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Students walk to Tamaqua Area High School in Tamaqua, Pa., Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. Parents are going to court to block the Pennsylvania school district from allowing teachers to carry guns in school. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Radio Times
Education

School shootings spark drastic safety proposals

Beefed-up surveillance tactics, armed guards, and even arming teachers and administrators are all ideas that have been put on the table in recent years.

Air Date: August 21, 2019 10:00 am

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(Kimberly Paynter/Keystone Crossroads)
Schooled
Education

Don’t eat the marshmallow: Students from a ‘no excuses’ charter grow up to tell the tale

"If you actually said, 'We’re gonna hold you accountable to setting up your students for life.' Then how does that change the work of that school?”

Air Date: August 21, 2019

Listen 43:06
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Keystone Crossroads
Education

Video: Pa. ranks last in region for community college affordability, makes it 'impossible' for poorest students

Pennsylvania did not increase funding for the operating budgets of community colleges this year. Advocates say the pressure on low-income students has grown unsustainable.

6 years ago

Doug Cox (left) teaches mathematics and engineering at El Centro. He also leads the Dark Knights chess club. (Kimberly Paynter/Keystone Crossroads)
Radio Times
Education

Last chance high

For students in Kensington who have dropped out of high school, El Centro de Estudiantes offers a second chance at graduation which, for some, means a chance at a better life.

Air Date: August 14, 2019

Listen 49:01
Stephen Schaeffer leads a
Schooled
Education

Last Chance High: Beautiful band of misfits fight to graduate — part two

What do we really mean when we say students are ready to graduate high school? Is there a baseline that we’re really willing to enforce?

Air Date: August 14, 2019

Listen 24:32
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks in the Capitol rotunda in June 2019. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

After years of gridlock, Wolf plans executive action on charter school reform

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said Tuesday he would use his executive power to hold charters to “the same ethical and transparency standards of public schools.”

6 years ago

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School buses are seen in a file photo.
Politics & Policy

After complaints, Pa. senators return to drawing board on part of school safety law

A law to expand schools' security options in Pennsylvania now has some school law enforcement officers miffed.

6 years ago

Friends' Central School in Wynnewood. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Education
Billy Penn

Philly teachers’ racial discrimination claim against Quaker school can go to trial, court rules

Friends’ Central fired them after a 2017 controversy over a Palestinian speaker.

6 years ago

The exterior of Philadelphia School District headquarters
Education
Billy Penn

If you’ve got school-age kids, the time for vaccination is now

Here’s a list of the district’s vaccine requirements.

6 years ago

(Jessica Kourkounis for Keystone Crossroads)
Schooled
Education

Last Chance High: 'Beautiful band of misfits' fight to graduate

How one student fought to go from drug dealer who dropped out to high school diploma.

Air Date: August 7, 2019

Listen 24:55
Grand opening of the SEAMAAC Computer Literacy Lab, Thursday Nov. 3, 2016, inside the SEAMAAC Community Outreach Office in South Philadelphia.  (Joseph Kaczmarek/Comcast)
Community
Broke in Philly

Comcast expands low-cost internet, along with learning programs that actually work

The media giant gave out $1 million for digital literacy workshops in Philly last year.

6 years ago

(Bigstock/mangpor_2004)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. school safety tip-line used more to report bullying, suicidal thoughts, than violent threats

Many of the 23,494 tips received online or by phone were related to bullying, self-harm, thoughts of suicide, or depression.

6 years ago

1909 AMERICAN UNDERSLUNG TRAVELER
Radio Times
Community

Regional Roundup – 08/05/19

This week: nepotism at the Philadelphia Parking Authority, NJ's moves to protect student borrowers, and the #1 classic car collector in the world.

Air Date: August 5, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:04
Nasir Holloman (left), Kyree Keels (center) and Kadir Douglass (right) opened a phone repair business at their school. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Philly teen tech entrepreneurs take matters into their own hands, or phones

Teens Do Tech is a group of three teenagers from North Philadelphia who have decided to repair phones in school for almost no cost.

6 years ago

Listen 3:09
CCTV Security monitoring student in a classroom at a school.(Bigstock/Memoryman)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Exclusive: How these Pa. schools fortified themselves after Parkland

Through a Right-to-Know request, Keystone Crossroads obtained summaries of what schools across the state plan to purchase with an unprecedented level of state grant funding.

6 years ago

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