City school district to test drinking water for lead

He joined the Haverford School in 1998 as its eighth headmaster and, until he retired in 2013, championed servant leadership, compassion, and enhanced student engagement.

Gov. Shapiro is expected to sign a bill banning cell phones from the start of the school day to the end. A number of area high schools currently allow kids to use phones at lunch and in hallways.

Temple plans to reopen the 27-room mansion at the corner of Broad and Jefferson streets in early 2028 as a community engagement center. It has been closed since 1995.

The K-1 Center is set to house all of the Rose Tree Media School District’s kindergarten and first grade students.

Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. testified before the committee in September after reports of antisemitism surfaced.

“It was a little bit spectacular to see this huge horse flying through the air,” she told the Courier-Post in 1998. “The motion was beautiful. A young girl brave enough to ride the horse added to it.”

Recommendations will be discussed during upcoming school board policy committee meetings, Interim Superintendent Chris McGinley said. And all high school students will receive safety trainings.

As Temple President John Fry seeks to reverse troubling enrollment trends, he established a task force to focus on transfer students after he arrived. Transfer enrollment is up 14% this year.

Renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump is part of the legal team representing the family of Ronald Harmon, who struck his head on a curb after an officer used a stun gun on his back, the suit says.

She earned a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a doctorate in architecture and art history, and joined the growing art history department at Swarthmore in 1966

President Kerry Sautner said the school board was "committed to taking an honest look at what we can learn" after the resignation announcement of Frank Ranelli, the latest superintendent to step down.

The measure passed by the House would require all Pennsylvania schools to ban cell phones from the start of the school day to the end. Gov. Shapiro has voiced support for a ban.

The William Penn School District said it would resume some of its high school fall sports teams: cheer, boys' soccer, boys' and girls' cross-county, volleyball, and girls' tennis.

Since 2018, Brian T. Edwards has been the dean of Tulane’s school of liberal arts, its largest of nine schools. He's a Middle East and North African Studies scholar.

Why did colleges create the option to apply "Early Decision" and who benefits?

As the nation's worst measles outbreak spreads, the West Chester Area School District is among those facing declining vaccination rates — and challenges in preparing.

After a student walkout, the William Penn district said Friday that it's "finalizing an agreement with an investigator" to review an alleged incident that led to the suspension of all sports programs.

Nadia Baxter, a South Jersey mother, alleges that a Monroe Township officer assaulted her in the foyer at Williamstown High School in 2024. Her lawsuit says there hasn't been any accountability since.

The rape allegedly happened on Saturday around 2:30 a.m. at University Village. The housing complex is located on North 10th Street between Cecil B. Moore and West Montgomery Avenues.

Frost is likely in the city, and it might not rain again for the rest of the month.

Villanova is looking out for itself, and that's fine. But Kevin Willard's reaction to accurate reporting burned long-established goodwill within the Philadelphia basketball community.

The team said the ceremony now will be centered on the season’s top matchups, including those televised nationally or featuring a rival.

The prosecution, a rare Department of Justice criminal case against a former employee, revisits a tangled and peculiar saga that roiled the final weeks of the 2020 race.

The prime minister said that a swath of Hebron, where the attack occurred, would be cleared of residents and demolished.

Oleshky is a southern Ukrainian city that has been occupied by Russia since it invaded in 2022 and whose citizens are cut off from food and medical aid.