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Maria Ramirez, left, and Eunice Millán, both freshmen at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, New Jersey, are taking physics this year as part of a “Physics First” initiative to prepare more students for STEM careers. (Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report)
Education

One reason students aren’t prepared for STEM careers? No physics in high school.

A shortage of physics teachers limits physics-taking, which limits the number of physics teachers

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene A. DePasquale (Chris Knight/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Auditor General to take deep dive into school safety issues

Eugene DePasquale says his office will take a deep dive on the security procedures at all of the commonwealth's public schools.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tem Joe Scarnati, center, hopes to quash a school funding lawsuit brought by districts and advocates. (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

GOP lawmakers seek to stop Pa. education funding lawsuit at preliminary hearing

The lawsuit challenging Pa.’s school-funding scheme continued its slow climb through the legal system with oral arguments before the Commonwealth Court in Philadelphia.

7 years ago

Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. property tax opponents gear up for another fight in the Statehouse

A bipartisan group of state senators is plotting another attempt at legislation that has become something of a white whale in Pennsylvani ...

7 years ago

Jen Welter, the first woman to join an NFL team's coaching staff, addressed the crowd at a Women’s Leadership Luncheon hosted by City Year Philadelphia (Angela Gervasi/for WHYY)
Community

Ground-breaking female NFL coach speaks at 20th Philly City Year celebration

Each year, about 205 tutors work in schools in need of resources, tutoring and mentoring students between third and 10th grade.

7 years ago

Gov. John Carney appeared before the Christina School District board in February and made his pitch for approval of the partnership. The Memorandum of Understanding to consolidate five schools passed 4 to 2 with one abstention. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

Christina board member Meredith Griffin defends school consolidation

In February, a divided Christina school board approved the framework of a partnership with the Carney administration to consolidate five high-poverty, low-performing schools.

7 years ago

In this Feb. 28, 2018 photo, a police car drives by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., as students returned to class for the first time since a former student opened fire there with an assault weapon.  (Terry Renna/AP Photo)
Community

Global school security measures vary, but no arming teachers

Here is a look at school security measures at some countries around the world.

7 years ago

U.S. Senator Bob Casey visited students at Cheltenham High School, March 2, 2018.
Education

Anxious students question Sen. Casey at Cheltenham town hall on guns

"All I can say to you is keep going, keep fighting, keep marching, keep mobilizing," U.S. Sen. Bob Casey tells high-schoolers calling for changes in gun law.

7 years ago

Delaware Academy for Public Safety and Security is under formal review by the state, but Colonial School District has offered a helpiing hand to help the school stay open. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

Delaware public school district intervenes to save failing charter school

A struggling charter high school founded six years ago to prepare students for careers in public safety is getting help from the Colonial School District.

7 years ago

Listen 1:40
School stationery and gun on table in class
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

I would quit teaching before I would carry a gun at school

A student asked if I would carry a gun to school if instructed to do so. “No,” I said, without pause.

7 years ago

 Students gather outside Howard High following the death of Amy Joyner-Francis in April 2016. (File/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Delaware Supreme Court overturns conviction in fatal school attack

The Delaware Supreme Court has overturned the criminally negligent homicide conviction of a girl in the fatal beating of a 16-year-old at a high school in 2016.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Kenney pitches tax hike for schools, businesses, urban blight, vulnerable residents

The big news coming out of Mayor Jim Kenney's annual budget address held Thursday morning in City Council chambers is a proposed six percent increase in property taxes.

7 years ago

Listen 2:22
Cherry Hill Mayor Chuck Cahn joins the more than 200 in attendance at the Cherry Hill school board meeting Tuesday night, where a long list of speakers sounded off about school security and administrative gaffes at Cherry Hill East High School. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Following student protests, Cherry Hill mayor favors armed security in schools

But Mayor Chuck Cahn says he does not support arming teachers.

7 years ago

Listen 5:27
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, February 28, 2018

U.S. Senator Pat Toomey announces a bipartisan plan to promote new gun control measures. Congressional candidates in Pennsylvania struggl ...

Air Date: February 28, 2018

Listen 22:14
More than 200 people pack the Cherry Hill school board meeting Tuesday night, where students and parents voiced concerns over safety prompted by the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.
Community

Packed Cherry Hill meeting gives school board earful over security and removed teacher

Cherry Hill East students demanded answers from the board of education, called for increased school safety measures and supported Locke.

7 years ago

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