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Penn State forecasts no in-state tuition hike

Penn State President Eric Barron is proposing a budget without a tuition increase for the university’s in-state undergraduates in t ...

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Pa. says 2015 standardized test scores dropped precipitously because of added rigor

And it marks a fourth straight year of test score declines. UPDATE: The number of Pennsylvania students wh ...

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Grisel Pellot, 14, a recent graduate of De Burgos Elementary, with her grandmother, Aurora Sepulveda. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)

How a Philly school in a free-fire zone went from lockdown to hopes up

For many Philadelphia students, profound violence and trauma underlie the rhythms of daily life – making academic success all the more ...

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 Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput said the Sisters of Mercy and board members who run Waldron Mercy Academy in Lower Merion Township are simply being

Philly archbishop says Merion school’s firing of teacher in same-sex marriage shows ‘character’

Philadelphia’s archbishop says that Catholic school leaders who fired a married gay teacher showed uncommon “character and co ...

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 Francis Barnes, right, prepares to answer questions moments before his confirmation hearing as Pennsylvania's education secretary in 2004. Barnes has been appointed receiver of the troubled Chester-Upland School District. (AP file photo)

Chester-Upland gets veteran superintendent as interim receiver

Francis V. Barnes has had contact with the long-troubled Chester-Upland School District, located in Delaware County, for more than a deca ...

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 Olney Charter High School teachers celebrate their vote to unionize in late April. Developments at the school since then have changed the mood dramatically.(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Layoffs, deficit raise new questions about ASPIRA charters in Philly

A multimillion-dollar budget deficit and a round of layoffs have left Philadelphia School District officials with more questions than eve ...

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Parents, lawmaker rally around Merion teacher fired over same-sex marriage

Until two weeks ago, Margie Winters directed the religious education program at Waldron Mercy Academy in Merion. Officials at the ...

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 Teachers and other personnel from the Philadelphia School District protest  massive cuts in 2013. An arbitrator has ruled the district was wrong to ignore seniority when rehiring guidance counselors it laid off at that time. (AP file photo)

Arbitrator faults Philly district for ignoring seniority when rehiring school counselors

An independent arbitrator has ruled against the Philadelphia School District for not taking seniority into account when rehiring laid-off ...

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 Kylee Mendez reads while she listens in her 4-year-old class at FELS Paley Center in North Philadelphia in this March, 2015, file photo. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philly school district kicks off $30 million push for early literacy

Close to 700 K-3 teachers from 40 District schools are attending a weeklong summer institute at Martin Luther King High School in East Ge ...

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Former Penn State-Abington prof gets jail time in child porn

A former suburban Philadelphia university music professor accused of sending explicit pictures to a teenage girl in Spain has been senten ...

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Philly schools chief declines $60K bonus

Philadelphia’s Superintendent of public schools, William Hite, is declining to accept a salary bonus, saying it’s not suitabl ...

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 City Controller Alan Butkovitz shares findings from a report on school conditions with the press. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)

Unsanitary, unsafe conditions found in Philadelphia schools

Periodically, city officials shine a spotlight on the condition of school buildings in the School District of Philadelphia. Not for the f ...

10 years ago

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 Matt Stanski, chief financial officer of the School District of Philadelphia, answers a question during the Tuesday meeting of the School Reform Commission. (Laura Bensfoff/WHYY)

Phila. School District passes an austere — but hopeful — budget

With a final budget from Harrisburg missing in action, the Philadelphia School District adopted its own ...

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 Pre-K teacher Danielle Slipp shows Quincy Hylaris how to make an L. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philadelphia’s universal pre-K commission begins work

Philadelphia’s push to make quality preschool available citywide has taken another step with the inaugural meeting of the MayorR ...

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 Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Dave Reed, R-Indiana, speaks to members of the media after Gov. Tom Wolf delivered his budget address for the 2015-16 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate  March 3 in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)

Making sense of Pa. school funding: budgets, formulas and stalemates

In sight of the state’s budget deadline of July 1, education funding for Pennsylvania schools is still a question mark. Over ...

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