Education
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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As NJ students refuse to take PARCC exams, school leaders argue against ‘opting out’
New Jersey education officials are pushing back against a growing wave of opposition to its new standardized tests, telling lawmakers tha ...
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ListenDistricts, parents take Pa. government to court over education funding
Judges must order Pennsylvania’s governor and legislature to guarantee the constitutional right of every student to a “thorou ...
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Philly students still learning English fuel opt-out movement from standardized tests
In 2014, Pennsylvania parents opted about 1,000 kids out of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, or PSSAs. This year, 100 parent ...
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Delaware, Christina School District reach priority schools compromise
Three struggling Wilmington schools will remain part of the Christina School District for the 2015-16 school year according to plan appro ...
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