Education

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...