school systems

GREENSBURG — Schools in Pennsylvania can keep their school grounds litter free with Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful’s Litter Free School Zone Program. The...

HARRISBURG — Lawyers for the districts that won a landmark school funding court case in Pennsylvania say that Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal fall...

The four head coaches for New York and Pennsylvania’s girls and boys basketball teams have been chosen for the 2023 Big 30 Senior Classic. Coaching fo...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing a hefty an increase in aid to Pennsylvania’s schools in his first budget delivered Tuesday to the Leg...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a two-part series on the rise of girls wrestling. Today, a look at how that growth has impacted local programs.)...

Leaders of small school districts are eagerly awaiting next week’s first budget proposal from Gov. Josh Shapiro. Will he deliver a significant investm...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Faced with a nationwide educator shortage,Pennsylvaniaought to up its minimum starting salary for teachers to $60,000, the presiden...

It’s great to make the top half of a list. If you’re talking about public school test scores or high net income, that’s the place to be. Even on a mor...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a two-part series on girls wrestling. Today, the roots of the sport’s general rise in popularity. Tomorrow, a loo...

During the Cold War, the East German secret police developed a well-earned reputation as being more repressive than the Russian KGB. The Stasi, as the...

ST MARYS — Three local high school basketball teams saw their seasons come to an end Monday, as the Ridgway girls, Smethport boys and Johnsonburg boys...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Aaron Straus, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s new creative engineering coordinator, will tell you he has the coolest job on...

BUTLER — An Elk County resident who stays in a 28-foot camper near Butler County Community College’s main campus to avoid a round-trip commute of four...

PART 6: Continuing the story of Dr. Frederick Young, today we have more to share. “Although my dad’s (photography) business was very busy in the Fall ...

Talk about a kid who had a great story when his teachers asked him what he did over Super Bowl weekend. What unfolded for 12-year-old Colt Matz, a sev...

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 212 (VFW) and Frances Sherman Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary (VFWA) announce the Reba Y. Maben & William “Mr. Bi...

Regarding the recent advice column “Living with Children” by John Kirk Rosemond, I was appalled by the answer that Rosemond gave to a parent who was s...

Commonwealth Court Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer’s historic decision on school funding, issued Wednesday, honors the state constitution’s clear intent to...

CHICAGO (AP) — At age 103, Sister Jean awakes daily at 5 a.m. She sits up quickly to avoid going to sleep again — “I’ve got too much to do,” she says....

HARRISBURG — Following 44 weeks of training, the 34th class of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Ross Leffler School of Conservation has graduated an...