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Rodney Dean (left) speaks with Woodbury Junior-Senior High School resource officer Ryan Alcott (middle) and Woodbury Police Chief Thomas Ryan (right) at a press conference announcing a new law requiring New Jersey schools to implement school threat assessment teams. (Tennyson Donyéa / WHYY)
Education

New Jersey schools must develop threat assessment teams by next summer

While many school districts already have “zero tolerance” policies in place, the new law is designed to provide mental health resources to help resolve students' issues.

3 years ago

Elementary school students play on the playground
Education

Philly public schools drop writing sample, add standardized tests back to selective admissions process

Students will no longer be required to complete a writing assessment and the district will resume using PSSA results for its criteria-based middle and high schools.

3 years ago

The tanker truck is still in Greenwich Township but is not emitting any vapor. Officials do not feel it is safe to move the vehicle yet. (6abc)
Community

Officials hold town hall after tanker truck emits vapors, stench in South Jersey

Dozens of residents across New Jersey showed up at the East Greenwich Municipal Building Tuesday night, demanding answers after a stench wafted throughout New Jersey for days.

3 years ago

courtroom
Courts & Law

Pa. judges in kids-for-cash scheme ordered to pay more than $200M

Two Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million.

3 years ago

The city was supposed to receive more than 3,600 vials, but will instead receive just over 700 vials after the FDA announced a strategy to conserve vaccine doses. (6abc)
Health

Thousands of monkeypox vaccines no longer coming to Philly, as city rethinks prevention strategy

The federal government has reduced the local allocation to about 720 vials of vaccine.

3 years ago

A sign for a polling place is seen on the exterior of a door
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Pa. lawmakers weigh bill that would allow independents to vote on primary candidates

Pa. has closed primary elections, meaning only registered Democrats and Republicans can vote for candidates from those parties and choose who will advance to the general.

3 years ago

Sarah Palin speaks during a forum for candidates
Politics & Policy

Murkowski advances in Alaska Senate race, Palin in House

A process being used for the first time in Alaska elections this year, party primaries have been scrapped and ranked choice voting is being used in general elections.

3 years ago

Margo Price performs with her band at the Philadelphia Folk Festival
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Folk Festival returns in person for 60th anniversary

After two pandemic years digital, America’s longest-running outdoor festival returns to Old Poole Farm for its 60th anniversary.

3 years ago

A visitor checks in at a pop-up monkeypox vaccination site in California.
Health

How should we talk about monkeypox? Local experts say tailoring public health messaging is a balancing act

Monkeypox has sparked a debate on how to recognize its disproportionate impact on LGBTQ communities in a non-stigmatizing way.

3 years ago

PECO truck in the foreground, PECO worker in the background
PlanPhilly
Community

Is it time for Pa. to ban summer utility shutoffs?

Thousands of PECO customers lose access to A/C or fans each summer when they can’t pay their electric bills. Experts want more limits on shutoffs in a warming world.

3 years ago

Developers Tayyib Smith (left) and Jacob Roller in front of a site they recently acquired in Philadelphia’s East Kensington neighborhood.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Kensington development team seeks middle ground between gentrification and stagnation

A former bank will become a commercial kitchen and event space. A textile factory will feature apartments and commercial space.

3 years ago

Traffic heads north on Roosevelt Boulevard near East Front Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Philly officials advocate for extension of Automated Speed Enforcement along Roosevelt Blvd.

Data shows the program has dramatically reduced fatal crashes and speeding violations along the busy road.

3 years ago

President Joe Biden hands the pen he used to sign the Democrats' landmark climate change and health care bill to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Politics & Policy

Biden signs massive climate and health care legislation

President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law on Tuesday.

3 years ago

A closeup of Philadelphia City Hall.
Politics & Policy

Philly council members are starting to resign to run for mayor. Here’s what that means for your local representation

The city could have to fill as many as six seats as council members step down to run for mayor.

3 years ago

A closeup of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Courts & Law

Key informant defends role during Del. man’s trial in Whitmer kidnap plot

Prosecutors say Fox, 39, who lives in western Michigan, and Croft, 46, a trucker from Bear, Delaware, wanted to trigger a national revolt by kidnapping the Democratic governor

3 years ago

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