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With safety in mind, schools are getting their bands back together

5 years ago

Even as most students return to learning in the classroom this school year, disruptions to in-person learning, from missing one day because of a late school bus to an entire two weeks at home due to quarantine, remain inevitable as families and educators navigate the ongoing pandemic. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
K-12
Kids
National
Pennsylvania

Disruptions to schooling fall hardest on vulnerable students

Those include families without transportation, people with limited income or other financial hardship, people who don’t speak English, and children with special needs.

5 years ago

Delaware State University
Delaware
Economic Development
International

Del. State University joins federal effort to ‘feed the future’ and fight global hunger

Delaware State is the first HBCU to join the U.S. Agency for International Development’s effort to fight food insecurity in Africa and elsewhere.

5 years ago

Student shoots self in let atPhiladelphia Learning Academy. (6abc)
K-12
Philadelphia
Public Safety
6abc

Teen shoots self in leg inside West Philadelphia school

It happened at the Philadelphia Learning Academy - South in the 4300 block of Westminster Avenue.

5 years ago

Former foster kids Mayda Berrios (left) and Daykia McKnight were all smiles after the bill to pay all college costs was signed into law. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12

New Delaware law to pay all college costs for ex-foster kids a ‘game changer’

The state’s three publicly supported schools will issue waivers for all costs not covered by scholarships or financial aid so former foster kids can attend for free.

5 years ago

A school buses is pictured outside a school
Pennsylvania

Wolf administration ramps up efforts to recruit school bus drivers

The state is at its lowest number of bus drivers in five years — with about 42,000.

5 years ago

A sign is pictured outside a bathroom.
Gender
K-12
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

All Philly schools are supposed to have a gender neutral bathroom, but they’re often hard to access

Some buildings place them in the nurse’s office, or down a locked hallway.

5 years ago

Students line up to enter Christa McAuliffe School while wearing masks
K-12
New Jersey
Public Health

N.J. parent group continues to press Murphy on virtual school option

Gov. Phil Murphy remains committed to schools being open for in-person instruction only. New York City has taken the same approach. Philadelphia hasn’t.

5 years ago

Listen 3:26
Simon Gratz High School Mastery Charter principal Le'Yondo Dunn spoke along with other Philadelphia principals about the impact of gun violence on students in the district at a press conference demanding more support from the city to combat gun violence around district schools on Oct. 20, 2021, a few days after a student was seriously wounded at Lincoln High School
Keystone Crossroads
Gun Violence
K-12
Philadelphia

Philly principals demand more robust response to gun violence near schools

Educators, politicians, racial justice organizers, and clergy gathered Wednesday evening to call for a coordinated, citywide strategy to stop the violence.

5 years ago

Charles Library on Temple University's main campus in North Philadelphia. (Mark Henninger / Imagic Digital)
Higher Education
Race & Ethnicity
Billy Penn

Temple University student diversity is increasing, but the proportion of Black undergraduates is down 40% since 2002

Hispanic and AAPI enrollment is up.

5 years ago

A student raises his hand at Isaac Sheppard School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania
Politics

GOP sees ‘curriculum transparency’; Dems see censorship of how race is taught

A bill that would require schools to put curriculum online is moving in the Pa. legislature. Democrats fear it will lead to censorship of how race is taught.

5 years ago

Students, wearing masks, walk into school
Delaware
K-12
Public Health

More than a month in, Delaware students say mandated masks are worth the inconvenience

Class is in session at Odessa High in Delaware, where schools are fully open after the previous two years were disrupted by the pandemic.

5 years ago

Listen 5:19
Dr. Moskowitz was featured on the cover of an education magazine. (Courtesy of Mindy Zacharasz)
Higher Education
History
Billy Penn

Remembering Temple education prof Trudy Moskowitz, who pioneered interactive learning

Over her 35-year career, the teacher of teachers helped shape education in Philadelphia and beyond.

5 years ago

Philadelphia school board member Lisa Salley, right, works with district volunteers in front of Overbrook Elementary School on Thursday to get input from parents in the search for a new superintendent. Standing from left, Kristyn Aldrich, Walter Dixon, Marcia Hall and Deanna Scott. (Johann Calhoun / Chalkbeat)
K-12
Philadelphia
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

What’s next in search to find Philly’s new schools superintendent

The search to replace Hite started this week with 17 in-person and virtual listening sessions planned, along with a survey, to seek the public’s input.

5 years ago

Maria Mirkovic works with some of her third graders in her classroom
K-12
New Jersey
Public Safety

Some N.J. school districts granted ‘limited’ flexibility on COVID test requirements due to vendor issue

Citing an issue with the vendor, N.J. officials have granted "limited and targeted flexibility" for COVID testing requirements for school district employees.

5 years ago

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