Gov. Josh Shapiro signed House Bill 17 on Wednesday, making cursive instruction mandatory in all Pennsylvania public schools.

You'll notice cursive is coming back to classrooms after Pennsylvania's new law requires schools to teach it again, and that change affects learners, parents, and educators across the state. This law ...

Pennsylvania is joining about 25 other states — including Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware — in requiring ...

Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is bringing cursive back to schools. Shapiro signed a bill requiring a cursive handwriting curriculum in all Pennsylvania public schools, Wednesday. The bill, ...

Watro’s legislation to restore cursive handwriting instruction in Pennsylvania schools is now law. “It connects us to our history, strengthens learning and deepens our understanding of the world,” ...

Flo Young, originally from Cambridge, Mass., browses through a box of pen pal letters outside the Sullivan County Health Care ...

A local fourth grader is bringing back the art of cursive handwriting. When E’Lon Hamilton realized most of his classmates ...

Students currently learn cursive between third and fifth grade. If House Bill 127 becomes law, students will begin learning ...

Longtime labor organizer and reproductive rights advocate Lauren Babb Tomlinson runs for California's 6th Congressional District, focusing on healthcare access and cost of living.

It comes as good news to see that a local lawmaker’s proposal to require cursive handwriting to be taught in Pennsylvania’s schools is gaining steam. The law, House Bill 17, crafted by state Rep. Dane ...

All Idaho students must begin learning cursive in third grade and be proficient by fifth grade, per Senate Bill 1044 passed in the 2025 legislative session. Those not meeting the standard will require ...