Bans on the devices were on the rise before the COVID-19 pandemic. Since schools reopened, struggles with student behavior and mental health have given some schools even more reason to restrict access…. Read More
District and school Facebook posts that include students’ photos and names may violate privacy by allowing third parties to access data about the children and teens, according to a report released Wednesday… Read More
The Franklin County Career and Technology Center is the latest Pennsylvania school district to join a legal uprising against the vaping company JUUL in federal court. Click here for full… Read More
Schools across the country are dealing with a teacher shortage, but here at home they also are struggling to hire substitutes and support staff. The National Education Association last month released… Read More
Pittsburgh-area districts report that while they aren’t dealing with the large teacher shortages, they are short on a number of other positions. And while districts say that the shortages haven’t… Read More
It will take systemic changes to K-12 schools to get students back on track after the historic academic losses brought on by the pandemic, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona… Read More
Pennsylvania has been awarded $34.6 million for 89 new clean school buses in 11 school districts. This is the first round of funding from the EPA Clean School Bus Program,… Read More
The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) recently published a second edition of its Model K-12 Threat Assessment Procedures & Guidelines, which were first adopted by the School Safety… Read More
Results for students who took the test in spring 2022 — the first main National Assessment of Educational Progress administration for these grades since the pandemic began — show the… Read More
The 2022 results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress exams were released Monday, revealing that both Pennsylvania and New Jersey students saw declines in math and reading, often at… Read More