The Pew Charitable Trusts has released a study showing that pension costs for the Philadelphia School District have increased nearly

Update: At tonight’s meeting, the Board of Education called a recess after a raucous protest by the Philadelphia Student Union

  Despite the expectation of a small balance of $33 million in the next fiscal year, the Philadelphia School District’s

Updated | 3:25 p.m. The School District announced 342 layoffs Thursday, most of them noontime aides and special-education classroom assistants.

In my twenty-four years as a school nurse, I’ve called quite a few parents about all sorts of problems. There

The legal battle over whether Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission has the power to unilaterally impose new work rules on the

Doing the right thing Response to Oct. 17 news post “SRC rejects plan to sell off art.” The SRC is

by Isaac Riddle Protesting further losses in staff and resources to their school, around 200 students from Constitution High School staged

by Bill Hangley Jr. While Michelle Rhee was praising Philadelphia’s efforts to restructure public education, union and community advocates gathered

Any 4th graders going back to David Hensel’s class in Taggart Elementary School to retrieve something they forgot might have