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Joyce S. Wilkerson, (left), and Christopher McGinley, (right), are leaving the SRC (Bastiaan Slabbers  and Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Education

Two commissioners leave fading SRC to seek spots on new Philly school board

SRC chair Joyce Wilkerson and commissioner Christopher McGinley needed to leave the five-member body before Mayor Jim Kenney could pick them to serve on the new board.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, March 28, 2018

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez hits the campaign re-election trail. As Bill Cosby’s pre-trial hearings near their conclusion, his ...

Air Date: March 28, 2018

Listen 21:25
St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Parish has reinstated Cindy Mann as principal of the Padua Academy high school for girls in Wilmington after more than a week of protests by students, parents and other supporters. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

After week of protests in Delaware, Catholic girls’ school reinstates fired principal

The principal at Padua Academy, fired 11 days ago in a dispute over the school's financial support of its parish affiliate, has been reinstated after several days of protests.

7 years ago

Robert Edwards, center, a student from Washington, speaks alongside lawmakers and gun control activists at the U.S. Capitol
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Students and teachers need resources, not armed camps

Students do not need more firepower, police, metal detectors, and other trappings of the school-to-prison pipeline in their schools.

7 years ago

This undated file photo, location unknown, shows Linda Brown Smith. Smith was a third-grader when her father started a class-action suit in 1951 of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, which led to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision against school segregation. (AP Photo, File)
Politics & Policy

Kansas girl at center of 1954 school segregation ruling dies

Linda Brown, the Kansas girl at the center of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died ...

7 years ago

Christo Rey student Monica Kpedenou demonstrates her program for monitor Jared Boyd during a timed test.
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

From light bulbs to drones, a new curriculum takes flight in North Philly school

A Catholic school in North Philadelphia, is piloting a curriculum that will turn students into literal pilots. Drone pilots, that is.

7 years ago

Listen 2:17
More than 50 students at Alfred G. Waters Middle School near Middletown participate in the Girls Who Code club. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

Coding club creates tech aspirations at Middletown school

The tiny toy robots look a little like the ghosts from the old PacMan arcade game. But the little devices called Ozobots are helping stud ...

7 years ago

Listen 3:23
A lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of the NAACP and a citizens group targets Delaware's education funding and governance system that the plaintiffs says leaves Wilmington students —like these kids at Warner Elementary — disenfranchised, without adequate resources. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

ACLU lawsuit: Wilmington students disenfranchised by system

A lawsuit by the ACLU of Delaware charges that that the state’s school funding system deprives poor, disabled and non-English speaking students of an adequate education.

7 years ago

 Philadelphia School District headquarters at Broad and Spring Garden streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Education

Philly schools present new, sunnier budget projections

For the first time since Superintendent William Hite took over, his staff presented a long-term budget with no planned deficits.

7 years ago

Philadelphia students participate in a national school walkout commemorating the one month anniversary of Parkland, Fl. high school shooting
Speak Easy
Education

Letter: Pennridge School District should be ashamed for giving walkout students detention

When I heard that students from my alma mater received Saturday detention for their participation in the National Student Walkout, I had one reaction: shame.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, March 21, 2018

We have weather updates from around the region. The Pennsylvania Senate passes a bill to increase gun ownership restrictions on people co ...

Air Date: March 21, 2018

Listen 20:40
Arshad White, a senior at Girard Academic Music Program
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Girard Academic Music student: Do not ignore the youngest of us in gun law debate

Adults are constantly telling our youth that ... not only does our opinion not matter, but we don’t have the capabilities to imprint a change.

7 years ago

Hundreds of Padua Academy's students protested Monday outside school, demanding ousted Principal Cindy Mann's reinstatement. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

Padua principal's attorney blames gender discrimination for sudden firing

The recently ousted principal at Padua Academy, a prominent Delaware girls Catholic high school, is firing back.

7 years ago

Students fill the courtyard at Philly City Hall during the walkout.
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Mastery Charter student: ‘Proud to stand’ with strong youth to push for better gun laws

17 minutes is not enough to voice our concerns and highlight the fear that we hold within ourselves every day.

7 years ago

Hundreds of students and parents at Padua Academy protested the principal's sudden ouster Monday. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

Padua students stage mass sit-out for ousted principal

Hundreds of pink-clad students of Padua Academy, a prominent Catholic high school for girls in Wilmington, gathered outside the school Mo ...

7 years ago

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