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The Daily News: New website to help parents find 'Great Philly Schools'
Luciana Boone is a parent of a freshman at Philadelphia High School for Girls and an eighth-grader at KIPP West Philadelphia Charter School.
Like most parents, she is concerned about the quality of the education her kids receive and, ultimately, how to find the right school for them.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Website offers range of information about Philly schools
Call it Consumer Reports for Philadelphia schools.
On Monday, officials launched GreatPhillySchools.org, a website where families can get information about every city school, public, charter, Catholic, and private - details from extracurricular activities offered to violent incidents per 100 students.
Mayor Nutter Joins Parents, School Leaders to Launch GreatPhillySchools
A transformational new tool for Philly parents
Fox Philly: New Website Gives Parents Closer Look At Philly Schools
KYW: New Web Site Helps Philadelphia Parents Choose A School For Their Kids
A local nonprofit organization has launched a web site that provides one-stop shopping for Philadelphia parents choosing schools for their children.
The web site, greatphillyschools.org, puts, in one place, sortable one-to-ten academic rankings for more than 400 Philadelphia public, private, and parochial schools.
NBC Philadelphia: New Tool to Help Philly Parents Find Best Schools
Figuring out which Philadelphia school would provide a student with the best education used to require hours of research. Now the data is available in one spot.