The board rehired tenured employees while reducing teaching assistant positions to part-time amid a budget shortfall.

Measures include graduation rates, affordability and enrollment of low income students and those pursuing degrees in occupations deemed critical for the Commonwealth.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education's system for handling teacher misconduct is sometimes murky, and there have been failures in the system for notifying schools of an educator's arrest.

Multiple parents and teachers said some math classes at Philadelphia's High School for Creative and Performing Arts year went months with no instruction this school year and students got fake grades.

A search firm is looking for a superintendent to replace Katrina McCombs, who is leaving Camden schools for a state role. A replacement is expected to begin in the fall.