Pity the poor Washington Post Co., which on Friday released an earning report showing a heady drop in profits, due in part to the tanking […]
Dungeon Case Family Had History of Incest. Things in this case continue to spiral into an abyss of depravity. Authorities have found out that ringleader […]
Yesterday Denise McGregor Armbrister resigned from the SRC because she felt that having her replacement step in three months early would help bring some solidarity […]
Menduawor Comgbaye—a first grader at Patterson School in Southwest Philly—has been being marked absent for the past two weeks while his parents kept him home […]
Thomas Friedman, everyone’s favorite thinking person’s writer, recently spent a day with Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, for his column in the New York […]
There was a fascinating little statistic tucked into this story in the Sunday Inquirer about residence-hall construction on local colleges. According to Robert Morro, vice […]
Orchestra and Musicians Approve Agreement. The Philadelphia Orchestra Association and the union of musicians have reached a new collective bargaining agreement. [FOX 29] Chris Christie […]
Earlier today Governor Corbett unveiled his education reform plan—a plan that calls for vouchers for students in failing schools and higher tax credits for businesses […]
Mayor Michael Nutter has made his second appointment to the School Reform Commission by announcing that novelist Lorene Cary will fill the final available position. […]
Wendell Pritchett—the former Rutgers-Camden Chancellor who was named to the SRC with the first of Mayor Nutter’s two allotted appointments this fall—has been declared as […]
The Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Ronald Tomalis will join Mayor Nutter and the SRC for a press conference at 1:30 p.m. at School District headquarters […]
Princeton High School has canceled its annual homecoming dance and scheduled a movie and a bonfire to take its place. The move comes after some […]
For kids, it’s an excuse to be able to come to school late, leave early, and get a week or two sans homework. For school […]
It seems that behind-the-scenes bullying and political interference are just a part of the core curriculum at the School District of Philadelphia. Last week, the […]
There was a sad sort of sameness to the Inquirer’s story over the weekend about investigators pinpointing violations of standardized testing protocol at local schools. […]
