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Protesters including retired teacher Ron Whitehorne (left) at a recent School Reform Commission meeting demanded that the body vote to dissolve itself and return the Philadelphia School District to local control.
The Notebook
Education

Kenney administration moving quickly to set up transition from SRC to local control

"Friends of" groups are being asked to suggest names for nominating committee and for a new nine-member Board of Education.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, October 24, 2017

Former Philadelphia District Attorney is sentenced in Federal court. Federal charges are leveled against two aides to Congressman Bob Bra ...

Air Date: October 24, 2017

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Students at Las Americas ASPIRA Academyu, a Delaware charter school, gather in the new auditorium for the presentation of summer reading awards. Scholastic Inc. honored them as the best in Delaware. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

Delaware dual language school honored for summer reading

Since opening seven years ago Las Americas ASPIRA has become a magnet for parents who wants their children to speak Spanish and English.

8 years ago

 A child holds up a sign at recent rally calling for an end to the School Reform Commission.  (Tom MacDonald/ WHYY)
Education

Was Thursday the beginning of the end for Philly’s SRC?

Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission heard a presentation on a road map for disbanding itself.

8 years ago

Close-up of a standardized test.
Education

More Delaware students taking, passing Advanced Placement courses

In the past 10 years, the increase in the number of Delaware students taking and scoring well in AP courses far outpaces the rise in high school enrollment.

8 years ago

Two schoolboys seated at desks, one turned to the other talking, a book between them,
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

Asante’s 'Buck': Philly memoir will soon be film. Will districtwide curriculum be next?

“Buck,” a gritty coming-of-age tale about one young man’s evolution from thug to scholar, was published in 2013 and praised by critics for its honesty and poetic language.

8 years ago

Listen 0:00
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a dinner hosted by the Washington Policy Center, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Bellevue, Wash.
Speak Easy
Education

Let’s take another look at the track record of charter schools in Pennsylvania

With continuing pressure from the Trump administration for vouchers and school choice, we urge people to look at the facts and strengthen traditional public schools for all.

8 years ago

Zachary Baughman (left) and Steven T. Swain were charged with spray painting graffiti with profane, racist slurs on two Cape Henlopen High school buses and other vehicles in the Lewes area. (Delaware State Police)
Education

2 men charged for racist graffiti on Cape Henlopen school buses, other vehicles

Two downstate men have been charged with spray painting racist graffiti on two Cape Henlopen High School buses and other vehicles and locations in southern Delaware.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney at  National Museum of American Jewish History
Politics & Policy

Philly Mayor Kenney steps up war of words with President Trump

Declaring the president unstable, Mayor Jim Kenney says cities will have to stand up for themselves under the Trump administration.

8 years ago

Two students walk towards the camera in an otherwise empty school hallway, blue lockers, yellow walls
First
Education

Mass exodus of students is costing Delaware school district and taxpayers

Nearly 9,000 Christina district students don't attend district schools. That's 38 percent of students- far more than any other school district in Delaware.

8 years ago

Listen 0:00
McCullough Middle School Teacher Karen Keys unveils the new IMAX-like planetarium, which replaces one mothballed a decade ago.
Education

Planetarium returns, wows students at Delaware middle school

After being dormant for a decade a Planetarium returns to a school, to rave reviews.

8 years ago

Alissa Parker, whose daughter Emilie died in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, talks about ways to improve school safety during a conference in Drexel Hill. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

At Delco ‘Safe Schools’ event, lessons from Sandy Hook shooting

A woman who lost her daughter in the Connecticut elementary school massacre still steels herself to tell the story. She does so to help others prepare for the next tragedy.

8 years ago

Empty school hallway
Keystone Crossroads
Education

GOP pushes Wolf to distribute Pa. education tax credits

Days after negotiations to balance Pennsylvania's late budget collapsed completely, lawmakers, the governor, and their staffers are still trading barbs.

8 years ago

Old Main, an administrative building and landmark of Penn State campus, State College, Pennsylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

State-related universities fearful of becoming casualties of Pa.’s ongoing budget impasse

Pa. budget impasse has put funding for Pennsylvania’s state-related universities in jeopardy. Without it, in-state students will likely see a tuition spike.

8 years ago

A racial slur using the N-word and saying they
Education

Delaware high school suspends 2 students who posted racial slur using mascot

Two students at a Delaware high school face expulsion for using the school's mascot, historic figure Caesar Rodney, to spread racial slurs on social media.

8 years ago

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