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Education

Mayor Jim Kenney and City Council President Darrell Clarke talk to students on first day of school. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)

Hope abounds as Philly schools begin new year out of crisis mode

At Paul Robeson High School in West Philadelphia, the first day of school didn’t come with talk of budgets or contracts or p ...

9 years ago

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 During a Wednesday budget hearing, Philadelphia Councilwoman Helen Gym urged city school district officials to hire more instrumental music teachers. (NewsWorks file photo)

Despite progress, teacher vacancies linger as Philly schools open

Despite an aggressive hiring spree, the School District of Philadelphia will start the year with scores of teacher vacancies, ...

9 years ago

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Wolf looks to working group for ideas on improving Pa. higher ed

Gov. Tom Wolf brought together a room full of education officials, college presidents, professors, and others Tuesday to brainstorm how t ...

9 years ago

 Consulting teacher Dana Singletary prepares a group of new teachers for the classroom during an orientation session at The Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush in Northeast Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

‘You are not alone’: A look at the rising trend of teacher ‘onboarding’

Twenty or 30 years ago most rookie teachers would get a textbook and a pat on the back before their first day in the classroom ...

9 years ago

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Attendance rising at Philly schools

School attendance is up in Philadelphia, at least according to the school district’s preferred metric. Abo ...

9 years ago

Some college professors are not quite sure how to handle teaching about Donald Trump and his improbable rise to become the Republican presidential nominee. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)

Trump 101: A quandary for some college profs

This election season has frequently been called unusual, at the very least, and that’s due in no small part to the unexpected candi ...

9 years ago

A Montgomery County judge finds that Lower Merion officials led residents and state officials to believe the school district was in danger of running major deficits when

Judge says Lower Merion school officials misled taxpayers

A Montgomery County judge has ordered one of the state’s highest-achieving school districts to slash its local property taxe ...

9 years ago

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Sui Hnem Sung (left foreground), 19, and her sister Van Ni Iang, 17, leave federal court in Easton ahead of Qasin Hassan, 17,(left) and Khadidja Issa, 18. They’re among six student refugees represented by a legal team including Education Law Center and American Civil Liberties Union attorneys in a lawsuit against the School District of Lancaster over enrollment, translation and other issues. (Emily Previti/WITF)
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Immigration
Pennsylvania

Judge rules against Lancaster school district in refugee lawsuit

Logistics are still being worked out, but the district’s spokeswoman says officials will comply with the order and enroll the six t ...

9 years ago

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A quick look at who applied for Philly’s pre-K money

The race for Philadelphia’s new flood of pre-K money is on. The city announced earlier this week that 85 p ...

9 years ago

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Pa. student’s viral speech on transgender bathroom law highlights challenge for school districts

Incoming Emmaus High freshman Sigourney Coyle had already been offered an accommodation to avoid changing in the school locker room when ...

9 years ago

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale says the process for addressing   charter school payment appeals is unclear and should be re-examined. (AP file photo)

Audit finds Pa. education department oversight on charter school payments insufficient

Pennsylvania’s process to address appeals of charter school payment is unclear, according to an audit that recommends it be re-exam ...

9 years ago

Students change classes at Julia de Burgos Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Race & Ethnicity

Report finds students of color shortchanged by Pa. school funding

Critics call the analysis "spin."

9 years ago

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Philadelphia School District headquarters at Broad and Spring Garden streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philly principals likely to follow teachers into labor limbo

With a week left until their current labor deal expires, Philadelphia’s public school principals and administrators are incr ...

9 years ago

U.S. Senator Bob Casey is running for reelection against Congressman Lou Barletta. (AP file photo)

Casey, education officials aim to enhance college campus safety

As college students return to campus for a new school year, Philadelphia-area education officials have been working to make sure they wil ...

9 years ago

Parents tour a classroom at Kenderton Elementary. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY
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Economic Development
K-12
Philadelphia

Rethinking school turnaround: A familiar story takes a new turn

In May, Scholar Academies — a charter management organization — suddenly announced it was abandoning its contract to manage Kenderton ...

9 years ago

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