
Education
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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ListenPhilly 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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ListenContentious 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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ListenPhilly 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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ListenSouth 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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ListenNJ 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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Philadelphia schools 2014: the budget crisis continues
The new normal in Philadelphia’s public school system has become inadequately resourced classrooms, labor strife and an on ...
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ListenSRC to vote on 39 charter applications Feb. 18, invites public comment
After a last-minute effort to put off the vote until ...
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Sayreville schools consider selling ad space on buses
Sayreville school officials are considering selling ad space, including on its buses, to raise money. The initiative calls for the ...
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Nearly half of Camden’s graduates get diplomas by appeal
The school district in Camden says that nearly half the students who graduate from the city’s public schools are doing it through a ...
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