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Students at Cherry Hill High School East staged a sit-in Monday morning in support of teacher Timothy Locke.
Education

Students protest after Cherry Hill teacher suspended for Parkland comments

Dozens of Cherry Hill East students blocked the school's busiest hallway to support a teacher who was suspended last week for controversial remarks about school safety.

7 years ago

Capt. Sekou Kinebrew, a police spokesman, talks with reporters outside of the Philadelphia Police Department's headquarters about a student who brought a loaded handgun to Fels High School Monday morning.
Courts & Law

15-year-old with fully loaded gun stopped on way into Philly school

Police say a Fels High School student was carrying a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson handgun loaded with 12 rounds in his backpack.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, February 23, 2018

The ACLU is standing with a teenage girl prevented from wearing a headscarf during a basketball game. In the aftermath of the Florida s ...

Air Date: February 23, 2018

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Central York District parent Linda Veras-Lopez, (center), leans her head on her 14-year-old son Tyler Shields' shoulder during a press conference outside the Springettsbury Township Police Department Thursday. Veras-Lopez said she plans to attend every press conference because she wants updates on the police investigation into threats made to the school district earlier this week. (Chris Dunn/York Daily Record)
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Community

In wake of Florida shooting, Pa. schools and police are on high alert

In York County, Central York School District has been closed for two days as police seek to learn who posted threatening messages online.

7 years ago

US soldiers stand attention during a ceremony marking Memorial Day at the Resolute Support main headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 25, 2015. (Allauddin Khan/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump’s reality check: A combat soldier says arming teachers is ‘asinine’

Trump is still abuzz about arming teachers. For the second straight day, he played the monkey to the NRA organ grinder. Let's rebut his blather with the help of a soldier.

7 years ago

Estelle Richman questions Dawn Lynne Kacer about the charter office's evaluations of applicants for new charter schools. (Greg Windle/The Notebook)
The Notebook
Education

Philly SRC denies six charters and approves one with conditions

Several speakers urged the SRC to reject all the applications on principle, arguing that every new charter deprives students in District schools of needed resources.

7 years ago

Penn Charter student Etthan Willis raises a prop gun on stage at the David L. Kurtz Center for the Performing Arts before a performance of
Arts & Entertainment

Wielding weapons on stage in ‘Les Miz’ makes students confront gun violence

William Penn Charter Schools annual musical, "Les Miserables," has extra meaning in the wake of Florida school shooting.

7 years ago

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Community

NewsWorks Tonight, February 22, 2018

While so-called sanctuary cities get a lot of media attention for refusing to work with immigration officials, some Pennsylvania towns ar ...

Air Date: February 22, 2018

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Super Bowl Champion and Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce joins the jazz band of his alma mater, Cleveland Heights High School, on stage during a music exchange program visit at Central High School in Philadelphia, Pa. on Feb. 22, 2018. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

Before he was a Super Bowl champ in Philly, Jason Kelce was a Cleveland Heights Tiger

Eagles center Jason Kelce visited Central High School Thursday morning for a special performance from his high school jazz band.

7 years ago

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President Donald Trump hosts a listening session with high school students, teachers, and others
National Interest
Politics & Policy

The very stable genius wants schools to lock and load

So Trump wants to arm the teachers, to militarize the schools. Naturally, he plucked that beaut straight from the NRA playbook.

7 years ago

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Politics & Policy

Trauma bags and armed guards: Securing schools without creating a fortress

Since the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, schools across the country have been hardening their defenses.

7 years ago

Gov. Phil Murphy and members of his administration discuss steps New Jersey will take in response to the mass killing in Florida. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

N.J. making school safety a top priority, governor says

Gov. Phil Murphy says he’ll work with legislative leaders to enact more gun-safety statutes.

7 years ago

New Washington, Ohio, Chief of Police Scott Robertson talks with fourth grade students as they huddle in closet a during a lockdown drill at the St. Bernard School in New Washington, Ohio, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. A month after the shootings of 20 students and six educators a the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., St. Bernard School principal Susan Maloy, inspired by the memories of those who lost their lives, has decided to hold lockdown drills on the 14th of each month to refine a safety plan and increase school security. (Craig Ruttle/AP Photo)
Community

A fire alarm sounds, then gunfire erupts: Stay or flee?

As in many U.S. schools, students and teachers at the school had trained for both responses, just not at the same time.

7 years ago

Children at Southwark School eat their school lunches from styrofoam trays, Dec. 20, 2016.
Education

Philly schools phase out Styrofoam tableware

Philadelphia schools are now using a compostable plate-tray hybrid made from recycled paper fibers.

7 years ago

Philadelphia School District headquarters (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Speak Easy
Education

Time to declare a state of emergency in Philly schools

It is time to stop sentencing thousands of Philadelphia’s children to a lifetime of poverty and despair, thanks to public schools that offer them virtually no chance at a succ

7 years ago

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