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Five candidates will face off for four seats on the Hollidaysburg School District board of directors this fall.Ron Sommer, Sc...
Governor Tom Corbett has nominated William Harner to be Pennsylvania's next education secretary. The posting of Harner...
Governor Tom Corbett says he'll name a central Pennsylvania public school superintendent as his new education secretary, ...
Pennsylvania’s Common Core Standards will help ensure that students are better prepared for success in postsecondary ed...
A university in eastern Pennsylvania has dropped its blanket prohibition on guns and will now allow people with concealed wea...
The City of Altoona is partnering with the Altoona Area High School and Central Blair Recreation for a major clean-up event.P...
A Pennsylvania judge is allowing a whistleblower and defamation lawsuit against Penn State to go forward.The suit was filed i...
There will be an increased police presence at Central Cambria High School today in response to a threat found last week writt...
Penn State's main campus is planning an $8.5-million overhaul of its wireless network.The Centre Daily Times reports ...
The Department of Public Welfare is offering $200,000 in mini-grants to child care centers to work toward achieving highe...
Penn State says the number of applications for undergraduate enrollment is down about 9-percent this year. There were nearly ...
The investigation into a threat made at Central Cambria High School this week continues.The message, “school shooting &...
A proposal to fully include Penn State and the other three "state-related" universities under the Pennsylvania Righ...
Altoona Area School District students living in Lakemont will have a new elementary school next year.School board members vot...
Students attending Altoona elementary schools on boundary letters will get to stay in place.School board members voted Monday...
A threatening message was found Tuesday on a wall in the boy's bathroom at Central Cambria High School.School officials a...
Pennsylvania students perform better on state reading and writing tests when their schools have full time librarians and libr...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown says it is investigating claims that a Franciscan friar who committed suicide...
Students and teachers at the Altoona Area High School have raised $10-thousand for the Saint Vincent DePaul Soup Kitchen....
A witness who worked at a Philadelphia abortion clinic at age 15 says she saw at least one baby's chest move after the pr...
A group of Penn State Altoona students accused of participating in an alcohol driven riot at an off-campus apartment complex ...
A bill to create a commission to help develop a new formula to distribute special education money to school districts in Penn...
Wright Elementary School has made the state Education Department’s list of Pennsylvania's lowest-achieving schools....
Penn State trustees have approved a 16% raise for President Rodney Erickson to $600,000 after a review of his performance...
In light of last week’s tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut there will be some changes made in the way student safety is ha...
A union representing thousands of faculty members and coaches at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities has scheduled...
As schools across Pennsylvania begin administering annual standardized tests this week, there is growing debate about the opp...
More than a dozen Penn State Altoona students were arrested after a Saturday afternoon party turned into what police are call...
Altoona Area School District superintendent is speaking out for the first time since being placed on paid administrative leav...
Altoona Area school board members say no final decisions have been made concerning the future use of boundary letters issued ...
We have an update on the story concerning the investigation into possible improper pay raises at the Altoona Area School Dist...
John Franco has been named the new head football coach at Altoona Area High School, but the decision to hire him wasn’t...
Pennsylvania's new auditor general says improper payments to charter schools may have cost state taxpayers millions of do...
Charges have been filed against a Bedford County woman for stealing from the Chestnut Ridge Elementary School’s Parent ...
Altoona Area School District officials last night laid out their potential plans to shutter two elementary schools at the end...
The Altoona Area School District will hold a public hearing tonight to address the future of two of its elementary schools.Di...
Penn State has hired a corporate compliance officer to become the university's first director of ethics and compliance.Th...
For the second time in less than a week wintry weather has caused District 6 to postpone all of its basketball playoff games....
Two more civil lawsuits have been filed in Blair County Court in the sex abuse case allegedly involving now deceased Stephen ...
About 50 more people have come forward to say they were sexually abused at Catholic schools in Pennsylvania and Ohio by a Fra...
Tom Otto has been hired to lead the Altoona Area School District beginning this summer.Board members unanimously voted to app...
A small fire Tuesday forced the evacuation of the Altoona Area Junior High School.The incident happened around 10:50AM in a g...
Penn State has selected executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to help the school find a replacement for university president...
Another local school district will have a new person in its superintendent position when classes begin after summer vacation....
Logan Township Supervisors have introduced an ordinance to ban parking along Hillside Avenue near Ebner Elementary School.Sup...
The Altoona Area School District plans to shutter both Washington-Jefferson and Wright Elementary Schools at the end of the s...
A bill to require exploitation-awareness programs in Pennsylvania public schools has been approved by the state House of Repr...
An accident earlier this week involving an Altoona Area School District bus remains under investigation.None of the elementar...
Governor Tom Corbett has announced that the proposed 2013-14 budget will maintain funding levels for state and state-related ...
Negotiators for Pennsylvania's state-owned university system and the union representing about 5,500 faculty members say t...
Governor Tom Corbett, joined by Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, Wednesday announced his plan to privatize the liquor system in...
Altoona Area School District Board President Ryan Beers has some serious questions concerning administrative pay raises. Beer...
Penn State Altoona will offer a Walk-in Flu Clinic for students today from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. at the Health Wellness Center in ...
The Franciscan Friar who took his own life over the weekend left a suicide note apologizing for his actions.Brother Stephen B...
The list of candidates for Altoona Area School District Superintendent has been whittled down to three.A second round of inte...
The civil case accusing a Franciscan friar of sexually abusing students at Cambria County high school will continue despite t...
Dozens of Penn State Altoona Campus students took part in a really cool fundraiser over the weekend.And by really cool, what ...
Following news earlier this week that certain pay raises handed out to Altoona Area School District administrative staff were...
As the school year reaches the mid-point, motorists are reminded to not be complacent when they see a school bus with flashin...
Pennsylvania higher education officials are heading back to the negotiating table with the union representing state universit...
The investigation into an Altoona teenager’s death this week continues.Police say that on Wednesday afternoon they were...
A police search caused a local school into lock-down mode on Monday.Authorities say they were pursuing Zachary Moore when he ...
Some Pennsylvania groups say cyber charter schools in the state aren't making the grade, and they're urging state edu...
Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities and the union representing their athletic coaches have reached tentative contr...
The Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal costs are adding up for Penn State.A $60 million fine from the NCAA, $21 million...
The League of American Bicyclists has named Penn State University to its Bronze List as a Bicycle Friendly University.That me...
Federal education officials have rejected the state’s request to measure charter school achievement using more lenient ...
The Tyrone Area School District is being awarded $10,000 through a grant from the America’s Farmers Grow Rural Educ...
Penn State University's two law school campuses in State College and Carlisle are pursuing plans to operate as separately...
Juniata College in Huntingdon has a new president.The College's Board of Trustees has named James Troha as their 12th pre...
Pennsylvania students are reminded that Friday is the deadline to apply for the U.S. Senate Youth Program.Two students from e...
The union representing thousands of employees at state-owned universities is a step closer to going on strike.Delegates from ...
Area schools are marking National Red Ribbon Week.On Thursday, Altoona Area Senior High School students formed a human red ri...
At this week'sHollidaysburg Area School Board Directors meeting the school received a grant from the Dominion Educational...
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Pennsylvania’s higher education system.The credit rating agency says a rec...
Nearly 8,000 Penn State employees and volunteers have now attended the University's professional training program designe...
Penn State Officials are offering a vaccination clinic on Monday.The clinic is being held in response to two confirmed cases ...
State College has been ranked as one of the best college destinations.According to the American Institute for Economic Resear...
Local residents are reminded that the Pennsylvania 529 College Savings Program is available to help families cover the costs ...
The company that Altoona has been using to collect mercantile, property and business privilege taxes and is now closing up sh...
The Altoona Area School District will honor our region’s First Responders at tonight’s home football game against...
For about an hour and a half Monday things were a little tense in State College.A package left at Beaver Stadium led Universi...
The rollout of the exams this year is the first step in a sweeping overhaul of the state's testing system, which aims to ...
Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School has made a decision on a new president for the school.Thomas Kristofco takes over Octob...
Yesterday’s "active shooter" drill at Altoona Area High School had an unexpected twist to it when a power sur...
An Emergency Preparedness Drill will take place starting at 9:00 this morning at the Altoona Area High School.Jack Reilly, Di...
Pennsylvanians concerned with the rising cost of higher education have a few days left to get the most out of their college s...
Pennsylvania's university system is expected a second consecutive year of declining enrollment after more than a dozen ye...
Higher education experts say an accreditation warning issued to Penn State is serious and appropriate given the issues raised...
The Altoona Area School District’s District-wide PTO is hosting a Back-to-School Kickoff event this weekend.District Co...
The Food and Drug Administration is investigating four recent incidents involving the discovery of foreign objects in half-ga...
The union representing faculty members at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities has suspended negotiations with the ...
Some Hollidaysburg School District board members say they want to know if their food service program is still in the black.Th...
The state Education Department has published a list of Pennsylvania's lowest-achieving schools – and an Altoona ele...
New Penn State coach Bill O’Brien says he’s committed to the school despite the harsh sanctions imposed Monday by...
Penn State President Rodney Erickson is vowing cooperation with further investigations in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scanda...
For more than two decades, colleges have been required to publicly share details of campus crimes and report murders, rapes, ...
Governor Tom Corbett recently signed into law House Bill 1307, legislation designed to help financially distressed school dis...
Penn State Altoona’s Center for Community-Based Studies, in collaboration with Saint Francis University, will host the ...
Special investigator Louis Freeh says he believes Penn State has undertaken significant changes to focus on campus safety in ...
Students and their families will pay about 3-percent more for tuition and technology fees at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owne...
Former Penn State president Graham Spanier is asking a Centre County judge to throw out the university’s objection to r...
Pennsylvania parents who have seen the YouTube video of seventh-grade boys harassing a 68-year-old school bus monitor may won...
Lawmakers and staff in Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled state Legislature are scrambling to finish writing a host of ...
Penn State officials insist the university is not looking to become a private institution.But some education experts say cont...
The state lawmaker who's sponsoring a proposed voucher-like tax credit aimed at helping students flee from Pennsylvania&#...
On Monday night the Spring Cove school board okayed a budget that includes a 2.49-mil property tax increase.The nearly $2...
A building on South Atherton Street in State College owned by the charity that Jerry Sandusky founded is up for sale.Last mon...
More money for private school scholarships and education nonprofits in Pennsylvania will be part of a nearly $27.7-billio...
State Auditor General Jack Wagner stepped up his criticism of the way Pennsylvania finances charter and cyber-charter schools...
A Republican-penned bill that would pave the way for state takeovers of Pennsylvania school districts veering toward financia...
A local university is the recipient of a major donation.Saint Francis University in Loretto has received $1-million from ...
Hollidaysburg Area School District administrators have begun the process of creating their own cyber charter school.Superinte...
As Pennsylvania's public schools prepare to lay off thousands of employees for a second straight year, teachers and publi...
The Pennsylvania Department of Health is reminding parents and caregivers to take advantage of this month’s free statew...
Penn State Altoona’s Railroad Transit Engineering program has received a financial boost from a Hollidaysburg engineeri...
A state panel formulating a new framework for higher education in Pennsylvania will hear from more than a dozen stakeholders ...
Altoona Area School District officials will spend nearly $25,000 to fix drainage issues at the district’s high scho...
A jury has been selected for the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse trial.The seven women and five men who will hear opening s...
Drivers in the Altoona area are reminded that the Juniata 8th Street Bridge will be closed starting today.The good news is th...
Pennsylvania state lawmakers made their way back to Harrisburg for several more weeks of work to wrap up a new state budget a...
More than 500 Altoona Area High School seniors are set to turn their tassels tonight.The district will hold its 136th Commenc...
Assault charges are pending against a retired local businessman who is accused of attacking a Hollidaysburg School Board memb...
Governor Tom Corbett and his fellow Republicans who lead the state Legislature are working to develop a package of public sch...
Less than a week before Jerry Sandusky heads to trial on child sex-abuse charges, Penn State's president says the school ...
A Blair County School District is getting a budget concession from its teachers.The Williamsburg Community school district&rs...
Eight Pennsylvania colleges are getting grants as part of a $50 million national science initiative.The Howard Hughes Med...
The Altoona Area School District is getting $1.5-million from the federal government to strengthen its literacy program.P...
Two education advocacy groups say a new survey shows that half of Pennsylvania's school districts expect their finances t...
Saying the future of public schools in Pennsylvania is at stake, thousands of protesters are expected in Philadelphia, Pittsb...
A Republican-penned bill that would pave the way for state takeovers of Pennsylvania school districts veering toward financia...
Ten local high school students and six adults will travel to Saint Polten, Austria this summer as part of the Sister Cities P...
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has graduated from Miami University in southwest Ohio, about nine years af...
Students in one Altoona elementary school will come together today to help a 9th grader in need of a heart transplant.Pleasan...
There will be a new principle in place at Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School when the 2012-13 school year gets underway.Jo...
Get stuck or get out. That's what Pennsylvania school districts told students and their parents this year as they approac...
Last night the Spring Cove School Board voted unanimously to hire Robert Vadella to take over as the district’s superin...
A new government report indicates that only about a third of Pennsylvania's eighth-graders are proficient in science.Resu...
It may not been known for weeks what happened to cause Wednesday’s deadly crash in Somerset County that claimed the lif...
The State Board of Education on Thursday unanimously voted to consider amending several regulations regarding high school gra...
Pennsylvania college students are urging federal lawmakers to strike a deal that will avert higher interest rates on student ...
Pennsylvania's universities, public schools, hospitals, nursing homes and people who depend on county-run social services...
A Pennsylvania school district is asking the judge overseeing Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case to throw out a def...
Pennsylvania students who don't comply with an upcoming immunization deadline will likely find themselves unable to atten...
The Hollidaysburg Area School Board will vote in two weeks on whether or not to shutter Allegheny One Elementary School.Super...
Penn State University has hired two public relations firms to help it deal with the continuing fallout from the Jerry Sandusk...
Hollidaysburg Area School Board members will vote next month on whether or not to privatize bussing services provided to some...
Altoona Area School District officials are throwing their support behind House Bill 855 – which would allow districts t...
Students in an area School District were sent home Thursday because of a bomb threat.State Police say the messages were left ...
Penn State Altoona officials are warning residents about a scam that’s resurfaced again in the region.Officials say a g...
Governor Tom Corbett says Pennsylvanians upset over rising school taxes should demand explanations from their local school bo...
Altoona Area School district officials say that no matter what course of action they take, nothing will do much to solve the ...
Some middle and high school students spent their day Wednesday urging smokers to give up their habit.The effort was part of t...
More details have come out in the case of the man who was discovered sneaking around inside an Altoona school building this w...
Fire crews are leaving the sceneof a fire at Calvary Cemetery along Pleasant Valley Boulevard across from Bishop guilfoyle Hi...
An Altoona school was on lockdown Wednesday after a city man entered the facility as a fake delivery person.City police were ...
Students in Blair County School districts have been preparing for the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment exams.Now, it&...
The Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic and Hollidaysburg girls high school basketball teams continue their journey through this year&r...
Governor Tom Corbett toured the Norfolk Southern Juniata Locomotive Repair Shops Wednesday where he met with employees.The Go...
Members of Penn State's Board of Trustees have started meeting with student and other university groups as part of what b...
The Blair County district attorney will decide if a local bus driver will face charges after a 7-year-old girl was left alone...
State Police say someone stole more than a hundred gallons of diesel fuel from a northern Bedford County elementary school.Th...
Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary has put his State College home up for sale.A Kissinger, Bigatel and ...
Pennsylvania's working class carries the burden of Governor Corbett's latest budget proposal, according to union lead...
A local Philanthropist will be laid to rest today.A funeral Mass for Anthony Misciagna will be held at 10:30 this morning at ...
Penn State’s athletic department says it will cover the tab for former head football coach Joe Paterno’s public m...
91 men and women have joined the ranks of the Pennsylvania State Police following their graduation from the State Police Acad...
Its back to school on Monday for many students across Blair County and PennDOT wants to remind motorists to be on the lookout...
An Altoona Area High School baseball player will take his talents to the division 1 collegiate level. Christian Helsel on Wed...
Penn State Taps Ex-FBI Director for Investigation (AP)Former FBI director Louis Freeh has been tapped to lead Penn State's in...
Altoona Area School District police are investigating a scuffle between two female high school students.School officials tell...
The Altoona Area Jr. High and Sr. High School will be hosting the 75th Pennsylvania Association of Student Councils State Con...
Following a second day of private meetings of Penn State trustees, Gov. Tom Corbett Thursday evening commented on the sex sca...
Following a record-breaking third quarter Norfolk Southern Corporation is planning to increase its workforce by 500 employees...
State senators have begun debate on a major bill to create more opportunities for Pennsylvania public school children to atte...
Some student leaders from Penn State Altoona have taken their plea for more housing options to the Logan Township Board of Su...
Penn State president Graham Spanier says early indications from Harrisburg make him optimistic the school won't see a repeat ...
An Altoona woman who says her special needs daughter was choked by two Altoona Area School district staffers took her message...
Governor Tom Corbett will lay out his vision today for how to fix public education's ailmentsCorbett hasn't said yet exactly ...
The Local Education and Resource Network of Blair County, LEARN, is hosting an informational and activity fair to celebrate P...
Governor Tom Corbett says he plans to make an announcement on education policy in the next couple of weeks, but isn't sure if...
Northern Bedford School District officials say they are reviewing their field trip policies after a 4-year-old pre-kindergart...
Blair County’s seven school districts overall have met the PSSA standards for Adequate Yearly Progress.That’s acc...
Penn State Altoona will see modest growth over the next decade. That’s the word from Chanellor Dr. Lori Bechtel-Wherry ...
The Altoona Area School District has hired a Pittsburgh law firm to guide it through an ongoing federal grand jury investigat...
Altoona Area School District officials say they are working diligently to address numerous student bussing needs and concerns...
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New student orientation for students going into Grade 7 is set to get underway tomorrow at the Altoona Area Junior High Schoo...
Many publicly funded colleges and universities in Pennsylvania enacted above-average tuition increases for the 2011-2012 scho...
It was move in day Thursday at Penn State Altoona. Hundreds of cars packed Gwin Road as students waited in line to move into ...
Altoona Area School District officials are gearing up for the beginning of another busy school year.Students are scheduled to...
Penn State Altoona’s first Business Case Competition is scheduled for November.The event will be held at the new Sheetz...
The Department of Health says since August is National Immunization Awareness Month, it’s a good time for Pennsylvania ...
Bad news for the local workers. Blair County’s June unemployment numbers were up.State Department of Labor and Industry...
A bill to curtail the voting powers of Pennsylvania school board members in election years is meeting resistance from an infl...
