Kids

Wyoming Valley West School District, one of the poorest districts in the state as measured by per-pupil spending, is located in a former coal mining community in NE Pa.

Twenty states now require sexual abuse prevention education as early as preschool. Educators say it's up to adults to know the signs and symptoms of abuse.

Parents of young kids pick up their phones an average of almost 70 times a day — often to escape a stressful parenting moment.

The number of cases of children entering the foster care system due to parental drug use has more than doubled since 2000, according to research published this week

The specially designed Jake’s Place Delran, which opened Tuesday, could be the first of many more to come with the passage of a New Jersey state law.

A group of around 60 second graders planted seeds in May, and harvested them today. The food will be donated to Farmers Against Hunger.

Despite the backlash, new Mosquito devices are being installed at city playgrounds as part of major renovation projects.

Collaborative program aims to lower childhood obesity rates, stress and more with time outdoors.

VisionQuest wants to open a center that would house 60 unaccompanied immigrant teen boys. Why Philadelphia, immigrant advocates, and its own staff are pushing back.

In the first “Dear Akeem” video from the Broke in Philly collaboration, Akeem Dixon outlines summer activities and job opportunities for young people in the city.

Kindness is about more than sensing someone else's pain. It's also about wanting to do something about it — and then actually being helpful.

A Pennsylvania appeals court has stayed the opening of a contested immigrant youth facility in North Philadelphia.

Councilmember Helen Gym is on a mission to get the “sonic weapons” taken down.

Technology overuse ranked as the No. 1 fear of parents of teenagers in a national survey last year.

A bill in New Jersey would allow political candidates and elected officials to use campaign money to pay for child care.