Education
Five Philly schools taken off the ‘most dangerous’ list
The School District of Philadelphia has a positive statistic to talk about this week. The Pennsylvania Department of Education has a ...
12 years ago
Parents, teachers push for new Pa. schools funding formula
Pennsylvania lawmakers met in Philadelphia Tuesday to talk about educating funding, just a day after the city’s schools opened amid ...
12 years ago
Philly schools open with big concerns, big classes
Philadelphia’s public schools opened Monday with larger classes, missing programs, and 3,000 fewer employees. The school district i ...
12 years ago
Parents question ‘safe routes’ to Philly schools
Safely steering kids to and from school is never an easy task. In Philadelphia, there’s an extra challenge this year. As the ...
12 years ago
Community on patrol to ensure ‘safe corridors’ for Northwest Philly students
As students head back to school today, some community members in Northwest Philadelphia are pitching in to ensure a smooth transition for ...
12 years ago
ListenPa. small and rural schools speak out for Philly funding
Philadelphia schools are locked in a funding crisis. But what about the hundreds of other districts across the state? Pennsylvania ...
12 years ago
Philly teachers’ union to pull new ad attacking Mayor Nutter
The Philadelphia teachers’ union said it is putting on hold a new ad that blasts Mayor Nutter and Gov. Corbett over the school dist ...
12 years ago
Philly teachers told their union is still far from a deal
There was no strike on Labor Day. Less than 48 hours after the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers’ contract expired, union ...
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Cash-strapped Philly school district considers selling prized art collection
Before Marilyn Krupnick was a science teacher at Northeast Philadelphia’s Wilson Middle School, she was a student there. When she s ...
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Philadelphia trying to flip shuttered schools quickly
The city of Philadelphia and its cash-strapped school district are joining forces to sell some shuttered school buildings. The new partne ...
12 years ago
In Philly schools, can sports and arts be saved as an afterschool refuge?
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 ...
12 years ago
Feds charge Pa. cyber-charter founder
PITTSBURGH — The founder and former CEO of Pennsylvania’s largest cyber-charter school has been charged with siphoning more tha ...
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Cristo Rey combines work, college prep and Catholic theology at Philly high school
About 250 freshman and sophomore students packed the basement of Logan’s Cristo Rey High School — screaming their hearts out over ...
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Pennsylvania public colleges react to Obama ‘value plan’
President Obama is on the road promising to reward colleges that keep costs down. As the president speaks in Scranton today, ...
12 years ago
Philly teachers: We won’t stop until we get fair schools funding
More than 1,000 Philadelphia teachers, parents, students and supporters marched through a rainstorm in Center City Thursday to protest sc ...
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