Books can provide readers with places of connection, build empathy, and overcome division. Banning books accomplished the opposite.
Emails retrieved from RTK requests reveal the extent and scope of board members’ attempts to push more right-wing indoctrination into classrooms.
AFT Pennsylvania President Arthur Steinberg says voucher programs are “harmful,” “anti-public education,” and they “leave kids behind.”
Library books, a lawsuit, and Right-To-Know requests were blamed for the ever escalating legal bills, but the exact price tag remains a tightly guarded mystery.
Once again the Moms for Liberty school board majority continues to push its politically motivated agenda with its proposed athletics policy.
“The system’s failures are particularly placed upon the shoulders of low income children and children of color,” said Public Interest Law Center Senior Attorney Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg.
Buyer beware: Students are lab rats, teachers believed to be replaceable, and in the end the costs and risks of AI like Khanmigo may always outweigh its potential benefits for learning and teaching.
Despite Republican lawmakers’ attacks that DEI is part of some liberal “woke agenda,” these programs have been time-tested as changing campuses for the better and attracting more diverse student and faculty bodies.
Students who are taught a subpar, silly, and inaccurate curriculum are at a serious disadvantage in life. Their futures are being compromised.
Naomi is a Pennsbury High School graduate and rising junior at the University of Pittsburgh. She has written 21 articles for us so far, with more on the way.
Doylestown’s Olcay Ayata, a Turkish-American Muslim, feels unwelcome and unsafe — even as a citizen.
After covering weeks of abductions and disappearances of immigrants at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City starting on May 29, I remain stupefied that I am witnessing the harvesting of human beings in real time, writes photojournalist Michael Nigro.
Thankfully, there are brave faith leaders standing firmly in the breach, refusing to let the Bible and the church be hijacked by Christian Nationalists.
Environmentalists say that allowing the industry to drill in Pennsylvania’s part of the watershed would risk contaminating drinking water for some 15 million people with toxic chemicals.
