Topic: School District of Philadelphia

Mastery’s CEO urges the School Board to develop standards — and follow them — before making any new charter decisions on May 14

What other schools can learn from the way South Philly’s Sharswood K-8 has raised reading scores in the first year of the city’s new literacy curriculum

… They need more choice. A free market think tank leader urges Governor Shapiro to opt-in to a new federal tax credit program

A Philadelphia public school teacher argues against the District’s plan to close his school. Give Lankenau Environmental a chance to grow

Read by 4th responds to The Citizen’s critique of the city’s efforts to get kids reading

Budget cuts. School closures. Structural deficit. Scant academic progress. Spin from District headquarters. Larry Platt asks: Is Superintendent Watlington up to being a transformational leader?

A former City Council and School Reform Commission member weighs in on what a $300 million budget deficit says about School District leadership

A deputy superintendent pushes back on a Citizen story that called the District’s Facilities Master Plan a sign of “managed decline”

In all the talk over closing and fixing Philly schools, there is no mention of building new ones that might serve the community better into the future. Can we look to New York City and Boston for solutions we should steal?

The president of a free market think tank urges Pennsylvania to opt in to help students — both public and private — with school costs