Education

Charter schools are supposed to be nimble and innovative, but the process to close an underperforming charter is anything but. Six ...

Parents of about 100 students at North Philadelphia’s Feltonville School of Arts and Sciences have signed letters withdrawing their ...

One of Pennsylvania’s most powerful state lawmakers says the actions of Philadelphia City Council may put additional funding in jeo ...

A former Philadelphia elementary school principal has been ordered to stand trial on allegations of cheating on standardized tests. ...

In a decision Thursday morning, Commonwealth Court has ruled that the School District of Philadelphia lacked the authority to cancel the ...

Last week, Philadelphia providers of after-school programs such as tutoring and college prep were shaken up when their budgets were cut w ...

To figure out why some of his elementary school students struggle with reading, Daun Kauffman sometimes has learned as much in home visit ...

For Martin Luther King Day, we offer this rebroadcast: According to a ...

After five months of organizing, teachers and staff at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf voted overwhelmingly to unionize. The ...

The size of the pie matters, not just how you slice it. So said a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Re ...

Should there be more charter schools in Philadelphia? That’s the question currently being weighed by the School Reform Commi ...

A federal judge has declined to throw out a Pennsylvania law requiring a $60 million fine Penn State has been paying over the Jerry Sandu ...

As the Corbett administration draws near its final days,  perhaps the departure of Pa. Budget Secretary Charles Zogby&nbs ...

The pieces are starting to fall into place for one of the volatile parts of Pennsylvania government for the incoming administration. ...

Five schools in Philadelphia made the cut for a “high progress” designation, based on increases in achievement in math and re ...