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Tennis great Andre Agassi and officials of a California real estate company created an unusual joint venture last year to help successful charter schools find affordable and sustainable buildings. On Tuesday, they will celebrate their first charter-school investment: KIPP Philadelphia Elementary Academy at 2409 W. Westmoreland St. in North Philadelphia’s Tioga section. “KIPP is the […] Read more »

For more than a year, the Legislature has been prodding and poking at a bill that would provide a lifeline to poor students in failing districts by giving them a voucher to attend private schools. Enough. This is a small pilot program that will affect about 5,000 students in a public school system of nearly […] Read more »

Our community is blessed with many fine educators in our public school system. They deserve our respect, appreciation and support. That is why I believe our present educational system has to change. The model currently in place, like so many other aspects of our government, is unsustainable. Failing to face hard realities diminishes the sacrificial […] Read more »

The District unveiled its first rankings of public charter schools Tuesday, part of a new rating system that offers parents a broader assessment of school progress than annual standardized test results. The new performance evaluation shows how test scores of students have grown over the last year, relative to their academic peers across the city. […] Read more »

Armed with bundles of white roses — assembled to represent what they say are incidents of violence in the state’s 143 lowest-performing schools every 17 minutes — lawmakers and supporters urged that a measure to allow those students to attend alternative institutions be passed before the end of the year. That was the latest argument […] Read more »

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette December 7, 2011 Armed with bundles of white roses — assembled to represent what they say are incidents of violence in the state’s 143 lowest-performing schools every 17 minutes — lawmakers and supporters urged that a measure to allow those students to attend alternative institutions be passed before the end of the year. […] Read more »

The Ocean City School District is a hot commodity. More than 85 students from across the region applied for the 39 spots in Ocean City’s popular school choice program this year. The deadline to apply was Dec. 1. Ocean City is one of 71 districts in the state chosen to participate in the Interdistrict Public […] Read more »

Pennsylvania has a simple choice to make. We can embrace change and welcome educational reform, or we can choose to satisfy ourselves with the tired old policies of the past that, by any reasonable standard of measure, have failed our children. In the last decade, we have made strides in developing tools that allow us […] Read more »

Supporters of a bill to give scholarships to tens of thousands of students in failing public schools to attend private and parochial schools rallied on the Statehouse steps, urging legislators to take action. Read more »

As state lawmakers take the correct course toward lifting the cap on charter schools, some Democrats are trying to block the move by raising the boogeyman of “profits.” Their proposal to ban for-profit charters should be taken for what it is — a backdoor tactic to limit charters and preserve the teacher union’s monopoly on […] Read more »