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Teachers, parents and staff at the Masterman School gather on the steps of the school to voice their concerns about unsafe conditions in the building
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Frustrated by school district, Philly Council to hold hearings on how to fix ‘substandard’ buildings

The hearings will focus on a remediation and modernization plan to address troubling facilities issues at hundreds of Philadelphia public schools.

5 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy talks to three and four year old students in a pre-K class at the Dr. Charles Smith Early Childhood Center, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, in Palisades Park, N.J. Murphy toured the school before announcing plans to plans to provide universal pre-K for all families in New Jersey. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Education

Murphy promises expansion to universal pre-K in New Jersey

Gov. Phil Murphy says New Jersey will institute universal pre-kindergarten across the state for all 3- and 4-year-olds.

5 years ago

Community
6ABC

4 young people with ties to Simon Gratz High School have been shot in past week

"Think about how tragic that is, not only for my school community but for those families," the principal said.

5 years ago

In two weeks, Philadelphia has seen four of its schools shut down due to COVID outbreak. (Di’Amond Moore/Detroit Free Press via Chalkbeat Philadelphia)
Education
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Another Philadelphia school temporarily shut due to COVID cases

In the two weeks since schools opened, Richmond Elementary School is the second district school and the fourth school in the city to shut down over an outbreak.

5 years ago

School buses
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Philly schools consider bringing in National Guard to help with bus driver shortage

Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. says he’s reached out to Gov. Tom Wolf to ask for assistance with the district’s transportation crisis.

5 years ago

E.W. Rhodes 6th grade students London Wesley (left) and Saminh Wheeler (right) are new friends who bonded over their love of cats. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

New friends, missing students, and lingering tests: Inside a reopened North Philly school

A North Philadelphia school tries to welcome students back, sort through confusion, and steady itself for an unprecedented year.

5 years ago

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Education

Returning to school amid a delta surge: Willingboro teens speak out

WHYY and BoroTV present The Delta Variant and Back to School, a short docu-film featuring Willingboro teenagers and their thoughts on vaccines, masks, and virtual learning.

5 years ago

File photo: Philadelphia School District students at Samuel Powel Elementary School and Science Leadership Academy Middle School returned to in-person learning on August 31, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Philly schools outline vaccine mandate for staff

The district laid out consequences for staff who don’t get vaccinated by the end of the month, taking away a special time-off program for COVID quaratines.

5 years ago

Lewis Elkin Elementary School with piles of garbage in its parking lot on Monday morning. (Emily Rizzo / WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Philly schools’ trash problems linger as vendor blames staff shortage

The district has yet to respond to a request for how or if it would penalize its vendor for underperformance on a $4 million annual contract.

5 years ago

Peter Hemans spent the night at New Jersey's Hackensack Middle School, where he is the head custodian, to make sure emergency sump pumps were working properly
NPR
Weather

This custodian stayed at his school all night pumping water during Ida’s storms

The hurricane's remnants hit New Jersey just days before classes were to begin at Hackensack Middle School. Its custodian was determined to keep the students on track.

5 years ago

Tara Matise teaches her prekindergarten students virtually in her classroom
Health

Pennsylvania targeting doctors over blanket mask exemptions

The Health Department said some doctors are pushing stock exemptions that are available to anyone, regardless of medical necessity.

5 years ago

Students protest at school
Keystone Crossroads
Education

PA students protest school board’s ban on anti-racist teaching materials

The list of books, articles and movies was conceived to create awareness about racism and Black history

5 years ago

NPR
Education

How to talk about 9/11 with a new generation of kids

With the 20th anniversary of the attacks this weekend, time has brought a new challenge: Students today have no memories of that day.

5 years ago

Students wear face masks outside of their school in Philly
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Loophole allows some Pennsylvania students to avoid masking

The order requiring masks to be worn inside K-12 school and child care facilities includes an exemption for students who claim it would cause or worsen a medical condition.

5 years ago

Carnell students and parents entering the schoolyard on Thursday.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

‘They don’t care enough about my kid’: Philly parents disgusted by rampant schoolyard trash

The School District of Philadelphia welcomed children back to in-person school last week, in some cases, to heaps of overflowing schoolyard garbage.

5 years ago

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