Education

The School District of Philadelphia is planning a top-to-bottom effort to confront racism that includes teacher training and curriculum changes. Read more here.

School District of Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite isn’t giving much thought to President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold funds from schools that don't bring all students back to classrooms this fall. Read more here.

Philadelphia parents have a long list of questions over how the school district will clean and sanitize buildings for any return to schools in the fall. The district answered some, but not all, of parents' concerns at an online town hall Wednesday. Read more here.

The Philadelphia School District is outlining how it plans to keep students and staff safe from the coronavirus this fall. Parents learned about the district health plan at an online session Tuesday. Read more here.

Please Touch Museum volunteers stuffed and distributed about 1,000 summer discovery backpacks, full of toys, activity books and supplies, to keep them busy during a socially distant summer and on track of their grade level. Read more here.

School districts across the country are still figuring out how to safely reopen in the fall while also trying to account for different degrees of student learning loss, as they may have regressed with online instruction during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more here.

As coronavirus cases continue to spike across the country, many schools are grappling with what reopening will look like when school starts back up again in the fall.

The first day of school in Philadelphia this fall could be delayed, as the school district prepares for a return to classes in a pandemic. Read more here.

A group of Moorestown High School alumni are calling for a change in the school because they say issues of race and diversity are sorely lacking when it comes to curriculum. Read more here.

Results from a new School District of Philadelphia survey shows teachers and parents prefer a back-to-school plan that has students attending classes in person on alternating days. The findings differ from teachers union survey results released on Monday. Read more here.