School District Makes More Budget Cuts. The Philadelphia School District’s financial woes have been well documented. With school closings, teacher layoffs, and spending reduced across […]
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 […]
As we all know, weather forecasters are wrong much of the time. But you can’t hold them responsible for that wholly unpredictable icy blast felt […]
House of Horrors Case Gets More Complicated. As if the original details of the case weren’t deplorable enough, police have located a missing 15-year-old girl […]
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. […]
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 […]
The reaction to Chief Integrity Officer Joan Markman’s report that exposed the backroom politics surrounding the fight for control of a failing Philadelphia high school […]
Have you heard? It turns out Arlene Ackerman was the victim all along, a gentle and well-intentioned educator who was crushed by Philly-style jackboot politics. […]
Since the Philadelphia School District has had such a phenomenal public image this summer, the Scoop is astonished to hear that some people involved with […]
Following the resignation of two members of the School Reform Commission—including its chairman Robert Archie—Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has made one of the necessary appointments […]
After SEIU Local 32BJ District 1201—made up of transportation employees, building engineers, maintenance workers and cleaning staff—rejected a tentative agreement between the school district and […]
Robert L. Archie Jr. has officially resigned from his post as Philadelphia School Reform Commission chairman in a statement released this morning. Archie held the […]
The Philadelphia School District’s “no tolerance” policy has been amended after criticism of the effectiveness of the campaign. The policy led to drawn-out expulsion hearings […]
Who needs Angry Birds when you can play as teachers in the Philadelphia School District battling “The Superintendent” (also called “The Queen”)? “The Teachers of […]
