Maddie Hanna

Groups like Delco Unplugged and Wait Until 8th are asking parents to delay giving kids smartphones, pushing back against what they say is a crushing social pressure around technology and social media.

Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman said it was "time to look at that formula," signaling that education funding is also a sticking point in reaching a budget deal.

The Quakertown student alleged her rights were violated because she had to run against a trans student from Plymouth Whitemarsh High School.

Lawyers say affluent parents who can afford to hire them, and who are dissatisfied with their child's IEP, are more likely to sue a school district than poor parents.

Memphis Street, a charter school based in Port Richmond, is reviewing its legal options and still plans to reopen in the fall, a spokesperson said.

President Donald Trump's administration is withholding more than $6 billion in education funding nationwide. New Jersey and other states also joined the lawsuit challenging the funding cuts.

The cuts have left school districts in the Philadelphia area in limbo after they already approved budgets relying on that funding.

The Delaware County district, which won a landmark lawsuit over inadequate school funding in 2023, says new state money for poorer districts isn't coming fast enough.

Teacher Gabrielle McDaniel, who said she's being fired, taught in the autistic support classroom at Jamison Elementary where a whistleblower reported students were mistreated.

Educators criticized the state's list, which was supposed to offer resources to help Pennsylvania schools give more structured reading lessons.

Members of the MENASA club at Harriton High School said they'd invited a Syrian refugee to speak but the talk was changed after some parents complained the speaker had expressed antisemitic views.

Republican lawmakers held a hearing as state budget negotiations pick up, including debate over school funding.

If approved, the measure would eventually cost the average taxpayer $54 a month, according to district officials.

The mailer comes amid a heated campaign for the Lower Merion school board, as nine candidates on the Democratic ballot vie for four spots to advance to the November general election.

Nine candidates are on the Democratic primary ballot next week, competing to appear on the November general election ballot for just four open school board seats.

Underfunded districts like William Penn and Pottstown are facing budget cuts and shortfalls and some say increases in state aid aren't coming quickly enough.

The amount was less than Becky Cartee-Haring and Dawn Marinello said they were owed by the district in back pay.

Omar Alshogre spoke at the school Monday in an event that was moved from the evening to lunchtime and limited to students after parents questioned the event.

District officials put Robert Freiling and Christine Trawinski on leave, after placing Superintendent Steven Yanni on leave in the wake of special education abuse findings at Jamison Elementary.

Steven Yanni was placed on leave in the wake of a report finding the district failed to adequately investigate abuse of special education students at Jamison Elementary School.