Laura Benshoff

The Moorestown, New Jersey, school district has bowed to parent requests to let students opt out of PARCC tests, a statewide exam focusin ...

After a last-minute effort to put off the vote until  ...

Pennsylvania is the only major gas-producing state that doesn’t tax extraction — beyond a relatively small impact fee. ...

What charter schools does Philadelphia need? That’s the question the School Reform Commission is tasked with answering by selecting ...

In an email that went out today, the Philadelphia School District’s Charter Office requested that new charter applicants sign a wai ...

Charter schools are supposed to be nimble and innovative, but the process to close an underperforming charter is anything but. Six ...

Parents of about 100 students at North Philadelphia’s Feltonville School of Arts and Sciences have signed letters withdrawing their ...

Last week, Philadelphia providers of after-school programs such as tutoring and college prep were shaken up when their budgets were cut w ...

In the new movie “Selma,” the Civil Rights movement takes a great leap forward in the 50-mile stretch from Selma to Montgomer ...

After five months of organizing, teachers and staff at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf voted overwhelmingly to unionize. The ...

The size of the pie matters, not just how you slice it. So said a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Re ...

Five schools in Philadelphia made the cut for a “high progress” designation, based on increases in achievement in math and re ...