Education
Helen Cunningham steps down from Fels Fund after 23 years
The long-tenured president of an influential Philadelphia philanthropic foundation is relinquishing her post. School-reform champi ...
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Grants trying to help Philly school art programs
Fifteen Philadelphia area schools have something to be thankful for. They are being awarded grants totaling $70,000 through Public ...
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Food pantries crop up to feed strapped college students in Philly, suburbs
Quaris Carter is not your typical undergraduate student. At 38, Carter lives in a halfway home and has taken some drastic measures to go ...
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Digital college readiness tool comes to Philly public schools
With the help of private philanthropy, the Philadelphia school district has inked a five-year deal that will give its 6th to 12th grade s ...
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Pa. standardized test scores continue slide over past three years
Pennsylvania’s standardized test scores have steadily declined over the past three years. The dropoff has been especially stark amo ...
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Judge delays January trial on Penn State sanctions
A judge is delaying a trial on the legality of the NCAA’s consent decree that punished Penn State for its handling of sex abuse com ...
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Sandusky won’t get his pension back
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky won’t be getting back the $4,900-a-month pension that was canceled two ye ...
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Philly schools adopt five-year plan with minimal ‘ask’ of $30 million
To maintain the same “insufficient” progams being offered this year, the Philadelphia School District says it will need an ad ...
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Philly Wakisha Charter school shutting for good earlier than planned
North Philadelphia’s Wakisha charter school is closing its doors this Friday, only the second charter school in Philadelphia histor ...
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Education groups at odds over study of Philly schools performance
An influential school reform group is urging Philadelphia school leaders to approve every charter school applicant that can effectively r ...
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ASPIRA charter provider on thin ice, Philly School District says
Philadelphia School District officials say time is running out for ASPIRA of Pennsylvania to resolve a host of fiscal concerns that could ...
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Staying true to their code at Penn Alexander, students master programming
Friday is the final day of Computer Science Education Week – where educators nationwide work to spark students’ interests in what ...
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Appeals court seems baffled by Philly teachers contract strife
“Dysfunctional … abnormal … extreme.” These were just a few of the words a Commonwealth Court judge used W ...
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Long-awaited hearings on new Philly charter school hopefuls begin
For the first time since 2007, the Philadelphia School District heard applications for new charter schools Monday. For years, citi ...
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Philly high school students ‘die-in’ after recent grand jury decisions [photos]
The grassroots outrage in Philadelphia continues following the non-indictments in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric ...
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