Boy Found After Being Locked In School Stairwell For 9 Hours
David Fields, 13, didn't come home from school Thursday afternoon. After 9 hours of searching, he was found locked in a stairwell at Roosevelt Middle School in Philadelphia.
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David Fields, 13, didn't come home from school Thursday afternoon. After 9 hours of searching, he was found locked in a stairwell at Roosevelt Middle School in Philadelphia.
The district says it will run out of money to make payroll at the end of this month, and may eventually be forced to close the schools.
Recess and after school playtime at the M. Joan Pearson Elementary School in Delanco has been somewhat subdued this week after a fire destroyed the playground.
Third District Police got into the holiday spirit with a party for local elementary school kids.
"Best show ever!" said one seventh grader.
Some students at Germantown High School are just back from a trip to New Orleans, where they delivered a gift of handmade stained glass.
The What It Takes Foundation holds forums where professional African American men teach inner city boys what it takes to be successful. The group is using a tech-savvy way to create a mentoring program.
State lawmakers are again considering legislation that would require school districts in Pennsylvania to begin classes after Labor Day.
The Lower Merion School District says it will vigorously defend itself against another lawsuit related to last year's webcam spying scandal.
Gerald Dickens is in the United States to perform a one-man show of his great-great-grandfather's famous work, "A Christmas Carol."
The Peace Not Guns Caucus held its first annual "Have You Done It Yet" Awards Banquet at Yesha Banquet Hall on Thursday. The group honored students who decided to take control of their future.
The school terminated Symantha Hicks, a guidance counselor at the school, after she allegedly provided alcohol to two cadets last Saturday.
If you look up at a five-story building, that's the tallest dinosaur. You look across four school buses, that's the longest dinosaur. A pile of 50 elephants and you've got the heaviest dinosaur."
School officials at Father Judge High School were meeting on Wednesday with members of a company they've hired to see if they can determine what sickened between 150 and 200 people over the weekend.
Pennsylvania's lone remaining chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association insists its members will continue with these memorials, even as their national association in Hawaii is disbanding.
The nominee for the last vacancy on Philadelphia's School Reform Commission sailed through her confirmation hearing in Harrisburg yesterday.
Students of Father Judge High School in Northeast Philadelphia will have Wednesday off.
Controller Alan Butkovitz provided reporters with a video -- complete with creepy music -- depicting eight vacant schools littered with drug paraphernalia and trash.
Kelley Hodge is a former chief of the Philadelphia District Attorney's juvenile unit. But now, she's Philadelphia's safe schools advocate.
Wyncote Academy's anti-bullying program, which received national attention last month in Washington, will be open to the public Friday and Saturday.
The former Philadelphia schools chief called Mayor Nutter's criticism of her unemployment claim "disingenuous" because, she says, the mayor and the School Reform Commission signed off on her buyout deal.
A letter sent by Penn State's president to tens of thousands of new and prospective students at the university acknowledges the turmoil raised by the alleged child sex abuse scandal but calls on them to show the high moral character that Penn State would rather be known for.
A group of students at South Philadelphia High School has taken an unusual approach to combatting the interracial violence that rocked the school two years ago: they wrote a play about it.
This comes after taxpayers funded a $905,000 buyout when she was shown the door in August.
Three boys are facing charges stemming from a reported sex assault at a Philadelphia elementary school.
