Education
Philadelphia district nets $42 million from selling former schools
The George W. Childs Elementary School is one of 12 former schools the district has sold since 2013. Sales are pending for another ...
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To Tom Wolf: Childhood trauma is the elephant in the classroom
An open letter to Gov. Wolf and Education Secretary-designee Rivera regarding injured, marginalized children in Pennsylvania schools aff ...
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Conservative group sues Philly teachers union over ‘egregious’ contract provision
The Fairness Center, a conservative nonprofit with offices in King of Prussia and Harrisburg, has filed a lawsuit against the Philadelphi ...
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How to opt your child out of the PSSAs
You may have heard the buzz around the growing “opt out” movement in Philadelphia and throughout the nation. In just one city ...
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District appeals to Pa. Supreme Court on teachers contract decision
The School Reform Commission is asking the state Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision that the SRC lacks the authority to canc ...
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Adjuncts march on Temple campus to demand better pay, benefits and union
Temple University’s motto is “Perseverance Conquers,” and that’s exactly what adjunct faculty members are hoping ...
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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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