education

SMETHPORT — Mara Ours, a junior at Smethport High School, is a proud member of the Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA). Recently, Ours went...

Susan H. Silvestri, who attended the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in the early 1970s and has been an active and loyal supporter of her alma ma...

KANE — Kindergarten registration packets for the 2025-26 school year are available now in Kane Area School District. Packets have been given to area p...

CARE for Children’s Rainbow Corner Preschool will begin new student registration Monday for the 2025-26 school year. Children who will be at least 3 y...

The Department of Education’s employee headcount fell by 13.9% between 2000 and 2024 but its spending increased by 749% during that time, according to...

HARRISBURG — A new analysis of cyber charter school funding offers a familiar recommendation: consider recalculating how the state pays to keep them o...

Journalism scholarships available for students, professionals BUFFALO, N.Y. — Greater Buffalo-area college students who are studying communications, a...

HARRISBURG — Education is the second largest spending area in the state’s budget after human services. For legislators on both sides of the aisle, the...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State Extension is seeking individuals and organizations to present at the 2025 Dive Deeper Summit for water educators, schedul...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro has tapped a former Beaver County superintendent to lead the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The Shapiro ad...

COUDERSPORT — Penn State Extension will offer the ServSafe Food Safety Manager course, which is aimed at restaurant and food service managers and othe...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — St. Bonaventure University has added a master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology to its portfolio of programs in the Dennis...

Several local students claimed top spots at the SkillsUSA Pennsylvania District 6 Competition held Jan. 30 and 31. Collecting first-place finishes and...

RIDGWAY — A comprehensive CROWNS Safety Training series designed specifically for individuals with intellectual disabilities (IDD) will be presented a...

KINDERGARTEN: We heard from an RTS reader about our recent column on kindergarten. Joe Posteraro said, “I’m 80 years old now and I would have started ...

Applications for scholarships through both the Elk County and McKean County community foundations are now open for high school seniors as well as non-...

HARRISBURG — Educators and families say the recent infusion of school funding from the state is helping. When evidence of that will show up in the met...

RIDGWAY — The Elk County Council on the Arts announces that Rowena Pruett of Ridgway Area High School is the winner of this region’s Poetry Out Loud c...

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — SUNY Jamestown Community College recently entered a partnership with CareerStep, an online educational organization that provides tr...

COUDERSPORT — Northern Pennsylvania Regional College (NPRC) Director of Workforce Development Nicole Zaun was recently selected to participate in the ...