School District of PhiladelphiaA Philly charter just laid off 17 employees. Students, staff, and parents say it’s a sign of troubling changes at the schoolThe school, a K-12 in Hunting Park, has seen changes in the past year, culminating with teacher layoffs this month. Now, Esperanza Academy Charter High School staff are attempting to unionize.Kristen A. Graham an hour agoIt’s an open secret that some charter schools push out kids with behavioral problems, Philly principals sayKristen A. Graham Northeast Philly gets another new school: The $88 million Thomas Holme will open in JanuaryKristen A. Graham and Mike Newall OpinionIf Philadelphia wants to be the best sports city, it must fund its student-athletesAngela McIver, For The Inquirer A Philly judge’s ruling in a charter case has called into question Joyce Wilkerson’s seat on the school boardKristen A. Graham AdvertisementInside Philly’s newest school: AMY at James Martin, a $62 million middle school, will open in JanuaryThe new AMY at James Martin, a four-story, 88,000-square-foot building, will open to students in January. Its middle school students have been learning at Penn Treaty High School during construction.Kristen A. Graham Philly’s school board will consider transferring vacant buildings to the city at a special meeting this weekThe resolution would cover about 20 buildings that are already vacant — not any that might be closed in the future. Mayor Cherelle Parker has said she wants to use vacant schools to develop housing.Kristen A. Graham Philly school board elects its president and vice president for next yearThe Philly school board hosted its final action meeting of 2025 on Thursday. Follow live coverage from reporter Kristen A. Graham.Kristen A. Graham Pennsylvania’s $80 billion school pension fund gets a new directorOne of Gov. Josh Shapiro's closest aides, Uri Monson, will run the teacher retirement plan.Joseph N. DiStefano Quinta Brunson wants thousands of Philly kids to have free school field tripsPhiladelphia School District teachers and administrators will be able to apply for funding for field trips for their students. Awards will be made twice a year.Kristen A. Graham A House committee is investigating allegations of antisemitism in Philadelphia schoolsThe Republican-led congressional committee has, in recent years, used hearings as platforms to criticize academic institutions perceived as progressive, long a target of conservatives.Kristen A. Graham Philly principals union has a tentative contractNearly 1,000 Philadelphia principals, assistant principals, climate managers and other workers will get pay raises if they approve a tentative four-year pact.Kristen A. Graham Philly principals, working without a contract for months, demand action: school board roundupSuperintendent Tony B. Watlington told the school board he needed more time to present a facilities plan. "We’re committed to not fumbling the football on the 2-yard line,” he said.Kristen A. Graham At Philly school board meeting, concerns bubbled up over the school closing process and principals working without contractsThe Philly school board hosted its monthly action meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday. Read live coverage from reporter Kristen A. Graham.Kristen A. Graham ‘A Drugcember to Remember’ is coming back to its ‘old local hangout’The War On Drugs' annual tradition benefiting the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia started in 2018 but was on pause since 2022.Dan DeLuca 3,000 protested conditions for Philly’s Black students in 1967. Here’s how these city kids remembered it.“Hey hey!” a group of students yelled, 58 years after thousands of Philadelphia students marched for rights for Black students. “Ho ho! Black history will never go!”Kristen A. Graham School closings are coming to Philly. Here are four themes that are emerging as leaders come closer to decisions.A survey is going out this week that school district officials hope will get thousands of responses as they plan school closings, co-locations, reconfigurations, and new construction.Kristen A. Graham Stolen phones sparked a fight and ongoing tension at Frankford High The school’s phone policy “caused some serious issues in the building,” a staffer said. “A lot of the students said, ‘You’re forcing us to put our phones there, but you’re not protecting them.’”Kristen A. Graham The winners and losers in Pennsylvania’s new $50.1 billion budgetThe breakthrough deal capped a saga that featured bitter partisan fights, months of stalled negotiations, and a dramatic resurgence of Pennsylvania’s rural-urban divide.Gillian McGoldrick Germantown mother accused of stealing $61K from the Philadelphia School DistrictLaurel Schullere pocketed $61,000 in payments meant to cover theraputic services for her two children, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said.Kristen A. Graham See more storiesAdvertisement
A Philly charter just laid off 17 employees. Students, staff, and parents say it’s a sign of troubling changes at the schoolThe school, a K-12 in Hunting Park, has seen changes in the past year, culminating with teacher layoffs this month. Now, Esperanza Academy Charter High School staff are attempting to unionize.Kristen A. Graham an hour ago
A Philly charter just laid off 17 employees. Students, staff, and parents say it’s a sign of troubling changes at the schoolThe school, a K-12 in Hunting Park, has seen changes in the past year, culminating with teacher layoffs this month. Now, Esperanza Academy Charter High School staff are attempting to unionize.Kristen A. Graham an hour ago
It’s an open secret that some charter schools push out kids with behavioral problems, Philly principals sayKristen A. Graham
It’s an open secret that some charter schools push out kids with behavioral problems, Philly principals sayKristen A. Graham
Northeast Philly gets another new school: The $88 million Thomas Holme will open in JanuaryKristen A. Graham and Mike Newall
Northeast Philly gets another new school: The $88 million Thomas Holme will open in JanuaryKristen A. Graham and Mike Newall
OpinionIf Philadelphia wants to be the best sports city, it must fund its student-athletesAngela McIver, For The Inquirer
OpinionIf Philadelphia wants to be the best sports city, it must fund its student-athletesAngela McIver, For The Inquirer
A Philly judge’s ruling in a charter case has called into question Joyce Wilkerson’s seat on the school boardKristen A. Graham
A Philly judge’s ruling in a charter case has called into question Joyce Wilkerson’s seat on the school boardKristen A. Graham
Inside Philly’s newest school: AMY at James Martin, a $62 million middle school, will open in JanuaryThe new AMY at James Martin, a four-story, 88,000-square-foot building, will open to students in January. Its middle school students have been learning at Penn Treaty High School during construction.Kristen A. Graham
Inside Philly’s newest school: AMY at James Martin, a $62 million middle school, will open in JanuaryThe new AMY at James Martin, a four-story, 88,000-square-foot building, will open to students in January. Its middle school students have been learning at Penn Treaty High School during construction.Kristen A. Graham
Philly’s school board will consider transferring vacant buildings to the city at a special meeting this weekThe resolution would cover about 20 buildings that are already vacant — not any that might be closed in the future. Mayor Cherelle Parker has said she wants to use vacant schools to develop housing.Kristen A. Graham
Philly’s school board will consider transferring vacant buildings to the city at a special meeting this weekThe resolution would cover about 20 buildings that are already vacant — not any that might be closed in the future. Mayor Cherelle Parker has said she wants to use vacant schools to develop housing.Kristen A. Graham
Philly school board elects its president and vice president for next yearThe Philly school board hosted its final action meeting of 2025 on Thursday. Follow live coverage from reporter Kristen A. Graham.Kristen A. Graham
Philly school board elects its president and vice president for next yearThe Philly school board hosted its final action meeting of 2025 on Thursday. Follow live coverage from reporter Kristen A. Graham.Kristen A. Graham
Pennsylvania’s $80 billion school pension fund gets a new directorOne of Gov. Josh Shapiro's closest aides, Uri Monson, will run the teacher retirement plan.Joseph N. DiStefano
Pennsylvania’s $80 billion school pension fund gets a new directorOne of Gov. Josh Shapiro's closest aides, Uri Monson, will run the teacher retirement plan.Joseph N. DiStefano
Quinta Brunson wants thousands of Philly kids to have free school field tripsPhiladelphia School District teachers and administrators will be able to apply for funding for field trips for their students. Awards will be made twice a year.Kristen A. Graham
Quinta Brunson wants thousands of Philly kids to have free school field tripsPhiladelphia School District teachers and administrators will be able to apply for funding for field trips for their students. Awards will be made twice a year.Kristen A. Graham
A House committee is investigating allegations of antisemitism in Philadelphia schoolsThe Republican-led congressional committee has, in recent years, used hearings as platforms to criticize academic institutions perceived as progressive, long a target of conservatives.Kristen A. Graham
A House committee is investigating allegations of antisemitism in Philadelphia schoolsThe Republican-led congressional committee has, in recent years, used hearings as platforms to criticize academic institutions perceived as progressive, long a target of conservatives.Kristen A. Graham
Philly principals union has a tentative contractNearly 1,000 Philadelphia principals, assistant principals, climate managers and other workers will get pay raises if they approve a tentative four-year pact.Kristen A. Graham
Philly principals union has a tentative contractNearly 1,000 Philadelphia principals, assistant principals, climate managers and other workers will get pay raises if they approve a tentative four-year pact.Kristen A. Graham
Philly principals, working without a contract for months, demand action: school board roundupSuperintendent Tony B. Watlington told the school board he needed more time to present a facilities plan. "We’re committed to not fumbling the football on the 2-yard line,” he said.Kristen A. Graham
Philly principals, working without a contract for months, demand action: school board roundupSuperintendent Tony B. Watlington told the school board he needed more time to present a facilities plan. "We’re committed to not fumbling the football on the 2-yard line,” he said.Kristen A. Graham
At Philly school board meeting, concerns bubbled up over the school closing process and principals working without contractsThe Philly school board hosted its monthly action meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday. Read live coverage from reporter Kristen A. Graham.Kristen A. Graham
At Philly school board meeting, concerns bubbled up over the school closing process and principals working without contractsThe Philly school board hosted its monthly action meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday. Read live coverage from reporter Kristen A. Graham.Kristen A. Graham
‘A Drugcember to Remember’ is coming back to its ‘old local hangout’The War On Drugs' annual tradition benefiting the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia started in 2018 but was on pause since 2022.Dan DeLuca
‘A Drugcember to Remember’ is coming back to its ‘old local hangout’The War On Drugs' annual tradition benefiting the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia started in 2018 but was on pause since 2022.Dan DeLuca
3,000 protested conditions for Philly’s Black students in 1967. Here’s how these city kids remembered it.“Hey hey!” a group of students yelled, 58 years after thousands of Philadelphia students marched for rights for Black students. “Ho ho! Black history will never go!”Kristen A. Graham
3,000 protested conditions for Philly’s Black students in 1967. Here’s how these city kids remembered it.“Hey hey!” a group of students yelled, 58 years after thousands of Philadelphia students marched for rights for Black students. “Ho ho! Black history will never go!”Kristen A. Graham
School closings are coming to Philly. Here are four themes that are emerging as leaders come closer to decisions.A survey is going out this week that school district officials hope will get thousands of responses as they plan school closings, co-locations, reconfigurations, and new construction.Kristen A. Graham
School closings are coming to Philly. Here are four themes that are emerging as leaders come closer to decisions.A survey is going out this week that school district officials hope will get thousands of responses as they plan school closings, co-locations, reconfigurations, and new construction.Kristen A. Graham
Stolen phones sparked a fight and ongoing tension at Frankford High The school’s phone policy “caused some serious issues in the building,” a staffer said. “A lot of the students said, ‘You’re forcing us to put our phones there, but you’re not protecting them.’”Kristen A. Graham
Stolen phones sparked a fight and ongoing tension at Frankford High The school’s phone policy “caused some serious issues in the building,” a staffer said. “A lot of the students said, ‘You’re forcing us to put our phones there, but you’re not protecting them.’”Kristen A. Graham
The winners and losers in Pennsylvania’s new $50.1 billion budgetThe breakthrough deal capped a saga that featured bitter partisan fights, months of stalled negotiations, and a dramatic resurgence of Pennsylvania’s rural-urban divide.Gillian McGoldrick
The winners and losers in Pennsylvania’s new $50.1 billion budgetThe breakthrough deal capped a saga that featured bitter partisan fights, months of stalled negotiations, and a dramatic resurgence of Pennsylvania’s rural-urban divide.Gillian McGoldrick
Germantown mother accused of stealing $61K from the Philadelphia School DistrictLaurel Schullere pocketed $61,000 in payments meant to cover theraputic services for her two children, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said.Kristen A. Graham
Germantown mother accused of stealing $61K from the Philadelphia School DistrictLaurel Schullere pocketed $61,000 in payments meant to cover theraputic services for her two children, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said.Kristen A. Graham
