The PFT's contract expires Aug. 31. Tuesday night's vote represents the first time since 2001 that a strike has been ...

The Universal Vare Charter School launched in 2011 as part of a Philadelphia initiative meant to improve schools. Now, after years of low test scores, it plans to stop operating.

The Commonwealth Court decision allows students to sue public schools, not just employees, for negligence that enables sexual ...

Philadelphia Federation of Teachers members voted to authorize their executive board to call for a strike if the union and ...

As the Philadelphia School District decides whether to fix, consolidate or close its aging school buildings, a community advisory panel Monday night was shown how the process will work.

Education advocates and some city councilmembers say the city could have provided more funding to the school district, which ...

Board members reviewed 18 schools up for charter renewal, two weeks after approving the first new charter school since 2018.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education's system for handling teacher misconduct is sometimes murky, and there have been ...

At least some of the bill's concepts have support in both chambers, but the issue has always been complicated by the ...