Education
Philly schools revise cost of charter expansion after NewsWorks analysis
Fact checking by WHYY/NewsWorks found that this cost was actually overinflated by almost double. We went down the rabbit hole on t ...
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Adjunct faculty plan Temple march for better pay, job security
If you’re taking a college class, chances are your teacher is an adjunct professor. Adjuncts are the fastest growing group o ...
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Charter school providers turned down in Philly can make a case before state appeals board
Marc Mannella is a veteran of the Philadelphia education reform movement, but his education in the finer points of charter law may have o ...
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ListenGov. Wolf decries Philly’s charter school expansion
Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission has approved just five of 39 new charter school applications, but Gov. Tom Wolf and a teach ...
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SRC Scorecard: Here’s how the commissioners voted
The School Reform Commission voted Wednesday night to approve five charters, with conditions: Independence Charter West, KIPP DuBois, MaS ...
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SRC hearing from applicants, opponents in prelude to vote on 39 charter school proposals
The Philadelphia School Reform Commission is in the process of listening to testimony that will ultimately be used this evening to decide ...
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Philly SRC approves five new charter schools, rejects 34, protesters arrested [photos]
After hundreds of hours of hearings on an “unprecedented” 39 applications, the School Reform Commission voted to conditionall ...
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Contentious debate over Philly charter expansion comes to a head Wednesday
It’s one of the essential questions of urban education. If you can give some children a better opportunity, but you potentially und ...
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Philly teachers group to ‘grade’ city election candidates
Fresh off a trial run grading candidates for governor of Pennsylvania, a group of Philadelphia teachers is getting ready to evaluate the ...
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Bryn Mawr College becomes most recent women’s college to accept transgender students
Bryn Mawr College has become the fifth women’s college in the country to update its admission policy to include transgender applica ...
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‘Icon’ of independent journalism on Philly schools prepares to step down
A titan of Philadelphia’s independent journalism scene is stepping down. Paul Socolar, editor, publisher and co-founder of the Phil ...
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ListenCitywide robotics competition offers showcase, opportunity for Philly students [photos]
Last weekend, the Central High School gym in Philadelphia was filled with the usual sounds of balls falling, rolling and going into goals ...
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South Philly High five years later: stability replaces ‘deliberate indifference’
The costumed lions roared. The drumlines marched. Young and old mixed over traditional food, music and game. For the second year r ...
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NJ parents spur Moorestown district policy on opting out of standardized tests
The Moorestown, New Jersey, school district has bowed to parent requests to let students opt out of PARCC tests, a statewide exam focusin ...
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Champions of breakfast help Delco school stand out in 41st-place Pa.
A new report shows Pennsylvania lags behind most of the country when it comes to providing free and reduced-cost breakfast and lunch to l ...
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