Pennsylvania Education

Going virtual for two weeks would allow the virus to work its way through anyone who was infected over the holidays, they say.

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.

A new Pennridge School District policy limiting student access to books and resources related to gender identity has ignited a battle over civil rights.

The Democratic governor said the legislation “politicizes what is being taught in our schools."

A kindergarten teacher and athletic director testified Wednesday in a landmark trial over Pennsylvania’s system for funding public education.

District spokesperson says the 18 linked cases are connected to several sports teams and a club working on a production.

Neither the state nor any school district in Pennsylvania require the COVID-19 vaccination to attend school.

At least five school districts in the Philadelphia suburbs are no longer requiring face masks to be worn by students and staff.

At Panther Valley Elementary in the heart of coal country, students struggle to learn in a leaky school building where needs run deep.

Pennsylvania schoolchildren may soon be attending classes unmasked under a state Supreme Court ruling throwing out the Wolf administration’s statewide mandate.

The two sides are set to argue their respective positions before the justices Wednesday in Philadelphia.

Residents waited hours to speak in support of diversity, equity, and inclusion, responding to transphobic and antisemitic remarks at a Nov. 9 board meeting.

The state’s former deputy secretary of K-12 education took the stand in a long-awaited trial over Pennsylvania’s system for funding public education.

Eighteen men incarcerated at SCI Phoenix said they see their donation as a small way to help disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, from the inside.

The music education organization has given away thousands of instruments to schoolchildren out of its Center City storage unit.