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Voters appear to be over the rebellion they showed in last year's school district budget elections. Unofficial results show budgets are passing in a majority of South Jersey districts.
After the announcement, Audenried teacher Hope Moffett -- the teacher disciplined after she publicly opposed the charter plan -- spoke out again.
Voters in most of New Jersey's public school districts are being asked to approve budgets and elect board members today. The political atmosphere this year is far different from last.
Mayor Michael Nutter has launched his own investigation into the Philadelphia School District's handling of a charter school contract involving Martin Luther King High School, in Germantown.
Your trips to the supermarket, bank, and library may seem mundane, but they could have important financial lessons for your children.
New Jersey's school budget elections will be held Wednesday - though without the intense buildup of last year's.
When it comes to funding New Jersey public schools, voters seem to want to have it both ways, according to a new poll.
A child told lunchtime aide Karen Olszewski (photo) that a classmate was choking on a Dorito and she jumped into action.
You would be hard pressed to find a student who was forced by circumstances to learn more about herself during her college years than Widener University senior softball player Kelly Vogelgesang.
"Don't Drop Out, Do Drop In" is the title of a rap song written by two Philadelphia students, Maurice Blackwell and Baasil Branch, who want to inspire fellow students to complete their educations.
The Philadelphia Science Festival officially kicks off tonight with the official naming of its specially brewed Belgian ale. A huge carnival on the Parkway Saturday and events, mostly free, celebrating science for the next 14 days.
Hope Moffett, the Philadelphia public school teacher who was once confined to a "rubber room," is going public again with her criticism of the School District of Philadelphia.
Hugh Clark, the former board chair at the New Media Technology Charter School, and Ina Walker, the former CEO, are charged with stealing $522,000 of the school's money and diverting it to their Black Olive restaurant and a private school.
The Big Jump, as it's called, kicks off the Philadelphia Science Festival. Kids at schools citywide will be jumping up and down between 11:00 and 11:01 tomorrow morning, to see if they can move the seismic needle on computer vibration sensors at their schools.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie has sent the state legislature a seven-bill package aimed at reforming education in the Garden State, with the emphasis on teacher performance and local control.
Francis Dougherty, an aide to deputy schools superintendent Lee Nunery, and John Byars, vice president of procurement services, are being terminated, according published reports.
In what's being described as an unprecedented event, the West Chester Area School District has secured wage freeze agreements with its unions that will save taxpayers more than $1.4 million.
Educators and law enforcement officials were comparing notes on cyberbullying on Tuesday at Neumann University.
The controversial legislation to create a school voucher program could get a vote as early as today.
La Salle University is investigating a business school seminar last month during which strippers allegedly gave lap dances to students.
Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey says the time has come for a stepped-up police role in city schools, and he says a plan is being drawn up to expand the presence of officers there.
"I think they will get close to 100-percent. I'm not saying 100-percent, but I think the state system, you know, somewhere around 90-percent would be something that we're trying to look for right now," Republican Bill Adolph says.
