Education

Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera officially approved the demise of Philadelphia School Reform Commission, return of the school district to city control.

Fewer than half of the 102 historically black colleges and universities have comprehensive smoke-free or tobacco-free policies.

It's inevitable. Each year, teachers dip into their own pockets to buy things like notebooks, tissues and pencils for their students.

After a long campaign, Penn's graduate students will soon vote on whether to form a union. But the vote will include more graduate students than organizers wanted.

These new reports — heavy with charts and computations — will likely inform arguments made for and against property tax abolition.

Eight management companies seeking to open nine new charter schools in Philadelphia made their initial pitches on Monday to a hearing officer for the School Reform Commission.

More than 200 Delaware State University men and women are headed into the workforce. But before leaving the campus, they received their degrees along with one more pep talk.

Eclectic doesn’t begin to describe Kensington High School’s stand at Philadelphia’s annual CTE Holiday County Fair.

BankWork$ set up shop in Philadelphia earlier this year through a partnership with Philadelphia Opportunities Industrialization Center, a local job-readiness nonprofit.

The SRC had delayed action on two of the schools for nearly two years, but eventually marshaled enough votes for a clear decision.

Pennsylvania and Delaware are among nine states to receive a grade of F for teaching personal finance to high school students, according ...

A sixth grade health class assignment that required students to write about a fictional drug addict reaching rock bottom and to draw thei ...

300,000 New Jersey kids in low-income families are not getting the nutrition at school they need to help them pay attention and reduce behavioral problems, advocates say.

Senate Bill 2 would create education savings accounts — a similar concept to private school vouchers.

In this segment, we meet HAZIM HAR ...