
Education
Delaware charter abruptly closes, students forced to transfer
A month into the school year, upset and angry teenagers and parents filled a school auditorium in Delaware Wednesday, unsure where their ...
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Listen 1:47Delaware schools win $9M grant to improve mental health services
The program will prevent young students from falling through the cracks.
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Philadelphia marks Voter Registration Day with campaign aimed at city’s youth
“They have the biggest stake in our future so we want to get them involved.”
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Early evidence of a ‘Trump effect’ on bullying in schools
Preliminary study results show that a community's preference for Trump is associated with higher rates of teasing and bullying in Virginia middle schools.
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After another twist, Pa. Supreme Court to hear Lower Merion tax case
In 2016, an aviation attorney and Lower Merion resident sued his school district claiming it misrepresented its finances to secure a tax increase without voter approval.
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Listen 1:12A new one-stop-shop for Pennsylvania education data
The data are assembled longitudinally, meaning you can track something — say a district’s graduation rate — from year to year.
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Listen 1:04Philly’s $40,000 cab ride, and what it says about modern, urban education
In spite of high costs and sketchy results, taxicabs are ferrying more and more Philadelphia students to school each year.
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Listen 6:25Despite unease, school board approves Keystone Opportunity Zones
Keystone Opportunity Zones give tax breaks to developers in blighted neighborhoods. But many of the sites are not blighted, advocates said.
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Reports: Stationing police in Philly schools costly, causes trauma for students of color
Some parents of kids in city schools firmly in favor of the police presence.
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Listen 2:58New Jersey boosts preschool funding for 31 districts
Districts that were recently awarded this new round of funding include:
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Betsy DeVos decries attacks on campus speech in Philly lecture
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called out the nation’s universities Monday in a talk about campus free speech and the First Amendment.
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Listen 1:27Making the preschool magic last as children get older
How one school’s efforts to support parents and families has led to success.
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Turning chores into classrooms: New grocery store experiment hopes to inspire learning
If you’re grocery shopping in Philadelphia over the next year you might run into a cherubic cartoon character named A.J.
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Sweltering schools bring up age-old infrastructure problem in Pennsylvania
The state put a moratorium on its reimbursement program for school construction in 2015.
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A little-known program has lifted 9th grade performance in virtually every type of school
Using a holistic approach with students to “catch those coughs before they become pneumonia.”
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