Stories tagged: "public schools"
Republicans refuse to take action on bills that would make Pennsylvania schools healthier, safer, and more inclusive.
Right now, almost all students in the commonwealth are eligible for a free meal, but that ends with the school year and has not been extended. Many think it should.
Justices said that Pennsylvania law gives the Department of Health broad authority to protect public health, but it doesn't permit the department "to act by whim in all matters concerning disease" without specific regulations that empower a mask mandate.
Gov. Wolf said the bill, which would have required links or titles for every textbook and course summaries to be posted on district websites, "politicizes what is being taught in our schools.”
The ruling comes a week after Commonwealth Court threw out the statewide mask mandate for school and child care facilities.
A 15-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy are charged as adults and two other teenagers face juvenile charges in the plan to attack Dunmore High School on April 20, 2024.
School transportation plans are “just one of the many ways we’re seeing inequities playing out in this pandemic.”