Alison Beam

Alison Beam, Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary, will depart at the end of December. Keara Klinepeter, the Health Department’s executive deputy secretary, will take over as acting secretary.

NBC10’s Brian Sheehan reports on Bensalem and a handful of other Bucks County school districts ditching mask mandates for students.

A lawyer for Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary is defending the validity of the secretary’s order requiring masks inside K-12 schools to fight COVID-19

The ongoing debate over a mask mandate in Pennsylvania schools continued in a state court this week. NBC10 reporter Deanna Durante explains how things are playing out.

A special panel within Pennsylvania’s state government is rejecting a request by state House Republicans that it force the Health Department to formally adopt the statewide mask order in schools as a regulation or stop the policy altogether

Pennsylvania is mailing letters to 375,000 holders of commercial driver’s licenses in a recruitment campaign meant to address a shortage of school bus drivers.

Schools across the nation are facing driver shortages, and many Pennsylvania districts are impacted. State leaders are trying to alleviate the issue.

The Lower Merion School District is asking families to be flexible as they prepare for a potential bus driver shortage. NBC10’s Aaron Baskerville explains.