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About 200,000 Pennsylvania teachers, school staff and bus drivers will be eligible to receive the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, starting this week,...

Pa. teachers will be prioritized for vaccines, Gov. Wolf announces Maddie Hanna, The Philadelphia Inquirer © JESSICA GRIFFIN/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Teacher Michele Matza gives a high five to student Mershon Stevenson through a clear divider at Belmont Charter School in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania educators will soon be eligible for vaccination under a new plan announced by Gov. Tom Wolf. Tens of thousands of Pennsylvania teachers and school staff will be eligible to be ...

Protects taxpayers by saving $229 million a year Increases transparency of for-profit companies that run many charter schools The urgent need to hold charter schools and cyber charter schools accountable has increased as enrollment and taxpayer costs have swelled during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governor Tom Wolf today unveiled a common sense and fair bipartisan plan that protects students, parents, and taxpayers. The plan holds low-performing charter schools accountable to improve the quality of ...

By Mark Guydish mguydish@timesleader.com The Wyoming Seminary campus in Kingston is seen in a file photo. Wyoming Seminary recently sent out a notice announcing ‘we have been able to have the majority of our faculty/staff vaccinated’ against COVID-19. Times Leader file photo �� Listen to this Wyoming Seminary recently sent out a notice announcing “we have been able to have the majority of our faculty/staff vaccinated” against COVID-19. Considering teachers are listed in the phase 1...

pcrossley@sungazette.com Revealed in Gov. Tom Wolf’s budget agenda this week was a proposal to establish a statewide cyber charter school tuition rate aimed at reducing the costs to districts for students attending those schools, which has local superintendents saying it’s a start, and state cyber charter schools calling it “callously wrong.” Under Wolf’s proposal, cyber charter school tuition would be established at $9,500. Currently, cyber charter schools in the state charge betwe...

BELLWOOD — Bellwood-Antis School Board members voted Tuesday to continue all remote learning through Jan. 11. The district began the school year with five days a week face-to-face instruction — one of only a few in the area to do so. But on Nov. 24, after COVID-19 cases started to surface in the district, the board decided to move to full remote learning through Friday. Board members were split on plans to continue with remote learning, but the motion passed by a 5-4 margin. Voting yes were...

Somehow the act of handwriting words and sentences to communicate is fading from our culture. Gone are the days of letters to and from grandparents. Instead, we FaceTime or, more recently, Zoom. Gone are the days of mailing a postcard to friends while you were on vacation (which, admittedly, often did not arrive until after you were home). Instead, we take a selfie with the mauve beach scene behind us and text it instantly. While electronic forms of communication are certainly fast, something g...