Education

UPDATED 11/1/12 In the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, school districts across the region are facing a varying array of challenges ...

Pennsylvania’s college graduates carry more student loan debt than almost any other state.  A new report by ...

Pennsylvania professors are taking the first step toward something they have never done: strike.  Delegates from the union represent ...

When Pennsylvania House Republicans were unable to muster the necessary votes Wednesday night to pass a controversial package of charter ...

A federally funded program to provide low-cost job retraining at all of Pennsylvania’s 14 community colleges is up and running, aft ...

As usual, Karen Lewis is trying to manage a dozen things at once. And as usual, Lewis’ son, 8-year-old Cooper Harbol, is the focus ...

As part of its Renaissance Schools turnaround initiative, the School District of Philadelphia has outsourced management of 17 struggling ...

In order to close as many as one fifth of the city’s traditional public schools by the fall of 2013, Philadelphia district official ...

Standardized test scores have dropped across the state – dramatically so in Philadelphia and in those Pennsylvania schools suspected of ...

Mayor Nutter and Pennsylvania State Senator Anthony Hardy Williams joined over a hundred Philadelphians Wednesday night for a special adv ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett rallied with Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput Thursday at a Catholic high school in Drexel Hill.&nbsp ...

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As the new school year nears, the state Department of Treasury is reminding Pennsylvanians enrolled in the commonwealth’s college s ...

What will it take to build more manufacturing jobs in Pennsylvania, a state that used to thrive on such work? Well, for starters, a work ...

The man chosen to fix the Chester Upland School District’s troubled finances is proving to be controversial from the start. ...