Education
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SCASD Commissions Feasibility Study for Future of Fairmount Building
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State College Area School District will undertake a study to help determine the future of a historic former school building. The school board on Monday unanimously approved a $72,655 proposal from Hoffman Leakey Architects to perform a feasibility study for the 112-year-old Fairmount Building, located at 411 S. Fraser St. near downtown State College. According…
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Hook: Weather Wonders and School Stress
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Six days a week, my wife and I like to get out for a walk around the neighborhood. We skip Sunday – a day of rest and all – but otherwise we try for 3 miles a day. We have a standard set of “courses” we use for our walks, but depending on weather we’ll…
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How Centre County High Schools Fared in New U.S. News & World Report Rankings
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Two of Centre County’s five public high schools improved their statewide and national standings in the U.S News & World Report 2026-27 Best High Schools rankings released on Tuesday. The annual rankings of 18,000 public high schools out of 27,000 evaluated are based on performance indicators including student achievement on state-required assessments, graduation rates and…
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Some Pa. Schools Are Cutting Off Charter Students’ Access to Yellow Buses After Court Ruling
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Charters say it’s unfair to cut off their students’ access to school buses. Public districts say it’s about their budgets.
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Mount Nittany Elementary Opens $21M Expansion. See Inside
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State College Area School District on Friday celebrated the completion of a $21 million expansion and renovation of Mount Nittany Elementary School designed to meet shifting enrollment and instructional needs.
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‘An Exciting New Beginning.’ Take a Look Inside the New Bellefonte Elementary School
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Hundreds of students, families and other community members got their first look inside the long-planned new Bellefonte Elementary School on Wednesday evening.
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SEARCH: How Much Supplemental Money Did Your Pa. School District Get?
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Each school district got at least $50,000 of the $565 million in new spending.
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Great PA News Quiz: Trump Claims Credit for Supermarket Sales, and Pa.’s Hottest Real Estate Market
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In this quiz: the party leading voter registration this year, state universities plan to consider a new type of degree and the state budget adds a new requirement for elementary schools.
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The Pa. Budget Quietly Relaxed a Standard for Lead Reporting in Schools. Issues With the Law Go Much Deeper
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Several school associations argued the previous, higher lead reporting standard was unrealistic without more state funding.
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Mount Nittany Elementary Expansion and Renovation Nearing Completion
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A $21 million project to renovate and expand Mount Nittany Elementary school is nearly finished and is expected to be ready in time for the start of the 2026-27 school year, according to a presentation to the State College Area School Board on Monday. Since the start of work in early 2025, the project has…