For the 76ers, “Philadelphia freedom” means the freedom of big business to not pay their share of taxes the way regular human beings must. The NBA team “will cross the river to the Camden waterfront to open a new headquarters…

Caucus of Working Educators/Philadelphia Federation of Teachers protest Corbett Protest against Gov. Corbett education cuts Education activist Ron Whitehorne arrested Youth United for Change & Philly Student Union protest Corbett Gov. Tom Corbett can’t visit Philadelphia, his state’s largest city,…

The Philadelphia Public School Notebook turns 20 and is celebrating this Tuesday at the University of the Arts. Event details are here. It is hard to imagine education news in Philadelphia without the Notebook. There are great education reporters at…

State Sen. Scott Wagner (R-York) compared labor unions to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin yesterday, in a floor speech backing legislation that would block public-sector unions from automatically collecting dues from their members’ paychecks. “The unions are about power and…

Evan M. Lopez and Neal Santos Pennsylvania Working Families plans to deliver 40,000 petition signatures this morning to Philadelphia City Council asking them to place a question on November’s ballot demanding that the state abolish the School Reform Commission. The…

The Philadelphia Board of Ethics yesterday announced that the city’s most powerful school reform group, campaigning against teacher seniority and for closing what they describe as low-performing public schools, broke the city lobbying law. “In consultation with the Ethics Board,…

Andrew Bowness via Flickr Creative Commons Oxford Circle Jared Solomon came close to ousting longtime state Rep. Mark Cohen in the 202nd District, which stretches across lower Northeast Philly neighborhoods that have shifted from solidly white to very diverse in…

Andrew Jackson Elementary School A first-grade student died today after falling ill at Jackson Elementary School in South Philadelphia, where no school nurse was on duty. Philadelphia schools have suffered dramatic staffing cuts to nurses and other positions in recent…

State Treasurer Rob McCord got so excit­ed wading through the minutiae of drug laws and gaming policy outside this week’s final debate that an adviser had to quiet him down. McCord, a passionate man, cites his role in blocking Gov.…