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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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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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Public Education

File photo: Tony Watlington Sr., superintendent of Rowan-Salisbury Schools in North Carolina, meets with parents and guardians at Philadelphia school district headquarters. Watlington is one of three candidates for the superintendent of schools job. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Well-liked…but is he well-tested? The backstory of Philly’s new superintendent

Philadelphia’s new school leader impressed at his old job in North Carolina. But his superintendent resume is thin. How will it translate to Philly?

2 months ago

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John L. Davis, Jr., Krish Mohip, and Tony Watlington Sr.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Meet the finalists: What Philly’s 3 superintendent hopefuls said during their job interviews

All three candidates for Philly’s top schools job visited the city this week for their public vetting. A final decision is just around the corner.

2 months ago

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Pennsylvania Democrats are proposing a historic bump in school spending. (Johnny Perez-Gonzalez/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. Democrats set budget priorities with ‘historic’ education spending proposal

The plan comes about a week before Gov. Tom Wolf unveils the final budget proposal of his two-term tenure.

4 months ago

Amina Malik (center), with her children (from left) Rabiyyah, 13, Sadat, 10, Raina, 8, and Ruqayyah, 18, in their yard in Northeast Philadelphia.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

When school feels ‘chaotic’: Philly parents struggle with shifting virtual learning guidelines

Even as Philly officials vow to reduce omicron’s interruptions to in-person learning, the school district’s shifts to virtual are causing angst.

4 months ago

Philadelphia School District Superintendent Dr. William Hite greeted students on their first day of school on Aug. 31, 2021
Keystone Crossroads
Education

School can’t ‘cure every societal ill,’ GOP lawyers argue in cross-examination of Hite

Defense attorneys sought to paint a rosier picture of the state’s largest school district than the one Hite presented in his direct testimony.

4 months ago

School District of Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Hite cites staffing shortfalls and crumbling infrastructure as proof of unconstitutional school system

Plaintiffs say Pennsylvania’s school funding model is inadequate and inequitable, and that the state discriminates against students in poor districts.

4 months ago

A young student attends virtual school from his home
Keystone Crossroads
Education

‘It’s a math problem’: Philly educators scramble amid omicron wave

For the first time this school year, Philadelphia faces the prospect of a widespread shift back to virtual learning. How many schools and for how long? No one quite knows.

5 months ago

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Principal Palazzo kneels beside students building with Legos so they can show him their progress during recess in a first grade classroom.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

‘It’s like we’re giving permission for these kids to struggle’: Inside a rural school district suing Pa. for more equitable funding

At Panther Valley Elementary in the heart of coal country, students struggle to learn in a leaky school building where needs run deep.

5 months ago

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Students change classes at Julia de Burgos Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Ex-Pa. Education official: Student achievement gap won’t be closed without funding changes

The state’s former deputy secretary of K-12 education took the stand in a long-awaited trial over Pennsylvania’s system for funding public education.

6 months ago

Tyree Wallace coordinated the donation to Stephen Girard Elementary School and is the founder of MANN UP, a peer support and empowerment group. (Tyree Wallace)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Incarcerated men pool their money to buy science lab kits for South Philly first graders

Eighteen men incarcerated at SCI Phoenix said they see their donation as a small way to help disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, from the inside.

6 months ago

Listen 4:56
Tara Matise teaches her prekindergarten students virtually in her classroom
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

As Pa. school funding trial resumes, here’s a cheat sheet on what’s happened so far

The landmark case could change the way Pennsylvania funds its public schools.

6 months ago

File photo: In this Thursday, March 11, 2021 file photo, desks are arranged in a classroom at an elementary school in Nesquehoning, Pa
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Teacher tearfully testifies about poor, outdated resources as Pa. funding trial continues

A key question in the case before Commonwealth Court is what, exactly, a “thorough and efficient” system of education entails.

6 months ago

Panther Valley High School (Facebook)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

‘75 kindergartners, one toilet’: Witness testimony begins in landmark Pa. school funding trial

Plaintiffs argue the state has so badly underfunded public schools and failed to close spending gaps among districts that it violates its own constitution.

6 months ago

William Hite speaks from a podium
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Superintendent William Hite may have saved Philly schools. Was it enough?

Hite’s decade-long tenure tells us a lot about the evolution of the school reform movement, shifts in Philly politics, and the merits of an above-the-fray leadership style.

6 months ago

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Pennsylvania public school students change classes. (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa. school funding trial kicks off with competing visions of ‘thorough and efficient’

The plaintiffs — six school districts, four parents, and two statewide organizations — argue state funding for schools is inadequate, inequitable, and illegal.

7 months ago

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