Programs put teen students in workplace
LANCASTER - With a steady scrub with his cloth, 15-year-old Luis Cruz is proving not all learning takes place in the classroom. Cr...
CONNOQUENESSING - If brown recluse spiders were as big as the one lurking in the front hall of Connoquenessing Elementary School, most people would have reason to fear t...
BUTLER TWP - The Butler Golden Tornado Marching Band is planning for its eighth major event in eight years - a performance in this year's Fiesta Bowl in Phoenix, Ariz.
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Rural, science jobs get leeway
WASHINGTON - The nation's schools, under deadline to get a top teacher in every core class, have won some wiggle room in areas where the ta...
Butler students need good PSSAs to graduate
BUTLER TWP - Students in the Butler School District now will have to take the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment test mo...
BUTLER TWP - The Butler School District has lost more than $100,000 in revenue this year because of real estate tax appeals and exonerations.
That loss was reported Mond...
HARRISBURG - During last year's state education funding impasse, Gov. Ed Rendell was adamant that the Legislature fund programs to ensure Pennsylvania's youngest childre...
Repeat writing can be harmful
PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia School District is encouraging its teachers to use repetitive writing - copying "I will not hit John" 100 ti...
