Teachers give a gold star to a free-for-all education camp
For many teachers, the phrase professional development conjures up mandatory, snooze-inducing, school-sponsored lectures, says the Philadelphia Enquirer.
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Pennsylvania likely to put school tax increases in the hands of voters
Pennsylvania school districts that might get hammered once the state budget becomes finalized might be forced to justify high tax increases if the state government has anything to…
Fire rips through West Philadelphia charter school
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, a five-alarm fire that raged for more than an hour and a half early Sunday caused "substantial" damage to the 400-student Global Leadership…
Pa., N.J. legislators blast loss of charter aid
New Jersey and Pennsylvania legislators criticized the Christie and Rendell administrations on Monday for their states' failures to win federal aid for charter school start-ups, reports the Philadelphia…
District in webcam spying lawsuit adopts new laptop-tracking policies
Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion School District has adopted a new set of policies to govern the use and tracking of student laptops and other technology, its latest step to…
IT employees suspended in school webcam spying case
Two information technology employees of the Lower Merion School District have been placed on leave while an investigation continues into the use of remote surveillance software on student…
Web not yet the answer to college textbook costs
Most students still prefer print to digital textbooks, and even if they didn't, college campuses so far have made very few titles available online, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.