Education

In 2016, an aviation attorney and Lower Merion resident sued his school district claiming it misrepresented its finances to secure a tax increase without voter approval.

The data are assembled longitudinally, meaning you can track something — say a district’s graduation rate — from year to year.

In spite of high costs and sketchy results, taxicabs are ferrying more and more Philadelphia students to school each year.

Briggs was just 14 years old when she went to college, and ended up graduating first in her class.

Keystone Opportunity Zones give tax breaks to developers in blighted neighborhoods. But many of the sites are not blighted, advocates said.

Some parents of kids in city schools firmly in favor of the police presence.

Districts that were recently awarded this new round of funding include:

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called out the nation’s universities Monday in a talk about campus free speech and the First Amendment.

The new school year marches on, and so does our weekly roundup.

How one school’s efforts to support parents and families has led to success.

To millions of parents and students, they're magical words: free college. But is the idea pure fantasy?

If you’re grocery shopping in Philadelphia over the next year you might run into a cherubic cartoon character named A.J.

The state put a moratorium on its reimbursement program for school construction in 2015.

Using a holistic approach with students to “catch those coughs before they become pneumonia.”

Only about a quarter of Philadelphia public schools have air conditioning.