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Inside the classrooms, teachers have masked the crumbling building with brightly colored rugs, decorations, reading and play nooks, and educational materials
Keystone Crossroads
Education

‘It doesn’t feel legitimate’: William Penn SD takes the stand in Pa. school funding trial

A kindergarten teacher and athletic director testified Wednesday in a landmark trial over Pennsylvania’s system for funding public education.

5 years ago

Harriton High School in the Lower Merion School District (6abc)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Harriton High School gives student virtual option after COVID outbreak

District spokesperson says the 18 linked cases are connected to several sports teams and a club working on a production.

5 years ago

City Council member Helen Gym lambasts the Philadelphia Parking Authority for trying to reclaim money paid to the Philadelphia School District. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Gym urges more oversight after PPA tries to take back $11M payment to Philly schools

The Philadelphia Parking Authority says it overpaid $11.3M to the city’s school district. Councilmember Helen Gym wants that mistake to lead to tighter oversight.

5 years ago

Alayna Thach (Thach family/Gofundme)
Education
6abc

Dozens of Olney Charter High School teachers call out sick after student’s COVID death

Alayna Thach, 17, was an honors student who was looking at colleges.

5 years ago

A Cornell University student waits for a ride with luggage in tow at the campus in Ithaca, N.Y., Thursday, Dec. 16. Cornell University abruptly shut down all campus activities on Tuesday and moved final exams online after hundreds of students tested positive over three days.
Heather Ainsworth/AP
NPR
Health

How to get your teens or college-age kids to take omicron seriously

5 years ago

Alayna Thach (Thach family/Gofundme)
PlanPhilly
Health

After a Philly student dies of complications from COVID-19, teachers ask for a temporary return to virtual

While it’s not clear how the student contracted COVID, and minors tend to have much milder coronavirus symptoms on the whole, the current wave of new cases has many on edge.

5 years ago

A nurse tests a student for COVID-19 at Brandeis Elementary School in Louisville, Ky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

New CDC guidance encourages more testing to limit school quarantines

The announcement elevates and updates existing guidance that some schools around the country have already been following.

5 years ago

TikTok
Community
6abc

Philly area schools on alert amid TikTok threat of violence

The threat, which is primarily being fueled on social media, has many school districts increasing police presence Friday.

5 years ago

Students wearing face masks line up to enter Christa McAuliffe School
Education

N.J. Senate committee approves bill that would eliminate residency requirements for public school employees

If the entire legislature passes the legislation, the measure would enable school districts to hire employees from neighboring states, like Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware

5 years ago

Fairfax County Public School buses are lined up at a maintenance facility
Education

Delaware school district adds protections for transgender students

The Red Clay district school board approved a policy affirming the rights of trans students to be addressed by a name and pronoun corresponding with their gender identity.

5 years ago

State leaders joined former students to break ground a renovation project at Hockessin School 107C on Tuesday morning. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Education

Delaware school in Brown v. Board of Education case to launch diversity and inclusion center

State leaders broke ground on the new Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Equity at the school that became part of the landmark 1954 ruling.

5 years ago

An illustration of an in-person student who goes remote, then disappears
NPR
Education

Where are the students? For a second straight year, school enrollment is dropping

The declines many school districts reported last year have continued, an NPR investigation finds. What educators don't know is where those students have gone.

5 years ago

Tia Baker cleans a desk in a classroom
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pennsylvania Senate aims to bar school COVID-19 vaccine rule

Neither the state nor any school district in Pennsylvania require the COVID-19 vaccination to attend school.

5 years ago

A student, wearing a face mask, sits at an isolated desk at school
Keystone Crossroads
Health

Some Philly area school districts make masking optional in wake of Supreme Court ruling

At least five school districts in the Philadelphia suburbs are no longer requiring face masks to be worn by students and staff.

5 years ago

Principal Palazzo kneels beside students building with Legos so they can show him their progress during recess in a first grade classroom.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

‘It’s like we’re giving permission for these kids to struggle’: Inside a rural school district suing Pa. for more equitable funding

At Panther Valley Elementary in the heart of coal country, students struggle to learn in a leaky school building where needs run deep.

5 years ago

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