Topic: School District of Philadelphia

The founder of a Black teacher pipeline wonders: Isn’t it time to make a long-term investment in our public school children’s futures?

A longtime university president and public schools advocate urges compromise so low-income students can get the education they deserve today — and public schools can thrive

The court has promised more and equitable funding for Philadelphia schools. But, a longtime educator notes, all that money won’t matter if the District doesn’t fix how it budgets

GROW Academy, started by a local financial planner, is helping entrepreneurial teens manage their money and launch the careers they dream about

In an excerpt from a new book about surviving poverty in Kensington, a teenager pleads for his alternative high school to stay open — and wonders why he must.

The governor punted on a chance to be the rare Democrat to fund school vouchers in the state budget he just signed. But, a free market advocate argues, it’s not too late

New Jersey is the first U.S. state to mandate climate change education in every grade and nearly every subject. Can a similar solutions-based curriculum help prepare Philly kids for a green future?

The powerful head of Philadelphia’s Building Trades on having the same sense of urgency when it comes to education as a collapsed road

How might advocates for and against vouchers find common ground? A former city education secretary has a proposal

A former Tom Wolfe staffer on one critical misstep of school choice advocates in the state