The approximately $2 billion rail line would connect King of Prussia to University City and Center City, creating a trifecta of the largest employment hubs in the region.
Looking 24 years in the future through 2045, the plan presents a detailed, yet still unfunded, manifest for a transit system that doesn’t center 9-5 commuters. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Designed to send resources to people rather than programs, the public-private partnership will experiment with strategies such as rent subsidies, property tax relief, job training stipends, and increased access to public benefits. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Each room at St. Pio’s has a window cracked and a door open. There’s a system for when students can use bathrooms between regular cleanings. And each desk has a three-panel barrier that students raise whenever they need to lower their masks. Behind the barriers sit roughly 230 students, from pre-K through eighth grade, about the same number who occupied this building last year. They’ve been learning in a decades-old Catholic school five days a week since the school year began. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Some debt forgiveness could help students and the economy. But a longtime college president makes the case for another strategy: Preventing the debt in the first place. | From: Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
The COVID-19 Relief Fund for South Philly Mexican Businesses campaign on GoFundMe launched two weeks ago and has raised a little over $24,000 from 200 individual donors, almost half of its $50,000 goal. | From: Plan Philly (Read more.)
The new initiative, which officially launched on February 16th, aims to increase access to paid internship opportunities for low-income and first-generation college students at life science companies across the Philadelphia region. | From: Philadelphia Magazine (Read more.)
Nearly half of Philadelphia’s residents are Black, but there don’t appear to be any Black-owned supermarkets in the city. Some corner stores and produce stores have Black proprietors, but not the kind of operations that offer one-stop shopping. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Las escuelas de la ciudad volverán a abrir sus puertas para un aprendizaje presencial limitado el 1 de marzo. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
Schools in the city are now set to reopen for limited in-person learning on March 1. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
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