Lawmakers Want To Reinstate Safe Schools Advocate In Philadelphia
The Safe Schools Advocate served as a watchdog over Philadelphia schools, until 2009, when the position was axed by the Rendell Administration.
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The Safe Schools Advocate served as a watchdog over Philadelphia schools, until 2009, when the position was axed by the Rendell Administration.
A South Jersey high school senior's views on the Constitution have already earned her a nice chunk of change for college, and there could be more to come.
State senators are promising they will try to reduce funding cuts proposed for Cheyney, West Chester and Pennsylvania's 12 other state-owned universities.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie does not seem worried with the findings of a judge that he failed to meet court requirements to fully fund poor school districts across the state.
Steven Fulton, a former teacher at Timothy Academy Christian Elementary School, has been charged with rape and numerous other offenses for a series of sexual crimes that happened over a three-year period.
Volunteers from several services groups joined up today with students at South Philadelphia High School today to cook and package meals for the elderly and the infirm.
A judge's decision in New Jersey could prove troublesome to the Christie Administration as it attempts to reign in state spending. The issue: adequate funding of public schools.
A new neighborhood center has opened in Olney/Logan to help get young people get back on track.
Temple University's Center for Obesity Research and Education is digesting a new federal grant to help mothers make better food choices for their children.
The University of Pennsylvania has announced its spring commencement speaker. He's the parent of a Penn student and a two-time Oscar winner.
The union representing faculty at West Chester, Cheyney and twelve other state-owned Pennsylvania universities is offering to negotiate a one-year pay freeze.
English teacher Hope Moffett, charged by The School District of Philadelphia for endangering the welfare of children, is expected back in her classroom at Audenreid High School in Grays Ferry on Monday.
Chestnut Hill College and the former adjunct professor with whom it severed ties have reached an amicable resolution to end the controversy over the openly gay priest.
Most remembered as "The Fonz," Henry Winkler was in Reading on Sunday to take part in a special "Reading Is Fundamental" event.
During a state Senate Appropriations hearing this past week, the heads of the four state-related universities – Temple, Lincoln, Pitt and Penn State – said that the governor's proposal to cut their funding by more than half would affect more than just tuition.
Parents, students and staff participated in a workshop on Saturday morning on how to close the Philadelphia school district's $400+ million budget deficit.
Hope Moffett is still in limbo, assigned each day to an administrative room, often called derisively "the rubber room", rather than her classroom at Audenried High School.
A school in West Philadelphia is offering structured playground games for children during recess.
The oldest and largest community-based music school in the United States has officially dedicated its new $8-million, state-of-the-art branch in Montgomery County, Pa.
The School Reform Commission has approved a plan to turnover six Philadelphia public schools to charter companies, as part of the superintendent's effort to turn around its lowest performing schools.
During a visit to Center City, Auditor General Jack Wagner thinks Philadelphia school superintendent Arlene Ackerman is being paid too much.
A former vice principal in the North Penn School District has admitted in Montgomery County Court that he texted sexually explicit messages to a pair of 13-year-old boys who were students at the school.
Pennsylvania state auditor-general Jack Wagner is renewing his call to fund an advocate's office to deal with violence in Philadelphia public schools.
A Philadelphia-based, nonprofit, business training organization has launched its boldest initiative since its founding 60 years ago: a plan to put one million African-Americans into their own businesses.
Nearly three years after breaking ground, a prominent Philadelphia-area music school will be dedicating its new building in Montgomery County later this week.
