Education

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

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

Michelle Rhee, founder and CEO of ...

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

There’s a new historic marker in Lower Merion Township at the site of an elementary school that was shuttered in the weeks followin ...

The School District of Philadelphia has a positive statistic to talk about this week. The Pennsylvania Department of Education has a ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers met in Philadelphia Tuesday to talk about educating funding, just a day after the city’s schools opened amid ...

Philadelphia’s public schools opened Monday with larger classes, missing programs, and 3,000 fewer employees. The school district i ...

Safely steering kids to and from school is never an easy task. In Philadelphia, there’s an extra challenge this year. As the ...

As students head back to school today, some community members in Northwest Philadelphia are pitching in to ensure a smooth transition for ...

Philadelphia schools are locked in a funding crisis. But what about the hundreds of other districts across the state? Pennsylvania ...

The Philadelphia teachers’ union said it is putting on hold a new ad that blasts Mayor Nutter and Gov. Corbett over the school dist ...

There was no strike on Labor Day. Less than 48 hours after the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers’ contract expired, union ...

Before Marilyn Krupnick was a science teacher at Northeast Philadelphia’s Wilson Middle School, she was a student there. When she s ...

The city of Philadelphia and its cash-strapped school district are joining forces to sell some shuttered school buildings. The new partne ...