Legislation aimed at restoring arrest powers for school police that was inadvertently taken away in a school safety law enacted last summer won passage in the Senate on Wednesday. A spokesman for… Read More
One in four children in America have experienced a significant traumatic event, but there’s a dearth of mental health supports available. In the Lehigh Valley, there’s a three-month wait for… Read More
Governor Tom Wolf announced today that his administration will make a $10 million investment in Pennsylvania’s children through a workforce development program that will help early childhood workers gain valuable… Read More
The Pennsylvania Association of Student Councils (PASC) is looking to showcase your school’s best events! How does your school give back to the community? How do you get the ENTIRE… Read More
Elkin Elementary is in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, where children step over discarded needles and see people injecting drugs on a daily basis. Schools at the epicenter of the city’s opioid… Read More
Regan’s bill, which the Senate Education Committee passed on Monday, is modeled after a law that took effect on September 1 in Texas. It states that the cost of the… Read More
When state lawmakers return to session on Monday, they will begin work on correcting a mistake they made last summer that stripped school police officers of their longheld arrest powers. PennLive,… Read More
Advocates have long debated if online schools can replicate the academic enrichment and socialization of traditional schools. In Pennsylvania, that debate has come to the foreground. Gov. Tom Wolf is… Read More
The Department of Education has proposed several key changes to its massive survey that collects data from the nation’s public schools on a wide range of civil rights issues. NPR,… Read More
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is likely to recommend cutting or eliminating school property taxes by raising state income and sales taxes, the group’s leader said Thursday.Click here for full… Read More