Sep 9, 2014
After a summer of financial and political turmoil for Philadelphia schools, 130,000 children returned to the classroom Monday to begin a school year that opened amid looming layoffs and the threat of severe budget cuts. “This school year, like last school year,...
Sep 9, 2014
With Monday’s opening of more than 200 schools, all of Philadelphia’s public-school students are back in class. For many of Philadelphia’s charter school students, summer break ended last week. Yellow school buses, children and teens — some in school uniforms...
Sep 8, 2014
Philadelphia has opened three new public high schools in an effort to show the troubled district is still trying to innovate despite the specter of massive layoffs. Classes started Monday for about 135,000 students. Officials say it will be another tough year, with...
Sep 8, 2014
The troubled city school system opened three new high schools Monday in an effort to show that officials are committed to innovating and boosting achievement despite fewer resources and the specter of massive layoffs. Superintendent William Hite enthusiastically...
Sep 8, 2014
On this, the first day of classes for Philadelphia public schools, parents and public school advocates were outside the Philadelphia office of governor Tom Corbett this morning, reading thousands of letters written by Philadelphia school students regarding state...
Sep 8, 2014
First you hear them, and then you see them: groups with megaphones and hand-painted signs screaming for “fair school funding” and “education reform.” But do you walk on by or stop and listen? Sure, some stop, but many bury their faces in their phones and act oblivious...
