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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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 years ago

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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.

8 years ago

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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

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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.

8 years ago

Gov. John Carney takes part in a mindfulness exercise with students at Mt. Pleasant Elementary School in Wilmington. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Education

Teaching kids to deal with stress as part of answer to school violence, Carney says

When it comes to making schools safer, Delaware Gov. John Carney says teaching kids how to deal with the stress of life is an important element.

8 years ago

Maurice Jenkins addresses the Education Nominating Panel during the public comment section of the meeting on Feb. 26. (Dale Mezzacappa/The Notebook)
The Notebook
Education

Panel submits 27 names to mayor for new school board

Group includes two current SRC members.

8 years ago

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.

8 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.

8 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)
WITF
NewsWorks Tonight
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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 years ago

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