With the arrival of the long-awaited rules, Democratic governors are under more pressure to say whether they will opt in.

More than three months after the AFT and NEA jointly urged Democratic governors to reject a massive effort to pour federal dollars into private and religious organizations at the expense of public sch...

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Trump administration released new regulations for its unpopular national private school voucher scheme:

District schools were 4,236 students under their projected enrollment as of Sept. 17, according to internal documents obtained by The Inquirer.

Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.

1/7 Just 32% of Americans are satisfied with the quality of U.S. K–12 education, according to a new Gallup poll—the lowest in its 27-year trend. 67% are dissatisfied. With the 2026 midterms approachi...

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

“It’s too much,” a 10th grader said of her Girls’ High African American history class, which has 51 students. “My mom offered to take me out, she said it’s a fire hazard.”

The school board also agreed to pay $600,000 to a firm to oversee construction work at Kensington High, where errors caused asbestos damage and forced students to relocate to another building.

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Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students.

Free PD: privacy settings in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot, a quick AI security audit, and what the new AFT–Microsoft standard covers.

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

32BJ represents 2,000 Philadelphia School District building engineers, cleaners, bus drivers, mechanics and tradespeople. Its new contract includes paid parental leave for the first time ever.

In surveys we conducted nationally, Republicans and Democrats expressed agreement on far more housing policies than political debate would suggest.

The poorest people in the U.S. face the most acute shortage of affordable homes. That’s partly because the majority of low-income housing financed in recent years has been for those earning at least 5...

Guardian readers share how much they spend on food and the changes they’ve had to made in response to rising prices

Philadelphia renters could face limits on annual rent increases, low-income residents could receive city help paying for air conditioning and groceries, and corporations buying large numbers of rental...

Meet the candidates with labor ties vying for Senate and House seats in midterm races. Most of the nominees are Democrats as the party looks to rebuild support among working-class voters

As Philadelphia’s gun violence crisis decreases, people under age 22 remain at risk