The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) is considering three new applications for cyber charter schools. With the release earlier this month of the state’s new School Performance Profile (SPP) scores, RFA has updated our November 2013 analysis of the performance and oversight of the cyber charter sector. With regard to performance, much remains the same. […]

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An innovative partnership designed to provide research and analyses on some of the city’s most pressing education issues has been forged among the School District of Philadelphia, the city’s charter school sector, and a Philadelphia-based, nationally-respected education research organization. Research for Action (RFA) received a three-year grant from the William Penn Foundation to establish this partnership–designated […]

Research for Action, WHYY, and the United Way Host Community Forum on Education Public schools in Pennsylvania–and Philadelphia schools in particular–are in dire straits, and many eyes are on our state’s upcoming gubernatorial election as a moment to begin fixing that. But how will Harrisburg politics and financial realities limit the next governor’s agenda for […]