
K-12
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, 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 21:25After 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
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
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
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 2:17Coding 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 3:23ACLU 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
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
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, 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 20:40Girard 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
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
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
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