
Education
Legal battles between Philly school district, teachers union a lesson in excess
The front-page story of the Philadelphia school district’s bitter fight with its teachers union has been couched in raucous ...
9 years ago
Philly targets 11 low-performing schools for intervention
Eleven Philadelphia public schools are in line for a major shake up, the school district announced Monday. The selected schools ...
9 years ago
Moody’s: Philly schools are fiscally stable, if not fiscally sound
The financial picture for Philly’s school system isn’t getting any worse — even if it is already relatively bleak. ...
9 years ago
After troubling early results, Philly to test all schools for lead in water
After finding elevated lead levels in nearly 50 school drinking outlets, Philadelphia is expanding its water-testing program. ...
9 years ago
These 5 Philly schools made big test score improvements. What’s their secret?
When Tammy Thomas, principal at Eleanor Emlen School, first saw her school’s standardized test scores for 2016, she didnR ...
9 years ago
Faculty rallies as contract battle drags on at Pa. state colleges
Faculty members from Pennsylvania’s state university system are rallying over the continuing lack of a contract agreement. T ...
9 years ago
As two SRC commissioners resign, some call for abolition of Philly school panel
Marjorie Neff and Feather Houstoun both announced their intention to resign from the five-member School Reform Commission Wednesday, spee ...
9 years ago
ListenPhilly’s school test scores largely flat in second year of tougher PSSAs
Standardized test scores for Philadelphia’s public school students remained largely flat in 2016, though high school student ...
9 years ago
After 40 years — and a near-death experience — Please Touch Museum celebrates and reflects
Back in the mid-1970s — as the legend goes — a group of artists and educators was trying to dream up a name for a new, kid ...
9 years ago
Penn Alexander in Philadelphia wins major national education award
The Penn Alexander School in West Philadelphia has been called many things since it opened in 2001: success story, ground brea ...
9 years ago
One year after substitute teacher crisis, Philly schools see improvement with new contractor
The distict’s substitute teacher fill rates are way up from last year, but only a smidge higher than they were before Ph ...
9 years ago
Gov. Wolf visits Philly to talk education funding, tout record
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf visited Baldi Middle School in Northeast Philadelphia Thursday to tout increases in education fundi ...
9 years ago
Remembering a coach and a gentleman as another year of high school sports begins
At the time, we boys thought camp was all about football. We had that wrong. Years later, we came to understand that Coach Steve Padjen h ...
9 years ago
Contract negotiations drag at Pa. state colleges; both sides seek arbitration
The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties union and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education have b ...
9 years ago
With new middle school, Science Leadership Academy looks to prove itself
Though students arrived two weeks ago, Science Leadership Academy Middle School in West Philadelphia held its official ribbon- ...
9 years ago