The Philadelphia Board of Education voted Thursday to approve the city's first new charter school in nearly a decade. At a tense board meeting in a packed room, board members said they were ...

Commonwealth Charter Academy has tens of thousands of students in Pennsylvania, drawing support and critics alike.

Philadelphia police said a man was injured in the shooting near the corner of 32nd and Dickinson streets, close to Universal Alcorn Charter School. The victim was shot in the stomach, police said.

Philadelphia police said a man was injured in the shooting near the corner of 32nd and Dickinson streets, close to Universal Alcorn Charter School. Fact-checking Trump's speech to Congress Elon ...

(TNS) — Mastery Schools, Philadelphia's largest charter school network, experienced a "system disruption" to its IT infrastructure Monday that took phones offline and limited email access ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Some 800 new teachers are entering Philadelphia classrooms ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI ... This Fall, Rivers will be returning to Alcorn Universal Charter school as a full time teacher. She is the charter schools’ first para professional to complete their ...

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI ... The show is Soul Sounds, 365 Days of Black Excellence at Universal Alcorn Charter School. "Soul Sounds is part of the African-American experience.

Universal Alcorn Charter School is a charter school located in Philadelphia, PA, which is in a large city setting. The student population of Universal Alcorn Charter School is 461 and the school ...