Upland News

An 18-year-old Ambler man was charged yesterday with third-degree murder in connection with a fatal car crash Tuesday in Delaware County.

IN AN AGE of increasing fragmentation, I look for areas of common sense that can rally citizens to improve our schools and better educate our kids.

Education Secretary Gerald Zahorchak said he expects school accountability to be the focus of attention in Washington, D.C., after Congress finishes its work on health care reform.

After years of debate, Pennsylvania is going ahead with a plan to offer school districts state-approved final exams that students would have to take to get diplomas.

The 62-year-old woman who on Oct. 11 was rescued from her burning home by a passing volunteer firefighter has died.

UPPER DEERFIELD -- A woman injured in a fire in her home Oct. 11 died last Wednesday at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pa.

John Alston is an avid cyclist. With a tailwind, he can pedal from Chester to Swarthmore - just over two miles - in about six minutes.

Linda A. Cartisano, Chairman Linda A. Cartisano has served as Chairman of County Council since January 2007.

A North Philadelphia man turned himself in to police yesterday afternoon to face additional charges for allegedly intentionally hitting a pregnant woman with his car outside a South Philadelphia bar last Saturday, police said.

If a proposed amendment to the charter-school policy is approved by the School Reform Commission this fall, the city's charter schools will be one step closer to losing their independence, a charter-school official said yesterday at a public hearing.

When many Pennsylvania schools open for the first day of classes tomorrow, they will do so without two months' worth of state funding, because of the state budget stalemate.

The Bethlehem Area School District, already burdened by a deep deficit, is poised to make the most drastic school spending cutbacks in Pennsylvania in response to the ongoing state budget impasse.

The Delaware County Community Foundation has made $100,000 in grants to fund hospice and home health-care services in the southeastern Pennsylvania county.

By Susan Snyder and Kristen A. Graham INQUIRER STAFF WRITER As Harrisburg's budget battle continues, school districts throughout Pennsylvania again may have to borrow and cut costs as they are forced to make due without state revenue.

Michael Masch , then Gov. Ed Rendell's budget secretary, looks on as Rendell addresses the media in 2007.

More than a dozen local police officers have been accused of cheating on their certification test.

How difficult is the routine test that Pennsylvania's 23,000 municipal cops take to maintain their police certification? Think of the GEICO car insurance commercial: "So easy, a caveman could do it." Yet, more than a dozen Delaware County police officers - some, veterans with decades of experience - may lose their jobs for allegedly cheating in ...

PLEASANTVILLE "We can do this," said incoming Pleasantville Public Schools Superintendent Gloria Grantham on Tuesday, July 7 while she publicly met with the Board of Education for the first time.

Gov. Rendell's nominee to the School Reform Commission was grilled for more than an hour yesterday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Education Committee about whether his work as a private lawyer would cause any conflict with or bias in his duties on the Philadelphia panel.

Chester Community Charter School, the state's largest charter, would be among the biggest losers if a Rendell administration proposal to change special-education funding for charter and cyber charter schools becomes law.