Education
Philly district suspends school rating system, seeks fix
The Philadelphia School District revealed Wednesday that its system for rating schools is faulty The district has suspended use of ...
14 years ago
School districts scramble to reopen after Sandy
UPDATED 11/1/12 In the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, school districts across the region are facing a varying array of challenges ...
14 years ago
Grads of Pennsylvania colleges gain unwanted distinction
Pennsylvania’s college graduates carry more student loan debt than almost any other state. A new report by ...
14 years ago
Pennsylvania professors gather for strike vote
Pennsylvania professors are taking the first step toward something they have never done: strike. Delegates from the union represent ...
14 years ago
Failed attempt at Pennsylvania charter school reform leaves collateral damage
When Pennsylvania House Republicans were unable to muster the necessary votes Wednesday night to pass a controversial package of charter ...
14 years ago
Pa. community colleges get $20 million to retrain displaced workers
A federally funded program to provide low-cost job retraining at all of Pennsylvania’s 14 community colleges is up and running, aft ...
14 years ago
For one mother, Philadelphia’s portfolio of school options brings opportunity and stress
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 ...
14 years ago
Where charters run the Philadelphia neighborhood schools
As part of its Renaissance Schools turnaround initiative, the School District of Philadelphia has outsourced management of 17 struggling ...
14 years ago
Will widespread Philadelphia school closings mean end of neighborhood assignment?
In order to close as many as one fifth of the city’s traditional public schools by the fall of 2013, Philadelphia district official ...
14 years ago
Pa. test scores drop; state officials blame past cheating
Standardized test scores have dropped across the state – dramatically so in Philadelphia and in those Pennsylvania schools suspected of ...
14 years ago
New movie on ‘parent trigger’ laws gets advance Philly screening
Mayor Nutter and Pennsylvania State Senator Anthony Hardy Williams joined over a hundred Philadelphians Wednesday night for a special adv ...
14 years ago
Corbett, Philly archbishop laud program funding scholarships for the poor
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett rallied with Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput Thursday at a Catholic high school in Drexel Hill.  ...
14 years ago
Pa. touts college savings plan
As the new school year nears, the state Department of Treasury is reminding Pennsylvanians enrolled in the commonwealth’s college s ...
14 years ago
Philly school touted as model for manufacturing-workforce development in Pa.
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 ...
14 years ago