Education

U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright, D-8, Moosic, announced the winners of his 2024 Congressional Art Competition during a reception held at the Everhart Museum in Scranton. He welcomed more than 100 students, their families and teachers to the gallery opening where a record 120 pieces of art from 15 regional high schools are now on display to the public through May 5. Read more here.

U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-08) announced the winners of his 2024 Congressional Art Competition during a reception held at the Everhart Museum in Scranton Friday night. The Congressman welcomed more than 100 students, their families and teachers to the gallery opening where a record 120 pieces of art from 15 regional high schools are now on display to the public through May…

U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA) announced the winners of his 2024 Congressional Art Competition during a reception held at the Everhart Museum in Scranton Friday night. The Congressman welcomed more than 100 students, their families and teachers to the gallery opening where a record 120 pieces of art from 15 regional high schools are now on display to the public through May…

U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-08) invites interested area high school students, their parents, and local educators to attend a Military Service Academy Information Session on Tuesday, April 30, from 5 to 7 p.m., at Dunmore Junior Senior High School, 300 West Warren St., Dunmore. This free informational event is designed to familiarize high school students in Pennsylvania’s 8th…

U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright invites interested area high school students, their parents and local educators to attend a Military Service Academy information session April 30 at Dunmore Junior Senior High School. Running from 5-7 p.m., the free event aims to familiarize high schoolers in Cartwright's 8th Congressional District with the application and nomination process for applying…

Cartwright helped secure $16.62 million for the project. Hemmler and Camayd are the architects Quandel Construction will serve as the construction manager. The University plans to begin use of the building for the fall 2025 semester.

This week, U.S. Representatives Matt Cartwright (D-PA-08) and Zach Nunn (R-IA-03) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced bicameral and bipartisan legislation to collect demographic data on public school teachers and principals to improve the accuracy of educator workforce data. The Strengthening Educator Workforce Data Act would establish a permanent, national…

Today, U.S. Representatives Matt Cartwright (D-PA-08) and Hal Rogers (R-KY-05) introduced the Transforming Hiring in Rural Industries and Vital Economies (THRIVE) Act, legislation that would strengthen and create new economic opportunities in rural areas. This bipartisan bill would permanently establish a federal interagency council to coordinate investment in our nation’s rural areas,…

Today, U.S. Representatives Matt Cartwright (D-PA-08) and John Rutherford (R-FL-05) and U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), reintroduced the Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act which would strengthen the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and ensure that blind, deaf, deafdisabled, and deafblind children receive the same education as…

 Sal Aita and Alex Ross, both juniors at Wyoming Seminary, stood in the back of the Pittston Area High School auditorium on Tuesday, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the guest speaker for an event. That guest speaker — arranged by U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright — was NASA Astronaut Bob Hines, who is a graduate of Crestwood High School, who was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut…