Education
Pa. Gov. Wolf says school ratings should be less tied to tests
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf intends to steer the state away from school accountability measures that he says place too great an emphasis o ...
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Philadelphia ‘friends of’ groups band together to support neighborhood schools
Marketing and fundraising. These are just two things that the newly minted Friends of Neighborhood Public Education wants to do on ...
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Swapping climate change stories from Philadelphia and Mongolia
Four Mongolian high school students are in Philadelphia this week learning how climate change affects the lives of teenagers here. ...
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Gov. Wolf challenges Pa. schools to cut overhead
School districts across Pennsylvania have consistently made budget cuts for the past five years, and Gov. Tom Wolf is challenging them to ...
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Duncan visits Philly to press for Gov. Wolf’s education plan
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was in Philadelphia today to stump for Governor Tom Wolf’s education budget, which he says ...
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Wolf, advocates pushing for big ticket high-quality preschool in Pa.
Early childhood advocates are asking families across Pennsylvania to scrounge through their couch cushions on behalf of high-quality pres ...
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ListenPa. charter schools wary of the fine print in Gov. Wolf’s budget
Cautious optimism flutters in the hearts of Pennsylvania educators, but less so among the state’s charter schools. Gov. Tom ...
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Union, school district clash over warehoused textbooks
The union representing Philadelphia public school teachers is calling on its members to help go through piles of discarded books and dist ...
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Whether Pa.’s schools get a big boost in funding depends on whom you ask
Superintendents may get whiplash from trying to keep up with what Harrisburg wants them to do with proposed state funding. A partisan bat ...
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Stanford’s CREDO: Philly charter schools especially beneficial for low-income minorities
New analysis by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) has found that charter schools in urban are ...
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ListenPhilly schools chief talks tax increases, ‘friends of’ groups, and his own tenure
In each of the past few years, the Philadelphia School District has asked the city and state governments to provide hundreds of millions ...
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Monitoring social media for PARCC test cheating in NJ: ‘Creepy’ or necessary?
Social media monitoring by Pearson, the London-based company that runs PARCC testing in New Jersey, has tipped administrators off in some ...
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Philly teachers call on Kenney to be next mayor
Surrounded by teachers and students outside of John B. Kelly Elementary in Germantown Monday, Democratic mayoral hopeful Jim Kenney accep ...
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After devising winning ‘Rube Goldberg’ machine, Philly team off to national competition
Teams of high school engineers from around Philadelphia submitted “Rube Goldberg” machines that competed to successfully eras ...
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New analysis questions validity of Pa.’s School Performance Profile rating
Everyone wants to know how schools are doing — parents, teachers, taxpayers. School performance is followed closely, but the indivi ...
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