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Education

Could life experiences count for college credits?

Five New Jersey colleges are experimenting with offering students college credits for showing what they have learned from their jobs and ...

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Special-ed cuts won’t hurt students, Philly school officials say

The Philadelphia School District laid off 157 special-education classroom assistants and one-to-one aides last week in a move that offici ...

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 U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, right, and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter host a roundtable discussion on President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative Friday in Philadelphia, listening to a dozen young men of color share their experiences. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Meeting with U.S. education chief, Philly youth of color discuss struggles and success

Drug abuse. Violence. Incarceration. Those are the pitfalls that plague far too many young men of color in America, according to t ...

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 Philadelphia Schools Superintendent William Hite. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Without cigarette tax, Philly schools chief says layoffs to begin Aug. 15

After winning a major victory in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives last week, the proposed cigarette tax for Philly schools appea ...

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Philly lawmaker cautions that cigarette tax for schools not a done deal

Last week, the Republican-held, tax averse Pennsylvania House of Representatives gave its blessing to Philadelphia’s $2-per-pack ci ...

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Tradeoffs lurk beneath new Philly schools’ cigarette tax

Very probable, optimistic, off the table, never happening, dead, passed.Such was a week in the life of the Philadelphia cigarette tax. ...

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 Now that the Pennsylvania Legislature has passed a Philadelphia cigarette tax of $2, smokers in the city will be paying an average of $8 or $9 per pack. The extra tax revenue will go to the city school district. (AP file photo)

Update: Pa. House passes cigarette tax for Philly schools

Update: Legislation that would enable Philadelphia to levy a $2-per-pack tax on cigarettes passed the Pennsylvania House of Representativ ...

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Waiting on Harrisburg, Philly Schools adopt ‘placeholder’ budget

By unanimous vote, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission passed a budget Monday night that includes a $93 million placeholder for mon ...

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Offering an ultimatum, Corbett calls for pension reform before he’ll OK Philly cigarette tax

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett says Democratic state lawmakers should pony up votes to pass a public pension overhaul bill if they want Ph ...

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Will Philly delegation ‘play ball’ on budget to win dollars for city schools?

Facing a $66 million budget shortfall that threatens to turn schools into “empty shells,” the Philadelphia school district ha ...

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 A committee of the Neshaminy School Board meets to discuss the school newspaper's ban on the use of the word Redskins. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)

Neshaminy student editors bristle, but school district insisting on printing mascot name ‘Redskins’

A Bucks County school district is now one step closer to passing a policy that would effectively force the high school’s newspaper ...

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 St. Malachy Catholic School provides schooling to children from kindergarten through eighth grade. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

Catholic ‘mission schools’ get a helping hand to persevere in Philly

While funding woes plague the Philadelphia School District, some Catholic schools in Philadelphia’s struggling neighborhoods are ch ...

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Superintendent Hite: Pa. not providing Philly kids a ‘thorough and efficient’ education

Has Pennsylvania been coming through on its constitutional requirement to provide all children with a “thorough and efficient” ...

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Harriet Tubman

Still short of funds, Philly School District turns its eyes to Harrisburg

Despite securing additional funding from City Council last week, the Philadelphia School District still faces a budget gap that threatens ...

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Athletics now open to all in N.J. schools

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie recalled what a big part organized sports played in his early life as he signed a bill granting disabled s ...

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