Education category, Page 82
Franklin Regional plans lecture series on hot-button school issues
Franklin Regional officials are reaching out to parents and the community to engage them about hot-button issues facing today’s students: bullying, drugs and pitfalls of social media use. The Franklin Regional Parent and Community Lecture Series kicks off March 11 with an overview of the district’s bullying prevention strategy. It...
Penn Hills School District receives sizable School Safety and Security grant
Around 10% of state grants aimed at curbing violence in schools will go to entities in Allegheny County, according to the School Safety and Security Committee. The committee, established under the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency in 2018, announced Wednesday that $53.7 million is to be allocated to schools...
Monongahela native, Purdue president wants civics test as graduation requirement
Let’s hope they paid attention in high school civics. If students at Purdue University didn’t master civics back then, they might find themselves in a bit of a bind. Inside Higher Ed, a publication that follows higher education, is reporting Purdue President Mitch Daniels wants to make a passing grade...
North Hills gets good grades from parents on work-at-home snow days
The North Hills School District’s first use of a state program that lets kids work at home when school is cancelled because of weather or for other reasons was a success, according to a survey of district parents. The state Department of Education gave the district permission in November to...
Penn State says it has settled all claims with the family of Joe Paterno
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Following eight years of rocky relations in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, Pennsylvania State University has made peace with the family of Joe Paterno. The head of Penn State’s board of trustees announced Friday that the school had resolved all outstanding...
Gateway senior receives full 4-year scholarship to Saint Vincent College
A Gateway High School student received a four-year, full-ride academic scholarship to Saint Vincent College after being chosen as the winner of a competitive written exam with the school. Tadeusz Horomanski was one of 155 high school students who participated in the Wimmer Scholarship Exam in November. The students who...
Derry Area elementary gets 2nd annual nod for top student achievement, growth
Derry Area School District’s Grandview Elementary School, for the second year in a row, scored top points with the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Division of Federal Programs. Officials recently named Grandview among 94 Distinguished Title I schools in Pennsylvania for 2019, an honor the school also received in 2018. According...
Experts wonder if proposed scholarship requirements are realistic for recent grads
Gov. Tom Wolf has said his proposed Nellie Bly Scholarship could rescue schools in the State System and build the state’s workforce, but some experts doubt it is realistic — or even fair to students. For students to be eligible for a slice of the proposed $204 million scholarship fund...
Tom Wolf’s scholarship proposal targets low- and middle-income students at Pa. state schools
It’s a far cry from “free college for all” — or even “tuition-free public college” — but Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed Nellie Bly Scholarship echoes facets of those proposals. The idea for the new scholarship is included in Wolf’s state budget proposal. He said it would help low- and middle-income...
Charter school reform topic of debate at Pine-Richland board of supervisors meeting
The Pine-Richland board of supervisors discussed the issue of charter school reform at its February meeting and is expected to take an official stance on the topic next month. “This has been gaining a lot of attention (with the Pennsylvania School Board Association), and for very good reason,” school board...
State grant aims to align local education with employers’ expectations
If Franklin Regional teachers are going to prepare their students for the modern workplace, it only makes sense to find out what that workplace looks like and how its expectations align with the district’s curriculum. Staff members were given that opportunity, along with professional development training in college and career...
Trump used Philly girl’s story to attack ‘failing’ schools. But she’s at one of the city’s most desired charters
PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump turned a Philadelphia fourth grader into a poster child for the school-choice movement Tuesday when he told the nation thousands of students were “trapped in failing government schools” and announced that she was finally getting a scholarship to attend the school of her choice. But...
Pitt-Greensburg charity basketball game will raise money for United Way
The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania will benefit from Pitt-Greensburg’s 12th annual charity basketball game, set for Wednesday. Part of a tradition that has assisted various regional charities for more than a decade, the game that pits a team of students against another featuring faculty and staff will begin at...
Carnegie Mellon, Penn State students to compete in ‘Jeopardy!’ College Championship
Emma Farrell, a Carnegie Mellon University senior from Telford in southeastern Pennsylvania, will compete in the “Jeopardy!” College Championship in April. The 10-day special event airs from April 6-17. Fifteen students from across the country will compete for a $100,000 grand prize and a berth in the next edition of...
West Hempfield Elementary School recognized for Veterans Day programVideo
Teachers at West Hempfield Elementary School were awarded a plaque from AMVETS deeming their Veterans Day program excellent. The program drew several veterans — who were related to students — to the school for breakfast and a music show. “I was stunned,” said Rege Riley, former National Commander for AMVETS....
Seton Hill to offer RN to BSN program online
Seton Hill University is joining the growing list of colleges and universities offering online bachelor of science programs for registered nurses. Officials at the Greensburg private university said the new program will offer working professionals the ability to complete a bachelor’s degree in a flexible format. The move comes as...
Walls of Kiski Area High School covered in student-painted, historical muralsVideo
Students at Kiski Area High School don’t just hang their artwork on the walls. They paint the walls. As part of a mural project called “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words,” students have painted murals modeled on iconic artwork or images from history. The project started in 2011. “At...
Beating away the day: WCCC uses drum circle to help students handle stressVideo
The sound of drums on Tuesday echoed through the recently renovated Student Achievement Center at Westmoreland County Community College near Youngwood. Students gathered for the monthly drum circle and worked together to beat away the stress of the semester. “It’s meant to help them learn to work together, to collaborate...
Students return to Quaker Valley Middle School after evacuation due to odor
Students have returned to Quaker Valley Middle School on Tuesday after an odor forced the building’s evacuation for about an hour. Quaker Valley Middle School was evacuated after staff reported an unusual odor near the nurse’s office, according to a post on the district’s Facebook page. The school reported that...
Grove City College seniors write full-length musical, ‘Antigone & the King’
Grove City College students could be forgiven for not recognizing the name of the musical playing on the Little Theatre of Pew Fine Arts Center at the end of the month. That’s because the full-length musical “Antigone & The King” was written by two Grove City students, Noah Gould and...
Carnegie Mellon tuition among the highest in nation, inching higher
No one said it would be cheap or easy to get through college, but annual costs at Carnegie Mellon University are edging toward a six-figure sticker price. Officials at the Pittsburgh research university recently approved a 3.2% tuition increase for the 2020-21 school year. Parents of incoming freshmen may be...
Women gain increasing numbers on Pitt faculty
Women are gaining an increasing stake on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. A new report, published in Pitt’s University Times, revealed that women made up 46% of the full-time faculty, up from 44% three years earlier. While that falls short of the 51% of the population that is...
New report shows liberal arts education has a higher return on investment
A new report shows that a private, liberal arts education may have a better return on investment than attending a public university — but it will take some time. Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce found that bachelor’s degrees from private colleges typically have a higher return than...
Art competition aims to raise awareness about ticks, Lyme disease in Pa.
Pennsylvania residents were afflicted with about 10,000 cases of Lyme disease in 2018, according to the state health department, and if a child’s drawing is enough to prevent even one, it’s worth the effort. “Ticks that cause Lyme disease are everywhere, which is why it is so important to know...
Highlands hires new principal for elementary school
Highlands Elementary School has a new principal. Stan Whiteman was hired at an annual salary of $108,000. His start date is not yet known, school board President Misty Chybrzynski said. Whiteman is coming to Highlands from the Duquesne City School District, where he was director of curriculum, instruction, assessment and...
