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The $10,000 grant from the law firm of White and Williams will buy Chromebook laptops for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders at the Chester A. Arthur School, at 20th and Catharine Streets.
The teaching certificate of Emma Painter, 51, has been suspended as a result of a sexual abuse case involving another teacher.
It's a victory in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for the School District of Philadelphia in its dispute with the Walter D. Palmer Charter School.
Superintendent Robert Copeland said he'll meet with editors of the Neshaminy High paper "The Playwickian" and they'll discuss this controversial policy which would reverse the "Redskin" ban.
Philadelphia has been selected in a national competition as one of seven cities to encourage youth mentorship in science, technology, engineering and mathematics ("STEM").
Healthy Futures is a three-year, $3-million effort that touches more than 1,000 fourth graders in the five-county area.
Sure, the boss is a pain and your co-workers are crazy, but a new study says you're better off in the office than hanging around the house, whether or not you have kids.
Philadelphia schools continue to deal with deep budget cuts, just a day after a first grader died at an elementary school that has no full-time nurse.
City Council president Darrell Clarke has decided to play it safe, adding a fallback provision to his plan to send sales tax proceeds to the cash-starved school district.
Grief counselors will be available at two area schools today, mourning the loss of students who died on Wednesday after medical emergencies.
Coding, programming, and computer analytics don't seem like very sexy careers. But did you know that developers and programmers are among the highest paid members of the workforce, right out of college?
Philadelphia school officials told city council, today, the deadline for massive lay-offs is getting close and a failure to to come up with funding will mean dire conditions in schools next year.
Four of the five, including Cayuga Elementary School principal Evelyn Cortez, now have a preliminary hearing on July 18th to face charges that they gave students answers to standardized tests.
Thousands of Rutgers students received their diplomas during the university's system-wide commencement ceremony. School officials say the class of 2014 had an estimated 16,431 graduates.
A group of Drexel University dance students spent the past six months partnering with high school students with cerebral palsy and they are counting down to a big performance.
The landmark Brown versus Board of Education decision that de-segregated public education in America turns 60 today.
Students at Good Shepherd Catholic Regional School, in Ardsley, cheered as a rainsoaked Stephen Finley, president of Bishop McDevitt High School in Wyncote, ran up the grade school's driveway.
Rain this morning forced the commencement exercises indoors at Rowan University, and may have also squelched any planned protests aimed at the guest speaker.
Gov. Chris Christie, addressing graduates of southern New Jersey's Rowan University on Friday, said that their new degrees will provide opportunities but do not guarantee success.
Do you know how to advise your child about ways to spend that money that will make a difference?
It may be a tough sell in Harrisburg, but City Council is hoping to convince state lawmakers to sign on to their revised school bailout plan.
Widener University's commencement ceremony today will be held inside the Schwartz Athletic Center Field House.
Mayor Nutter says he's concerned that the proposed graduated split in sales tax proceeds would need approval from the state General Assembly.
The district projects it will have 800 more elementary school students in the next six years. And with an aging infrastructure, it needed to find a way to bring their education into the 21st century.
The Philadelphia school funding crisis was coming to a head in City Council as the Council president introduced a bailout plan that neither the mayor, state lawmakers, nor school advocates are likely to embrace.
