Under the looming statue of Benjamin Franklin, with umbrellas shielding them from the rain, about 50 people gathered on the

In his budget address on Thursday, Mayor Kenney wanted to make it clear that he puts a high priority on

In Philadelphia, whose 25 percent poverty rate is the highest among U.S. big cities, programs such as Eat Right Philly

Update: A robocall to parents Friday morning reported that police have identified the person who posted the threat, and they

Ken Derstine, 70, a retired teacher and committed public school activist, died Saturday in Washington State, where he had gone

Using words like urgency and moral imperative, members of the Pennsylvania House’s Democratic Policy Committee, convened by State Rep. Christopher

State Rep. Curt Sonney hails from just outside Erie, Pennsylvania, representing an ‘L’-shaped district in the state’s northwestern corner. State

City Year, a service organization that puts young people into public schools to support teaching staff, has spent the last

Despite objections from several speakers at Thursday’s meeting, the Board of Education approved a $17 million contract with the Children’s

The education world has its eye on Los Angeles this week, where about 30,000 school staff members have gone on