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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.
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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Philadelphia’s vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Employment
K-12
Public Health

Philly teachers union wants all staff vaccinated before students return to school

In a letter obtained by WHYY, the union president said it would be “foolish” to reopen schools before all staff are vaccinated.

5 years ago

Nathan Grebil (right) takes the temperature of fourth-grade student Hyla during a health screening at Bel Aire Elementary School in Tiburon, Calif., in October.
NPR
K-12
Public Health

Biden announces executive actions meant to help reopen schools

The new measures would increase testing and PPE access for schools, and create a centralized, national database of school coronavirus cases.

5 years ago

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
K-12
Philadelphia
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

It may be weeks until Philadelphia teachers can get the coronavirus vaccine

Health Commissioner Thomas Farley recommended Philadelphia teachers who live in the surrounding suburbs try to get the vaccine in their respective areas.

5 years ago

Neha Das won first prize in the MLK Voice 4 Youth contest for her speech challenging Euro-centric beauty standards entitled
Delaware
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

King’s speech: Delaware students emulate MLK in spoken word contest

The fifth annual MLK Voice 4 Youth contest shifted to an online competition this year, but that didn’t stifle the passion contestants brought to their speeches.

5 years ago

The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, and Bishop Julian Smith, left, flank Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during a civil rights march
History
K-12
New Jersey
Race & Ethnicity

N.J. law strengthening Amistad Commission aims to help students learn ‘our real history’

Changes aim to strengthen the panel by giving it more independence and ensuring that the curriculum it helps develop is used more widely in New Jersey schools.

5 years ago

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to a mass rally in Memphis on April 3, 1968, one day before his assassination. (Courtesy of Special Collections Department, University Libraries, University of Memphis Libraries)
History
Philadelphia
Social Justice
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Despite challenges, Martin Luther King’s legacy lives on at namesake school in Philadelphia

Five decades later after Martin Luther King’s assassination, the neighborhood school is fighting to provide a high-quality education.

5 years ago

South Philadelphia High School is one of six locations that will house regional centers for evaluating special education students.  (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
K-12
Philadelphia
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Philadelphia to offer in-person special education testing to 600 students

The 600 students initially identified by the Philadelphia school district are mostly those with complex needs and are a subset of the 21,000 district students with IEPs.

5 years ago

Daniel Greenstein speaks at a press conference.
Higher Education
Pennsylvania
Race & Ethnicity
Spotlight PA

Head of Pa.’s public university system to examine historic roots of racism in state schools

Chancellor Daniel Greenstein said he was “ashamed to admit” he had not studied how the university system has historically perpetuated racial inequity.

5 years ago

(Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Public Health

‘Too much too fast’: Teachers union objects to Delaware schools’ hybrid return

Even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across Delaware, Gov. John Carney says schools have proven to be safe spaces for students and teachers.

5 years ago

Outside the former West Philadelphia High School. (Nathaniel Hamilton for WHYY)
Income Inequality
K-12
Race & Ethnicity
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Philadelphia board wants to confront equity issues and old assumptions, its president says

Rethinking everything about how the board does business, including long-held practices, is the impetus for the board’s new “goals and guardrails” initiative.

5 years ago

Students are socially distanced while attending class virtually at A list of rules is pictured at Vogt Access Center
K-12
Public Health

Philly parents deeply divided over virtual school, data shows ahead of district decision

Families attending schools in affluent areas were about as likely to choose in-person instruction as families attending schools in low-income neighborhoods.

5 years ago

Students physically distance as they walk to their classroom
K-12
National
Chalkbeat

Witnessing history: Teachers and students left reeling, looking for lessons in an insurrection

Scrapping lesson plans, teachers became facilitators and sources for correcting misinformation.

5 years ago

From left, Philadelphia Schools Superintendent William Hite, Philadelphia Board of Education President Joyce Wilkerson, and Philadelphia Federation of Teachers President Jerry Jordan. (School District of Philadelphia/Philadelphia Federation of Teachers)
K-12
Philadelphia
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Philadelphia school leaders confident schools will reopen this year

The school district has tried twice to reopen schools for 30,000 students in pre-kindergarten through third grade — first in September and then in November.

5 years ago

Lehigh University's campus in Bethlehem, Pa. (Lehigh U.)
NPR
Government Accountability
Higher Education

Lehigh University revokes President Trump’s honorary degree

The Pennsylvania school's board of trustees held a special vote this week, after Trump incited an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

5 years ago

At a Jan. 6 protest at Camden's City Hall,  Ivonne Escobedo Rojas, 5, holds up a sign with the name of Sharp School. Sharp is among several public schools in the city that may be closed by the end of this month. (April Saul for WHYY)
K-12
New Jersey

‘How am I going to drop off my kids?’: Parents, stakeholders fret at proposed Camden school closures

Division is growing among parents and others as a proposed plan to close several Camden public schools appears to inch closer to reality.

5 years ago

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