Education

Choosing which school to send your kids to is a big decision. Some Philadelphia residents in the city’s Fairmount section are pulli ...

[UPDATED May 16, 11:25 a.m.] The city’s School Reform Commission voted Wednesday night to renew five charter schools and kickoff th ...

[Updated at 7:07 p.m.] Your next debaucherous night of drinking and smoking might help close the Philadelphia Sc ...

Philadelphia School District officials are recommending that Discovery Charter School in West Philadelphia be shut down, due to a high-st ...

Michelle McKeone, a special education teacher at South Philadelphia High School, teaches digital literacy to teens with autism. Cr ...

After a hardball campaign involving nearly 40 candidates, three Penn State University alumni have been elected to seats on the schoolR ...

Updated at 8:49 p.m. Students at Swarthmore College have accused the school of failures in handling sexual assaul ...

Three of Philadelphia’s most innovative traditional public schools are set to expand, thanks to $6 million in grants from the nonpr ...

Twenty-one city charter schools are seeking to add over 15,000 new students during the next five years. If granted by the School Reform C ...

Facing a $300 million structural deficit and still uncertain whether it will get the increased revenue and labor concessions it is seekin ...

Saying it’s time for Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett to relieve the pain caused by massive cuts in state aid to public education over the past two ...

Saying that thousands of children are being denied quality educational opportunities, about 200 students, parents, and charter proponents ...

Seven students from Julia R. Masterman Middle School in Fairmount competed in the SuperNationals in Nashville, Tenn., the Super Bowl of c ...

Forty-two Philadelphia District schools are under heightened security during the administration of this year’s state standardized t ...

Seeking to better understand the operations of Philadelphia’s 80-plus public charter schools, Mayor Michael Nutter’s Office o ...