About 400 students from school districts in 13 counties will converge on PennWest California Saturday for the Southwestern Regional tournament of the Pennsylvania Science Olympiad. The tournament, hosted at the California campus for some 30 years, involves students from Western Pennsylvania, ...

Most former students likely recall the anticipation of snow – and the hope for an unexpected day off full of snowmen instead of studies. A piece of legislation passed in 2019 that allowed districts to use flexible instruction days (FIDs) started to chip away at that. Then, mandated virtual ...