Education

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 ...

Under a bright-blue North Philadelphia sky, Coach John Sullivan runs around a grassy field in gym shorts and a T-shirt, teaching the Dobb ...

PITTSBURGH  — The founder and former CEO of Pennsylvania’s largest cyber-charter school has been charged with siphoning more tha ...

About 250 freshman and sophomore students packed the basement of Logan’s Cristo Rey High School — screaming their hearts out over ...

President Obama is on the road promising to reward colleges that keep costs down. As the president speaks in Scranton today, ...

More than 1,000 Philadelphia teachers, parents, students and supporters marched through a rainstorm in Center City Thursday to protest sc ...

The Philadelphia teachers’ union is taking a shot at Mayor Michael Nutter with a new ad campaign. The group’s TV, radi ...

[Rebroadcast from June 14, 2013] Whether you’re a recent graduate just entering the workforce or you’ve been on a car ...

During a raucous meeting packed with angry teachers and activists, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission voted Thursday to deploy its ...

Some good news for parents of Philadelphia public-school children: Schools now seem set to open on schedule Sept. 9. And some gris ...

Marches, rallies, bus trips to Harrisburg. Parents, students and staff haven’t kept quiet their concerns about the Philadelp ...

Some readers have said that a recent story about an elementary school principal asking parents f ...

As Mayor Nutter and City Council worked on plans to put $50 million in the School District’s coffers by the end of this week, a coa ...