Is this a bright side? The Philadelphia school district’s decision to close down two dozen schools is being praised by bond analysts, Philly.com reports. That […]
Philly was one of five cities out of 305 applicants to win a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge. (Helps to have an ally in […]
Mark Preston Williams, the former Dean of Students at Northeast High School, turned himself in yesterday morning for having sex with a 17-year-old student. The […]
The Inquirer reports: In a tense, dramatic conclusion to a months-long battle, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission voted Thursday night to close 23 schools across […]
Today at 5:30 p.m., the School Reform Commission will vote on whether or not to go ahead with 27 proposed school closures will. (Considering Superintendent […]
It’s clearly not a laughing matter to everybody, but the proposal by the Philadelphia school district to cut top salaries and a host of other […]
As a fourth-year math teacher with a masters degree working in the School District of Philadelphia, I make $56,531 a year. This information is readily […]
2004 Masterman School graduate Kirkland Lynch has been named one of Harvard Law School’s “21 Most Impressive Students” by Business Insider. Lynch, from West Philly, […]
CBS Philly reports that activist groups are calling on Mayor Nutter to delay the planned closure of 29 Philadelphia schools at the end of the […]
A couple of months after PhillyMag profiled local chef Marc Vetri and his “Eatiquette” plan to create healthier school lunches in Philadelphia, the program is […]
The day after his State of the Union Address, on a stopover in Decatur, Georgia, President Obama expanded on a proposal he outlined the night […]
It’s 5:30 p.m. and a group of 50-odd parents are filing down the steps of Penn’s Houston Hall. “They’re agitating,” one young father says to […]
This week, autistic children elementary and middle-schoolers appear to have won a big victory in court over the Philadelphia Public School District. PPSD has long […]
This will probably end in tears: Parents of some of next year’s prospective Penn Alexander School kindergartners will rally outside a University of Pennsylvania meeting […]
Inky’s Kristen Graham reports: Ten schools would be spared closures or program mergers if new recommendations issued this morning by Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. […]
