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Christina Lee, a 7th grader at Feltonville School of Arts and Science, dreams of becoming a fashion designer and likes to design tattoos in her sketch book. Lee's mother says the school is not meeting her daughter's IEP. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)

District comes closer to meeting needs of North Philly school; ‘not enough’ say some

Last week I wrote a story highlighting LaTonia Lee’s struggle to ensure that her daughter Christina’s individualize ...

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Aide pleads in Philly charter school fraud case

A top aide to a suburban Philadelphia woman accused of having defrauded three charter schools of more than $6.5 million has pleaded guilt ...

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Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan is asking members of Coatesville School Board to cooperate with his criminal investigation. (File photo, Nathaniel Hamilton/For NewsWorks)

Coatesville School Board hinders investigation, says Chester County DA

The Chester County District Attorney is asking the Coatesville School Board to cooperate with his criminal investigation into the distric ...

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With negotiations ongoing, Hite adds factors for Philly teacher recall and assignment

Among the items that Superintendent William Hite included in this week’s “ ...

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District attorneys from Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia, Chester, and Cumberland counties all gathered outside the state correctional facility in Chester to voice their support of expanding pre-K education to more at-risk kids in Philadelphia. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

Pa. DAs: If we don’t pay for pre-K education now, we’ll pay for jail terms later

Several district attorneys in Pennsylvania said Wednesday that they want the state to spend more on early childhood education. Fro ...

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Corbett to release $45 million that Pa. has been withholding; 400 jobs to be restored [update]

Gov. Corbett announced Wednesday that he would release the $45 million that the state had appropriated to the Philadelphia School Distric ...

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LaTonia Lee looks through her daughter's Individual Education Plan that was prepared in Georgia. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)

Trying to live up to special-ed law amid the Philly school budget crisis

With a skeletal support staff serving the city’s traditional public schools, many worry that the district has opened itself up to a ...

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Images from inside Germantown High School prior to closure will be part of the exhibit. (Courtesy of Laurie Beck Peterson)

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Photo exhibit opening this week chronicles the ‘decline and destruction’ of Philly public schools

Harvey Finkle stood on the third floor of Fairhill Elementary and snapped a photo of a sight he hadn’t seen in three decades of doc ...

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From left, actors Jermaine Crawford, Maestro Harrell, Tristan Wilds and Julito McCullum portray students in the Baltimore school system, the focus of the fourth season of HBO's dramatic series

Arcadia prof connects education class with ‘The Wire’ for lesson in real-life challenges

Many fans of the HBO crime drama “The Wire” consider it among the best TV series ever made. Now it’s serving as tool fo ...

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Residents in Coatesville want the entire school board to resign for allowing the superintendent and high school athletic director to resign following the revelation the two had exchanged racist text messages. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)

Residents demand resignation of whole Coatesville school board

Many Coatesville residents are calling for the entire school board to resign for how it handled racist text messages between the former s ...

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Philadelphia teacher Judy Willner, shown here in the WHYY studios, wrote a letter to Mayor Michael Nutter and Gov. Tom Corbett, saying

Ogontz teacher discusses frustrated letters she sent to Pa. gov. and Phila. mayor

Judy Willner teaches 3rd grade at Joseph Pennell Elementary School in Philadelphia’s Ogontz neighborhood. Last week she sent ...

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Grover Washington Jr. Middle School teachers Alison Barnes and Gwen Huett don sumo suits to explain basic physics to fifth grade students as part of the

Performance art teaches Philly students basic principles of physics [video]

Students at Grover Washington Jr. Middle School in North East Philadelphia experienced a special performance called, “FMA Live! For ...

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Chris Lehmann, at right, the principal and founder of the Science Leadership Academy, is being honored with the Harold W. McGraw Jr. education award. It's known in school circles as the Nobel Prize of the educational community. (NewsWorks file photo)

Eric Cantor tells Philly school vouchers and charters are the future of American education

As the cash-strapped Philadelphia school district began its third week of classes operating under a severely reduced budget, House Majori ...

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2 Pa. school officials resign, DA investigating

School officials say two high-ranking administrators at a large southeastern Pennsylvania district have stepped down amid a criminal inve ...

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Pa. to unveil new grading system for schools

Education officials are set to unveil a new grading system for public schools across Pennsylvania. The School Performance Profile ...

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