Education

Nearly three months into the school year, the School District of Philadelphia is still navigating treacherous fiscal waters, having made ...

Beginning with the class of 2017, students in Pennsylvania will have to pass a state standardized test to earn a high school diploma. ...

A new photo mural uses the alphabet to spell out the hardships of the Philadelphia School District’s budget crisis. The 26-p ...

Philadelphia is not the only city in Pennsylvania whose educational institutions are battling a funding crisis. Sharon Ward, executive di ...

Anthony Majewski learned at an early age what it means to lose trust in the powers that be. As a sixth-grader, he says he was R ...

As executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Education Law Center, David Sciarra advocates for an equal and adequate educa ...

Last week I wrote a story highlighting LaTonia Lee’s struggle to ensure that her daughter Christina’s individualize ...

A top aide to a suburban Philadelphia woman accused of having defrauded three charter schools of more than $6.5 million has pleaded guilt ...

The Chester County District Attorney is asking the Coatesville School Board to cooperate with his criminal investigation into the distric ...

Among the items that Superintendent William Hite included in this week’s “ ...

Several district attorneys in Pennsylvania said Wednesday that they want the state to spend more on early childhood education. Fro ...

Gov. Corbett announced Wednesday that he would release the $45 million that the state had appropriated to the Philadelphia School Distric ...

With a skeletal support staff serving the city’s traditional public schools, many worry that the district has opened itself up to a ...

Harvey Finkle stood on the third floor of Fairhill Elementary and snapped a photo of a sight he hadn’t seen in three decades of doc ...

Many fans of the HBO crime drama “The Wire” consider it among the best TV series ever made. Now it’s serving as tool fo ...