Avi Wolfman-Arent

Many districts monitor students to make sure they actually live within district boundaries and aren't using a fake address, but what does that monitoring actually entail?

When school districts remove students for residency fraud, they say they're enforcing rules and protecting taxpayers. Others see a system that targets the poor and minorities.

Hundreds lined up Monday outside the Philadelphia Parking Authority's violations office hoping to have old tickets expunged.

Four of Philadelphia's nine new school board members appeared at their first public event Wednesday. Those hoping to learn more about their positions likely left disappointed.

Parkway Center City High School students invite Philadelphia lawmakers to forum on gun violence and racial discrimination.

For the second time in as many months, high school students around the country walked out of school to protest gun violence and call for more gun control.

Lewis, the longtime civil rights activist, spoke as part of a year-long series commemorating Martin Luther King's 1967 address at St. Joe's.

Though recent state test scores paint a rosier picture, new results from a respected national test suggest Philadelphia students haven't made big strides.

Philly's community school initiative will be smaller and take longer to expand than initially projected. Still, the dozen schools already named are forging ahead.

Kenney's board will replace the state-controlled School Reform Commission on July 1.

Students flooded the suburban streets Monday night after Villanova won its second men's basketball championship in three years.

SRC chair Joyce Wilkerson and commissioner Christopher McGinley needed to leave the five-member body before Mayor Jim Kenney could pick them to serve on the new board.