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I WORRY about our city's boys. I worry because there are those who will judge them before they open their mouths, break their spirits with discouragement and innuendo and attack them with weapons as seemingly benign as low expectations.

I WORRY about our city's boys. I worry because there are those who will judge them before they open their mouths, break their spirits with discouragement and innuendo and attack them with weapons as seemingly benign as low expectations.

If a proposed amendment to the charter-school policy is approved by the School Reform Commission this fall, the city's charter schools will be one step closer to losing their independence, a charter-school official said yesterday at a public hearing.

Less than a month after nearly eliminating teacher vacancies, officials with the Philadelphia School District fumed yesterday about hundreds of teachers who have gone AWOL just days before the start of school.

Hundreds of new teachers who are taking on the challenge of instructing Philadelphia's students this year were asked a pointed question at the opening of the orientation yesterday.

More Pennsylvania students than ever - about 72 percent - are on grade level in reading and math, the state Department of Education announced yesterday.

July 13, 2009 - THE FOUR-DECADE Philadelphia school-desegregation battle, one of the oldest in the nation, could be resolved today after a hearing before Commonwealth Court Judge Doris Smith-Ribner.

Despite recent tough talk between the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, the two sides share common ground in fundamental areas, PFT President Jerry Jordan said

I wish it were comforting to know that Philadelphia public schools aren’t the only schools where some students are given credit for work they never did.

Across the Philadelphia School District today, teachers and principals will be wearing the color red. Tomorrow they'll don blue. The show of colors is not an end-of-year stunt,