Education

It’s a familiar tale in city classrooms — teachers spending hundreds or thousands out of pocket to provide basic supplies. ...

Large urban school districts such as Philadelphia should account for how charter growth might harm traditional district schools when gran ...

On Tuesday night a liberal group of teacher activists held a workshop in North Philadelphia and titled it “Educating in the Time of Tru ...

Does the School District of Philadelphia have a staffing problem? And if so, what can be done to solve it? Those were the primary ...

The president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers has rejected a four-year, $100 million contract offer from the district. ...

Upper Dublin High School in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, and Overbrook High School in Philadelphia are a mere 15 miles from ...

Unlike Thanksgiving feasts, school lunches don’t have the best reputation. So Philadelphia is trying a new tactic: let the kids shape t ...

Cops aren’t always a welcome sight in Philadelphia’s lowest-income neighborhoods. One organization is trying to change tha ...

With roots that date to the late 17th century, the prestigious Friends Select private school in Center City has watched the city around i ...

Under the gavel of a new chairperson, Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission considered much but did little at its Nove ...

There’s been a lot of attention the past week on how schools, teachers, and students are handling the results of the presidential elect ...

Test scores have begun to slip at Philly’s largest and most successful charter network. Now the race is on to figure out what went ...

On the first day of the SEPTA strike, only 61 percent of Philadelphia’s high school students attended classes, according to data ju ...

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney named Joyce Wilkerson, John Street’s former chief of staff, to the School Reform Commission on Thursday.< ...

Top U.S. House Democrat Nancy Pelosi showered praise on Philadelphia’s pre-K expansion during a Tuesday visit, and stump ...