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By listening, Delco’s Adolph helps blue and red Pennsylvania hear each other
William Adolph, Republican from Delaware County, has become a go-to guy for Pennsylvania lawmakers pursuing compromise, on school funding ...
10 years ago
ListenPhilly SRC asks for more time to decide on charter applications
In an email that went out today, the Philadelphia School District’s Charter Office requested that new charter applicants sign a wai ...
10 years ago
Philly Artrepreneurs wins $5,000 from innovation contest
A new program, Philly Artrepreneurs, gives students a way to use their art skills to fund their favorite charity. The program won $5,000 ...
10 years ago
Should Pa. require students to pass standardized tests to graduate high school?
The clock is ticking. By 2017, in order to graduate high school in Pennsylvania, students must pass three state standardized tests. ...
11 years ago
Philly’s Truebright charter appeals shutdown order to Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court
Charter schools are supposed to be nimble and innovative, but the process to close an underperforming charter is anything but. Six ...
11 years ago
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District investigates Philly school with standardized test opt-out rate of 20 percent
Parents of about 100 students at North Philadelphia’s Feltonville School of Arts and Sciences have signed letters withdrawing their ...
11 years ago
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Pa. house speaker blasts City Council on PGW, warns of repercussions to Philly schools
One of Pennsylvania’s most powerful state lawmakers says the actions of Philadelphia City Council may put additional funding in jeo ...
11 years ago
ListenTrial ordered for ex-principal in test cheating probe
A former Philadelphia elementary school principal has been ordered to stand trial on allegations of cheating on standardized tests. ...
11 years ago
Court rules in favor of Philly teachers, saying SRC had no authority to cancel contract
In a decision Thursday morning, Commonwealth Court has ruled that the School District of Philadelphia lacked the authority to cancel the ...
11 years ago
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After false start, DHS evaluating Philly after-school programs for possible cuts
Last week, Philadelphia providers of after-school programs such as tutoring and college prep were shaken up when their budgets were cut w ...
11 years ago
No shortage of reasons why so many can’t read
To figure out why some of his elementary school students struggle with reading, Daun Kauffman sometimes has learned as much in home visit ...
11 years ago
What are teens learning about Civil Rights in school?
For Martin Luther King Day, we offer this rebroadcast: According to a ...
Air Date: January 19, 2015
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Pa. School for the Deaf faculty and staff vote to unionize
After five months of organizing, teachers and staff at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf voted overwhelmingly to unionize. The ...
11 years ago
Pew report: PA funding formula not a silver bullet, overall state funding matters too
The size of the pie matters, not just how you slice it. So said a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Re ...
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Philly mayoral candidates mull charter school expansion
Should there be more charter schools in Philadelphia? That’s the question currently being weighed by the School Reform Commi ...
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