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Education

Hundreds of students and parents at Padua Academy protested the principal's sudden ouster Monday. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12

Padua students stage mass sit-out for ousted principal

Hundreds of pink-clad students of Padua Academy, a prominent Catholic high school for girls in Wilmington, gathered outside the school Mo ...

8 years ago

This year’s College of Physicians Teva interns presenting a poster on gun violence. (Courtesy of Jacqui Bowman)
K-12
Kids
Philadelphia

Health and science internships focus on Philly teens to help diversify STEM fields

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia offers a range of internships, the most popular is open to Philadelphia teens who have experience violence.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has received a list of 18 more candidates to consider as he works to assemble a nine-member city school board to replace the School Reform Commission. The candidate pool now stands at 45. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Mayor gets new batch of names for Philly school board consideration

Kenney asked for more diversity in the applicant pool, and the nominating panel provided 18 new candidates.

8 years ago

Maddie Heeney, a transgender student, has thrived at Cab Calloway School of the Arts in Wilmington.
NewsWorks Tonight
Delaware
K-12
LGBTQ

A girl named Maddie, and Delaware's transgender conundrum

A debate is raging in Delaware educational circles about how transgender students are treated in public schools.

8 years ago

Listen 6:16
Chester Community Charter School.  (Emma Lee/WHYY)
K-12
Pennsylvania

Report shows more suburban Pa. students choosing charter schools

The growth hasn't been as dramatic as in major cities, but the number of suburban students in charter schools has grown for 15 consecutive years, according to the new report.

8 years ago

Dymonique Hammond and her classmates from Freire Charter High School during the National School Walkout on March 13, 2018.
NewsWorks Tonight
Philadelphia
Politics
Public Safety

‘We knew in our hearts we had to do it:’ Behind the scenes of one Philly school’s walkout

Wednesday’s protests were officially about gun control. But they were was as much about young people stretching their voices, finding their place in the world.

8 years ago

Listen 5:12
(M. Spencer Green/AP)
Pennsylvania
Politics
Public Safety

Pa. educators decry Trump’s proposed school security cuts

"National approaches to school safety" are on the agenda Thursday as the Pennsylvania House Education Committee meets in Harrisburg for a hearing on school safety measures.

8 years ago

New Providence High School, New Providence, New Jersey (Google StreetView https://goo.gl/maps/ML8QPWAqMf62)
New Jersey
Politics
Public Safety

Some N.J. districts discouraged students from participating in school walkout

Not all of the events in New Jersey occurred with the blessing of school administrators. Some didn’t occur at all.

8 years ago

Students at Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Dover said they were disappointed in a town hall meeting about gun violence. (WHYY/Zoe Read)
Delaware
K-12
Public Safety

‘We do not feel safe:’ Delaware students tell lawmakers at post-walkout town hall

Following the walkout, students at Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Del. attended a town hall forum that was dominated by state lawmakers.

8 years ago

Ruth Simmons (The Philadelphia Tribune)
The Philadelphia Tribune
Gender
Higher Education
Race & Ethnicity

Ruth Simmons on the future of HBCUs

In 2012, after a distinguished career in higher education, Ruth J. Simmons retired and moved back to her home state. But after several years, Prairie View A&M came calling.

8 years ago

On April 20, 1999, unidentified young women head to a library near Columbine High School where students and faculty members were evacuated after two gunmen went on a shooting rampage in the school in the southwest Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado.. Fifteen people, including the two shooters, died. (Kevin Higley/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
History
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Decades after Columbine, preventing school shootings still vexes security experts

A 1958 deadly fire at a Chicago school was the catalyst for life-saving fire drills. Experts say the 1999 Columbine shooting spurred school security changes at a slower pace.

8 years ago

Listen 4:48
Close to a hundred students and members of the Philadelphia Student Union held a six-minutes 'Die-in' protest on the steps of the School District's North Broad Street headquarters. (Bas Slabbers/for WHYY, file)
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Race & Ethnicity

Philly students on school safety walkout: What took you so long?

In Philadelphia, the kids have been on fire for years — and violence has been a constant theme.

8 years ago

(Nick Shepherd/Getty Images/Ikon Images)
NPR
K-12
National
Public Safety

How school walkouts test student rights and school responsibilities

"It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."

8 years ago

Caesar Rodney School District's public information officer recently removed comments critical of the superintendent's opposition to the upcoming student walkout. The ACLU cried foul, and the district has relented. (Caesar Rodney School District)
Delaware
K-12
Public Safety

ACLU to school district: Stop censoring student Facebook criticisms over gun violence walkout

After Caesar Rodney Schools chief prohibited students and teachers from taking part in the Wednesday walkout over gun violence, the district deleted online complaints.

8 years ago

Members of the University of Pennsylvania's nurse-midwifery program's Class of 2017 are working to establish a scholarship fund for students of color. (Courtesy of Nicole Chaney)
Health Care
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Scholarship fund aims to make Philly midwife ranks more diverse

The vast majority — more than 90 percent — of American College of Nurse-Midwives members are white. Some recent grads of Penn’s nurse-midwifery program want to change that.

8 years ago

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