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Two parents held signs outside the North Penn school district board meeting against mask mandates in the classrooms
Keystone Crossroads
Education

North Penn board feels residents’ wrath over photo of mask taped onto student

About 400 people live-streamed Thursday night’s meeting. More than a dozen spoke, protesting the district’s continued mask mandate.

4 years ago

Amina Malik (center), with her children (from left) Rabiyyah, 13, Sadat, 10, Raina, 8, and Ruqayyah, 18, in their yard in Northeast Philadelphia.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

When school feels ‘chaotic’: Philly parents struggle with shifting virtual learning guidelines

Even as Philly officials vow to reduce omicron’s interruptions to in-person learning, the school district’s shifts to virtual are causing angst.

4 years ago

day care children walking on street
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Philly pushes to connect thousands of families to expanded child benefits, stressing need to file taxes

City officials are trying to reach at least 10,000 city families who officials believe have missed out on all payments.

4 years ago

Zaliyah Dozier gets a COVID-19 vaccination at the Philadelphia Zoo
Health
Health Desk Help Desk

Should I get my kids the COVID-19 vaccine booster?

The Pfizer booster is available now to children ages 12 to 15, and immunocompromised kids 5 to 11 can get a third vaccine dose.

4 years ago

Abigail Schneider, 8, center, completes a level of her learning game with her mother April in her bedroom, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
Education

A digital divide haunts schools adapting to virus hurdles

Many families remain underconnected. They find themselves able to access the internet and the increasing number of tasks that rely on it with only sporadic success.

4 years ago

Some of the books that have been purchased so far through the Pennridge Improvement Project book drive. (Courtesy of Pennridge Improvement Project)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

‘A small comeback’: Pennridge parents, resisting the school district, are filling little libraries with diverse books

A group organized a virtual book drive so the community can buy titles the district has removed or has plans to remove from school libraries and lessons.

4 years ago

File photo: Elsa Estrada, 6, smiles at her mother as pharmacist Sylvia Uong applies an alcohol swab to her arm before administering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a pediatric vaccine clinic for children ages 5 to 11 set up at Willard Intermediate School in Santa Ana, Calif., Nov. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Health

Kids’ low COVID-19 vaccination rates called a ‘gut punch’

Vaccinations among the elementary school set surged after the shots were introduced in the fall, but the numbers have crept up slowly since then.

4 years ago

School District of Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Hite cites staffing shortfalls and crumbling infrastructure as proof of unconstitutional school system

Plaintiffs say Pennsylvania’s school funding model is inadequate and inequitable, and that the state discriminates against students in poor districts.

4 years ago

The exterior of Philadelphia School District headquarters
Health
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

91 Philadelphia schools will be remote this week amid COVID surge

The Philadelphia school district has struggled to keep schools open and staffed during a record-high surge of COVID cases.

4 years ago

''Young Americans,'' a photography exhibit at InLiquid gallery at the crane Arts Building, presents new work from Ada Trillo along with work from students of Photography without Borders (PWB), a group of Latinx teens whom Trillo mentored in 2020-2021. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Teenage photographers taught to speak their minds in ‘Young Americans’

Teenage photographers were mentored by immigration photojournalist Ada Trillo to express their own lives through pictures.

4 years ago

Registered nurse Morgan Flynn works inside a patient's room
Health

Hospitalizations skyrocket in kids too young for COVID shots

Since mid-December, the hospitalization rate in these youngest kids has surged to more than 4 in 100,000 children, up from 2.5 per 100,000.

4 years ago

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - JANUARY 05: A sign on the fence outside of Lowell elementary school welcomes students on January 05, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Classes at all of Chicago public schools have been canceled today by the school district after the teacher's union voted to return to virtual learning, citing unsafe conditions in the schools as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to spread.   (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

What it really takes to keep schools open during the omicron surge

4 years ago

Brianna Ocampo, 8, receives her second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from Lurie Children's hospital registered nurse Yorman Gomez at Northwest Community Church in Chicago, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital's mobile vaccine clinic visited Belmont Cragin to help ensure adults and kids can be fully-vaccinated for the holiday season. 
The clinic was not be providing Dose 1 of the vaccine, and only provided youth and adult Dose 2, Dose 3 and booster vaccines. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Health

U.S. urges COVID boosters starting at age 12 to fight omicron

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has agreed, recommending that younger teens — and those 16 and 17 — should get a Pfizer booster five months after their last sho

4 years ago

An empty classroom
NPR
Health

Officials are determined to keep schools open, despite omicron

As the pandemic slides into a fifth school semester, there is less appetite than ever among U.S. leaders for schools to go remote.

4 years ago

Keidy Ventura receives her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
Health

FDA expands Pfizer boosters for more teens as omicron surges

Boosters already are recommended for everyone 16 and older, and federal regulators decided they’re also warranted for 12- to 15-year-olds once enough time has passed.

4 years ago

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