Education

As part of its Renaissance Schools turnaround initiative, the School District of Philadelphia has outsourced management of 17 struggling ...

In order to close as many as one fifth of the city’s traditional public schools by the fall of 2013, Philadelphia district official ...

Standardized test scores have dropped across the state – dramatically so in Philadelphia and in those Pennsylvania schools suspected of ...

Mayor Nutter and Pennsylvania State Senator Anthony Hardy Williams joined over a hundred Philadelphians Wednesday night for a special adv ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett rallied with Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput Thursday at a Catholic high school in Drexel Hill.&nbsp ...

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As the new school year nears, the state Department of Treasury is reminding Pennsylvanians enrolled in the commonwealth’s college s ...

What will it take to build more manufacturing jobs in Pennsylvania, a state that used to thrive on such work? Well, for starters, a work ...

The man chosen to fix the Chester Upland School District’s troubled finances is proving to be controversial from the start. ...

  Everybody has a safe place, or at least should have one. Somewhere to let your hair down and recharge. In the series “Tee ...

The president of the Milton Hershey School has apologized to an HIV-positive teen who was barred from attending the boarding school. ...

Philadelphia public schools welcome students back to the classroom on Friday, Sept. 7, and the expanding role of charters has made lots o ...

Pennsylvania’s Department of Education has put together a list of the state’s 414 low-achieving schools. It represents bad ne ...

In this latest installment from Philly Youth Radio, Cavhanah Baht T’om talks about her safe place, Clark Park in West Philadelphia ...

A 75-year-old schoolteacher from Haverford has been indicted on charges of using her position to steal nearly $6 million from Philadelphi ...