Education

Imagine a public high school in Philadelphia where class sizes are small, test scores are high, and violent incidents are almost non-exis ...

Alan Jacobs dropped out of Kensington High School at 16 and soon found himself locked up on a gun charge. His mom, Emma Johnson, f ...

The sun is hot. Water is wet. Teenagers like to sleep in. These truths we know to be self-evident. The American Academy of ...

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Under a blazing August sun, Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf practiced the politics of friendly with red-shirted ...

Charter schools in Pennsylvania are defined by their flexibility and freedom from many state regulations. A new ...

A study released this summer finds charter scho ...

Parents searching for high-quality pre-kindergarten options for their children can be overwhelmed trying to find a school they can trust. ...

A Philadelphia judge has put the brakes on plans by Girard College to suspend its high school and boarding programs next year in order to ...

A judge has ruled that a Philadelphia school founded more than a century and a half ago to serve disadvantaged students cannot suspend it ...

“Why on earth would you want to work in the Philadelphia school district?” It’s the question the leader of city ...

It’s all been written before. The Philadelphia School District was in brutal financial shape last year. Overfilled classroom ...

In a move that leaders hope will be temporary, the Philadelphia School District will not fill its staffing vacancies for school police of ...

A first-of-its-kind ...

“Transportation is a privilege, not a right,” says the ...