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