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Elbert-Palmer Elementary School in Wilmington's Southbridge neighborhood has been selected for a $106,832 state
Education

Needy Delaware schools get $1 million in ‘opportunity’ grants’

Nine Delaware school districts and charter schools have received a total of $1 million in so-called "opportunity grants." the governor's office announced Tuesday.

8 years ago

Nine-month-old Aarav Vyas (right) wears a shirt with the slogan ''I sleep with this side up.'' He and his mother, Aasta Mehta, along with Jasmine Pitt-Mitchell and her 6-month-daughter, Leilani (left) helped to kick off Philadelphia's safe sleeping campaign. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Philly launches effort to prevent infant sleeping deaths

Each year, 30 infants die sleep-related deaths in Philadelphia, that’s part of why the city’s infant mortality rate is worse ...

8 years ago

Court gavel, brown wood against a dark background
Courts & Law

Philly defense attorneys’ group: Oversight tightened in wake of whistleblower lawsuit

After learning one of their attorneys was working with a suspended license, the Defender Association of Philadelphia has tightened the rules.

8 years ago

A woman holds her 49-day-old grandson who was being treated for neonatal drug withdrawal after his mother took opioids during pregnancy. The baby was treated at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Township, New Jersey. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Lifestyle

Opioid use during pregnancy now a concern for health officials

Nationally, the number of babies suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome is up fivefold since 2000. The syndrome can occur if a woman ...

9 years ago

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Courts & Law

Feds seek delay of child sex abuse trial of former Dover airman

Federal prosecutors are seeking to postpone the trial of a former Dover Air Force Base airman charged with sexually abusing a teenage run ...

9 years ago

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh speaks in view of a Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's ChildlLine during a news conference, Thursday, July 12, 2012, in Philadelphia. After an eight-month inquiry, Freeh's firm produced a 267-page report that concluded that Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegation against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing Sandusky to prey on other youngsters. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Report: Pennsylvania child abuse workers swamped, underpaid

The county caseworkers who investigate child abuse in Pennsylvania are underpaid, inadequately trained, plagued by high turnover and face ...

9 years ago

Abdiaziz Shaleh, right, a Lewiston high school senior and co-captain of the soccer team, and Essa Gedi, center, both whose families emigrated from Somalia, sit with classmate Isiah Leach, left, during lunch in the school's cafeteria in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Two years ago, immigrant children led the high school soccer team to win the state championship, a moment heralded as a triumph for the city's embrace of its immigrant community. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Radio Times
Education

School lunch; teens and sleep

Guests: Marlene Schwartz, Justin Gallagher, Wendy Troxel, Amy Norr The Trump administration has said it wants to ...

Air Date: September 13, 2017

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Science

On Radio Times: New approach to fighting pediatric leukemia approved by the FDA

There was exciting news in the world of cancer research this week. On Wednesday, the FDA approved the first gene therapy to treat a form ...

9 years ago

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Health

On Radio Times: New approach to fighting pediatric leukemia approved by the FDA

There was exciting news in the world of cancer research this week. On Wednesday, the FDA approved the first gene therapy to treat a form ...

9 years ago

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 In this Aug. 15, 2017 a woman holds up a signs in support of the Obama administration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, during an immigration reform rally at the White House in Washington. After months of delays, President Donald Trump is expected to decide soon on the fate of so called 'dreamers' who were brought into the country illegally as children as he faces a looming court deadline and is digging in on appeals to his base. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo, File)
Courts & Law

On ‘Radio Times’: Young immigrants who are used to DACA may face a difficult change

President Trump is expected to announce a decision on whether or not he will continue the five-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arr ...

9 years ago

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Families wait for students outside Rose Avenue Public School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Ian Willms/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Part Four: While Pa. debates merits of Pre-K, Ontario goes all-in

Part four of our Ontario series

9 years ago

Savannah Zayas and her daughter Layla travel miles from home to find a safe, clean playground. (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Don’t call it the Badlands: The story of Savannah Zayas

It’s early February, and Savannah Zayas is just four months away from proving the world wrong. When she became pregnant in middl ...

9 years ago

Fourth grader Sirvat Labiba (center) in class at Crescent Town Elementary School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Ian Willms/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Part Two: Ontario celebrates diversity, but still works to close achievement gaps

Part two of our Ontario series

9 years ago

Keystone Crossroads
Education

Part One: How Ontario’s vision of equity for schools contrasts starkly with Pennsylvania’s

Part One of our Ontario series

9 years ago

Protesters gather at City Hall in support of undocumented immigrants. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Trump expected to decide soon on fate of young immigrants

After months of delays, President Donald Trump is expected to decide soon on the fate of young immigrants who were brought into the count ...

9 years ago

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