Local educators are always adapting to the world around them. One area they have had to adapt to the most in recent years is the use of artificial intelligence in learnin...
Top Tier Federal Credit Union, which has branches in Butler and Cranberry townships, is renewing its annual scholarship program, which awards five $1,000 scholarships to ...
Butler Area School District will make more investments into agricultural education thanks to a youth agriculture grant from the state.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agri...
KARNS CITY — Karns City Area School District has approved the razing of the historic Sugarcreek Elementary School building.
The school board approved acceptance of a bid...
KARNS CITY — Karns City Area School District moved another step closer to razing the former Sugarcreek Elementary School building as bids were opened and are now under co...
On the local, statewide and national fronts, education has made the headlines repeatedly in 2025.
In Butler County, nine school districts have seen a mix of changes in c...
Slippery Rock University’s performing arts center was recently given a recognition from the American Institute of Architects.
The performing arts center was awarded a ce...
Two Seneca Valley School District students were recognized by Gov. Josh Shapiro and first lady Lori Shapiro for “exceptional commitment to community service.”
Kelsey Sch...
Property owner expresses desire to purchase instead
Karns City Area School District is preparing to demolish the former Sugarcreek Elementary School next year for new ath...
Students at McQuistion Elementary School got into the holiday spirit Thursday, Dec. 18.
More than 80 first-grade students participated in making “gingerbread” houses out ...
Just one day after Dassa McKinney Elementary School in Moniteau School District moved to remote learning due to mechanical and water issues, district officials reported t...
Charges against a former Penn Christian Academy teacher were held for court at a preliminary hearing held Monday, Dec. 15, in Harmar Township.
Sean M. Dicer, 53, of Brack...
Slippery Rock University has recently made efforts to promote an educational path with high career demand nationally and abroad: aviation.
SRU said in a university news ...
Savannah Kerns, an 11-year-old sixth-grader, struggles with social anxiety. Crowds overwhelm her. “I feel like if I get something wrong, people laugh at me,” she said.
K...
The following Butler County schools are operating on adjusted schedules for Monday, Dec. 15, 2025:
Butler Area School District - School Closed
Freeport Area School Dist...
Butler County Community College heads into 2026 without having to worry about contract negotiations with faculty members.
The community college’s board of trustees appro...
Butler County school officials have long taken issue with how their districts’ tax dollars were bring directed away to cyber charter schools in large quantities.
Now, th...
KARNS CITY — Karns City Area School District appointed an architecture firm and construction manager for a future junior/senior high school renovation project and approve...
Nearly 80 students who expect to graduate in May from Butler County Community College’s associate degree career program in registered nursing will present to the public a...
BUTLER TWP — The Butler Area School Board voted unanimously on Wednesday, Dec. 3, to advance a policy that would formally allow therapy dogs onto district property.
“We w...
Four new and returning members of the Knoch school board were officially sworn in as part of the board’s reorganization meeting on Wednesday night, Dec. 3.
The four membe...
The following Butler County schools are operating on adjusted schedules for Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025:
Butler Area School District - Closed
Freeport Area School District - C...
PHILADELPHIA — Biology professor Jody Hey was lecturing on human evolution one recent day at Temple University.
His students vigorously took notes by hand in paper notebo...
Slippery Rock Area School District has hired a new business manager who will take over the role in early 2026.
District school board members voted on Monday, Nov. 24, to ...
The Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV is hosting its third annual sensory-friendly early intervention family night with Santa Claus Friday, Dec. 5.
The evening, which will ...
JEFFERSON TWP — In the brand new Brayman Innovation Center, a highlight of Knoch School District’s newly renovated high school, students were shown something different fr...
Grove City Area School District announced Forker Field Stadium will be getting a face-lift.
The district’s board of directors approved bids at its Nov. 10 meeting, “mark...
