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Education

A teacher lines up the students for school-prepared lunches at Madison Crossing Elementary School in Canton, Miss., Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. Scott Clements, director of child nutrition at the Mississippi education department, said they've ordered two truckloads of trade mitigation pulled pork and four loads of kidney beans for use in their cafeterias. The products are coming from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is giving away the foods it’s buying to help farmers hurt by trade negotiations. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP Photo)
Food & Drink
Politics

What’s on school menus this fall? Trade mitigation

This fall, U.S. school cafeterias are expecting shipments of free food courtesy of Trump's trade disputes.

7 years ago

Friends' Central School in Wynnewood. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
K-12
Race & Ethnicity
Billy Penn

Philly teachers’ racial discrimination claim against Quaker school can go to trial, court rules

Friends’ Central fired them after a 2017 controversy over a Palestinian speaker.

7 years ago

The exterior of Philadelphia School District headquarters
K-12
Philadelphia
Public Health
Billy Penn

If you’ve got school-age kids, the time for vaccination is now

Here’s a list of the district’s vaccine requirements.

7 years ago

Belmont Charter School lobbied for the innovation schools law and intends to apply for the designation. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania

Public schools, charter schools and…innovation schools? Why a new category of school in Pa.?

Without much fanfare, Pa. lawmakers created a new category of schools this year called “innovation schools.” Was it real reform or a political favor?

7 years ago

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Middletown Area High School in Dauphin County is seen on Aug. 6, 2019. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Public Safety
PA Post

Pa. educators turn to Secret Service for safety advice

“All of us are desperate to find the answer. Why is this happening? How can we stop it?”

7 years ago

(Jessica Kourkounis for Keystone Crossroads)
Schooled
K-12
Philadelphia

Last Chance High: 'Beautiful band of misfits' fight to graduate

How one student fought to go from drug dealer who dropped out to high school diploma.

Air Date: August 7, 2019

Listen 24:55
(Bigstock/mangpor_2004)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

Pa. school safety tip-line used more to report bullying, suicidal thoughts, than violent threats

Many of the 23,494 tips received online or by phone were related to bullying, self-harm, thoughts of suicide, or depression.

7 years ago

CCTV Security monitoring student in a classroom at a school.(Bigstock/Memoryman)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

Exclusive: How these Pa. schools fortified themselves after Parkland

Through a Right-to-Know request, Keystone Crossroads obtained summaries of what schools across the state plan to purchase with an unprecedented level of state grant funding.

7 years ago

Listen 4:28
Gov. Tom Wolf visits the newly painted library at Edward Heston School in Philadelphia to announce $4.3 million in state funding for lead paint stabilization at Philadelphia school buildings. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Infrastructure
K-12
Philadelphia

Pa. again pledges extra help to remove lead paint from Philly schools

In what’s becoming a summer tradition, Pennsylvania will set aside money to remove lead paint from Philly schools.

7 years ago

One of the episodes in this season of Schooled gives a snapshot of the summer at the Hank Gathers Rec Center in North Philadelphia. (Jessica Kourkounis for Keystone Crossroads)
Schooled
K-12

Schooled: Season Three Trailer

What does it really mean to get a good education? What is educational success? The third season of WHYY’s Schooled podcast explores these questions and more.

Air Date: July 31, 2019

Listen 2:10
Penn Alexander students celebrate after learning their school was named a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.
The Why
Higher Education
K-12
Philadelphia

How Drexel’s public school experiment could change West Philadelphia

Drexel University is building a public school on its campus border, much like the University of Pennsylvania did two decades ago. Will that accelerate gentrification?

Air Date: July 31, 2019

Listen 13:28
Fifth-graders Thomas Medley, (left), and Devin Walker study their training materials as they learn to become student leaders at Woodland Hills Intermediate in 2017. (The University of Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania

This Pa. school suspended fewer students by using a restorative model

School staff were trained to think of discipline differently. They were asked to find out why students are disruptive rather than remove them from school.

7 years ago

Wyoming Valley West High School in Plymouth, Pa. Officials with the school district are not responding to several offers to settle debt students accrued from not paying for cafeteria meals.
NPR
Income Inequality
K-12
Kids

Offers pour in to cover Pa. students’ meal debt, but school officials not interested

At least five donors have stepped forward willing to satisfy the $22,000 in debt accrued by dozens of students whose parents did not give them money to pay for the meals.

7 years ago

(New Jersey Schools Development Authority)
K-12
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

N.J. fires 30 at Schools Development Authority

Murphy administration also releases three reports into personnel controversies at the SDA under its former CEO Lizette Delgado Polanco

7 years ago

Amy Wax teaches a class at the University of Pennsylvania.
Higher Education
Pennsylvania
Race & Ethnicity
The Philadelphia Tribune

Penn Law dean: Prof’s comments were ‘bigoted’

The dean of the UPenn Law School issued a statement Tuesday, condemning a professor’s assertion that America “will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites."

7 years ago

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