Maddie Hanna

Students lined up outside Upper Darby High School Thursday morning, hoods pulled over their heads to guard against the chill, as they prepared to walk through a new detection system intended to keep guns out of schools.

In a lawsuit filed Monday, the mother accused Head of School Mark Devey of taking inadequate measures to protect her son, who she says was abused by the 12-year-son of the head basketball coach.

A mother has sued the Perkiomen School and its leader after she said her 7-year-old son was sexually abused by a 12-year-old boy in an unlocked equipment room on the private school's campus.

Upper Darby will keep its high school pool open, the district's superintendent said Thursday, after district leaders faced community pushback for considering whether to close it.

“We understand that this news may come as a surprise,” West Chester Superintendent David Christopher said. He was “unable to provide additional details due to the nature of personnel matters.”

A teacher at Philadelphia's Samuel Fels High School has been charged with sexual offenses and corruption of a minor after a 16-year-old student said he groped her in a classroom.

After years of battling Pennsylvania to level the playing field with wealthier school districts, some of the state's poorest districts got a new influx of money this year to bring them closer to that goal.

Gary Cohn, 72, formerly of Philadelphia, an Inquirer alum who went on to win a Pulitzer Prize at the Baltimore Sun during a decades-long career

With snow in the forecast Monday, Garnet Valley Superintendent Marc Bertrando is bracing for his winter-weather routine: rising at 4 a.m. and hopping in his car to check out the roads.

The Lower Merion School District has selected a New Jersey superintendent as its next leader, district officials announced Friday.