Philly school district leaders unveil $4.6 billion 2025-26 budget, but forecast chaos ahead
What you need to knowThe Philadelphia school board is gathered for its monthly meeting, which began at 4 p.m.Earlier on ...
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Philadelphia adopts preliminary schools budget as it eyes long-term deficits, Trump uncertainty
The Board of Education adopted a $4.6 billion preliminary budget for the upcoming fiscal year. But that spending blueprint ...
4 New Jersey students taken to hospital after possibly eating cannabis gummies, police say
Ewing police said four New Jersey students were taken to the hospital after possibly eating cannabis gummies on Monday.
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Graduate of one of America’s largest all-girls public high schools works to revive it
Graduates of the iconic Philadelphia High School for Girls include Gloria Allred and Jill Scott. But after a huge enrollment ...
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Powerful interests poured $18M into top Pa. lawmakers’ campaign coffers
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism ...
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Federal Grant Expenditures Properly Excluded From Charter Tuition Calculations
Esperanza Academy Charter School v. The School District of Philadelphia, 2024 WL 4875053 (Pa.Cmwlth. 2024). (Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court ...
Philly schools project a fiscal cliff, plan to spend $306 million in reserves to avoid classroom cuts and layoffs
The Philadelphia School District is bracing itself to hit a fiscal cliff. Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. delivered the ...
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Philly school district stares down a $300M deficit
The School District of Philadelphia will spend 40% of its reserves in order to avoid budget cuts for one more year. After that, there are no guarantees.
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4 New Jersey students taken to hospital after possibly eating cannabis gummies, police say
Officers from the Ewing Police Department went to STEMCivics Charter School just ... gotten them from someone outside the school, Byron told CBS News Philadelphia. Police said the four students ...
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Meet the 3 semifinalists to be the next NOLA Public Schools superintendent. Here’s what happens next.
Among the candidates: a longtime charter school leader and BESE member, interim NOLA Public Schools superintendent and CEO of ...
Most schools in Pa. have passed on ‘somewhat controversial’ cell phone pouch program
Pennsylvania offered schools money to buy pouches that lock phones away, but only 18 public school entities requested funding ...
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2 finalists chosen to be New Orleans' next schools superintendent
A longtime charter school leader and the interim NOLA Public Schools superintendent are the two remaining candidates for New ...