Education

UPPER DARBY, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — The Upper Darby School District wants to build a new $65 million middle school, but that plan is getting pushback from district residents. There were just a few residents who came out to Tuesday's information meeting about the school, but they made sure their...

By Laurie Kellman and Elana Schor, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before the first Democratic presidential debates, Sen. Bernie Sanders and House progressives rolled out legislation to cancel all student debt, going farther than a signature proposal by Sen. Elizabeth Warren as the two...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The now former principal of a Philadelphia elementary school has been arrested as a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run nearly two years ago. On Tuesday, he waived his preliminary hearing, and his trial will move onto a higher court. Jovan Weaver, 37, was arrested in early...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Drexel University is planning to build a new home for two Philadelphia schools. But before it can start, the university is asking the school board for help. Drexel president John Fry says the university has secured about $29 million toward the $39 million needed for a...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Philadelphia School Board Thursday said "no" to a charter operator seeking to merge its schools under a new state law. The board voted 9-0 to reject Freire Charter Schools' application to become a Multiple Charter School Organization. Freire operates two...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The future is unclear for students at one Philadelphia charter school now that the School Board Thursday approved the school's offer to surrender its charter. Rather than endure a long and expensive hearing process after a non-renewal recommendation, the board of the...

CAMDEN, N.J. (KYW Newsradio) — Officials in the Camden City School District have approved a $365 million budget that reverses a decision to close an elementary school. But that reversal comes with a big condition: extra money from the state of New Jersey. Veterans Memorial Family School will now...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — On the eve of a non-renewal hearing, one of Philadelphia's oldest charter schools is surrendering its charter. The school board on Thursday is slated to consider an agreement by the troubled Charter High School for Architecture and Design to surrender its charter a...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A Philadelphia-area vocational-technical school is offering kids a summer camp that give them more profitable skills than archery. Middle school students can get a hands-on account of what it's like to make a cake, fix a car, design a garden or give a facial at...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia's first school year under the return to local control has wrapped up. Now, the school board is asking the public about what its priorities should be for year two. Several themes emerged during the school board's public hearings Thursday, on what it should...