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Michelle Elbin (left) and Dave Evasew, owners of the Upper Merion Dance and Gymnastics Center. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Health

Pa. business owners to Wolf: Please police mask requirement so we don’t have to

Some business owners are calling on state officials to step in and enforce their own rules.

5 years ago

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Leigh Anne McCormack and Kim Cipolla
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Education

Teachers seize the moment as parent demand fuels market for private tutors

Tutoring services have exploded across the country in recent weeks, often fueled by anxious parents who have banded together into “pandemic pods.”

5 years ago

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CJ Thompson (center) with his parents Oneita and Clive Thompson-Lewis (right), and his siblings, Christine, 17, and Timothy, 14. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

From sanctuary to the Ivy League: A DACA recipient’s journey to Columbia University

After his parents went into sanctuary to avoid deportation, CJ Thompson worked nights to help pay the family mortgage. Now, he’s been accepted to Columbia University.

5 years ago

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Jules E. Mastbaum High School
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Education

Philly mulls later start time for high schoolers amid pandemic planning

The coronavirus could prompt a radical change for when Philly teens start school. Will that lead to better-rested students? Or upend family routines?

5 years ago

A person wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks by a closed storefront in Lebanon, Pa., Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

As deadline looms to renew $600 jobless benefits, Pa. ‘workers are terrified’

The $600-a-week federal supplement was designed to make the average worker whole during the worst economic downturn in at least four decades.

5 years ago

Talib Abdul Mujib
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Community

New Pa. grant targets minority business owners hurt by coronavirus shutdown

Black and Latinx business owners have been hit harder by the pandemic than their white counterparts, but have been less likely to receive federal aid.

5 years ago

Contact tracer Neil Lader reaches out to COVID-19 patients from his home in Haverford. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Health

Inside one Pa. county’s effort to stay ‘hot on the trail’ of every COVID-19 case

Across Pa., many counties reopened even as the state was still trying to get a patchwork system of contact tracing in place. Montco started from a better position than most.

5 years ago

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Zaire Cuspud helped lead a worker protest at a pair of Chick-fil-A franchises in Delaware County. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Fast food fight: The story of a protest you never saw, and the Black employees who made it happen

The George Floyd protests are changing workplace culture — even workplaces that get little attention. The story of a suburban Chick-fil-A shows how.

5 years ago

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Melissa Roselli and her daughter Francesca. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Child care dilemma: Philly parents scrambling to plan for three days a week of virtual school

Across the country, parents are scrambling to figure out child care plans that can accommodate a year, in which school will take place largely outside the classroom.

5 years ago

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Hundreds of people filled the street outside Lebanon’s courthouse at a Black Lives Matter protest in early June. (Alanna Elder/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Voices of the movement: Meet the women who organized the anti-racist protest in this divided Pa. town

Lebanon, Pa. is known for being a town divided. These three women are trying to bring the town together in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.

5 years ago

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Kimrenee Patterson works on a puzzle, with Peyton, 2, at Patterson’s daycare in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Health

Pa. mask mandate for kids at child care has good intentions. Can it be followed?

Youngsters 2 and over must wear masks, but child care providers worry it will hinder language development, monitoring for allergic reactions, and more.

5 years ago

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Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus. (Ximena Conde/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

‘I thought it was a hoax’: Pa. students, universities respond to Trump restrictions for international visas

A new Trump administration rule limiting online classes for international students has thrown the tens of thousands of students enrolled in Pa. universities into uncertainty.

5 years ago

A video surfaced of Police Chief Hiel Bartlett and another officer, Patrolman Matthew Gustin, making an arrest in which some Bradford, Pa. residents say they used excessive force. (Screenshot)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Police brutality allegations rock rural Pa. town after chief is caught on video macing handcuffed suspect

It’s a small town where people typically hold police officers in high regard, but amid national conversation about police brutality, there’s a groundswell pushing for change.

5 years ago

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Many Pennsylvania businesses received funding from the Paycheck Protection Program. (Christopher Dolan/The Times-Tribune via AP)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Dozens of Pa. charter schools among recipients of federal small business aid

About 165,000 organizations have received PPP funding so far, totalling $20.7 billion — making Pennsylvania one of the top users of the loan program.

5 years ago

Hayoung Youn
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Sidelined by coronavirus, these med students found a way to help the helpers

Unable to work in hospitals, these Philly area medical students decided to help the helpers by tutoring the children of frontline workers.

5 years ago

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