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Byline: Maddie Hanna Nov. 22Pennsylvania's education secretary, Khalid Mumin, is stepping down. Mumin announced Friday that he would be leaving the education department in two weeks telling colleagues in an [...]

Byline: Maddie Hanna Nov. 22Pennsylvania's education secretary, Khalid Mumin, is stepping down. A Pennsylvania Department of Education spokesperson, Erin James, confirmed Friday that Mumin 'will be resigning.' More information will [...]

Byline: Maddie Hanna Nov. 21Former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for education secretary, has little experience working in education. But she chairs a conservative think tank aligned [...]

Byline: Kristen A. Graham Jul. 12Pennsylvania denies some students with disabilities up to a year of federally guaranteed education, a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of a Lower Merion [...]

Byline: Kristen A. Graham Mar. 22Eight people vying to be Philadelphia's next mayor promised much Tuesday night, from tearing down dozens of schools and building new ones to establishing an [...]

Byline: Kristen A. Graham Mar. 1Faced with a nationwide educator shortage, Pennsylvania ought to up its minimum starting salary for teachers to $60,000, the president of a commonwealth teachers' union [...]

Byline: Melanie Burney Sep. 17When U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and an entourage stepped into her senior seminar class at Camden High School, student Shania Edmondson barely looked up from [...]

Byline: Rita Giordano Apr. 24Sister Francesca Onley, 88, of Philadelphia, Holy Family University's former president credited with transforming a local Catholic college into a multidisciplinary institution of higher education, died [...]

Byline: Astrid Rodrigues Apr. 7U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona came to the Philadelphia region Tuesday, promising help from the Biden administration while urging school leaders to bring students back to [...]

Byline: Kristen A. Graham and Maddie Hanna Apr. 7U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona came to the Philadelphia region Tuesday, promising help from the Biden administration while urging school leaders to [...]

Byline: Susan Snyder Dec. 5Temple University will pay $700,000 to the U.S. Department of Education to settle claims over its business school's misreporting of data to U.S. News and World [...]

Byline: Maddie Hanna Oct. 27Pennsylvania's public school children are being shortchanged by $4.6 billion and those in the poorest school districts, who have fallen the furthest behind, are owed the [...]

March 25-- Mar. 25--The wholesale damage that the coronavirus is inflicting is enormous and indiscriminate. No corner of life is untouched, and virtually no system remains undamaged. Our system of [...]

Byline: Stephan Salisbury Feb. 07-- Feb. 7--Marla K. Shoemaker, a veteran of nearly a half-century at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is retiring, museum head Timothy Rub announced to the [...]

Byline: Justine McDaniel Feb. 05-- Feb. 5--At his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Donald Trump singled out a Philadelphia fourth-grader sitting in the audience and announced she [...]

Dec. 03-- Dec. 3--Not only is our economy increasingly reliant on technology, but economists have noted we are now experiencing a 'fourth industrial revolution' that encompasses artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum [...]

Byline: Maddie Hanna May 07-- May 7--After coming from Indonesia a year ago, Jason Hoo said, he was surprised by the conditions at his high school in South Philadelphia. In [...]

April 27-- Apr. 27--The School District of Philadelphia is facing a new crisis: a high rate of teacher turnover that is leaving many schools with troubling staffing shortages -- and [...]

Oct. 13--Pennsylvania is undermining its own future by defunding higher education at an alarming rate. In a report earlier this month, the national Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said [...]

Byline: Jonathan Takiff, Smartphones have gotten a bad rap, called a major hazard to our collective health, especially when those distracting devices are in the hands of clueless, inexperienced drivers. [...]

Byline: Kathy Boccella Oct. 20--The Pennsylvania Department of Education's 2016 School Performance Profile (SPP) scores, an annual measure of academic progress at the state's 2,860 public schools, contain inaccurate data. [...]

Byline: Kristen A. Graham Sept. 14--Some Pennsylvania schools have cutting-edge facilities. Others have no textbooks. The state's education-funding system is so fundamentally flawed that a judicial remedy is needed, parents, [...]

Byline: Kristen A. Graham Sept. 13--With trumpets and speeches, a drum line and song, students, teachers, politicians and others rallied Monday for education funding in advance of an important Pennsylvania [...]

Byline: Jeremy Roebuck May 24--Among the millions of dollars in federal funding that U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah prides himself on securing for worthy causes, he has repeatedly singled out money [...]

Byline: Martha Woodall Dec. 03--One week after Education Plus Academy Cyber School laid off its entire staff, the board voted late Wednesday afternoon to cease operations Friday and surrender its [...]

Byline: Martha Woodall Oct. 31--A cyber school that got into hot water with the state Department of Education for operating more like a regular charter than an online school said [...]

Byline: Martha Woodall Oct. 31--A cyber school that got into hot water with the state Department of Education for operating more like a regular charter than an online school said [...]

Byline: Kristen A. Graham Feb. 16--Education may well be the issue that gets Philadelphia's next mayor elected. That fact is not lost on Stephanie Conaghan, a kindergarten teacher at Ziegler [...]

Byline: Joe Dolinsky Sept. 17--Standing before about 500 3- and 4-year-olds at Franklin Square, the head of Philadelphia's school district made his case for more money for prekindergarten education. 'What [...]

Byline: Thomas Fitzgerald Sept. 14--Gov. Corbett took Pennsylvania voters to school last week in 'Statistics Class,' a 30-second TV spot, complete with bar graphs, that asserts he has increased state [...]

Byline: Amy Worden Aug. 12--HARRISBURG -- An embattled former Department of Education secretary has resigned his post as special adviser to Gov. Corbett amid allegations that he has held what [...]

Byline: Martha Woodall Jan. 17--Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale announced Thursday that his office would begin a comprehensive performance audit of the state Department of Education to examine its oversight [...]

Byline: Angela Couloumbis Nov. 17--HARRISBURG -- The radio ad is called 'Looking out.' As inspirational music plays in the background, a female voice declares that Gov. Corbett believes deeply in [...]

Byline: Jonathan Lai Sept. 15--Stepping into Philadelphia's school-funding crisis, the Rev. Al Sharpton delivered a fiery address Saturday linking public education to the civil rights movement and promising a return [...]

Byline: Amy Worden Sept. 13--HARRISBURG The State Board of Education approved a controversial plan Thursday to require all Pennsylvania students to pass proficiency tests in science, math, and language arts [...]

Byline: Angela Couloumbis and Amy Worden May 11--HARRISBURG -- Another member of Gov. Corbett's cabinet is on his way out. Education Secretary Ron Tomalis is looking for another job and [...]

Byline: Vernon Clark Dec. 20--Sharon Scott-Hunter, 59, a retired assistant superintendent of the Chester Upland School District who spent 25 years teaching special education elementary students in Philadelphia, died of [...]

Byline: Matt Katz Sept. 07--CHARLOTTE -- Mayor Nutter used his moment on the national stage at the Democratic convention Thursday night to focus on education, which he called essential to [...]

Byline: Kristen A. Graham April 29--Diane Ravitch, education historian and pointed observer of the American educational scene, came to Philadelphia last week to speak at a math teachers' convention. She [...]

Byline: Bonnie L. Cook Dec. 02--Teresa Pica, 66, of Philadelphia, a professor in the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and a leading expert in the field of second [...]

Byline: Walter F. Naedele Aug. 22--Donald Rappaport, 84, a Pennsylvania education official in the 1970s and a federal education official in the 1990s, died of cancer Friday, Aug. 12, at [...]

Byline: Paul Jones Aug. 04--For most students, high school is a place where adults run the show. But for 16-year-old Erin Agnew, it has been an opportunity to join the [...]

Byline: Dan Hardy June 07--Pennsylvania's largest teachers union has issued its strongest endorsement to date for using student test scores in evaluating teachers, and proposed a streamlined dismissal process for [...]

Byline: Dan Hardy Jan. 14--Gov.-elect Tom Corbett reached back into the Ridge administration Thursday to select his nominee to lead the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Ronald J. Tomalis, 48, served [...]

Byline: Melanie Burney, The Philadelphia Inquirer Dec. 31--PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When she entered high school, Natasha Luigui wanted to become a preschool teacher, so she landed an internship at a […]

Byline: Dale Mezzacappa, The Philadelphia Inquirer Dec. 23--The trial was unprecedented and the legal issues confusing. The testimony ran to 2,000 pages and the exhibits more than that. The stakes: […]