The Philadelphia School Partnership wants the School Reform Commission to accept $25 million in exchange for approving thousands of new charter school seats. It’s a really bad deal that the School District of Philadelphia can’t afford and the SRC should…

In an article in today’s Inquirer, School Reform Commission Chair Bill Green is quoted as saying that the charter school law “appears to require us to approve applications” for new charters if they meet requirements. What Green seems to be…

Maria Pouchnikova Alphonso Griffin One indication that Alphonso Griffin, 28, may have been wrongfully convicted of selling drugs is that he is deaf. It’s not that a deaf person couldn’t sell drugs. It’s that Philadelphia Police Officer Stephen Dmytryk testified…

Michelle Alexander Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, credits the national movement against police brutality for Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams’ unusual decision last week to charge Police Officers Sean McKnight…

The City Council Public Health and Human Services Committee voted unanimously today to buck hospitality industry objections and pass a bill requiring many Philadelphia employers to provide workers with paid-sick leave. Mayor Michael Michael Nutter vetoed similar bills in 2011…

Stills from a prison surveillance video showing Officer Tyrone Glover beating inmate John Steckley. Lawyer Valerie Heppel was frustrated last month as she struggled to defend inmate Gary Wimbush against charges that he assaulted a corrections officer at a Philadelphia…

Flyer for rumored white supremacist rock show White supremacist rock band Aggravated Assault is rumored to be playing at an Outlaws motorcycle gang clubhouse in Kensington on Jan. 10. The flyer suggests that Micetrap Distribution LLC — a white supremacist…

President Obama’s selection of Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey to co-chair a Task Force on 21st Century Policing has been criticized by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, which condemned him for having “a record marked by excessive force, false…

Boys’ Latin CEO David Hardy tweets that charter critic shoots black boys As if the debate over public education weren’t vitriolic enough: this morning, Boys’ Latin of Philadelphia Charter School CEO David Hardy tweeted “What does Temple law professor Susan…