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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Cheyney University graduate and Temple University adjunct professor Michael Coard testifies at a public hearing on how to fund the struggling historically black university. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Lawmakers hear Cheyney University students and alumni plead for better funding

The financially troubled Cheyney University is drawing special attention from Pennsylvania lawmakers as they draft budget priorities. ...

10 years ago

Vice President Joe Biden speaks to Delaware State University graduates. (Photo courtesy of Delaware State University)
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Watch: Biden reminisces in Delaware State commencement address

“You enter to learn and now you have to go and serve,” Biden said in his remarks. “It’s your obligation.”

10 years ago

The School Reform Commission is ending its relationship with Source for Teachers. (NewsWorks file photo)

Philly schools trying second outsourcing firm for substitute teachers

The Philadelphia School District is parting ways with a private company that has been doing a bad job providing substitute teachers this ...

10 years ago

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Parent Shereda  Cromwell (right) is furious about Scholar Academies' decision to leave Kenderton elementary. Depicted here

Parents livid about charter company pulling out of North Philly school unexpectedly

At an emergency meeting, Scholar Academies informed parents Wednesday afternoon that it is planning to cease control of operations at Ken ...

10 years ago

White House Social Secretary Deesha Dyer. (Winnie Au/for Marie Claire)

White House social secretary, a Philly community college alumna, to speak at commencement

Speakers at college graduation are often notable alumni or individuals distinguished in their field. The commencement speaker for ...

10 years ago

Members of Temple University's Class of 2011 wait to begin their graduation march. Pennsylvania's public research institutions — Penn State

College in Pa. beyond reach of most low- and middle-income families

College affordability in Pennsylvania ranks as second worst state in the country, according to a new report. The national report, ...

10 years ago

Philadelphia schools superintendent William Hite proposed converting three elementary schools into charters in October 2015. Each school had low test scores and declining enrollment, including Wister Elementary, around which the debate grew especially fiery. Hite is pictured at a School Reform Commission meeting shortly after making his proposal. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)

Can we trust the Philadelphia District’s yardstick for school quality?

There are many reasons to be wary about relying too heavily on the School District of Philadelphia’s main tool for measuring school qu ...

10 years ago

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Chester Upland School District seniors and Gates Millennium Scholars Autumn Bey and Edward Nelson Jr. were among 1

Two Chester Upland students win prestigious Gates scholarships

Two seniors from the Chester Upland School District are going to college for free, thanks to a highly competitive scholarship that covers ...

10 years ago

The Miller family sits in the living room of their Landsdowne home in 2016. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)

The cold realities of education in a poor Pennsylvania school district

This story is part of the NPR reporting project “School Money,” a nationwide collaboration between NPR’s Ed Team an ...

10 years ago

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A student stops in the hallway at Masterman High School to vote in a mock Republican primary. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Masterman’s mock GOP primary election offers food for thought — and support

Pennsylvanians will cast ballots in a presidential primary next week, but the Republican contest has already been decided — at least in ...

10 years ago

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Gov. Tom Wolf's plan to restore funding to districts hurt most by past cuts suffered a major blow last week. And now he faces another critical veto decision. (AP file photo)

Democrats stand up for their school districts in opposing Wolf funding plan

Pennsylvania’s protracted budget negotiation ended nearly a month ago, but the fight continues over how $150 million in new educati ...

10 years ago

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Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale criticizes the state charter law at a news conference at School District of Philadelphia headquarters. (Kevin McCorry / WHYY)

Pa. charter school law ‘worst in US,’ state auditor general says

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale issued a scathing ...

10 years ago

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Wolf plan for $200 million in Pa. education funds creates winners and losers, GOP charges

The fight in Harrisburg over how $200 million in new Pennsylvania education aid should be divided continues. Although Gov. Tom Wol ...

10 years ago

Governor Tom Wolf has released details of his

Gov. Wolf’s blueprint for school spending nets Philadelphia 7.55 percent boost

The School District of Philadelphia stands to see a $76.8 million boost this school year, based on Gov. Tom Wolf proceeding unilaterally ...

10 years ago

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor, a Republican, has called the push for impeaching his Democratic colleagues “an attack upon an independent judiciary.”(WHYY file photo)

After SRC loses again in court, Neff says charter funding reform a must

The Pennsylvania Supreme court has delivered another blow to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission. The SRC had hoped the cour ...

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