School Reform Commission Votes 4-1, Adopts Stripped Down Budget
If a $300 million dollar budget gap isn't filled, the district plans to eliminate counselors, art, music and other school activities.
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If a $300 million dollar budget gap isn't filled, the district plans to eliminate counselors, art, music and other school activities.
The ladies were surprised by a visit from Ryan Howard.
The country's largest non-for-profit for young people and social change is using an old childhood favorite to curb texting and driving.
A school board member from Evesham is under fire for allegedly making a remark described by some as "anti-Semitic."
But whether the new tax ever gets final approval remains unclear.
In one of her "Hidden America" reports, news anchor Diane Sawyer visits Strawberry Mansion High, one of Pennsylvania's "persistently dangerous" schools.
Gov. Christie said he doesn't want to micromanage the university and won't weigh in on whether incoming athletic director Julie Hermann should start at the school as scheduled on June 17.
State Senator Mike Stack says the bill could help free up a total of $400 million in combined delinquent property, business and wage, but even if it passes, it could take a while before the schools feel relief.
Leaders of the Neshaminy Federation of Teachers and the Neshaminy School Board made the announcement on Tuesday.
The University of Pennsylvania has received a $15 million gift to examine the U.S. criminal justice system from someone who has had some experience with it: ex-Wall Street banker Frank Quattrone.
Amy Grebe, executive director of the ACPPA Community Art Center, believes their Paypal account was hacked earlier this month and nearly $3,000 was diverted.
The book, written by a Penn grad, aims to bring the conflict alive using the voices of those who fought.
Princeton University has put the manuscript and corrected galley pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" online.
It was a show of solidarity at the Thomas Mifflin School in East Falls as students, parents, and community advocates staged a rally urging political leaders to help fund a school district budget shortfall of $304 million.
Charter operators and district officials gathered at Boys' Latin Charter School, in West Philadelphia, to join in the push for city and state money to fill the district's $304-million budget gap.
"If and until those bills are introduced on the state level, and we see some sense that there is some action, there's really not a lot that we can do locally," City Council president Darrell Clarke says.
Women's-rights attorney Gloria Allred says federal complaints have been filed against four U.S. colleges over how the colleges handle rape allegations.
Visitors are required to have their licenses scanned, and the information from your license is then run through a national sex offender database and a public watch list.
Psychologist Dr. Sue Cornbluth, a Temple University professor, say the unexpected tragedy in central Oklahoma is difficult to comprehend, even for adults.
The report by the National Council on Teacher Quality comes at a time when the district is negotiating a new contract with the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers.
The longtime leader of La Salle University in Philadelphia will be leaving the institution next year.
The average college graduate is saddled with more than $35,000 in debt, according to a new survey.
"It's the undisputable, number one cause of death of student athletes," Darren Sudman says. "We can't just look at them and assume their heart is fine."
The report showed a 2.3 percent drop in college enrollment from spring 2012 to spring of 2013.
South Philadelphia High School alumni welcomed a former Tuskegee airman into its Hall of Fame Sunday.
