K-12
Parker’s first budget proposal includes $24 million for the 2024-2025 school year.
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A state-of-the-art indoor sports arena could be coming to Delaware
The state lacks a dedicated indoor track venue for championships, creating barriers for student-athletes and missed opportunities.
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Listen 1:22Former Eagle Brian Dawkins wants Philly students to speak openly about mental health
In the wake of a mass shooting that left eight teens injured, Dawkins spoke to Philly students about the importance of dealing with trauma.
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Listen 1:56Here are the 27 names recommended for Philadelphia’s new school board
The list of names for the school district’s governing body will be submitted to Mayor Cherelle Parker, who will select nine candidates.
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Philadelphia schools see gains in student reading performance
Thirty-one percent of public school students in grades 3-8 scored at or above benchmark on the Star Assessment in winter 2023-24, a 2% increase from winter 2022-23.
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Wilmington schools to add $18 million resource center with gym, theater and early learning center
The new facility will make resources more accessible to students going to school in downtown Wilmington.
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Storyshares seeks to raise reading levels of forgotten tweens, teens and adults
Across the nation, reading and literacy proficiency is at an all time low. One program seeks to change the narrative.
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Listen :47Princeton High School students build STEM project to preserve Indigenous Guatemalan language
A group of high school research students aim to build sustainable plush animal robots to help preserve a vulnerable Mayan language spoken in Guatemala.
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Listen 4:43State funding for high school wellness health has remained stagnant, and there’s no financial support to expand centers in elementary schools.
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Listen 1:56The CDC has relaxed COVID guidelines. Will schools and day cares follow suit?
The change may not affect how individual schools urge parents to react when their children fall sick.
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Members of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, organized by the Caucus of Working Educators, are petitioning for an end to the district's controversial sick leave policy.
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Listen 1:32Parker outlined her vision for Philly's schools to the city's business leaders at the annual Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
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Listen 1:27How Disinformation is ‘Sabotaging America’ with Barbara McQuade, Latest on Philly Teachers
MSNBC analyst Barbara McQuade on “Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America”. Plus, a surprise settlement for the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers.
Air Date: February 29, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 50:08Philadelphia school district reaches deal with teachers union
The union, which represents 13,000 teachers, counselors, nurses, secretaries and other school workers across 216 district schools, agreed to a one-year contract extension.
2 months ago
Tiger Woods hires former West Philadelphia principal to run his TGR Lab at Cobbs Creek Golf Course
Meredith Foote, a veteran educator who taught school in Philadelphia and Newark, was named executive director of TGR Learning Lab in July.
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