Education

The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers union kicked off the school year Thursday by celebrating the restoration of full-time ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Critics call the analysis "spin."

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

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