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Education

Students walk to Tamaqua Area High School in Tamaqua, Pa., Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. Parents are going to court to block the Pennsylvania school district from allowing teachers to carry guns in school. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

School shootings spark drastic safety proposals

Beefed-up surveillance tactics, armed guards, and even arming teachers and administrators are all ideas that have been put on the table in recent years.

7 years ago

Listen 35:51
Students walk to Tamaqua Area High School in Tamaqua, Pa., Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. Parents are going to court to block the Pennsylvania school district from allowing teachers to carry guns in school. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Radio Times
K-12
Public Safety

School shootings spark drastic safety proposals

Beefed-up surveillance tactics, armed guards, and even arming teachers and administrators are all ideas that have been put on the table in recent years.

Air Date: August 21, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
(Kimberly Paynter/Keystone Crossroads)
Schooled
K-12
Pennsylvania

Don’t eat the marshmallow: Students from a ‘no excuses’ charter grow up to tell the tale

"If you actually said, 'We’re gonna hold you accountable to setting up your students for life.' Then how does that change the work of that school?”

Air Date: August 21, 2019

Listen 43:06
Community College of Philadelphia (WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Higher Education
K-12

Video: Pa. ranks last in region for community college affordability, makes it 'impossible' for poorest students

Pennsylvania did not increase funding for the operating budgets of community colleges this year. Advocates say the pressure on low-income students has grown unsustainable.

7 years ago

In this Friday, March 22, 2019 photo, Paige Dellafave-DeRosa, a processing supervisor at Compassionate Care Foundation's medical marijuana dispensary in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., sorts marijuana buds. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Philadelphia

University of the Sciences launches MBA in medical cannabis, said to be first of its kind

The new program focuses on regulations, finance, marketing, and the ins-and-outs of operating a medical marijuana business.

7 years ago

Doug Cox (left) teaches mathematics and engineering at El Centro. He also leads the Dark Knights chess club. (Kimberly Paynter/Keystone Crossroads)
Radio Times
Income Inequality
K-12
Philadelphia

Last chance high

For students in Kensington who have dropped out of high school, El Centro de Estudiantes offers a second chance at graduation which, for some, means a chance at a better life.

Air Date: August 14, 2019

Listen 49:01
Stephen Schaeffer leads a
Schooled
K-12

Last Chance High: Beautiful band of misfits fight to graduate — part two

What do we really mean when we say students are ready to graduate high school? Is there a baseline that we’re really willing to enforce?

Air Date: August 14, 2019

Listen 24:32
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks in the Capitol rotunda in June 2019. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

After years of gridlock, Wolf plans executive action on charter school reform

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said Tuesday he would use his executive power to hold charters to “the same ethical and transparency standards of public schools.”

7 years ago

Listen 1:49
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

Listen 1:35
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

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