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June 5, 2026 | 8:39 AM

Students across Pennsylvania step up on Election Day to keep democracy working

If you’ve voted in person in Pennsylvania recently, you may have noticed that one of the poll workers checking you in was a high school student.

By Carter Walker of Spotlight PA

May 12, 2026 | 8:53 PM

First Amendment rights at center of clash between Pa. schools and students over ICE walkouts

Pennsylvania students have a First Amendment right to protest ICE, but schools can discipline walkouts as they would any unexcused absence and not more harshly due to the political message.

By Amanda Fries for Spotlight PA

March 26, 2025 | 9:16 AM

Louder Than Guns: How Music Amplifies the Fight Against Gun Violence

By Asia Tabb

June 26, 2024 | 9:08 AM

College Students and Professor reflect on COVID

By Asia Tabb

May 10, 2023 | 9:54 AM

To improve kids’ mental health, some schools start later

By The Associated Press

March 22, 2023 | 7:37 PM

Camp Hill and Hershey students represent Pennsylvania in International STEM competition

Anshi Paul, Isaiah Houssou, and Timothy Ritter, CASEF board member and former fair director, joined us to discuss the students’ projects, stories and preparation for their upcoming international competition.

By Aniya Faulcon

July 21, 2022 | 3:00 PM

One school district that banned student cell phones experiences

The middle school in the Penn Hills School District in Allegheny County banned cell phone this year.

By Scott LaMar/WITF

June 25, 2022 | 8:35 AM

Congress approves free student meal extension through summer

Congress has passed a bill that aims to keep up the expanded, pandemic-era distribution of free meals for all students this summer.

By The Associated Press

December 29, 2020 | 8:19 AM

A quiet and ‘unsettling’ pandemic toll: Students who’ve fallen off the grid

Many kids haven't set foot in their schools since March, when most in-person schooling shut down across the country. Teachers are working tirelessly to educate their students online, but they are growing increasingly anxious about the kids who aren't showing up at all.

By NPR

December 18, 2020 | 7:33 AM

Pa.’s free pre-K program provides a meaningful math and language boost, says new study

A new evaluation of Pennsylvania’s state-funded pre-K program finds it consistently gives kids a meaningful boost in some core skills — but has seemingly no effect on others.

By Miles Bryan/Keystone Crossroads

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