Mallory Falk

The Democratic governor’s proposed final budget includes a historic increase in education spending.

Witnesses include a Christian private school leader and the executive director of the House Appropriations Committee.

The district says cloth masks are no longer considered effective, and will be distributing KN95s to school staff.

Twenty one percent of qualified candidates have leadership experience in the School District of Philadelphia.

Hite will continue to lead the School District of Philadelphia through the end of the academic year.

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.

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 new strike teams are part of a larger, state-directed effort to temporarily bolster capacity at short-staffed hospitals in Pennsylvania.

Five of the 12 victims were current or former students at the Fairmount school, and students, parents, and staff are processing how to move forward amid the grief.

Defense attorneys sought to paint a rosier picture of the state’s largest school district than the one Hite presented in his direct testimony.

Plaintiffs say Pennsylvania’s school funding model is inadequate and inequitable, and that the state discriminates against students in poor districts.

For the first time this school year, Philadelphia faces the prospect of a widespread shift back to virtual learning. How many schools and for how long? No one quite knows.