Readiness Bags also include educational materials and early learning manipulatives — tools that they hope will give the ...

With the school year already underway for kids in the Altoona Area School District, the Mountain Lion Backpack Program is right on schedule with them. The program feeds over ...

The decision to prohibit backpacks follows a recent incident in which a student was found with a loaded gun on campus. The ...

The new policy, effective from Monday, restricts students from carrying backpacks and requires those with athletic equipment or musical instruments to use secured drop-off locations.