City Councils Plans Hearings On Wall Street Interest Rate Swaps
City Council is planning hearings into whether Wall Street took Philadelphia and its school district to the cleaners by pushing complicated bond deals called "interest rate swaps."
Watch CBS News
City Council is planning hearings into whether Wall Street took Philadelphia and its school district to the cleaners by pushing complicated bond deals called "interest rate swaps."
The School Reform Commission is in the process of holding 10 consecutive school closing hearings at the School District's Education Center on North Broad Street.
New Jersey education officials will bring in experts from Rutgers to independently evaluate a pilot program meant to pave the way for a new teacher evaluation system.
A Philadelphia law firm has "adopted" a local school, providing mentoring and cash.
The new approach to education has helped the students test the their imagination.
Look for the battle to stop a planned merger of Rutgers-Camden with Rowan University to be stepped up a notch, with a newly formed non-profit group raising money to make its point in the court of public opinion, even as they prepare for a possible legal fight.
Students from three Philadelphia colleges marched through the city, yesterday, to protest cuts in state education funding. They converged at Governor Corbett's Center City office at the Bellevue.
The fourth-grader's drawings, as well as those from other students from the school, will be incorporated into the playground design.
The School Reform Commission has a full day of hearings scheduled tomorrow, on nine public schools slated to close.
Philadelphia is stitching together what could be the next big fashion designer, by setting up a "fashion incubator" at a center city department store.
Philadelphia School District Officials confirm they are now investigating to learn more about a YouTube video that shows two 8th grade students viciously beating each other inside the Carnell School in Northeast Philadelphia.
With cheating scandals in the headlines, Philadelphia schoolteachers will not be allowed to administer a key standardized test to their own students.
The head of the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children ("WePAC") says his organization has stepped up by donating books to the Heston Elementary School and providing provide volunteers to man the library and read to students.
With cuts in government funding over the last several years, Community College of Philadelphia is proposing tying salary increases over the final three years of a five-year proposal to city and state funding.
All 538 districts statewide were given the option, as a cost cutting alternative. More than 85 percent agreed.
Jan met her husband, Stan, in their native Philadelphia in 1941, on their first day at the Museum School of Industrial Art. They went on to build a life, and a publishing empire, with their gentle stories about a family of bears inspired by their own lives.
A key state Senator says he wants to eliminate all of the cuts for higher education that Governor Tom Corbett has proposed in his new budget.
Valley Forge Elementary School has had two confirmed cases of pertussis, and that is enough to constitute an "outbreak," according to Betsy Walls, bureau director for personal health services at the Chester County Health Department.
People are hard-wired to be cautious, says psychologist Tamar Chansky, but with one in four Americans having some sort of anxiety disorder, worry has outgrown its usefulness.
He's an actor. He was a Philadelphia schoolteacher. And Tony Danza says soon, he'll be an author.
Hatboro-Horsham school officials are "fearful" after learning the Obama administration wants to "zero out" federal impact aid for districts that receive government funding for military land within their coverage area.
Kelly Anne the circus elephant was brought to Franklin Square as a special guest during an art session for some lucky children.
"We had a report that there was a former teacher in the building who had no reason to be in the building," explains Dr. William McCusker, president of O'Hara.
The two sides have been negotiating for more than a year. Their five-year contract expired last August.
The Obama administration wants to "zero out" federal funding for school districts across the country that receive money for military lands that fall within a district's coverage area. That could have a big impact on one Montgomery County school system.
