Neighbors rally around Germantown High School after a real estate listing revealed potential redevelopment plans. Emily Birdy Busch has the news

Starr Herr-Cardillo catches up with the software engineer behind Philly Tax Abatements, a new Twitter account that aggregates the cost of City money lost to the 10-year tax abatement

With the reinvention of the Bok Building well underway, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania give us an exclusive glimpse of school life there in the 1940s

If schools are a key to retaining families, what is Philadelphia to do? Quite a lot, says David Feldman, who takes us inside the parent and community-led movement to invest in ten public elementary schools

This final day of school doubles as the final day of service for 23 public school buildings across the city. It’s the sad end to a chapter written by students, teachers, alumni, and communities. Katrina Ohstrom brings us images of South Philly’s Bok Tech final days on the clock

Next week, the School District of Philadelphia will shutter 23 schools across the city. Jessie Fox interviews Superintendent Dr. William Hite, while a grassroots group of artists band to document the closings and the nearly 4,000 employees laid off as a result band together

The group CosaCosa brings the politics of the New Deal into a New Deal-funded auditorium in a school about to close–a song cycle for a cycle of economics and politics. Katrina Ohstrom previews the PIFA performance in words and photos

On the southwestern edge of the city, beneath the roar of PHL’s airplanes and the calls of migratory birds at Tinicum, sits Pepper Middle School. Brad Maule profiles the brutalist beast that’s being phased out by the School District