To the editors: In response to the Notebook article “Immigrant communities decry cuts in services” (Spring 2007), the School

To the editors: Thanks for your article about ASAP/After School Activities Partnership’s Scrabble initiative. As a result of this article,

Building upon the success of the Philadelphia Youth Chess Challenge, the local nonprofit group After School Activities Partnerships (ASAP) is

What the New York Yankees are to baseball, Princeton Review is to Philadelphia School District contractors. The New York-based company,

The School Reform Commission (SRC) has awarded hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contracts for educational services in the

Once, the Philadelphia School District was a flagship for instruction in the arts, with certified music and art teachers in

Artists-in-residence. Some 200 artists are working in 40 elementary schools that don’t have full-time art teachers in a program with

Una vez, el Distrito Escolar de Filadelfia fue un oasis de instrucción en las artes, y prácticamente cada escuela tenía

Over the past decade since Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Doris Smith-Ribner’s ruling demanding improvements in what she called the “substandard

Last fall, as the School District rolled out its new core curriculum, the new watchword for instruction was "rigor." Rigor