Education
City’s financial commitment to Philly schools only half-hearted, district says
Philadelphia’s City Council gave initial approval to a slate of tax increases and asset sales to support the cash-strapped city sch ...
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Union cries foul at Philly School District’s plans to outsource substitute teachers, medical care
The mother of a fourth-grader with medical needs at Lingelbach Elementary school in Philadelphia says private agency nurses did not work ...
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Schools in 40 Pa. counties would struggle with Keystone graduation requirement
A new brief details how complicated it could get to help students graduate who can’t pass those exams. Pennsylvania students ...
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Pa. school funding panel wants more time to issue report
A 15-member commission created to produce an objective formula to distribute state aid to Pennsylvania’s public schools is not goin ...
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Too often we hear school officials, experts, advocates, and yes, even journalists throw around terms like “block grants” and ...
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Pa. Teacher of the Year finalist makes sure kids have a ball while they’re learning
Yoga balls have helped one Delaware County teacher become a finalist for this year’s Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year. Pam G ...
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Pa. teens working harder to find summer jobs
For many kids, summer means swims at the pool and a reprieve from homework. But for many others, it can mean their first taste of employm ...
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ListenPenn State’s Erickson highest-paid public college leader in ’14
A new survey says former Penn State President Rodney Erickson was the highest-paid public college president in fiscal year 2014, with nea ...
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For and against standardized tests: Two student perspectives
These two essays were written by students in Katherine Cohen’s 7th-grade English class at Greenberg Elementary in Northeast Philade ...
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Non-native speakers feel lucky to graduate before Pa. Keystone test requirement
Starting with the Class of 2017, Pennsylvania students will need to pass standardized tests in literature, algebra and biology in order t ...
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ListenPhilly Council introduces framework of school funding strategy
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s plan to raise $105 million in recurring revenue for the city schools by hiking property taxes n ...
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Sanctions or success: Hundreds of Philly students opted-out of standardized tests this year
This spring, Tonya Bah sent a letter to parents with children at Wagner Middle School in West Oak Lane, where her daughter Fulani is in t ...
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‘First in Math’ program adds up to good results in Philly school district
Some of Philadelphia’s best young math students were honored Tuesday by the organizers of an online program called “First in ...
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Philly SRC answers questions about itself, its decisions, in townhall-style meeting
Trying to get answers from a large bureaucracy can feel banging your head against a wall. Last night, the Philadelphia School Refo ...
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‘Education reform’ needs to focus on learners, not numbers
“Education Reform” is, in effect, false advertising and deceptive packaging, brought to you by sponsors who are not professional educ ...
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