Education

The School Reform Commission voted Wednesday night to approve five charters, with conditions: Independence Charter West, KIPP DuBois, MaS ...

The Philadelphia School Reform Commission is in the process of listening to testimony that will ultimately be used this evening to decide ...

After hundreds of hours of hearings on an “unprecedented” 39 applications, the School Reform Commission voted to conditionall ...

It’s one of the essential questions of urban education. If you can give some children a better opportunity, but you potentially und ...

Fresh off a trial run grading candidates for governor of Pennsylvania, a group of Philadelphia teachers is getting ready to evaluate the ...

Bryn Mawr College has become the fifth women’s college in the country to update its admission policy to include transgender applica ...

A titan of Philadelphia’s independent journalism scene is stepping down. Paul Socolar, editor, publisher and co-founder of the Phil ...

Last weekend, the Central High School gym in Philadelphia was filled with the usual sounds of balls falling, rolling and going into goals ...

The costumed lions roared. The drumlines marched. Young and old mixed over traditional food, music and game. For the second year r ...

The Moorestown, New Jersey, school district has bowed to parent requests to let students opt out of PARCC tests, a statewide exam focusin ...

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 ...

The new normal in Philadelphia’s public school system has become inadequately resourced classrooms, labor strife and an on ...

After a last-minute effort to put off the vote until  ...

Sayreville school officials are considering selling ad space, including on its buses, to raise money. The initiative calls for the ...

The school district in Camden says that nearly half the students who graduate from the city’s public schools are doing it through a ...