Laura Benshoff

Social media monitoring by Pearson, the London-based company that runs PARCC testing in New Jersey, has tipped administrators off in some ...

Judges must order Pennsylvania’s governor and legislature to guarantee the constitutional right of every student to a “thorou ...

In 2014, Pennsylvania parents opted about 1,000 kids out of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, or PSSAs. This year, 100 parent ...

Football. Debate team. Theatre. High school students flock to extracurricular projects that mold their identities. For the last 13 years, ...

Between Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed state budget and Mayor Michael Nutter’s proposal, the School District of Philadelphia could ...

Two leaders with a passionate interest in education released documents as their guiding stars for fully funding Philadelphia’s publ ...

Gov. Tom Wolf called — and newly named Philadelphia School Reform Commission chair Marjorie Neff answered. Neff replaced for ...

 The George W. Childs Elementary School is one of 12 former schools the district has sold since 2013. Sales are pending for another ...

The Fairness Center, a conservative nonprofit with offices in King of Prussia and Harrisburg, has filed a lawsuit against the Philadelphi ...

The School Reform Commission is asking the state Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision that the SRC lacks the authority to canc ...

After hundreds of hours of hearings on an “unprecedented” 39 applications, the School Reform Commission voted to conditionall ...

Fresh off a trial run grading candidates for governor of Pennsylvania, a group of Philadelphia teachers is getting ready to evaluate the ...