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Andy MacCracken is executive Director of the National Campus Leadership Council. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Job-readiness sessions help college students gain company insights [UPDATED]

Unemployment numbers are rising, but millennials are still havi ...

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 Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol building Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pennsylvania’s budget impasse is blocking state-related universities from receiving funding

More than a half a billion dollars is being held up for the four “state-related” schools, Penn State ...

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 Children at the Paley Early Learning Center in Northeast Philadelphia play with blocks and toy cars. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Paying for high-quality pre-K cast as investment in Pa. future

One Wednesday morning at the Paley Early Learning Center in Northeast Philadelphia, 4-year-old Quincy was learning how to write the lette ...

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Mayoral hopefuls debate education at South Philly elementary school

The Democratic candidates for Philadelphia Mayor debated perhaps the most important issue in this years race Tuesday night: public educat ...

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 Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf looks over a quilt made by Andrew Jackson Elementary School students in this 2014 file photo (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

Pa. Gov. Wolf says school ratings should be less tied to tests

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf intends to steer the state away from school accountability measures that he says place too great an emphasis o ...

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 Jeff Hornstein, co-chair of the Philadelphia Crosstown Coalition Education Committee and president of the Queen Village Neighbors Association. (Lauren Summers/Philly School News)

Philadelphia ‘friends of’ groups band together to support neighborhood schools

Marketing and fundraising. These are just two things that the newly minted Friends of Neighborhood Public Education  wants to do on ...

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Swapping climate change stories from Philadelphia and Mongolia

Four Mongolian high school students are in Philadelphia this week learning how climate change affects the lives of teenagers here. ...

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 Philadelphia School District headquarters at Broad and Spring Garden streets. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Gov. Wolf challenges Pa. schools to cut overhead

School districts across Pennsylvania have consistently made budget cuts for the past five years, and Gov. Tom Wolf is challenging them to ...

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Duncan visits Philly to press for Gov. Wolf’s education plan

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was in Philadelphia today to stump for Governor Tom Wolf’s education budget, which he says ...

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 Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf speaks at the Delaware Valley Association for Education of Young Children's conference. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)

Wolf, advocates pushing for big ticket high-quality preschool in Pa.

Early childhood advocates are asking families across Pennsylvania to scrounge through their couch cushions on behalf of high-quality pres ...

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Pa. charter schools wary of the fine print in Gov. Wolf’s budget

Cautious optimism flutters in the hearts of Pennsylvania educators, but less so among the state’s charter schools. Gov. Tom ...

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Union, school district clash over warehoused textbooks

The union representing Philadelphia public school teachers is calling on its members to help go through piles of discarded books and dist ...

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Whether Pa.’s schools get a big boost in funding depends on whom you ask

Superintendents may get whiplash from trying to keep up with what Harrisburg wants them to do with proposed state funding. A partisan bat ...

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 This slide, taken from CREDO's Urban Charter School Study illustrates the enrollment trends by demographics in Philly charter schools.

Stanford’s CREDO: Philly charter schools especially beneficial for low-income minorities

New analysis by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) has found that charter schools in urban are ...

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Philly schools chief talks tax increases, ‘friends of’ groups, and his own tenure

In each of the past few years, the Philadelphia School District has asked the city and state governments to provide hundreds of millions ...

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