Education

The Philadelphia School Partnership will provide $10.5 million in startup grants to five new charter schools approved to open for the 201 ...

Four charter management organizations have applied to take over operations at three district elementary schools and run them as neighborh ...

The Pennsylvania legislature is one step closer to pushing back using standardized tests as a graduation requirement. As is, state ...

Pennsylvania’s House is giving its approval to a plan to delay for two years a set of mandatory tests for students before they can ...

Many Pennsylvania schools and organizations that rely on state money have been suffering as the budget impasse has cut off funding. ...

In his first major policy announcement since winning election, Philadelphia Mayor-elect Jim Kenney formalized a campaign promise to creat ...

Pediatricians prescribe many things, but a prescription for books may surprise parents. Research shows many parents don’t re ...

Does Pennsylvania’s school rating system make the grade? In a recent ...

The Philadelphia School Reform Commission hosted a marathon meeting Thursday night featuring a slate of nearly 70 public speakers. The bu ...

Caitlyn Bordon, a senior at Millersville University, thought she was hearing firecrackers or distant thunder, but it would turn out to be ...

For many Philadelphia families, the city’s special admissions magnet schools are key resources that keep them from moving out of to ...

Philadelphia Schools Superintendent William Hite intends to present a new plan for covering teacher vacancies after months of dissatisfac ...

Some of Gov. Tom Wolf’s friends in organized labor are making some noise about the lack of a Marcellus Shale drilling tax in the em ...

Fourteen potential Philadelphia charter operators submitted applications for proposed new schools by the November 15 deadline.  That ...

Without local revenue options, school districts could be left without the money they need. Tiny preschoolers and K-12 school stude ...