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 SRC commissioners Sylvia Simms, Bill Green, and Philadelphia school superintendent William Hite hear speaker testimony during February's charter application vote. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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 ...

10 years ago

 A preview of the 60-foot banner that adjuncts will carry during the Adjunct Day of Action march on Temple University's campus Monday. The banner is meant to  represent the 1,300 adjuncts who teach at Temple. (Image courtesy of American Federation of Teachers)

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 ...

10 years ago

 Members of the School Reform Commission listen to testimony Wednesday from charter school applicants. Those who submitted the 34 proposals the SRC turned down have the option of appealing that decision to a state Charter Appeal Board. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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 ...

10 years ago

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Gov. 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 ...

10 years ago

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 ...

10 years ago

 Charter school applicants and protesters crowd the School Reform Commission meeting Wednesday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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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Applicants who wish to open charter schools, opponents of those plans, protesters and parents crowded the School Reform Commission meeting in 2017. The marathon session, which began at 3:30 p.m., lasted well into the night. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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 ...

10 years ago

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 Philadelphia School Reform Commission Chairman Bill Green, left, and Superintendent William Hite chat at an October SRC meeting. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

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 ...

10 years ago

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 Report cards from last year's PA gubernatorial election shared candidates' views on fair funding, high stakes testing, transparency, labor relations and teaching practices. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)

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 ...

10 years ago

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 ...

10 years ago

 Paul Socolar, who founded the Philadelphia Public School Notebook in 1994, will step down in 2015. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

‘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 ...

10 years ago

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Citywide 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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New Jersey does not have a formal policy on allowing parents to opt out of  standardized testing for their kids, so organizers with groups like Save Our Schools NJ have created buttons and other materials to raise awareness. (Image courtesy of Jack Fairchild)

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 ...

10 years ago

Student breakfast at Penn Wood Middle School consists of a carton of juice, carton of milk, a piece of fruit, and a grain. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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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