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Too many of our children are locked into public schools that are failing them. In recent years, the state has invested in improving our public schools through a formula whose goal is to provide the necessary support for students to meet state-achievement criteria....

When principal Otis Hackney left district headquarters Tuesday morning, having just been told that South Philadelphia High would be turned into a "Renaissance school," he carried a box of letters to be delivered to teachers and staff. The missives would alert them to...

FOR THE school-choice movement, a voucher system giving parents the ability to send their children - and with them our tax money - to the public, private, parochial, charter or cyber schools that they select, is the latest holy grail in the pursuit of a quality...

PICASSO GRANT PROGRAM WORKS TO GIVE BACK TO THE ARTS; WORKSHOP SCHEDULED FOR THIS AFTERNOON The workshop will be held at InFusion Coffee & Tea from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Since the No Child Left Behind Act was signed in 2002, efforts to remedy failing public schools...

Some advocates say Washington and Harrisburg should be doing more right now to stave off the crisis, including raising new revenue. “We should all be telling our state legislators that we need the Marcellus Shale tax (on natural gas companies), and that we can’t keep...

To the Editor - New York Times: What makes for a successful urban secondary school? In a recent study I co-wrote, conducted by Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth, we found that size or type of urban secondary school organization — public, charter, privately...

The beginning of September signals the beginning of two annual fall rites: The start of the school year and the official campaign season. Parents rush around to get children ready for school and candidates put the finishing touches on stump speeches. Although these...

With so much talk about falling educational standards in our country, does it make sense for the only state in the union that has actually posted gains in students’ reading and math achievement at every grade level to cut its funding for education? That’s what could...

Libraries again are being asked to take deep cuts in the city budget. It wasn't enough that they lost 20 percent of their funding last year; now they are being asked to deal with more than a 7.5 percent cut. That means our libraries go back to four days per week. That...