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Education

The exterior of North Georgetown Elementary School
Delaware
K-12
Mental Health

Summer school looks different for teachers and students in Delaware’s Indian River School District

Teachers at the Indian River School District are getting an up-close look at the effects that the coronavirus has had on their students during summer school.

4 years ago

Desks are spaced out in a classroom
Delaware
K-12
Mental Health

Delaware attempts to lighten load of ‘invisible backpack’ many children bring to school

Delaware will require psychologists, counselors, or social workers in every elementary school. The Colonial School District is ahead of the curve.

4 years ago

Listen 2:11
Philadelphia School District headquarters
K-12
Public Health
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Philadelphia district officials to meet with air quality specialist over new purifiers

Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite and other school officials have agreed to meet with an air quality specialist after he criticized the district’s new purifiers.

4 years ago

Shown is Philadelphia’s Board of Education during a virtual meeting. Angela McIver, left third row, announced her resignation at Thursday’s meeting.  (Johann Calhoun / Chalkbeat)
K-12
Philadelphia
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Philadelphia school board member Angela McIver resigns, effective immediately

In 2018, McIver was one of the first nine members Mayor Jim Kenney appointed to the Philadelphia Board of Education.

4 years ago

Superintendent Dr. William Hite. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
K-12
Philadelphia
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

District extends deadline for Philadelphia students opting to repeat a grade

Hite said the district is “continuing to accept forms from families.” Previously, the deadline to submit the paperwork was Thursday.

4 years ago

School District of Philadelphia Chief Operating Officer Reggie McNeil points to the district’s new air and surface purifiers. Thursday’s announcement was made at Juniata Park Academy in the lower Northeast. (Johann Calhoun / Chalkbeat)
K-12
Public Health
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

No more window fans: District unveils air and surface purifiers for Philadelphia classrooms

Superintendent William Hite announced Thursday that all classrooms will have air and surface purifiers when school starts in the fall.

4 years ago

Diversity, equity and inclusion: it's an education some parents want to be left out of their child's curriculum. It's become a hot-button issue for the Downingtown Area School District. (6ABC)
Black Lives Matter
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice
6ABC

Petition calls for end to diversity, equity & inclusion in Downingtown schools

When someone forwarded Brandyn Campbell a petition calling for the end of diversity programs in her child's school district, she felt hurt and disappointed.

4 years ago

Fairfax County Public School buses are lined up at a maintenance facility
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Kids
Pennsylvania

Pa. private schools saw enrollment dip during pandemic, despite in-person options

Area private schools swung open their doors last school year. But that didn’t draw droves of families, data shows.

4 years ago

Bryce Dershem holds up his graduation cap, which features a fist on top of a trans pride flag
K-12
LGBTQ
New Jersey

N.J. principal’s attempt to censor queer valedictorian exposes gaps in how educators treat LGBTQ students

The incident has prompted questions about the legality, or at least the wisdom, of an administrator stopping a student speech celebrating diversity in 2021.

4 years ago

University of Delaware's campus in Newark
Delaware
Higher Education
History
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

University of Delaware to explore slavery legacy at the Newark campus

UD joins a consortium studying how the work of people held in slavery, or those who held people as slaves, influenced the history of the schools.

4 years ago

Sierra Leone's minister of education and chief innovation officer David Moinina Sengeh is a man of many talents. He's using mobile phone technology to improve daily life, he invented a way to make a prosthetic limb with a computer-assisted technique and he's a singer and rapper and a clothing designer, too. (Jason Beaubien/NPR)
NPR
International

This education minister is a renaissance man (and he’s got a music video to prove it)

David Moinina Sengeh is not your typical education minister. The 34-year-old with a Ph.D. from MIT oversees the public schools in Sierra Leone.

4 years ago

Penn State linebacker Brandon Smith (12) tackles Rutgers quarterback Johnny Langan (21) during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020, in Piscataway, N.J. (Adam Hunger / AP Photo)
Higher Education
Sports
WITF

College athletic departments gear up for student endorsement deals

Some of the state’s colleges and universities are lining up programs to help student athletes make money from their name, image or likeness.

4 years ago

Families stand in line at Philadelphia School District headquarters to pick up Chromebooks ahead of the start of the school year in September 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Employment
K-12
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philly schools finalize new bell schedule running counter to doctors; principals feel blindsided

Most high schools will start at 7:30 a.m., and middle schools and elementary schools will start at either 8:15 a.m. or 9 a.m — the opposite of what’s recommended.

4 years ago

Before Philadelphia’s City Hall, plaintiffs and their attorneys celebrate an earlier court ruling allowing their fair funding case to proceed. (Darryl Murphy / The Notebook)
K-12
Pennsylvania
Race & Ethnicity
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

In landmark school funding case, Pennsylvania lawmakers try to block evidence of racial disparities

The Pa. GOP wants to block evidence that Pennsylvania’s Black and Hispanic students fare worse on traditional measures of academic achievement than their white peers.

4 years ago

Physically distanced, and with protective partitions, students work on an art project during class
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

New Pa. law allows students to repeat a grade, but the deadline to decide is one week away

All Pa. K-12 students now have the option to repeat a grade, but the deadline to apply is right around the corner and many families are unaware of the opportunity.

4 years ago

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