Jan 27, 2015
Memoranda of understanding have been signed by four dozen organizations, detailing what they will do to support three of the main goals of the READ! by 4th initiative – boosting school attendance, reaching out to parents, and preventing summer learning loss. Among the...
Jan 23, 2015
A new report recommending no new charter school approvals in 2015 finds fault with state legislation that required a new round of applications as a condition of extending a local cigarette sales tax. Public Citizens for Children and Youth, which advocates for quality...
Jan 23, 2015
Last week, I received an email from the Philadelphia School Partnership expressing outrage over a recent report by Public Citizens for Children and Youth that recommended the School Reform Commission should not approve any of the 40 pending charter school...
Jan 22, 2015
On the same day that the Philadelphia School Reform Commission was told it could not scrap the teachers’ contract to save money, the state House speaker urged the commission to approve more charter schools. Twenty-seven of the 40 applicants for new charters...
Jan 22, 2015
The city teacher’s union has praised the nomination of Pedro Rivera as the state’s next education secretary. Officials said he has experience as a teacher and administrator in the city’s public schools. “Because his career has taken him from teacher, to principal, to...
Jan 20, 2015
GOV.-ELECT Tom Wolf yesterday tapped former Philadelphia School District administrator Pedro Rivera as the state’s next education secretary, a move that advocates hope will help the city’s beleaguered public schools. Rivera, superintendent of the...
