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Christie targets salaries of school superintendents
Gov. Christie proposed salary caps on Thursday to limit, and in many cases cut, what the state's public school districts pay their superintendents and other top administrators.
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A Doorway Back
With the dropout problem in Philadelphia at crisis proportions, a chance-of-a-lifetime program offers 40 select students a shot at breaking the cycle of failure. But can they take advantage?
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Harlem-based antipoverty program to train Camden agencies
The cradle-to-career approach to combating generational poverty that has made the Harlem Children's Zone a national education model may be coming to Camden.
 
Penn State board approves tuition increase
Pennsylvania State University tuition will increase by 3.9 percent to 5.9 percent this year - depending on students' residency and campus - under a plan approved Friday by the Board of Trustees.
 
3 Haddonfield students admit guilt in grade hacking
Three Haddonfield Memorial High School students pleaded guilty Thursday to charges connected to hacking into their school's computer system and changing grades, authorities said.
 
Ackerman, Nutter fault media reports on school progress
Superintendent Arlene Ackerman and Mayor Nutter told business and community leaders Thursday about "significant gains" the Philadelphia School District had made in the last year because the news, they said, was not being fully reported in the media.
 
New Jersey hopes to keep college students in-state
Admissions strategist Steve Goodman helped two New Jersey students with their college applications this year. Both were accepted at Rutgers, the state's largest university. Neither will attend.
 
Philly takes precautions as heat wave looms over area
With the National Weather Service calling for temperatures to reach a record-setting 100 degrees Tuesday, the Philadelphia School District has scheduled early dismissal for summer-school students and utilities will pay extra attention to the power grid.
 
New Media charter school satisfies SRC conditions for operating charter
The New Media Technology Charter School in Northwest Philadelphia is finally getting its new operating charter. It took more than a year, but with the departure of the acting board president Wednesday night, the troubled school has satisfied 23 conditions the School Reform Commission required to renew its operating charter.
 
New Jersey camp inspires girls to think big
Ten-year-old Zoe Dillard, a 4-foot-tall self-proclaimed scientist, speaks confidently about a woman's role in the world and her plans to save the planet.
 
In a surprise, Ackerman replaces principal Saliyah Cruz at West Philly High
Superintendent Arlene Ackerman has removed Saliyah Cruz as principal of West Philadelphia High School and replaced her with the man who most recently led troubled South Philadelphia High.
 
Students build model solar homes
The end-of-year assignment in teacher Kelly Crits' science class was on the cutting edge of America's energy crisis - to make a model solar home. But the students had to do it using heat-conducting doodads scavenged from home and school.
 
Thousands to take third try at New Jersey high school test
About 1,500 New Jersey students will start online tutoring next week in the hope of passing the state's alternative high school test in August on their third try, an Education Department spokeswoman said Friday.
 
Former university president Hackney bows out at Penn
With the laudatory farewell dinner behind him, his last papers graded, commencement over, and much of the packing done, Sheldon Hackney poured black coffee from a thermos and savored one of his last days in his frumpily elegant office in College Hall.
 
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Ranks dwindle, not hopes
Despite pitfalls, core group sees college, a future.
Nov. 28 was "A Piece of You Day" for the Gateway to College students. Kind of a grown-up version of show-and-tell, it was a chance to share something about themselves. No grades, no pressure, and that was a welcome thing.
 
For 40, it’s a back-to-school special
With the dropout problem in Philadelphia at crisis proportions, a chance-of-a-lifetime program offers 40 select students a shot at breaking the cycle of failure. But can they take advantage?
Starting with more than 700 applicants, the staff of Gateway to College had spent much of the summer testing and talking to 336 prospective students to find the select 40 they believed could succeed despite past academic failures and, in some ways even more significant, the obstacles they faced beyond school.
 
Dropouts continue, haunting classmates
Coming up on the middle of his first semester in a program he knew could give him the future of his dreams, Andre Patterson had a big decision to make.
 
Video: Getting into college
Getting into college video
 
Essays from several of the high school seniors that The Inquirer is following through the admissions process.
 
Lots of new principals in city schools
Out of 270 Philadelphia district schools, 37 will get new principals. Retirement and resignation are causes.
A change in CEO isn't the only new thing sweeping the leadership ranks in the Philadelphia School District. Thirty-seven of the district's 270 schools will get new principals this year, district officials said. Eleven are high schools, several of them high-profile. District officials said the turnover was larger than the usual 30 or so changes a year, although not as many as in 2003, when 52 schools got new principals.
 
City teens head to summer school
Earlier this month, they marched up a long Convention Center aisle to cheers, applause and snapping flashes. They are the Class of 2007 of Philadelphia Futures, the nonprofit organization that picks at-risk teenagers from city high schools and prepares them - from ninth grade - to earn college diplomas. There are mentors, tutors, and financial and emotional support.
 
Candidates vying to be teachers' pet
Eight presidential candidates came to Phila. to court the National Education Association. They said largely what teachers wanted to hear.
Fifteen minutes before Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was scheduled to speak yesterday, teachers in the audience were crawling across the floor, trying to get closer to the lectern for a better camera angle.
 
14 Pa. schools, faculties close to agreement
Both sides said talks late last night removed the threat of a strike today.
The 14 Pennsylvania-owned universities and their faculty appear to be close to a tentative agreement on a four-year contract. Neither union officials nor state officials late last night would confirm details from the 12-hour bargaining session yesterday, but both said classes for about 25,000 summer school students, including those at West Chester and Cheyney, would convene today.
 
With cutbacks, Camden's teenagers hard pressed for jobs
Camden's teenagers, many of them idle for the summer, may have a hard time finding jobs this year. Faced with budget cuts, the city's usual summer employers have drastically scaled back and there are few jobs to go around, officials said.
 
Kristen Graham | A teacher worthy of apple and pi
Christopher Wiler would love for his students at Chester A. Arthur School to be stars in math and reading. But the thing he wants most is for the boys and girls he has guided for six years to be ready for the real world.
 
From special ed to - NASA
HOUSTON - Finding your way through the corridors of the Johnson Space Center is, yeah, rocket science. Signs on doors announce the NASA sanctums, from "Ascent/Descent Dynamics" to "Rendezvous Guidance and Procedure." On the one leading to "Trajectory Operations and Planning" is the name of Jarmaine Ollivierre.
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