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Education

Private investigator Tina Blanchette rides around on a surveillance mission.
Keystone Crossroads

‘The money shot’: How school districts find and prove residency fraud

Many districts monitor students to make sure they actually live within district boundaries and aren't using a fake address, but what does that monitoring actually entail?

7 years ago

Listen 6:40
The timeline of federal K-12 education law. (Pa. Department of Education)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12

Under ESSA, the newest federal K-12 education law, parents will get more information about their kids’ schools

The Every Student Succeeds Act replaces No Child Left Behind, the controversial plan that caused upheaval in some schools.

7 years ago

Dominique London weeps as she calls out the names of students killed by gun violence during an assembly at Mastery Shoemaker charter school.
K-12
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Packed crowd in West Philly presses mayor and police on gun violence

Mastery Charter Schools hosted its first ever “action assembly” in West Philadelphia Monday night to engage public officials about how to make their neighborhoods safer.

7 years ago

Octavia Durham is surrounded by five of the seven grandchildren that live with her and attend the Pottsgrove public schools., (from left) Mason Dargan, 5, Tarienah Chandler Smith, 9, Miyana Francis, 14, K'Lliyah Smith, 15, and Mikhi Dargan, 9.
Keystone Crossroads

Suburban schools’ residency enforcement mostly affects kids of color

When school districts remove students for residency fraud, they say they're enforcing rules and protecting taxpayers. Others see a system that targets the poor and minorities.

7 years ago

Listen 6:39
Will Knight, Smyrna's humble football superstar, has battled hardship in becoming one of Delaware's all-time great high school football players. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Sports

Smyrna's Will Knight, humble football superstar, triumphs over hardship

Fate continues to haunt Knight and his family. But he has worked tirelessly to overcome hardship and heartbreak as a good son, brother, student, teammate.

7 years ago

Listen 5:47
Dakota Johnson, 8, who survived a fire at her dad's apartment. (Jessica Kourkounis/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

As awareness of childhood trauma rises, new free therapy program launches for Philly students

The fire that destroyed her dad’s third-floor apartment is the scariest thing that’s ever happened to 8-year-old Dakota Johnson. It w ...

7 years ago

Listen 5:12
(Lilli Carre for NPR)
NPR

What ‘A nation at risk’ got wrong, and right, about U.S. schools

7 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney presents his FY 2019 budget to state lawmakers at the Delaware Public Archives in Dover. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Business
Delaware
Economic Development

Delaware gets $3.2 million for career training program

Delaware’s efforts to make sure students are ready for the jobs of tomorrow got a $3.2 million boost from Bloomberg Philanthropies.

7 years ago

When Gov. John Carney recently signed the alternate diploma bill into law, parents, educators, advocates and students were delighted. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Kids

Disabled students can now check ‘diploma’ box on job applications

Delaware's alternate diploma will give students a major boost when it comes to job prospects in grocery stores, clerical work and so much more, advocates say.

7 years ago

Jovan Weaver
K-12
Philadelphia

New season of WHYY’s ‘Schooled’ podcast explores student trauma, charter school debate

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn talks with Kevin McCorry, host of the WHYY podcast 'Schooled.' The second season of began this week.

7 years ago

Listen 4:09
(LA Johnson/NPR)
NPR
Higher Education
Race & Ethnicity

Study: Colleges that ditch the SAT and ACT can enhance diversity

Colleges that have gone "test optional" enroll — and graduate — a higher proportion of low-income and first generation-students.

7 years ago

Shippensburg University is one of the 14 schools that make up the troubled Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education system. (AP photo)
Higher Education
Pennsylvania

Report urges consolidation, other drastic measures to fix PASSHE

State System of Higher Education spokesman Kenn Marshall said they're committed to a redesign, but some of the drastic changes aren't feasible.

7 years ago

The Notebook

Lame duck SRC approves Franklin Towne’s third charter school and votes to close Eastern University Academy Charter

7 years ago

Aminata Sy reading to Dieynaba, an eighth-grader from Senegal who recently came to the U.S. (Photo courtesy of Aminata Sy)
Pennsylvania

African Community Learning Program founder semifinalist in Wharton startup challenge

Aminata Sy's after-school African Community Learning Program helps African immigrants adapt by teaching them about their own cultures - and empowering them along the way.

7 years ago

Philadelphia school board members (from left) Maria McColgan, Angela McIver, Wayne Walker, and Joyce Wilkerson, attend the first in a series of community meetings to introduce the public to the newly reconstituted board.
K-12
Philadelphia

New Philly school board members listen, but reveal little at first public appearance

Four of Philadelphia's nine new school board members appeared at their first public event Wednesday. Those hoping to learn more about their positions likely left disappointed.

7 years ago

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