News
Nov 03, 2022
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania General Assembly members from both chambers and both parties on Wednesday heralded the introduction of a mental health pilot...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 13, 2022
It’s odd: You’re having dinner with friends in a nice restaurant. One of them reaches for the breadsticks and carelessly elbows his water glass, swamp...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 07, 2022
It’s highly unlikely that anyone turns cartwheels when they pay their property taxes, but the idea that the money is going to the school up the street...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 30, 2022
Just days after declaring pregnancy a sacrament, the Supreme Court announced a bold ruling in favor of performative Christianity. Never mind this tire...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 30, 2022
According to information from the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, the state Senate Education Committee is ready to vote on House Bill 2169, wh...
Editorials
Mar 12, 2022
Three consecutive chopped-up school years have had the expected effect on student learning. New research shows that growing numbers of kids are fallin...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 07, 2022
This year’s standardized test scores for public school students came with the usual caveats from the state Department of Education to not consider the...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 05, 2022
I’m so old I can remember when people calling themselves “conservative” thought “cancel culture” was a bad thing. Oh wait, that was last week. More re...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 02, 2021
SCRANTON (AP) — Public school curriculums are legitimate matters of public interest, or at least of parental interest, and they clearly are public inf...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 10, 2020
Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, there has been a huge increase in cyber charter school enrollment across the country, including in Pennsylvania, wher...
High School, Local Sports, Sports
Aug 25, 2020
RIDGWAY — Schools in Elk, McKean, Potter and Cameron counties could be playing fall sports in a quasi-bubble, according to a press release from the Ri...
Bradford, Entertainment, Lifestyles
Aug 17, 2020
Q: Our nine-year-old has just learned he is not going back to school on schedule in the fall. Instead, he will be doing distance learning by computer ...
Local News
Apr 17, 2019
SMETHPORT — The Smethport Area School Board adopted a resolution Tuesday supporting Senate Bill 34 and House Bill 528 regarding school districts provi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 27, 2017
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, is paid not to tell the truth about school choice, and she deserves a raise. In a ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 19, 2017
The controversy over the nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education has been, if nothing else, clarifying. We now know that working to give p...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
