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Some Pa. schools are cutting off charter students’ access to yellow buses after court ruling

Two weeks before the start of classes at his all-boys charter school near Pittsburgh, founder Darryl Canady received an email from his local public school district saying it wouldn’t provide traditional bus rides to his students this year.

 

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Mandatory child death review program gets fraction of requested funding as counties struggle

The Pennsylvania Department of Health received $242,000 in this year’s budget to help county teams review the deaths of children, a state mandate many have struggled to keep up with.

 

Trump admin rule puts reproductive health care for 160K Pa. patients at risk, lawsuit says

Family planning and health organizations that serve tens of thousands of people across Pennsylvania could see federal funding delayed or denied by a new Trump administration policy, a new lawsuit alleges.

 

Skill games are slot machines, must adhere to Pa.’s gambling law, state Supreme Court rules

Skill games are slot machines under Pennsylvania law and must adhere to the commonwealth’s crime and gambling statutes, the state’s highest court ruled Monday.

 

As Pennsylvania cracks down on AI, multiple chatbots continue to pose as doctors

Chatbots on five different websites claimed to be licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania when prompted by Spotlight PA — the same kind of output that led the Shapiro administration to file a lawsuit last month.

 

Half of child deaths left unreviewed in Pa. since 2020 as counties struggle with ‘unfunded mandate’

Many Pennsylvania counties are failing to review the death of every child in their area, despite a 2008 state law that requires them to do so.