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HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania General Assembly members from both chambers and both parties on Wednesday heralded the introduction of a mental health pilot...

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...

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...

Just days after declaring pregnancy a sacrament, the Supreme Court announced a bold ruling in favor of performative Christianity. Never mind this tire...

According to information from the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, the state Senate Education Committee is ready to vote on House Bill 2169, wh...

Three consecutive chopped-up school years have had the expected effect on student learning. New research shows that growing numbers of kids are fallin...

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...

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...

SCRANTON (AP) — Public school curriculums are legitimate matters of public interest, or at least of parental interest, and they clearly are public inf...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, there has been a huge increase in cyber charter school enrollment across the country, including in Pennsylvania, wher...

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...

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 ...

SMETHPORT — The Smethport Area School Board adopted a resolution Tuesday supporting Senate Bill 34 and House Bill 528 regarding school districts provi...

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 ...

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...