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Education

Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tem Joe Scarnati, center, hopes to quash a school funding lawsuit brought by districts and advocates. (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

GOP lawmakers seek to stop Pa. education funding lawsuit at preliminary hearing

The lawsuit challenging Pa.’s school-funding scheme continued its slow climb through the legal system with oral arguments before the Commonwealth Court in Philadelphia.

8 years ago

Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12

Pa. property tax opponents gear up for another fight in the Statehouse

A bipartisan group of state senators is plotting another attempt at legislation that has become something of a white whale in Pennsylvani ...

8 years ago

Gov. John Carney appeared before the Christina School District board in February and made his pitch for approval of the partnership. The Memorandum of Understanding to consolidate five schools passed 4 to 2 with one abstention. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Kids

Christina board member Meredith Griffin defends school consolidation

In February, a divided Christina school board approved the framework of a partnership with the Carney administration to consolidate five high-poverty, low-performing schools.

8 years ago

women in engineering
Speak Easy
Gender
Higher Education

More girls in the engineering career pipeline makes the world a better place

We are nearing that tipping point where women no longer feel isolated or lonely. We want to make it “normal” for women to choose engineering.

8 years ago

U.S. Senator Bob Casey visited students at Cheltenham High School, March 2, 2018.
K-12
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

Anxious students question Sen. Casey at Cheltenham town hall on guns

"All I can say to you is keep going, keep fighting, keep marching, keep mobilizing," U.S. Sen. Bob Casey tells high-schoolers calling for changes in gun law.

8 years ago

Delaware Academy for Public Safety and Security is under formal review by the state, but Colonial School District has offered a helpiing hand to help the school stay open. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Kids

Delaware public school district intervenes to save failing charter school

A struggling charter high school founded six years ago to prepare students for careers in public safety is getting help from the Colonial School District.

8 years ago

Listen 1:40
Owura Kwadwo Hottish illustrates a window of Microsoft Word using colored chalk on a blackboard. He uses it to teach computer skills to students at the Betenase M/A Junior High School in Kumasi, Ghana. (Frimpong Innocent)
NPR
International
Technology

Computer teacher with no computers chalks up clever classroom plan

Could you teach computer class without a computer?

8 years ago

Top administrators (from left) schools Superintendent William Hite, Managing Director Michael DiBerardinis, Sheriff Jewel Williams, and District Attorney Larry Krasner, applaud during Mayor Jim Kenney's budget address. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Philadelphia
Politics
Taxes

Kenney makes school-funding plea, council reacts

Kenney says funding the school district is critical, but council members aren't thrilled about his plan to hike property taxes.

8 years ago

Listen 4:12
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney's Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposal. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Real Estate
Taxes

In Philly budget proposal, Kenney calls for tax hikes to cover school deficits

As promised, Kenney's proposal would cover the school district's budget gap. The question now is how City Council members and taxpayers will react.

8 years ago

The Juvenile Medium Security Facility in Bordentown, New Jersey.
Criminal Justice
New Jersey

N.J. group calls for reopening former prep school for African-Americans

Planners hope a reimagined Bordentown School would recruit students from parts of the state that send large numbers of minorities to youth prison.

8 years ago

Philadelphia School Reform Commission member Farah Jiminez. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Jimenez resigns from Philly SRC four months before it disbands

“It has been a gift to bear close witness to the truest of public servants,” Jimenez wrote.

8 years ago

Gov. John Carney takes part in a mindfulness exercise with students at Mt. Pleasant Elementary School in Wilmington. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Public Safety

Teaching kids to deal with stress as part of answer to school violence, Carney says

When it comes to making schools safer, Delaware Gov. John Carney says teaching kids how to deal with the stress of life is an important element.

8 years ago

Maurice Jenkins addresses the Education Nominating Panel during the public comment section of the meeting on Feb. 26. (Dale Mezzacappa/The Notebook)
The Notebook
K-12
Philadelphia

Panel submits 27 names to mayor for new school board

Group includes two current SRC members.

8 years ago

Students at Cherry Hill High School East staged a sit-in Monday morning in support of teacher Timothy Locke.
K-12
New Jersey

Students protest after Cherry Hill teacher suspended for Parkland comments

Dozens of Cherry Hill East students blocked the school's busiest hallway to support a teacher who was suspended last week for controversial remarks about school safety.

8 years ago

Imhotep Charter (white) and MLK High School (black) playing the city public league title game at the Palestra, February 25, 2018. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Philadelphia
Sports

After 20-year hiatus, Philly’s basketball championships return to ‘the cathedral’

The public league’s title game has leapfrogged venues for decades. Before Sunday, it had been exactly 20 years since the game was last played at the Palestra.

8 years ago

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