District schools were 4,236 students under their projected enrollment as of Sept. 17, according to internal documents obtained by The Inquirer.

“It’s too much,” a 10th grader said of her Girls’ High African American history class, which has 51 students. “My mom offered to take me out, she said it’s a fire hazard.”

The school board also agreed to pay $600,000 to a firm to oversee construction work at Kensington High, where errors caused asbestos damage and forced students to relocate to another building.

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

In several cities, judges have chastised federal immigration officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”

1/7 Just 32% of Americans are satisfied with the quality of U.S. K–12 education, according to a new Gallup poll—the lowest in its 27-year trend. 67% are dissatisfied. With the 2026 midterms approachi...

ICE-watchers-turned-poll-watchers are preparing for the worst, as the Trump administration hints at potential strategies to disrupt the midterm elections.

A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...

Free PD: privacy settings in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot, a quick AI security audit, and what the new AFT–Microsoft standard covers.

Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students.

One of the largest labor unions in the US targets eight battleground states in ‘workers v billionaires’ campaign

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The machinists union shows how workers are negotiating for a say in the ways artificial intelligence is used in their workplaces.

32BJ represents 2,000 Philadelphia School District building engineers, cleaners, bus drivers, mechanics and tradespeople. Its new contract includes paid parental leave for the first time ever.

Philadelphia renters could face limits on annual rent increases, low-income residents could receive city help paying for air conditioning and groceries, and corporations buying large numbers of rental...

In surveys we conducted nationally, Republicans and Democrats expressed agreement on far more housing policies than political debate would suggest.

The poorest people in the U.S. face the most acute shortage of affordable homes. That’s partly because the majority of low-income housing financed in recent years has been for those earning at least 5...

Guardian readers share how much they spend on food and the changes they’ve had to made in response to rising prices

Meet the candidates with labor ties vying for Senate and House seats in midterm races. Most of the nominees are Democrats as the party looks to rebuild support among working-class voters

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

The Education Department cut about $600 million in grants for teacher training in 2025. The department characterized the grants as supporting "divisive ideologies" such as diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. But a judge's order Thursday says that the department’s directive violated federal law.

WASHINGTON— Nine organizations representing immigrants, communities of color, and workers — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Mi Familia en Accion,