Education
Philly schools will beg city and state to help close $242 M deficit
The struggling Philadelphia School District, hoping to close a $242 million budget shortfall for next school year, plans to slash labor c ...
12 years ago
KIPP backs out of deal to buy vacant Philadelphia school
Citing uncertainty about its pending requests to expand, KIPP Philadelphia has backed away from a deal to buy long-abandoned Rudolph Walt ...
12 years ago
With parent demand surging, 20 charters seeking to expand in Philadelphia
Chrissy Poper has been trying to get her eight-year old daughter into popular MaST Community Charter School in Northeast Philadelphia for ...
12 years ago
WHYY/NewsWorks schools reporter wins national honor
Benjamin B. Herold, education reporter for WHYY/NewsWorks, has been honored by the Education Writers Association as the best schools beat ...
12 years ago
New lesson plan: Temple professor invites students to tweet during class
It’s no news to most professors that students who bring their laptops in class do more than take notes. One professor at Tem ...
12 years ago
After an excruciating day of protests and pleas for mercy, Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission voted Thursday night to close 23 ...
12 years ago
For Philadelphia’s neighborhood elementary schools, a tale of two cities
In Philadelphia’s Far Northeast, within city lines but long its own sprawling world, the traditional neighborhood public elementary ...
12 years ago
In Philly, the struggle to make high school work pits sentiment vs. data
Most of Philadelphia’s neighborhood high schools have turned into half-empty “dropout factories.” Public school c ...
12 years ago
ListenWHYY will host young producers Tuesday at Philly Youth Radio Showcase
On Tuesday, Feb. 26, Philly Youth Radio Project (PYR) will present their prog ...
12 years ago
Imhotep, MLK High both advance to Public League basketball semifinals [Photos]
In 2011, Imhotep Institute Charter High School won its third consecutive Public League basketball title, but its quest for a fourpeat fel ...
12 years ago
Council set to hold Philadelphia school closing hearings
Over six weeks, parents, students, labor unions, and clergy have all taken turns blasting the School District of Philadelphia’s pla ...
12 years ago
Universal is one laggard among first batch of ‘Renaissance’ charters in Philly
Philadelphia’s independent Renaissance school operators are bringing families back to struggling neighborhood public schools that t ...
12 years ago
It’s a shame Pa. chose to become a Wild West of charter schools
The state of Pennsylvania just got caught cooking the books. Which books? Well, this little scam didn’t have to do with doll ...
12 years ago
New president for Philly’s Independence Mission Schools
A non-profit organization set up to manage a network of independent Catholic schools in Philadelphia has a new president. Al ...
12 years ago
Anxiety, anger for parents hoping to enroll kids at Penn Alexander
For parents hoping to enroll their children in kindergarten at coveted Penn Alexander Elementary School in West Philadelphia, it’s ...
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