The Pennsylvania secretary of education is speaking out about school safety after a myriad of school threats across the Midstate within the last week. Pedro Rivera, Pennsylvania secretary of education,… Read More
Escalating their fight over the Pennsylvania congressional map imposed by the state Supreme Court, Republicans are preparing at least two separate legal challenges in federal court seeking to block the… Read More
Six days after a gunman murdered 17 students and adults at a Florida school, Pennsylvania lawmakers introduced 11 bills aimed at preventing similar mass shootings. Allentown Morning Call, Feb. 20,… Read More
The map of congressional districts imposed by Pennsylvania’s high court for the state’s 2018 elections will set off a new legal battle, reconfigure perhaps dozens of campaigns and give Democrats… Read More
Across the country, teachers are grappling with how their roles have expanded, from educator and counselor to bodyguard and protector. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Feb. 20, 2018 Full story
Providing a safe environment for students has become as much a concern to school officials these days as educating them. PennLive.com, Feb. 15, 2018 Full story
Over the next four days, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has promised to fix a problem with partisan gerrymandering of the state’s 18 congressional districts that, in a Feb. 7 opinion,… Read More
President Donald Trump is calling for a focus on mental health and school safety in response to shootings like the one that took 17 lives in Florida, but his budget… Read More
Could anyone have stopped this? That’s one of the biggest questions for schools and educators as the nation takes in the facts of the shooting in Parkland, Fla., that has left… Read More
Overall, 59% of rural high school grads — white and nonwhite, at every income level — go to college the subsequent fall. That’s a lower proportion than the 62% of… Read More