schools open and staffed during a record-high surge of COVID cases.

Teenage photographers were mentored by immigration photojournalist Ada Trillo to express their own lives through pictures.

Since mid-December, the hospitalization rate in these youngest kids has surged to more than 4 in 100,000 children, up from 2.5 per 100,000.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has agreed, recommending that younger teens — and those 16 and 17 — should get a Pfizer booster five months after their last sho

As the pandemic slides into a fifth school semester, there is less appetite than ever among U.S. leaders for schools to go remote.

Boosters already are recommended for everyone 16 and older, and federal regulators decided they’re also warranted for 12- to 15-year-olds once enough time has passed.

Return decisions should be more based on “an issue of staffing and operational issues,” not the severity of the virus, the Policy Lab director says.

During the week of Dec. 21-27, an average of 334 children 17 and under were admitted per day to hospitals with the coronavirus, a 58% increase from the week before.

School districts across the region are trying to navigate the current COVID-19 wave, sometimes drawing different conclusions about what's best for students and staff.