Keystone Crossroads Archive

School districts in Pa. fear drastic damage to their budgets if parents decide en masse to move children to cyber options amid coronavirus uncertainty.

Philly says it’s moving toward online education as fast as it can — buying thousands of devices for students who need them.

According to immigration attorneys, conditions in family detention centers create “a crisis that threatens the lives of women, men and children.”

Without comment, a majority of the state’s high court late Sunday denied the petition by a gun shop, a gun purchaser and a law firm to have Wolf’s shutdown order thrown out.

"This is the closest thing we have to community right now, is this church."

Starting Monday, the city will provide families packages of three breakfasts and three lunches per student at 50 schools throughout Philadelphia.

Some schools are running into a major legal hurdle in their attempts to offer online instruction during the current closures.

“Folks are basically saying, ‘If this is the way I’m going to die, I’d rather be with my family,’” said one advocate.

There are clear indications that Pa. might cancel standardized tests this year for students. What kind of impact could that have?

In Philadelphia, where 23% of residents speak a language besides English at home, the city has not been translating information for these communities as updates happen.

Parents and day care providers in Philadelphia described receiving mixed messages Monday on whether day care providers could remain open during the shutdown.

Not all suppliers intend to close. One shop owner said: “I’m an essential business. I’m firearms. That’s essential. It’s second amendment rights.”

According to the city, “unexpected staff shortages” prevented some of the 50 city rec centers from opening that had been planned as daytime activity hubs.

Schools in the state will close for two weeks, leaving parents with the daunting task of keeping up at work while scrambling to arrange care for their children.

Suyapa Reyes and her four children spent 18 months living on the second floor of a church before being given notice that they would be free from arrest or deportation.