No diploma and no jobs for 15,000 teen parents – Al Dia – July 16, 2014
A new local report found that teen parents trying to earn their diploma face long wait times and major barriers to access child care.…
Teenage Parents in Philadelphia Face Challenges Accessing Child Care Services
Download PDF New PCCY Report Identifies Multiple Barriers Preventing Teen Parents from Graduating PHILADELPHIA (July 16th, 2014) – Teen parents trying to earn their…
Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing – The Atlantic – July 15, 2014
You hear a lot nowadays about the magic of big data. Getting hold of the right numbers can increase revenue, improve decision-making, or help…
Panel Discussion – Expanding School Breakfast in Pennsylvania – YouTube video
Kathy Fisher, Public Citizens for Children and Youth, Jerry Oleksiak, Pennsylvania State Education Association, Valerie Nartowicz, School Nutrition Association of Pennsylvania and Vonda Cooke,…
Public education advocates urge state lawmakers to pass severance tax – Chester County Press – July 9, 2014
Leaders of organizations that work to ensure public schools provide a quality education for all children have urged the General Assembly to reject a…
Another dicey budget for Pa. public schools (editorial) – York Daily Record – July 7, 2014
The $29 billion budget passed by the state General Assembly delivers some good news and some bad news to area schools. But mostly it…
Last-minute insert helped get Phila. cigarette tax approved – The Philadelphia Inquirer – July 5, 2014
An amendment tucked into the cigarette-tax bill at the last minute Wednesday night helped persuade some Republicans in the state House to approve the…
EDITORIAL: Pa. budget system means uncertainty for schools – The Times Herald – July 5, 2014
Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a yearlong series of occasional editorials from the editorial board of Digital First Media newspapers in Pennsylvania…
Summer lost: Episode 1 – The slide
It’s a sweltering summer afternoon in Philadelphia, and Dion Jones is reading to his two sons, Jayven and Cameron, on a bench in Smith…
Tradeoffs lurk beneath new Philly schools’ cigarette tax – WHYY Newsworks – July 3, 2014
Very probable, optimistic, off the table, never happening, dead, passed. Such was a week in the life of the Philadelphia cigarette tax. On Wednesday…