At a chaotic meeting Wednesday night, the board declined to fully answer public questions about who will manage the schools, whether the schools’ principals will remain, when a new health insurance policy for employees will be in place, and how a previously promised tuition-assistance program for employees will run. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Community organizer and entrepreneur Karla Ballard envisions a world where social capital ranks highly alongside monetary capital. | From: Technical.ly (Read more.)
Addressing schools’ staffing needs and building a diverse teacher workforce are key parts of a three-year plan unveiled Monday by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to help recruit and retain educators amid major concerns about the future of the K-12 workforce. | From: Chalkbeat (Read more.)
Color Me Back is a same-day work and pay program that takes artists suffering from economic insecurity and connects them to social services to help them creatively and in other ways. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
A new online tool, developed by Philadelphia Works and the city’s Department of Commerce, aims to guide people to the resources they need to get hired or receive additional education or training. | From: Metro Philadelphia (Read more.)
With the help of a $149,324 grant from U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, ShopPhilly1st is planning to produce dozens of videos profiling neighborhood business districts and individual storefronts. | From: Metro Philadelphia (Read more.)
A few dozen Philadelphia homeowners struggling to replace broken hot water heaters will soon get relief from a new emergency fund.
The fund, launched by the Energy Coordinating Agency (ECA), will pay to replace hot water heaters for about 65 low-income families — a need staff say they hadn’t been able to meet before. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
With keen business sense, vision, adaptability and the belief that “the universe works in its own way,” Barfield is an irrepressible leader of today’s urban farming movement in Philadelphia. For her leadership, impact, and especially for her work bringing her farms’ and farming’s benefits to more Black and Brown Philadelphians, Christa Barfield is a Generation Change Philly fellow. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
About two dozen of Goodwin’s roughly 60 tenants across the city are households that were homeless or have a member who was formerly incarcerated, he estimated. The veteran moved into his home within days of Goodwin receiving a call from someone at the Veterans Multi-Service Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Pennsylvania regulators on Friday approved a plan by Philadelphia Gas Works to refund $12.4 million in excessive weather normalization charges for June gas bills, a day after PGW filed the emergency request to give the money back to customers. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
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