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U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a dinner hosted by the Washington Policy Center, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Bellevue, Wash.
Speak Easy
Education

Let’s take another look at the track record of charter schools in Pennsylvania

With continuing pressure from the Trump administration for vouchers and school choice, we urge people to look at the facts and strengthen traditional public schools for all.

8 years ago

Zachary Baughman (left) and Steven T. Swain were charged with spray painting graffiti with profane, racist slurs on two Cape Henlopen High school buses and other vehicles in the Lewes area. (Delaware State Police)
Education

2 men charged for racist graffiti on Cape Henlopen school buses, other vehicles

Two downstate men have been charged with spray painting racist graffiti on two Cape Henlopen High School buses and other vehicles and locations in southern Delaware.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney at  National Museum of American Jewish History
Politics & Policy

Philly Mayor Kenney steps up war of words with President Trump

Declaring the president unstable, Mayor Jim Kenney says cities will have to stand up for themselves under the Trump administration.

8 years ago

Two students walk towards the camera in an otherwise empty school hallway, blue lockers, yellow walls
First
Education

Mass exodus of students is costing Delaware school district and taxpayers

Nearly 9,000 Christina district students don't attend district schools. That's 38 percent of students- far more than any other school district in Delaware.

8 years ago

Listen 0:00
McCullough Middle School Teacher Karen Keys unveils the new IMAX-like planetarium, which replaces one mothballed a decade ago.
Education

Planetarium returns, wows students at Delaware middle school

After being dormant for a decade a Planetarium returns to a school, to rave reviews.

8 years ago

Alissa Parker, whose daughter Emilie died in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, talks about ways to improve school safety during a conference in Drexel Hill. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

At Delco ‘Safe Schools’ event, lessons from Sandy Hook shooting

A woman who lost her daughter in the Connecticut elementary school massacre still steels herself to tell the story. She does so to help others prepare for the next tragedy.

8 years ago

Empty school hallway
Keystone Crossroads
Education

GOP pushes Wolf to distribute Pa. education tax credits

Days after negotiations to balance Pennsylvania's late budget collapsed completely, lawmakers, the governor, and their staffers are still trading barbs.

8 years ago

Old Main, an administrative building and landmark of Penn State campus, State College, Pennsylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

State-related universities fearful of becoming casualties of Pa.’s ongoing budget impasse

Pa. budget impasse has put funding for Pennsylvania’s state-related universities in jeopardy. Without it, in-state students will likely see a tuition spike.

8 years ago

A racial slur using the N-word and saying they
Education

Delaware high school suspends 2 students who posted racial slur using mascot

Two students at a Delaware high school face expulsion for using the school's mascot, historic figure Caesar Rodney, to spread racial slurs on social media.

8 years ago

Three female high-schoolers working in a test kitchen, baking equipment, rolling pin on counter
Education

Eying expansion, Philly charter school creates incubator for start-ups

Philadelphia Performing Arts: A String Theory Charter School formally unveiled Particle, a co-working space that now houses six startup companies.

8 years ago

Listen 0:00
Community

First Person: Louise Ballard

The wife of fallen Delaware state police trooper Cpl. Stephen J. Ballard is honoring the memory of her husband with a reading program.

8 years ago

Smyrna High fans and cheerleaders gush with enthusiasm as the two-time defending state champion Eagles get ready to play their first home  game in 2017.  (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
First
Education

Rise of a Delaware town — unified by its high school football team

Population growth in ever-growing Smyrna fuels a school district's growth and a football titan that has galvanized this Delaware town.

8 years ago

Eagles player Malcolm Jenkins (center left) speaks about financial literacy to students at Bodine High School in Philadelphia (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)
Education

Competition is on the money in enhancing financial literacy for Philly students

Sophia Santiago wants to be an astronomer — with an average salary of $110,000 ...

8 years ago

Close-up of a standardized test.
Education

Philly’s youngest learners show reading growth, but math scores flat

Philadelphia's youngest public school students made notable gains in reading last year, according to state test scores released Wednesday.

8 years ago

(Licensed under Creative Commons)
Education

Delaware softens ‘zero-tolerance’ policy for weapons at school

Students caught with weapons other than a gun at Delaware schools won’t automatically face being expelled under a bill signed into law Friday afternoon.

8 years ago

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