The money will pay for 755 water-filtration stations inside schools, as well as kitchen sink filters and water sampling, as well as clean-water training and education to benefit the school system’s 114,000 students. The money comes from the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act. (Read more.)
The trade organization for the industry, Pennsylvania Council of Children, Youth & Family Services (PCCYFS), was so concerned this summer about high caseloads that it warned Philadelphia DHS Commissioner Kimberly Ali that the problem would “create significant risk and potentially dangerous circumstances for the children and families we serve.” From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Even those with the best benefits available in Pennsylvania are finding it extraordinarily difficult to find day programs. (Read more.)
The City plans to sell the old police headquarters. Can — and will — it be redeveloped in a way that respects the building’s history? From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
After launching the new location by the end of 2022, the Camden-founded org aims to train and place about 60 young Philadelphians into high-wage tech jobs in its first year, Executive Director Dan Rhoton said. From: Techical.ly (Read more.)
If Pennsylvania’s new high school graduation standards had been in place in 2018 and 2019, just 35% of Philadelphia’s public school students would have been able to graduate based on their test scores alone. From: WHYY (Read more.)
Over the summer, the DOJ started investigating the City of Houston’s management of illegal dumping in majority-Black neighborhoods as a Title VI civil rights case. The outcome of the investigation is still up in the air, but the mere presence of the DOJ has breathed new life into Houston’s solid waste bureaucracy. From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
Glibly blaming parents without acknowledging those intricate family schemes of 21st century America simply doesn’t cut it. From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
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