Education

The district will enter into a memorandum of agreement with Penn, which will direct about $800,000 per year to the K-8 school in West Philadelphia.

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language" and an illustration of a nude woman.

One lawsuit out of Montgomery County says axing mask policies forces parents of medically fragile school children to pull their children out of in-person learning.

Out of 500 Pennsylvania districts, Philadelphia ranks near the bottom — 473rd — in the amount of money it spends per “weighted” student, Monson said.

The local Afghan community, centered in Northeast Philadelphia, has nearly doubled with the influx of evacuees, who worry for family and friends left behind.

The College Board, the organization behind the test, also announced that the exam will shrink from three hours to two, and students will be able to use a calculator for math.

Advocates who pushed for the curriculum are celebrating — and gearing up for the work necessary before school districts can begin teaching AAPI history in September.

Cases are spiking on college campuses because, despite the rapid spread of the omicron variant, most schools are beginning their spring semesters in-person.

Homebuyers have paid a premium to live in the Penn Alexander catchment. Will the same trend reshape the Lea school catchment if Penn invests there?

Lia Thomas competed on the men's team before transitioning. Now on the women's team, she has qualified in three events for the women's swimming and diving championship.

About 400 people live-streamed Thursday night’s meeting. More than a dozen spoke, protesting the district’s continued mask mandate.

Even as Philly officials vow to reduce omicron’s interruptions to in-person learning, the school district’s shifts to virtual are causing angst.

Fixing Philly’s ailing public school buildings has been a big item on City Council’s collective to-do list for years. A new bill targets the problem.

Many families remain underconnected. They find themselves able to access the internet and the increasing number of tasks that rely on it with only sporadic success.

‘PENNding Funds’ is co-hosted by three students in the William Penn School District, one of the main plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit.