At Tuesday night’s debate, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Jack Ciattarelli doubled down on his belief that the government has no right to force anyone to wear
On Wednesday, August 26, education activists and organizations around the country are staging a national day of action, demanding that every student have access to
Sharif El-Mekki, principal of Shoemaker Middle and High School in Philadelphia, considers the impact of PA Governor Wolf’s veto of House Bill 805, which would
Philadelphia Public Schools has a decades-long history of failing traditional public schools and, hence, parents continue to demand seats in higher-performing charter schools. In Philadelphia
Kristen Forbriger responds to the feature story in Philly Mag called “A City Parent’s Guide to Schools,” illustrated by a cover photo of an group
Public education advocates in New Jersey, from Derrell Bradford to Paul Tractenberg (bet you never thought you’d see those two in the same sentence), have
From this morning’s New York Times: According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, a nonprofit policy research group, Mr. Corbett has cut close to
On Monday the Philadelphia School Reform Commission voted unanimously to unilaterally cancel the city’s current teachers’ contract. The Commission and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
StudentsFirst’s Ashley DeMauro in Philadelphia Public Schools Notebook reflects on the School Reform Commission’s recent decision to eliminate seniority-based lay-offs in the cash-starved districts. Instead,