Feb 6, 2015
Career Training Schools Speak Out about School Funding Inequities When the state fails to provide adequate funding for school districts, it creates a competition for limited resources that discourages school districts from sending students to regional technical...
Feb 6, 2015
The region’s most prominent education reform advocates want to give the Philadelphia School District millions of dollars to help it expand charter schools. “It has become clear that cost concerns are hindering the [School Reform Commission] from making...
Feb 6, 2015
On WHYY’s Radio Times this morning, Donna Cooper of Public Citizens for Children and Youth and Mark Gleason of the Philadelphia School Partnership joined host Marty Moss-Coane to discuss the value and harm in expanding the number of charter schools in...
Feb 6, 2015
How to fund Pennsylvania’s schools is a hot topic. The state’s Basic Education Commission is traveling the Commonwealth to hear from stakeholders as it drafts a new formula for distributing state education aid. The state funnels more than $5 billion...
Feb 5, 2015
A local education group is promising to pony up $35 million in the hopes of getting the Philadelphia School Reform Commission to approve 39 new charter school applications. The cost of opening more than two dozen charter schools has been a major bone of contention in...
Feb 5, 2015
The Philadelphia School Partnership says it will commit $25 million to the Philadelphia school district to help offset the stranded costs of charter expansion over three years. The district has been weighing 40 applications for new charter schools, but the added costs...
