2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (430+ words) The requirement takes effect at the start of the 2027-28 school year. Shapiro signed House Bill 1505 ceremonially alongside Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis. It had already been incorporated into the state's 2026-27 budget earlier this year. WHYY reported that HB 1505 directs the state…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (76+ words) SCRANTON, LACKWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Shapiro Administration has awarded $123.4 million to the Scranton School District as part of a three year progress plan to fund schools around Pennsylvania, according to a press release by the administration. SCRANTON, LACKWANNA COUNTY…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (464+ words) SCRANTON — Jennifer Telesco sees the impact of increased state funding on the faces of students as they achieve their goals and embrace new opportunities. The former first grade teacher at John Adams Elementary School — who now serves as president of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (486+ words) The School District of Philadelphia will launch a program this school year that pays community members, including parents, to serve as ambassadors tasked with boosting attendance and lowering dropout rates at struggling schools. Few details about the Parent and Community…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (495+ words) Philadelphia students returned to school this week facing new limits on smartphone use, as Pennsylvania moved to require districts to restrict phone access during the school day. The state-level push gives individual schools the latitude to choose their own enforcement…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (758+ words) The School District of Philadelphia is rolling out a digital hall pass system to all schools for the 2026-27 academic year, giving administrators a new tool to monitor student movement and, the district hopes, prevent fights on campus. The system runs…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1562+ words) HARRISBURG — Two weeks before the start of classes at his all-boys charter school near Pittsburgh, founder Darryl Canady received an email from his local public school district saying it wouldn’t provide traditional bus rides to his students this year. Instead,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (758+ words) Shelby Cloak, a junior political science major at Pitt-Greensburg, is returning to class soon as one of the Pitt branch campus students who now qualify for free tuition. Though she and her mother previously only had to foot the bill…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (769+ words) Thirty-one states have joined or announced plans to participate. Pennsylvania’s public school students could benefit from a new federal education tax credit program next year, but the state has yet to opt into it. Thirty-one others have done so or…...