Nutter Says PHL Airport Expansion Project Is Good For Entire Region
Nutter extended an olive branch to US Airways, which last month openly questioned the need for a new runway at Philadelphia International Airport.
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Nutter extended an olive branch to US Airways, which last month openly questioned the need for a new runway at Philadelphia International Airport.
Ninety-one school police officers will lose their jobs in the School District of Philadelphia. Because of that, 25 schools in the district will no longer have an officer stationed inside the building.
The plan introduced by Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown would have advertisements plastered on yellow school buses in the city.
The Philadelphia teachers' union has filed a complaint with the state, saying the school district is now using non-medical personnel to give medications to students.
What do you want to see in the next Philadelphia schools superintendent? Public meetings begin tonight, giving you a chance to sound off.
In a letter to the school district, city controller Alan Butkovitz says his annual audit shows the shortfall is bigger than the $61 million announced last week by the district.
Eileen DiFranco, a nurse at Roxborough High School, is among the organizers of weekly protests at the school administration building.
Mayor Nutter and members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission are heading to Denver on Thursday for a one-day trip to compare notes on cooperation between district and charter schools.
It's another round of layoffs in the School District of Philadelphia, right before the holidays.
Philadelphia parents whose schedules don't allow them to attend School Reform Commission meetings may get some welcome news today.
David Johson spent nine harrowing hours, alone and frightened, in a stairwell at Roosevelt Middle School.
"Best show ever!" said one seventh grader.
Controller Alan Butkovitz provided reporters with a video -- complete with creepy music -- depicting eight vacant schools littered with drug paraphernalia and trash.
The former Philadelphia schools chief called Mayor Nutter's criticism of her unemployment claim "disingenuous" because, she says, the mayor and the School Reform Commission signed off on her buyout deal.
A group of students at South Philadelphia High School has taken an unusual approach to combatting the interracial violence that rocked the school two years ago: they wrote a play about it.
This comes after taxpayers funded a $905,000 buyout when she was shown the door in August.
Three boys are facing charges stemming from a reported sex assault at a Philadelphia elementary school.
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.
It's called the Great Schools Compact, and the city is hoping it'll be worth millions in grants from the Gates Foundation.
The Philadelphia School District's decision to close as many as nine schools is prompting City Council to schedule its own inquiry.
The Philadelphia School District's decision to close as many as nine schools is prompting City Council to schedule its own inquiry.
It's been ten years since the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania took control of the Philadelphia school system, but even those who initially supported the state takeover acknowledge a seemingly neverending torrent of problems.
Public hearings are set on the school district's plan to close nine schools and reconfigure others, under a wide-ranging facilities plan.
Officials at the Philadelphia School District today unveiled the first step in a plan to downsize the district substantially by closing schools across the city.
"We're not giving to the district, we are really giving to the children of Philadelphia because we do care about what happens in schools and what happens to the kids," Federation president Jerry Jordan says.
