Education

Let’s get a few things straight from the start. ...

In 2013, a group of suburban women saw an empty school library in Philadelphia. They’ve been there ever since. Our story sta ...

Fresh off a legal victory, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney visited Southwark School in South Philadelphia Tuesday to honor the school’ ...

Cybercharter education is now nearly a half-billion dollar industry in Pennsylvania, according to public school advocacy group Public Cit ...

This is a story of impossible choices, the kind parents and administrators confront daily in a large, poor school district.

When it comes to charter schools in Philadelphia, even the littlest things can draw big attention. That’s what happend to a ...

Galileo was put under house arrest. That’s not exactly how contrarians are treated in academia today, but there is a troubling move toward suppressing free speech and ideas.

When Uri Monson, chief financial officer for the School District of Philadelphia, bolts out of bed at 2 a.m. and can’t get back to ...

Public schools in Philadelphia are finally receiving substitutes at a reasonable clip. But a stubborn pattern remains: Schools serving po ...

Professors at Pennsylvania’s 14 state colleges and universities have voted to approve a contract agreement between the union that r ...

Pre-K advocates in Philly and elsewhere often argue that government investment in early childhood education pays societal dividends in th ...

A well-attended forum on who should govern Philadelphia’s schools turned testy Thursday night as parent activists repeatedly disrup ...

The recent suggestions that Philadelphia’s professional teachers are overpaid and are expecting too many resources are damagingly misin ...

It’s a familiar tale in city classrooms — teachers spending hundreds or thousands out of pocket to provide basic supplies. ...

Large urban school districts such as Philadelphia should account for how charter growth might harm traditional district schools when gran ...