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School District of Philadelphia workers vote to strike one week before school begins

The district's maintenance, custodial, and transportation employees voted on Saturday to authorize a strike, as contract negotiations with the district have stalled.

4 years ago

Philadelphia is requiring all students and staffers to wear masks for the first 10 days of the 2022-23 school year. (Hannah Beier for Chalkbeat)
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Philadelphia
Public Health
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Philadelphia school board gets earful on ‘out of touch’ masking policy

Several parents said the mask mandate was unnecessary and harmful, but one parent called it common sense.

4 years ago

A student and teacher at Philadelphia’s Academy at Palumbo, a school that uses selective admissions. In 2021, the city district changed the system for admissions to the top-tier schools to a lottery process. (Charles Mostroller / The Notebook)
Income Inequality
K-12
Philadelphia
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Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Philly boosts Black and Hispanic enrollment in top schools, Chalkbeat analysis shows

Philadelphia’s new lottery admissions system will likely bolster the overall proportion of Black and Hispanic students in the incoming ninth grades.

4 years ago

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Higher Education
Philadelphia
Sports

Charlene Curtis, trailblazing former Temple basketball coach, dies at 67

Curtis was the head coach at Wake Forest, after head coaching stops at Radford and Temple, where she also was the first African-American head women’s basketball coach.

4 years ago

Students wearing face masks line up to enter Christa McAuliffe School
Radio Times
Government
K-12

Philly teachers back to school

As public school educators in the region get ready for another school year, we talk about learning loss, funding disparities, keeping students safe, and hopes for this year.

Air Date: August 19, 2022 10:00 am

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The inside of the classroom of a Delaware school
Delaware
Employment
K-12

Delaware battling teacher shortages as students prepare to return to classroom this fall

HB315 will open up $2 million in grant funding to help staff low-income districts considered to have a “high need” for substitutes.

4 years ago

Jonathan Maberry is a distinguished author of many novels, including the young adult series Rot & Ruin. He lived in Warrington, Bucks County for 12 years. (Doylestown Bookshop)
Books
K-12
Pennsylvania

‘A fascist approach to education’: Acclaimed local authors react to Central Bucks School District’s book policies

Local authors fear Central Bucks School District’s new book policies will censor LGBTQ content.

4 years ago

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Rodney Dean (left) speaks with Woodbury Junior-Senior High School resource officer Ryan Alcott (middle) and Woodbury Police Chief Thomas Ryan (right) at a press conference announcing a new law requiring New Jersey schools to implement school threat assessment teams. (Tennyson Donyéa / WHYY)
Behavioral Health
K-12
New Jersey
Public Safety

New Jersey schools must develop threat assessment teams by next summer

While many school districts already have “zero tolerance” policies in place, the new law is designed to provide mental health resources to help resolve students' issues.

4 years ago

Elementary school students play on the playground
K-12
Philadelphia

Philly public schools drop writing sample, add standardized tests back to selective admissions process

Students will no longer be required to complete a writing assessment and the district will resume using PSSA results for its criteria-based middle and high schools.

4 years ago

A closeup of new backpacks
Income Inequality
K-12
Philadelphia

A Philly area nonprofit is filling free backpacks with school supplies for students in need

Foster Angels on Earth hopes to help alleviate some of the stress foster kids face ahead of the school year.

4 years ago

Students on campus at the University of Michigan.
NPR
Higher Education
National
Public Health

Colleges ease COVID-19 restrictions as fall semester begins for millions of students

Requirements to test and mask and be vaccinated are becoming less common as colleges shift away from treating COVID-19 as an emergency.

4 years ago

A sign reads Morehouse College, with green trees in the background.
NPR
Black Lives Matter
Higher Education
History
National

HBCUs are back in the spotlight for Black students and their families

Some historically Black colleges and universities have seen increases in application and enrollment numbers after years of decline.

4 years ago

Parents, students and teachers rallied ahead of the Central Bucks School District’s vote to remove books perceived to have sexualized content from their libraries outside the district’s headquarters in Doylestown on July 26, 2022.
Books
Government
LGBTQ
Pennsylvania

‘It’s just getting worse.’ Central Bucks passes policy censoring class materials with ‘sexualized content’

The Central Bucks policy “effectively bans human development and sex education in the schools,” one expert said.

4 years ago

School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. wears a mask during a press conference on August 12, 2022, at district headquarters while School System Medical Officer Dr. Kendra B. McDow explains the district’s COVID-19 safety plan for the coming school year.
K-12
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philly schools could go mask-optional after the first 10 days of class

School District of Philadelphia officials said the district will take a “multi-layered” safety approach this school year.

4 years ago

Flags wave in the wind from a building on Temple University's campus
Health Care
Higher Education
Philadelphia
6abc

Temple makes masks optional for fall semester, but not everyone is happy about it

The decision has been met with mixed reactions, but ultimately Temple University says they are following what the city is doing.

4 years ago

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