Philadelphia City Council Holds Hearing On School Closure Plan
Philadelphia City Council wanted its own hearings on the school district plan to close nine school buildings and reconfigure some of others.
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Philadelphia City Council wanted its own hearings on the school district plan to close nine school buildings and reconfigure some of others.
Joe Wilson was once an American diplomat in Iraq. His wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative. An aide to VP Dick Cheney was convicted of leaking her undercover identity.
City councilwoman Jannie Blackwell scheduled the debate on prayer in Philadelphia's public schools based on her belief that the school district could do more.
John Murawski, president of Neumann-Goretti High School, says the new lab is the result of a generous gift by the Class of 1960 of Bishop Neumann High School.
Former FBI director Louis Freeh, tapped to lead Penn State's investigation into the child sex-abuse allegations against a former assistant football coach, said his inquiry will go as far back as 1975, a much longer period than a grand jury report issued earlier this month.
The concept for the Cristo Rey High School is this: students go to class four days a week, then spend the fifth day working at a local business.
Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett is praising the decision at Penn State to hire former FBI director Louis Freeh to head up the university's own investigation of the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
School officials say they have handed out more than 4,000 doses of antibiotics in response to the reported cases.
Mayor Michael Nutter and other officials toured a North Philadelphia high school on Monday, to look at its security -- on the same day a newspaper article suggested that things there could get a lot tougher.
Among the Rhodes Scholar selections announced Sunday were a recent western Pennsylvania university graduate hoping to study medical anthropology, a Bryn Mawr student interested in political theory and an Air Force Academy senior from outside Philadelphia aiming to study global governance and diplomacy.
After a summer that saw accusations of back-room deals, the new-look panel running Philadelphia schools is making an effort to engage the public.
The first of a series of planned community meetings took place Saturday in Roxborough on the Philadelphia's School District's plan to close nine schools and reconfigure dozens of others.
More than 27,000 runners and 60,000 spectators are expected to turn out for the 18th Annual Philadelphia Marathon on Sunday.
The Mütter Museum, known throughout the world for its unusual collection of medical artifacts, has received another noteworthy item.
"Snitching" and witness reluctance were the focus of a daylong conference at Community College of Philadelphia.
It's called the Great Schools Compact, and the city is hoping it'll be worth millions in grants from the Gates Foundation.
Fourteen-year-old Torri Albrecht's confederate flag sweatshirt has special meaning to her.
"Do you want to continue to argue, or do you want to ask a question?" the governor snapped at one point as reporters peppered him with questions about the pace of the Jerry Sandusky investigation when he was attorney general.
Penn State has some fresh advice for job seekers with ties to the university: how they should navigate the choppy waters created by the child sex abuse scandal.
The new head of the School Reform Commission presides over his first meeting today. Pedro Ramos says he wants to keep a tighter watch on school district finances.
Police and road-safety advocates are trying to drive home a simple holiday message: don't drive drunk.
Jerry Sandsuky's television interview concerning the child sex abuse charges against him does not seem to have had the effect his attorney was looking for.
The students want the Pennsylvania House to take up the bill already passed by the state senate that would provide vouchers to low-income students at failing schools.
Pedro Ramos, a former Philadelphia school board president and city managing director, was confirmed Monday as new chairman of the SRC.
The president of the Second Mile Foundation has resigned in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal involving the program's founder, Jerry Sandusky. Former Philadelphia DA Lynne Abraham is the charity's new lawyer.
