Philly Schools News Today

MSNBC analyst Barbara McQuade on “Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America”. Plus, a surprise settlement for the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers.

A Philadelphia school was placed on lockdown Tuesday morning after a gun was found in a student's backpack.

They're known as the Edison 64: the 64 former students of Edison High School who made the ultimate sacrifice in the Vietnam War.

Students at a West Oak Lane high school will be able to return to their classrooms after broken asbestos was found in their school earlier this year.

Our schools are asked to do a lot more than educate our children, who come to school each day with many needs.

The joy and power of improvisation With The Unscripted Project, President’s Engagement Prize winners Philip Chen and Meera Menon create an improv curriculum and bring teaching artists to Philadelphia public school students. Winners of a 2020 Presidents Engagement Prize, Philip Chen (left) and Meera Menon founded their nonprofit, The Unscripted Project, and created a curriculum incorporating improvisation. Unscripted provides arti...

Randi, with schools having a nurse two days a week are kids supposed to plan the days their kids get sick. so most parents take refuge their kids are going to school and professionals will be taking care of their child. i know these nurses are disappearing across the country, that is we look in major cities, los angeles has reduced school nursing staff by 13%, cleveland laid off 55%. in philly its one nurse for every 1500 students. san diego has cut half its school nurses. bottom line, are schoo...