Gov. Wolf filed a brief Wednesday asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to speed up its consideration of the lawsuit seeking to overhaul the state’s current system for funding education, abandoning his prior objections. […]
The Philadelphia School District has rebooted its plan to protect students from lead paint after work done in at least three schools was found to be incomplete and, in some cases, shoddy. […]
In Michael Halko’s fifth-grade class at Francis Scott Key Elementary, the first 30 minutes of every day are sacred – it’s time for morning meeting, and, most important, yogurt, burritos, and muffins. […]
After mold outbreaks at neighborhood schools, City Councilman Derek Green and advocates from the Philly Healthy Schools Coalition are filing a Right-to-Know request with the District for environmental health data on every school that they were promised last spring — a promise that they say the District did not keep. […]
Muñoz-Marin Elementary School has suffered a severe outbreak of mold, leaving the School District scrambling to clean it up so that school can open on time on Sept. 5. […]
City Controller Alan Butkovitz has found that several Philadelphia schools last year failed to reach staffing levels required by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and some of its federal aid could be in jeopardy as a result. […]
The state of Pennsylvania has received a grade of F for its efforts — or lack thereof — to solve the widespread problem of lead in the drinking water in school buildings, according to a PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center report titled Get the Lead Out. […]
A new national study puts Pennsylvania among the most educationally segregated states in the country, with borders that create wealthy, predominantly white school districts right next door to those that are mostly nonwhite and impoverished. […]
On the day when Gov. Wolf said he would allow to become law a Republican spending plan that significantly pares back what he wants to invest in education around the state, a recent report confirmed that Philadelphia and several other Pennsylvania districts are among the most fiscally distressed in the country. […]
The grants, given to 45 local organizations, will affect 22,000 children per year, says Pew. […]
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