Education

Once a hotbed of charter school expansion, Philadelphia has seen charter applications slow to a trickle. Just four organizations a ...

Inside a conference room at a swanky hotel in Wilmington, Delaware, about 30 classroom teachers sit in tiered rows arranged like a mini-a ...

A year after Jim Kenney was sworn in, the Philadelphia mayor’s signature initiative has lifted off. Except for the chilly we ...

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 ...