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 Z is for Zipped is one of 26 photographs produced by students at the Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School. The works line Front Street near the school and express students' sadness and frustration with Philadelphia's school budget crisis, from A to Z. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Kensington mural spells out students’ concerns over Philly school cuts

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

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 Sharon Ward is the the director of the Pennsylvania Budget & Policy Center. (Matt Satullo/for NewsWorks, file)

3 reasons why you should care about the Pennsylvania school funding crisis

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

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 Hill-Freedman Principal Anthony Majewski poses with students (from left) Jason Temple, Serenity Stephens and Destinaé Mason before the ribbon is cut for the school's new 9th grade class. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Philly students risk a lot to buy into charismatic principal’s vision

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 ...

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 David Sciarra, Executive Director of Education Law Center discusses New Jersey's education funding formula's on NewsWorks Tonight.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)

Should Pa. look to N.J. for a fair education formula to support public schools?

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

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 Christina Lee, a 7th grader at Feltonville School of Arts and Science, dreams of becoming a fashion designer and likes to design tattoos in her sketch book. Lee's mother says the school is not meeting her daughter's IEP. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)

District comes closer to meeting needs of North Philly school; ‘not enough’ say some

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

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Aide pleads in Philly charter school fraud case

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

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Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan is asking members of Coatesville School Board to cooperate with his criminal investigation.   (File photo, Nathaniel Hamilton/For NewsWorks)

Coatesville School Board hinders investigation, says Chester County DA

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

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With negotiations ongoing, Hite adds factors for Philly teacher recall and assignment

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

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 District attorneys from Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia, Chester, and Cumberland counties all gathered outside the state correctional facility in Chester to voice their support of expanding pre-K education to more at-risk kids in Philadelphia. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

Pa. DAs: If we don’t pay for pre-K education now, we’ll pay for jail terms later

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

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Corbett to release $45 million that Pa. has been withholding; 400 jobs to be restored [update]

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

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 LaTonia Lee looks through her daughter's Individual Education Plan that was prepared in Georgia.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)

Trying to live up to special-ed law amid the Philly school budget crisis

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

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 Images from inside Germantown High School prior to closure will be part of the exhibit. (Courtesy of Laurie Beck Peterson)
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Photo exhibit opening this week chronicles the ‘decline and destruction’ of Philly public schools

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 ...

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 From left, actors Jermaine Crawford, Maestro Harrell, Tristan Wilds and Julito McCullum portray students in the Baltimore school system, the focus of the fourth season of HBO's dramatic series

Arcadia prof connects education class with ‘The Wire’ for lesson in real-life challenges

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 ...

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 Residents in Coatesville want the entire school board to resign for allowing the superintendent and high school athletic director to resign following the revelation the two had exchanged racist text messages. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)

Residents demand resignation of whole Coatesville school board

Many Coatesville residents are calling for the entire school board to resign for how it handled racist text messages between the former s ...

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 Philadelphia teacher Judy Willner, shown here in the WHYY studios, wrote a letter to Mayor Michael Nutter and Gov. Tom Corbett, saying

Ogontz teacher discusses frustrated letters she sent to Pa. gov. and Phila. mayor

Judy Willner teaches 3rd grade at Joseph Pennell Elementary School in Philadelphia’s Ogontz neighborhood. Last week she sent ...

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