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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 ...

12 years ago

 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 ...

12 years ago

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 Grover Washington Jr. Middle School teachers Alison Barnes and Gwen Huett don sumo suits to explain basic physics to fifth grade students as part of the

Performance art teaches Philly students basic principles of physics [video]

Students at Grover Washington Jr. Middle School in North East Philadelphia experienced a special performance called, “FMA Live! For ...

12 years ago

 Chris Lehmann, at right, the principal and founder of the Science Leadership Academy, is being honored with the  Harold W. McGraw Jr. education award. It's known in school circles as the Nobel Prize of the educational community. (NewsWorks file photo)

Eric Cantor tells Philly school vouchers and charters are the future of American education

As the cash-strapped Philadelphia school district began its third week of classes operating under a severely reduced budget, House Majori ...

12 years ago

2 Pa. school officials resign, DA investigating

School officials say two high-ranking administrators at a large southeastern Pennsylvania district have stepped down amid a criminal inve ...

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Pa. to unveil new grading system for schools

Education officials are set to unveil a new grading system for public schools across Pennsylvania. The School Performance Profile ...

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Education scholar Diane Ravitch critiques charters, standardized tests in Philly

Diane Ravitch, a New York University education professor, was once a passionate champion of charter schools and standardized testing. She ...

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 Michelle Rhee ((AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file))

Philly education chat: What questions do you have for Michelle Rhee?

Michelle Rhee, founder and CEO of ...

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 Outside Abraham Lincoln High School, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said the decision to deny her entry came from officials at the Philadelphia School District, not Lincoln's principal. The district said it was the principal's decision. (Charlie Kaier/WHYY)

Head of national teachers union joins City Hall protest over Philly school funds

A few dozen activists were so upset about the Philadelphia School District’s budget crisis that they interrupted City Council’ ...

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