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Keystone Crossroads

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 Harrisburg school officials ultimately admitted the two young children for whom they denied enrollment at first. But policy problems remain, advocates say. Last month, the ACLU finalized a consent decree with the School District of Lancaster after they found some older refugee students between 17 and 21 years old encountered obstacles in enrollment. In this photo, Shukuru Amanya works with paper letters in an English language class at Phoenix Academy in Lancaster, Pa. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
Keystone Crossroads

Are there lingering issues for refugee students at the School District of Harrisburg?

Harrisburg officials ultimately admitted the two young children for whom they denied enrollment at first. But policy problems remain, adv ...

9 years ago

 East High School Warriors played the General McLane Lancers, a suburban team.  By halftime, the Warriors were down only two points. But in the second half, the team struggled to keep up. The General McLane Lancers pulled ahead, and won 72 to 58. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Listen to Grapple: Underfunded public schools

Imagine living in a city where the public schools have been underfunded for years, and school officials threaten to close all of its high ...

9 years ago

 (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Pension costs dominate Pa. education conversation in Harrisburg, amid other competing priorities

Much of the debate in Harrisburg this summer has been centered on how Pennsylvania should overcome its $2.2 billion deficit. But, ...

9 years ago

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 Governor Tom Wolf obvserves students during a visit to Baldi Middle School in Northeast Philadelphia (Brad Larrison for NewsWorks)
Keystone Crossroads

Pa. unveils new school accountability system that puts less emphasis on standardized testing

The Pennsylvania Department of Education will unveil a new school quality metric in 2018 — dubbed the Future Ready PA Index — that it ...

9 years ago

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 Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski (left) and Reading Mayor Vaughn Spencer (Images via Seven Points Consulting/Wikipedia Creative Commons and Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Former Reading mayor pleads not guilty in corruption case

Former Reading Mayor Vaughn Spencer pleaded not guilty Tuesday in federal court on 11 counts of bribery and fraud in a tangled web of kic ...

9 years ago

 Allentown restauranteur Miguel Morales, right, (with friendTerrell Krauchick) thinks Mayor Pawlowski shouldn¹t step down. (Annette John-Hall/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Allentown residents ponder Pawlowski’s fate

Allentown voters weren’t surprised when federal prosecutors finally indicted Mayor Ed Pawlowski in a pay-to-play scheme last week a ...

9 years ago

 Jim Ragan, who works third shift at the cold storage plant, at the American Legion Bar in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

Listen to Grapple: Immigration and the Rust Belt

On this episode, we bring you to Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The northeastern Pennsylvania city made national news a decade ago for tryi ...

9 years ago

 Actor Michael Puzzo performs
Keystone Crossroads

Playwright Lynn Nottage creates performance piece for Reading

Nottage spent two years researching Reading and its people and developed a deep bond for the city that held the dubious distinction ...

9 years ago

 Mohammad J. Alam helps a customer at J&J Grocery store in Millbourne. With Sears gone, a handful of small businesses including the grocery store, beauty salons, smoke shops and an auto parts and accessory store bring in tax revenue for the borough. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Listen to Grapple: Life after Sears in a small Pennsylvania community

What happens when a major source of tax revenue picks up and relocates from a small borough? What happens when a major source of t ...

9 years ago

Alfred Tribble considers filing a lawsuit against the Philadelphia Police Department after his son was injured by an off-duty police officer in Brewerytown. (Annette John-Hall/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Family considering lawsuit in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown incident

The fallout stemming from a rock-throwing incident between neighborhood teens and members of a new gym in Brewerytown resulted ...

9 years ago

 In this Feb. 15, 2017, photo, Eric Hoover teaches his class of immigrant and refugee students at McCaskey High School in Lancaster, Pa.  (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
Keystone Crossroads

Refugee education lawsuit will cost Lancaster schools more than $600K next year

The city of Lancaster resettles a lot of refugees ...

9 years ago

 Lifelong Hazelwood resident Jourdan Hicks (Jessica Kourkounis/ for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

Listen to Grapple: From revitalization to gentrification

Gentrification is a controversial issue playing out in cities across America. What happens when wealthier residents begin to move into a ...

9 years ago

 Longtime Clairton resident Donna Hudson stands in the doorway of what was her favorite childhood ice cream shop, Nettie’s Place on Miller Avenue. (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

Listen to Grapple: Reflections from a steel town and what it takes to make a comeback

On Grapple, we hear a lot of stories about the challenges people in distressed communities are facing, but we also want to hear stories a ...

9 years ago

 Gertrude Hawk Chocolates is a longstanding family business still going strong in the Scranton area. Today, the company primarily makes ice cream inclusions and ingredients for national companies like Dairy Queen and Ben and Jerry’s. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Listen to Grapple: ‘The American Dream’ in flux

At its peak, about 140,000 people called Scranton, Pennsylvania home. Today there are about half as many people who live in the city. ...

9 years ago

 Ann Wenger greets worshippers at the Islamic Center of Lancaster during Ramadan. (Emily Previti/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads

How one Islamic community center found tranquility during Ramadan

Some mosques and Islamic community centers throughout Pennsylvania took extra security measures during the holiday of Ramadan. In Lancast ...

9 years ago

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