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City panel hears of more targeting of immigrants at schools

Refugee students from Iraq are the latest target of violence in the Philadelphia School District, an advocate told a city panel Tuesday.

Lower Merion's laptop tracking system easily hacked

A Seattle-based security firm says it needed just hours to hack into a version of the laptop tracking system that the Lower Merion School District used, suggesting that tech-savvy outsiders could have commandeered the computers and watched students through their webcams.

Ex-S. Phila. principal still on district payroll

Former principal LaGreta Brown is gone from troubled South Philadelphia High School but remains on the School District payroll at $124,000 a year, officials confirmed.

24 South Jersey schools to get state aid

Ten schools in Burlington County and 14 in Camden County are in line for a total of $11.4 million in capital-improvement money, state officials announced Monday.

Ackerman names principals for overhauled schools

Philadelphia Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman on Monday named the principals of the six schools that will be radically overhauled under her supervision.

N.J. taxpayers question school administrators' pay

Lately, when Cheryl Gismonde logs onto her Facebook account, she often finds messages that veer wildly from the usual array of restaurant recommendations and photos of other people's children.

Challenged to ease challenges of others

Who would have a thought a cartoon cow and some high school kids could reach through the silent and remote world of Dennison Perez?

Phila. schoolchildren lag in reading skills

In national urban testing, 61 percent of fourth graders scored below basic in reading.

Philadelphia schoolchildren fall into the middle of the pack or lag other pupils in 17 other big-city districts in reading, according to test scores released Thursday.

Ackerman set to make top-level changes

Under scrutiny in recent months for her administration's handling of violence and other issues, Philadelphia Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman will soon announce major changes to her senior leadership team.

On recheck, thousands of N.J. students fail graduation test

Thousands of New Jersey students may still be in jeopardy of not graduating, based on results of rescored alternative high school exit exams that state education officials released Wednesday.