Since October, Camden County, believed to be the only one in New Jersey doing this, has installed the boxes in about 244 locations.

"When it comes to improving our students academic health, I always want the Cadillac,” Tony B. Watlington Sr. said of his plan, which will define his superintendency.

Officials are still working to find an alternative site to relocate Frankford's staff and 900 students.

Snowflakes’ “placing families” choose the adoptive parents, then those parents can say yes or no to the match.

“We still know that we do not have the staffing and resources that we need to address all of these issues,” said Victoria Flemming, the district's interim environmental chief.

Jeremy Grant-Skinner is the new deputy superintendent of talent, strategy and culture. Nyshawana Francis-Thompson was named chief of curriculum and instruction.

Sixty Philadelphia teachers are winners of the 2023 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, honored for their transformative work in city children’s lives.

From 2000 through 2004, students at Grover Washington Middle School in Olney attended school for the same amount of days as the rest of the district, but those days were spread throughout the year.

“I can’t breathe. I can’t leave. Let me out,” the kindergartner is heard pleading on the video.

The group hailed from Henry and Mitchell elementary schools, and Building 21 and Frankford High — four schools closed by asbestos problems this year.

“I had this mindset of: OK, these things have to get done. It was a blur, but also, I thought: I’m doing this. I can do this. That’s motherhood in a nutshell.”

Following allegations reported by the Inquirer this month that its former CEO rigged its lottery to exclude certain students and zip codes, the high school will now use Apply Philly Charter.

From expanding career and technical education to instituting year-round school, the five leading candidates have all laid out visions for Philly's education system.

On May 19, the couple will mark their 50th anniversary. They recently celebrated at their church with a party for about 40 friends and family members.

The pair will cross the stage during the Rutgers-Camden commencement Monday and collect Sunny Reed’s doctoral degree in childhood studies.