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Kids

A health care worker holds a syringe containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
Health

Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine works in kids as young as 12

The company studied more than 3,700 12- to 17-year-olds. Preliminary findings showed the vaccine triggered the same signs of immune protection in kids as it does in adults.

5 years ago

Ashanti Ortiz, 18, is a senior at Kensington Health Sciences Academy and also works at Uniqlo. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Education

‘It’s just draining’: How the pandemic pushed teens to juggle work and virtual school

A surge of Philadelphia teens are missing class and joining the workforce.

5 years ago

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Vernon Park in Philadelphia
Money

Philly youth organizations now hiring for more than 1,000 summer jobs

More than 15 local employers hope to recruit teachers, aides, coaches, tutors, and youth group leaders for jobs this summer.

5 years ago

A little boy reads to a baby at a Kinder Academy site in Philadelphia. The baby was the first to return to child care during the pandemic and teachers encouraged the older children to be especially gentle. (Courtesy of Kinder Academy)
Education
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

A year into the pandemic, there’s good news and bad news about child care closures in Philadelphia

Fewer Philadelphia child care providers closed permanently during the pandemic than some early childhood groups predicted last year.

5 years ago

Noah Goliday in his pre-K class at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School. A system launched in 2014-15 permits families to navigate the some 230 DCPS and charter school options in the city via a single online application, then matches students to their top choice schools via a groundbreaking algorithm that helped win it's creator the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
NPR
Education

The case for universal Pre-K just got stronger

According to the National Institute For Early Childhood Research, nearly half of all 3-year-olds and a third of 4-year-olds in the U.S. were not enrolled in preschool in 2019.

5 years ago

A girl and her father wear face masks while they push their bikes in Hermosa Beach
NPR
Health

What the new mask guidance means for unvaccinated kids — and their parents

I'm fully vaccinated, but my kids aren't. Can I safely take off my mask? Do my unvaccinated kids have to keep masking in public?

5 years ago

Close-up of a young child opening the clasp of a folder case. With three federal relief bills signed and a White House proposal to provide free preschool for 3- and 4-year olds, the early childhood sector will see a significant boost, and that money could prove transformative. (Bill Hangley/Chalkbeat Philadelphia)
Education
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Philadelphia pre-Ks could see millions in federal dollars. Parents and providers weigh in on how to spend it.

With three federal relief bills signed and a White House proposal to provide free preschool for 3- and 4-year olds, the child care sector will see a significant boost.

5 years ago

Donald Cucuzzella receives a COVID-19 vaccine
Health

‘It felt like nothing!’ N.J. 12-year-olds get their first Pfizer shots

Kids ages 12 to 15 hoping for a return to normal put their fear of needles aside to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at the Moorestown Mall Thursday.

5 years ago

Pediatrician Charles Goodman, left, talks to Frank Fierro, the father of 1 year-old Cameron Fierro. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Health
WITF

Pediatricians say GOP vaccination proposal in Pa. could put children, newborns at risk

The law would require doctors to let parents set their children’s immunization schedules.

5 years ago

Middle school student Elise Robinson receives her first coronavirus vaccination on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Decatur, Ga. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)
Health

What parents and kids need to know about getting the Pfizer vaccine

The Pfizer vaccine is now approved for kids ages 12 and up. Here’s what you need to know about how it works, side effects, and where to get the shots.

5 years ago

Children at Southwark School eat their school lunches from styrofoam trays, Dec. 20, 2016.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. families set to receive $1 billion in relief due to missed school meals during virtual school

Fund amounts will vary based on the amount of time a student spent in virtual school The max benefit will be about $1,200 per child.

5 years ago

A Pfizer vaccine vial and syringe. A CDC advisory panel has recommended the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine be administered to adolescents age 12 to 15. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
NPR
Health

CDC advisory panel recommends coronavirus vaccines for adolescents aged 12-15

The recommendation follows the FDA's extension of its emergency use authorization to children 12 to 15 of age earlier this week.

5 years ago

Young migrants wait to be tested for COVID-19 at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility
Politics & Policy

Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight

Confidential data obtained by the AP shows that the number of migrant children in government custody has more than doubled in the past two months.

5 years ago

Students wearing masks on Penn State's University Park campus. (Min Xian/WPSU)
Education

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.

5 years ago

A doctor’s hands in protection gloves putting COVID-19 test swab into kid’s mouth
NPR
Health

Children now account for 22% of new U.S. COVID cases. Why is that?

A year ago, COVID-19 cases in children made up less than 3% of the U.S. total. On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics said children represented 22.4% of new cases.

5 years ago

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