Education
Central Bucks School Board hikes superintendent’s salary by nearly 40%
Lucabaugh is now one of the highest-paid superintendents in Pennsylvania. The three Democratic board members say they were unaware of the contract until it was on the agenda.
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Former Glen Mills campus plans to admit students in September
West Chester Area School District is charged with educating Clock Tower’s students. The district fears it doesn’t have enough time to prepare.
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Now that the deadline to appeal has passed, it is important schools turn their attention to “their primary and most important task — educating students,” said Cutler.
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Listen 5:16Affirmative action for rich kids: It’s more than just legacy admissions
A blockbuster new study, released today, finds that, effectively, affirmative action for rich kids is alive and well.
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Delaware emergency management and education officials believe the new plans will help limit dangers posed to students.
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Pa.’s latest bid to regulate cyber charter schools would lower tuition payments, boost transparency
Democrats and Republicans agree that Pa.’s rules for cyber charter schools are outdated, but they differ on what changes to make.
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The presence of school resource officers, sometimes called school police, comes with tradeoffs for Black students according to a new report.
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Fear, distrust, and an ethics office in chaos erode Penn State’s post-Sandusky reforms
An investigation of the Pa. university revealed widespread distrust in misconduct reporting systems and that the ethics office fell into chaos.
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Mapping last year’s partial survey lets you see where each school stands compared to the rest.
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Students in shortchanged Pennsylvania school districts plug away while lawmakers dither over funding
By pursuing funding equity in court, financially challenged Pennsylvania districts are following a well-traveled school reform path.
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Now hiring: Hundreds of job seekers flood School District of Philadelphia job fair
The district is hoping to fill 1,000 vacancies before the start of the new school year.
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Student loan forgiveness is on the way for more than 800,000 borrowers
The move will erase $39 billion in federal student loan debt.
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You could still be eligible for student loan forgiveness under this plan
"[It] has the potential to massively change student loan repayment in our country as we know it," says Dominique Baker, an associate professor of education policy at SMU.
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Philly school gets new name: Marian Anderson Neighborhood Academy
When students at the Chester A. Arthur School researched the namesake of their institution, they began the process of changing the name to reflect "who we are as a school".
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Impasse on funding for Pennsylvania universities could mean higher tuition
The state government approached two weeks without full spending authority on Tuesday. Funding for Penn State, the University of Pittsburgh and Temple is in limbo.
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