Pennsylvania Education

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.

The Philadelphia Board of Education sought public input on the district’s next leader. Nearly 6,000 people weighed in.

Demonstrators called on SEPTA and the School District of Philadelphia to do more to make sure students are safe, and to support them when they are victimized.

Pennsylvania’s school mask mandate was set to expire on Saturday. Now, the state Supreme Court said the mandate can stay in place while a lawsuit plays out.

The landmark case could change the way Pennsylvania funds its public schools.

At a town hall Tuesday, Philly students shared what they want to see in their schools and from the next superintendent, amid a search for the district’s new leader.

With the application deadline for Philly’s magnet schools looming, some parents say the district’s revamped admissions process is causing children “immense pain and stress.”

A key question in the case before Commonwealth Court is what, exactly, a “thorough and efficient” system of education entails.

So far, school reopenings in Pennsylvania haven’t triggered a wave of COVID cases or hospitalizations.

Plaintiffs argue the state has so badly underfunded public schools and failed to close spending gaps among districts that it violates its own constitution.

Hite’s decade-long tenure tells us a lot about the evolution of the school reform movement, shifts in Philly politics, and the merits of an above-the-fray leadership style.

The plaintiffs — six school districts, four parents, and two statewide organizations — argue state funding for schools is inadequate, inequitable, and illegal.