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School District of Philadelphia (Emma Lee / WHYY)
Philadelphia

After grilling from Council, Philly district answers questions on suburbanites in city schools

Every spring, City Council members pepper School District of Philadelphia officials with questions during the district’s annual bud ...

8 years ago

 Daguerreotype of Jonah Thompson, c. 1847 (Library Company of Philadelphia)
Speak Easy
History
K-12
Race & Ethnicity

The unfulfilled dream of the School District of Philadelphia

When the School District of Philadelphia has a major problem, poor old Jonah Thompson is surely fidgeting in his grave. And the district ...

8 years ago

 Ryan Olan, rising sophomore, is traveling to Ghana with classmates from  Mastery High School of Camden.(Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)

Camden kids travel to Ghana on journey of self-discovery

Terrance Cosby has never flown in a plane before. He’s always lived in Camden, and he’s never traveled farther than North Jer ...

8 years ago

 Gov. John Carney told school leaders Friday
Delaware
Economy
Taxes

‘I can sell’ non-referendum tax increase, Carney tells school leaders [video]

Calling a feared backlash by voters an “inconvenient consequence,” Gov. John Carney urged a small contingent of upstate schoo ...

8 years ago

Listen 0:56
 CAPA choral director Dorina Morrow leads a choir of students. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)
Music
Philadelphia

Final note: After 42 years, Philly music teacher steps away

Dorina Morrow began her career as a public school music teacher in the fall of 1975. She still remembers what she wore her first day: sti ...

8 years ago

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 Philadelphia schools Chief Financial Officer Uri Monson (left) answers questions from School Reform Commission members about the district's new teachers contract. Commissioner Bill Green (right) cast the sole vote against the contract. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

It’s official: Philly teachers have a contract for the first time in four years

The School Reform Commission approved the new contract with the Philadelphia Federation of teachers Tuesday amid warnings that a signific ...

8 years ago

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 Protesters of Gov. John Carney's proposal to cut education funding by $37 million are calling on lawmakers to consider a bigger income tax increase than they are already mulling. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
Taxes

Protesters of Del. education cuts want bigger income tax increase

A small but determined group of educators, parents and advocates descended Tuesday to the steps of Legislative Hall protest Gov. John Car ...

8 years ago

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 A member of the Philadelphia teachers union hands in a ballot in 2017 at Temple University's Liacouras Center as the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers voted on a contract proposal. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
K-12
Philadelphia

Philly teachers overwhelmingly approve new contract

Philadelphia teachers ratified a new labor deal Monday night, all but assuring city educators of their first valid contract since the old ...

8 years ago

Philadelphia School District headquarters at Broad and Spring Garden streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Speak Easy
K-12
Mental Health
Philadelphia

Philly schools must prioritize trauma-informed learning

Powerful and surprisingly prevalent horrors are blocking access to education and ravaging children’s lives. Sadly, they remai ...

8 years ago

 Philadelphia teachers protest outside City Hall on May 1, 2017. After 5 years without a contract, the teachers union and the Philadelphia school district have reached a tentative agreement. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philly reaches tentative contract with teachers

Philly teachers may finally be getting a raise. After a half-decade stalemate, the School District of Philadelphia and the Philade ...

8 years ago

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 Members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission and Superintendent William Hite meet in May. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

SRC delays vote on $36 million contract for special-ed school

Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission Thursday postponed a vote on a $36 million contract for Catapult Learning, Inc. that would ...

8 years ago

 Bank executive and community leader Tony Allen has been named provost at Delaware State University. (Left: DSU. Right: WHYY File)
Delaware

Bank exec, civic leader Tony Allen named DSU provost

Tony Allen, a longtime banking executive and Wilmington civic leader, has been named provost at Delaware State University.

8 years ago

 Margie Castejon (far left) stands by a mural created by eighth-grade students at South Philadelphia's Kirkbride School.

Interpretations of American dream take form at South Philly school

Margie Castejon immigrated to the U.S. three years ago from San Pedro Sula, an industrial town in Honduras once labeled the most dangerou ...

8 years ago

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College Hall on the University of Pennsylvania campus. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Penn grad students battle administration, clock in effort to unionize

University of Pennsylvania graduate students are battling their administration — and perhaps the clock — in an attempt to unionize. ...

8 years ago

 Cheltenham schools superintendent Wagner Marseille speaks to community members at Cheltenham High School in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, after a disturbing cell phone video of a fight that left a teacher hospitalized went viral. (Branden Eastwood for NewsWorks)

Cheltenham schools to add security, staff after May brawl

One month after a student fight left 10 employees injured, led to four student arrests, and angered many residents, the Cheltenham School ...

8 years ago

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