Education news: Philly schools, colleges & policies

A tour group is shown walking through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Word of an August 2017 Justice Department inquiry into how race factors into admissions at Harvard University has left top-tier colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have boosted diversity levels to new highs. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Students of color have earned the right to be on any campus they set foot on, and their colleges and universities are better off for having them.

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Some area colleges are asking prospective students for their juvenile criminal history. (Bigstock)

Higher Education

Law

Philly legal aid group urging colleges to stop asking applicants about criminal record

Community Legal Services, one of Philadelphia’s largest legal assistance organizations, is pushing area colleges and universities t ...

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Delaware

Higher Education

Reputed Delaware diploma mill ordered to halt offers, cooperate with investigation

A Superior Court judge has ordered a Dover organization that reportedly has charged adults $500 for a “fully-accredited high school ...

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Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey surround homes and businesses in Port Arthur, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)

Travel

Floods disrupt college classes in Texas, delay some students coming to Philly region

Tropical Storm Harvey’s devastation in southeastern Texas included massive floods on college campuses. Warren Bigelow of&nbs ...

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Part Four: While Pa. debates merits of Pre-K, Ontario goes all-in

Part four of our Ontario series

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Philly Parenting

Homeschooling is our protest

The decision to homeschool for many families is far from easy, but as a black family, it became the first time I stood upon the soapbox a ...

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Don’t call it the Badlands: The story of Savannah Zayas

It’s early February, and Savannah Zayas is just four months away from proving the world wrong. When she became pregnant in middl ...

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City officials announce the lawsuit against the Dept. of Justice (Bobby Allyn/WHYY)

Immigration

Philly sues AG Sessions to keep funding now under threat by ‘sanctuary city’ status

Philadelphia officials are suing U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in federal court over “unlawful” grant conditions that p ...

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K-12

Medicine

Pa. urges parents to hurry up, have kids vaccinated for school

If you’re a Pennsylvania public school parent hemming and hawing over when to bring your child in for a vaccination shot, the commo ...

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Part Five: As its neediest schools struggle, what can Pa. learn from Ontario’s success?

Part Five of our Ontario series

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Keystone Crossroads

Higher Education

K-12

Part Three: A system of support, how Ontario sets its teachers up to succeed

Part Three of our Ontario series

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Part Two: Ontario celebrates diversity, but still works to close achievement gaps

Part two of our Ontario series

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Part One: How Ontario’s vision of equity for schools contrasts starkly with Pennsylvania’s

Part One of our Ontario series

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Part Three: How one Berlin school integrated by segregating

Part Three of our Berlin series

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Keystone Crossroads

Income Inequality

K-12

Part Two: The rise and fall of Berlin’s plan to integrate schools

Part Two of our Berlin series

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