Education

Outside of the newly renovated Spring Creek Elementary School.

Education

Short-staffed SCASD program leaves hundreds of parents scrambling to find after-school care for their children for the fall

Logan Groeneveld-Meijer

The State College Area School District is hopeful it can fix its low staffing levels of its CEEL program for the 2022-23 school year.

Broadcast Journalism student Anan Hussein was the only in-person student for Photojournalism with Professor Will Yurman on October 8, 2020. The rest of the class attended on Zoom. On some occasions, none of the class's 13 students were in person.

Education

Penn State's In-Person Class Sizes Are Shrinking, Students Say

In July, Penn State president Eric Barron announced that nearly half of the university’s classes this fall would have some in-person component. But since…

Bryan Peasley and his mom, Debbie at a Penn State football game.

Education

Deadline Nears For SCASD Students To Choose A School Format For The Fall

The State College Area School District will be offering three different forms of learning to its students for the coming fall semester. Families have…

Education

Take Note: Education Prof. On How K-12 School Closures Increased Inequities

Emily Reddy

Pre-K-12 schools in Pennsylvania were closed for the last three months of the school year that just ended, due to coronavirus concerns. Gov. Tom Wolf told…

Penn State announced Monday that both the Child Care Center at Hort Woods and the Bennett Family Childcare Center at University Park will reopen on Aug. 19.

Education

Penn State To Hold Both Upcoming Virtual Town Hall Meetings On Monday To Avoid Juneteenth

Penn State announced Monday it will move a virtual town hall on the return to in-person instruction for the fall semester because it fell on Juneteenth.…

Lacresha Berry talks about her most recent show, "Tubman," with WPSU.

Arts and Entertainment

Take Note: Lacresha Berry On Bringing Vulnerabilities Into Her Art And Her One Woman Show, "Tubman"

Cheraine Stanford

Lacresha Berry is a singer, actor, writer and educator living in Queens, New York. Her work infuses her life experiences into a broader, historical…

Crime and Law Enforcement

Judge Throws Out Spanier Conviction, Pa. Attorney General Will Appeal

Kristine Allen

Updated Wednesday, 12:11pmPa. Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced today he intends to appeal the judge's decision to overturn Spanier's…

'Schooling Narratives' Mini-Documentary Highlights Experiences Of Students Of Color

Adison Godfrey

Since 2014, Wideline Seraphin and Ana Díaz have been collecting narratives from members of marginalized communities about their experiences living in…

Tamaqua parent Rebecca Kowalski criticizes the school board's new policy that would authorize the training and arming of some teachers and staff.

Politics and Government

In Pa. Coal Country, Debate Flares Over Arming Teachers To Prevent School Shootings

Nearly three hours into a special meeting about a policy that would ask some staff at the Tamaqua Area School District to carry guns, parent Liz Pinkey…

Sharif El-Mekki, principal of Mastery Shoemaker Elementary in Philadelphia, founded a group that seeks to boost the number of black male educators. Here pictured in front of his school with two students.

Education

More Than Half Of Pa. Public Schools Do Not Have A Teacher Of Color

More than 60 years after the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, an analysis of state data shows persistently stark disparities between the racial…