
K-12
NAACP student group puts the spotlight on racial disparities in school discipline
The Cheltenham branch of NAACP’s Youth Leadership Committee went public with a video sharing stories of discrimination at Springfield Twp. High School.
4 years ago
New scholarship program to help foster children get through college
When kids leave foster care they have to make a decision: A job, or college? A new scholarship program tries to tip the scales toward education.
4 years ago
Philly schools see a rise in teens’ mental health issues related to pandemic, gun violence
District leaders say calls to Philly Hopeline, the crisis hotline launched a year ago, are getting longer due to losses from the pandemic, gun violence, and racial trauma.
4 years ago
Pa. superintendents, charter advocates continue to spar over school funding
The advocacy from superintendents comes as the financial pressure on districts has increased due to a significant boost in charter enrollment during the pandemic.
4 years ago
Gov. Wolf squares off with GOP by firing charter school appeals board members
The board seems to have become functionally non-existent as important disputes between Pennsylvania school districts and charter schools are in limbo.
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The charter network, which enrolls about 14,000 students, started hybrid learning back in March, with some starting in April.
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Philly high school puts low-income students on path to undergraduate degree with less debt
Of the students who made it through four years at Parkway Middle College, 95% are graduating with both a high school diploma and an associate’s degree.
4 years ago
Journalist and former S. Philly High student recall 2009 attacks against Asian teens
WHYY’s `Morning Edition’ host Jennifer Lynn discusses a Chalkbeat retrospective on the bias and violence that spurred a student boycott.
4 years ago
Listen 6:35Wary Supreme Court weighs Pa. student’s Snapchat profanity case
The current dispute stems from Tinker v. Des Moines, the Vietnam-era case of a high school in Des Moines, Iowa.
4 years ago
Philadelphia high school students offer reaction to guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial
WHYY asked students from its Media Lab how they were feeling about the Chauvin verdict. Here are some of their responses.
4 years ago
The majority of the board voted to follow the recommendation of a hearing officer to not renew Universal Bluford and Universal Daroff schools.
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‘I don’t really know what justice is’: Inside one Philly classroom after the Chauvin verdict
On Thursday, a group of about 20 Philadelphia high school students were asked to react to the Chauvin verdict. This is what they said.
4 years ago
Listen 4:36Heeding pleas, Philadelphia revises district budget to add positions to schools
The budget changes follow a citywide survey, focus groups, and a coordinated campaign by principals and their union to guarantee five key positions in every school.
4 years ago
This North Philly principal is spending Earth Day planting trees for George Floyd
Aliya Catanch-Bradley responded to the murder of George Floyd by greening her school, where a quarter of the students struggle with respiratory illness.
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A year without play: Parents and experts worry about loss of social skills during pandemic
In-person school provided kids with regular, organic social exposure. What happens after a year when that disappeared?
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