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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 ...

10 years ago

 Students stage a 'Die-In' at the Philadelphia school administration building. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

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 ...

10 years ago

 Wakisha Charter School at 9th and Jefferson streets will close at the end of the week. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

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 ...

10 years ago

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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 ...

10 years ago

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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 ...

10 years ago

Moritz Endriss, 12, works on coding his holiday themed game at Penn Alexander elementary school. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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 ...

10 years ago

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 Superintendent William Hite said that the $44 million will be redirected into the schools for things such as counseling, aides and materials. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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 ...

10 years ago

 Germantown residents show support for the Germantown Community applicant at the SRC charter school application hearings on Monday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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 ...

10 years ago

Students at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia participate in a 'die-in' to remember the recent deaths of African Americans by law enforcement. (KImberly Paynter/WHYY)

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 ...

10 years ago

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Timisha Smith-Rafi and Laura Whitfield work with their sheep to prepare them for statewide competitions. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Despite budget cuts, students reap essential lessons at Philly’s Saul farm school [photos]

Isaiah Orellana’s school day starts early, hours-before-dawn early. “I get up at 5 o’clock. I shower. I clean up ...

10 years ago

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 Comedian Bill Cosby appears at Temple University's commencement in Philadelphia in 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Bill Cosby resigns from Temple University board [updated]

Bill Cosby has stepped down from his alma mater’s board of trustees, fo ...

10 years ago

 Teachers and support staff at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf are taking steps to unionize. (Photo via Technically Philly)

Staffers push to unionize at Pa. School for the Deaf

Lamenting a recent string of unilateral decisions by management, teachers and support staff at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf filed ...

10 years ago

Philly school district to hear new charter school pitches for first time in years

For the first time in years, the Philadelphia School District is accepting applications to open new charter schools. Many of the a ...

11 years ago

 A graph comparing the Philadelphia School District's adequacy gap with that of the state's other 24 districts with high concentration of poverty. (Image courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education)

UPenn report finds Pa. schools need an additional $3.5 billion

A new report from the University of Pennsylvania finds that the state’s school districts need additional $3.5 billion to educate al ...

11 years ago

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Analyzing enrollment trends in Philly schools – district, charter and Catholic

Between this school year and last, K-12 enrollment in the Philadelphia School District fell from roughly 132,000 students to 128,000. ...

11 years ago

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