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Officer Hayden Remphrey
K-12
New Jersey
Policing
Public Safety

Cherry Hill P.D. sends officer to ’20th grade’ in Facebook post about online safety

It’s a visual aid on how to protect the identity of children while sharing those pictures of the first day of school.

4 years ago

A mural depicts the 1968 sanitation worker strike in Memphis.
History
K-12
Race & Ethnicity
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Some Philadelphia teachers stand firm on teaching about race

About 100 expected to participate in rally against anti-critical race theory legislation near President’s House in Center City Friday

4 years ago

Teachers, parents and staff at the Masterman School gather on the steps of the school to voice their concerns about unsafe conditions in the building
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Philadelphia
Public Health

Masterman teachers and parents at odds with district over asbestos fears

Teachers and parents at the magnet school fear there is harmful asbestos in the school. District leaders say problems have been fixed and school is safe.

4 years ago

View of an empty classroom
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania schools making plans to spend pandemic windfall

Since March 2020, the federal government has provided $190 billion in pandemic aid to schools — including nearly $7 billion for Pennsylvania.

4 years ago

Pennridge School District (Google maps)
Keystone Crossroads
Black Lives Matter
K-12
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Pennridge schools pause diversity initiatives; NAACP calls it ‘slap in the face’

The board’s vice president, who does not believe in systemic racism, was tasked with reinventing the district’s diversity, equity, and inclusion program.

4 years ago

File photo: Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite. (Nathaniel Hamilton for WHYY)

Philly school board mandates COVID vaccine for all staff by unanimous vote

The board of education passed the resolution unanimously. Leaders have yet to set a date for when staff will have to submit proof of vaccination.

4 years ago

Eric Mendez receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot
K-12
New Jersey
Public Health

Camden schools to host free COVID-19 vaccine clinics for students, families, and residents

Hosted by the Camden City School District, the clinics are open to all district students and their families, plus city residents and workers.

4 years ago

Johnson County High School teacher Michael Caneege teaches anatomy to his students online, Friday, Aug., 20, 2021, in Wrightsville, Ga. A few weeks into the new school year, growing numbers of U.S. districts have halted in-person learning or switched to hybrid models because of rapidly mounting coronavirus infections. With 40% of students in quarantine or isolation, the Johnson County district shifted last week to online instruction until Sept. 13. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
K-12
Public Health

U.S. outbreaks force early reversals on in-person learning

More than 80 school districts or charter networks have closed or delayed in-person classes for at least one entire school in more than a dozen states.

4 years ago

ESL student in class.
Delaware
Neighborhoods
The News Journal

They saw ESL classes as a key to the American dream. Here’s how they adapted through COVID

Adults learning English as a second language take classes in libraries, schools, and churches, but when the pandemic hit, all those places closed.

4 years ago

A closeup of Philadelphia City Hall.
K-12
Public Health
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Most City Council members back Philly teachers union’s call for wider student COVID testing

Nine members of the City Council have joined the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers in calling for the school district to continue testing for asymptomatic students.

4 years ago

Students settle in at their desks
K-12
New Jersey
Public Health

All New Jersey school and state employees must be fully vaccinated by October

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has announced a vaccine mandate that not only covers all pre-K-12 school employees, but state workers as well.

4 years ago

A parent hold their kids hand on their way to school.
NPR
K-12
Public Health

Breakthrough COVID infections add even more chaos to school’s start in 2021

Some kids are getting sick, or passing the coronavirus to vaccinated family and friends. It's all unnerving to many parents. "It felt like a terrible head cold," one dad says.

4 years ago

Alumnos de tercero a quinto grado leen párrafos de un libro dentro de un aula de la Escuela Primaria Central de Seaford. (Johnny Perez-Gonzalez/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12

Un verano para ponerse al día: cómo los estudiantes de Delaware están recuperando el tiempo perdido por COVID-19

Algunos estudiantes del condado de Sussex han trabajado durante el verano para ponerse al día con el tiempo perdido debido a la pandemia.

4 years ago

Students read a book inside a Delaware classroom
Delaware
K-12

A summer of catch-up: How Delaware students are making up for time lost to COVID-19

Some students in Sussex County have worked through the summer to catch up on time lost due to the pandemic.

4 years ago

(Chester Upland School District)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

No education experience: Chester Upland residents baffled by judge’s choice for new school district receiver

Over Pa. Education Department objections, Nafis Nichols, the City of Chester’s chief financial officer, was named interim receiver.

4 years ago

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