BY: Greg Windle More than 2,000 people tuned in to watch the livestream of a town hall meeting Wednesday in which nearly all the members of the People’s School Board…
BY: GREG WINDLE While Mayor Kenney’s 13-member nominating panel is interviewing potential candidates for the new Philadelphia school board, which will replace the School Reform Commission this…
BY: Valerie Russ People across the city and suburbs will take the day off work Monday to honor Martin Luther King Jr.: with volunteering, fund-raising,…
BY: Ayana Jones A record 150,000 volunteers are expected to participate in more than 1,800 community service projects for the Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King…
District Attorney-elect Larry Krasner and City Controller-elect Rebecca Rhynhart are scheduled to be inaugurated along with 26 members of the judiciary Tuesday morning. Rynhhart…
BY: Bill Rettew Jr As part of two different demonstrations, diverse groups of protesters met Monday outside U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello’s, R-6, office, at the Historic…
Philadelphia City Council members heard arguments from parents, activists, the Mayor’s Office, and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers on school-related issues this week as they considered a formal…
BY: Sue Ann Rybak Local politicians, educators, advocates, parents and other community members said they are both excited and concerned after the Philadelphia School Reform…
BY: Greg Windle The crowd spilled over the steps of District headquarters and out into the parking lots as Randi Weingarten, president of the American…
BY: HARRISON JACOBS By the time Larry Krasner entered the William Way LGBT Center in Philadelphia Tuesday night, his victory party had already become something…
BY: Samaria Bailey A group of civil rights and community organizations working together as The Philadelphia Coalition for a Just District Attorney has announced a set…
BY: Ryanne Persinger City Council was packed Thursday morning as Mayor Jim Kenney asked members of the School Reform Commission to vote to dissolve and return…
Over a year ago, we launched the Our City Our Schools campaign to end the 16-year-long failed experiment of the state-controlled School Reform Commission (SRC). The SRC…
BY: Mary Michael A few weeks ago I joined other members of POWER, a progressive nonpartisan inter-faith activist group comprised of concerned citizens from Philadelphia…
BY: Samaria Bailey The Jewish-based advocacy group Tikkun Olam Chavurah and the Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild, or POWER, announced an effort to end…
BY: DARRYL C MURPHY City Councilwoman-at-large Helen Gym and fellow education advocates held a rally Monday at City Hall to celebrate a milestone victory in…