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By: Bill Hangley A flurry of new studies suggest that Pennsylvania’s high schools aren’t providing colleges with enoug ...

By: Scott Detrow With a projected budget deficit of more than two billion dollars, Pennsylvania Governor Rendell says layoffs of s ...

By: Mary Fuchs New Jersey’s Department of Education is struggling with budget cuts. And Commissioner Lucille Davy doesn̵ ...

By: Bill Hangley New data from the state department of education show that as many as one in three Pennsylvania high school gradua ...

You can give your two cents about how the city should address its budget problems at four upcoming forums, whose details were just announ ...

By: Tom MacDonald Philadelphia police officers shot two people Tuesday night, bringing the total of civilians shot by officers up ...

By: Bill Hangley With the departure of School Reform Commissioner Jim Ghallager, the board that oversees the Philadelphia School D ...

Philadelphia City Council embarks on a new session today, and a key question for Council members will be “how to do more with less? ...

Philadelphia City Council could take a step today that would allow Verizon to offer pay-TV service in the city and break Comcast’s ...

By: Peter Crimmins As the economy slides, everyone is looking for bargains and “free” definitely qualifies as a bargai ...

More than 27,000 Pennsylvanians contracted an infection while in the hospital last year, down nearly 8% from 2007. Experts say that numb ...