Education

Five decades later after Martin Luther King’s assassination, the neighborhood school is fighting to provide a high-quality education.

The 600 students initially identified by the Philadelphia school district are mostly those with complex needs and are a subset of the 21,000 district students with IEPs.

Chancellor Daniel Greenstein said he was “ashamed to admit” he had not studied how the university system has historically perpetuated racial inequity.

Even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across Delaware, Gov. John Carney says schools have proven to be safe spaces for students and teachers.

Rethinking everything about how the board does business, including long-held practices, is the impetus for the board’s new “goals and guardrails” initiative.

Families attending schools in affluent areas were about as likely to choose in-person instruction as families attending schools in low-income neighborhoods.

Scrapping lesson plans, teachers became facilitators and sources for correcting misinformation.

The school district has tried twice to reopen schools for 30,000 students in pre-kindergarten through third grade — first in September and then in November.

The Pennsylvania school's board of trustees held a special vote this week, after Trump incited an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Division is growing among parents and others as a proposed plan to close several Camden public schools appears to inch closer to reality.

A new study suggests reopening schools may be safer than previously thought, at least in communities where the virus is not already spreading out of control.

The governor and his top public health and education administrators say schools have not proven to pose a serious risk for coronavirus transmission.

Each nominee is Black and has an intimate connection to Philadelphia’s school district. But their biographies are starkly different.

"People don't realize how much we need to see these kids," says one teacher, noting they're often the first to see signs of child abuse or food insecurity.

Former Education Secretary John King Jr. thinks a national tutoring program would help students make up for lost learning during the pandemic.