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A meningitis vaccine not yet licensed for use in the U.S. will be made available to nearly 6,000 students starting Dec. 9 at Princeton University, which had previously said it was considering the move.
Now that many of the bugs in the process have been worked out, Philadelphia health commissioner Don Schwartz says it's safe to encourage enrollees to sign up.
The 2014 Rhodes scholars announced Sunday include two college seniors from southeastern Pennsylvania.
The School Reform Commission has ordered its lawyer to investigate why dozens of top-ranking Philadelphia School District leaders were hired over the last two years without public notification, in violation of district policy and the Sunshine Act.
Controversial rules requiring Pennsylvania high school students to pass proficiency tests to graduate are nearly official. But opponents vow to continue their fight against the Keystone Exams.
The beauty salon inside Germantown Recovery Community is the focus of a documentary film on overcoming addiction, trauma, and abuse.
In an email to the campus community, Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey says that the student developed symptoms Wednesday night.
Sophomore Nadia Watson says her lunch at Kensington Business High School was not only unappealing -- it was unrecognizable. "We had to ask them what it was."
The School Reform Commission last night failed to renew the charters of two schools founded by a woman who is on trial on fraud charges.
There are 15 online "cyber" charters in Pennsylvania now, and six operators have applied to the state education department to run new ones.
The first- and second-year medical students knocked on the doors of Bethume Elementary School last year after hearing that the school did not have a science teacher.
The Philadelphia Zoo is welcoming a handful of cute new babies.
The mission of the Rendell Center is to promote civic education and engagement.
A new Tiger Woods Learning Center is open at a North Philadelphia school. But it's not teaching golf.
Some Philadelphia school students were getting a chance to learn about careers from actual professionals.
Councilmembers complained to school district CFO Matthew Stanski (left) that the district keeps them in the dark each year about budget woes until the last possible minute.
On Saturday, St. Joe's Prep Hawks won their first city football championship since 1977.
Since 2005, the school has been offering full-rides to Rutgers University to its high school students who maintain a 3.5 GPA.
A reënactor dressed as Abraham Lincoln, right down to the stovepipe hat, addressed a small crowd of students and tourists from the steps of the Constitution Center's cavernous lobby.
The School Reform Commission held a meeting Monday night that gave teachers and community members a chance to work through an exercise in how to get the most students into better-performing schools.
Princeton University officials have decided to give students a meningitis vaccine that hasn't been approved in the U.S. in order to stop the spread of the disease.
The study takes data from the 2011-12 school year from more than 500 school districts across the Commonwealth.
The Radnor Township School District is partnering with a local restaurant to serve up some serious sandwiches.
Moorestown Friends School in New Jersey celebrates 130 years of kindergarten this year.
A New Jersey state senate committee has approved a measure that would require schools throughout the state to teach the benefits and dangers involved in using social media.
