Education
Make CCP free and fully fund community college in Philadelphia | Opinion
In the proposed budget for next year, CCP is still not getting full investment. | From The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Education
Community and Family
Bridging the Wealth Gap
A local program has taught wealth-building skills to 1,500 students and the adults in their lives. Now, it’s growing—with the support of powerful local institutions—to take the poverty-fighting work nationwide. | From: The Citizen (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
Reopening plans, antiracism, and mental health: Philadelphia students discuss education issues with superintendent
At a Chalkbeat Philadelphia virtual event on June 9th, high school students had the opportunity to ask Superintendent William Hite about a range of topics: including summer learning, vaccine requirements, antiracism and equity initiatives, and ongoing issues with building conditions throughout the district. | From: Chalkbeat Philadelphia (Read more.)
Education
Philadelphia board and superintendent vow to combat racist practices in schools
In a meeting with the Board of Education on May 27th, Superintendent William Hite explained how embedded racist practices in schools are holding back Black and Latino students. Accordingly, Hite outlined his administration’s plans to develop an “equity lens” to better ensure that educational systems and policies are actively anti-racist. | From: Chalkbeat Philadelphia (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
Columbia North YMCA partners with Best Buy, The Clubhouse Network to improve youth tech equity in Philly
The Columbia North YMCA on North Broad Street is now sheltering The Best Buy Teen Tech Center, a space that will empower Philadelphia youth by providing tech access and improving tech equity in the community. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
Education
Philly district offers universal summer school
The district expects at least 14,000 students to enroll, based on internal data about student academic needs. Registration for the summer programs opened Thursday morning. Full-day classes will start on June 28 and run through mid-August, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Education
School District of Philadelphia Offering In-Person Summer Classes, Rec Activities
The School District of Philadelphia will provide in-person and digital classes, as well as extracurricular programming, for all of its students this summer. Wednesday’s announcement from district officials means most students who opt in will be able to attend in-person summer school for the first time since 2019, after the coronavirus pandemic forced all summer programming to be digital last year. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Community and Family
Krasner, Philly Dems rally for Pa. school funding boost as way to curb gun violence
Wolf is calling for a $1.35 billion increase to the state’s main pot of K-12 education funding. The increase would allow him to redistribute the entire basic education subsidy through a formula based on school and student needs without negatively affecting any school district in the state. Currently, only 11% of Pennsylvania’s $6.8 billion basic education subsidy is distributed via that formula. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Education
D.C. raised $5 billion to rebuild toxic schools. Can Philly do the same?
The U.S. overall spends only about two-thirds as much as it should on school maintenance and upgrades, or about $46 billion less per year than is needed, according to a 2016 report by the 21st Century School Fund, a Washington D.C. nonprofit. In Philadelphia, the backlog was $4.5 billion for repairs and $3.3 billion for capital projects as of 2015, and continued underinvestment since then has pushed those figures even higher.
Washington managed to accomplish a task that has long stymied Philadelphia and many other school districts, and that over the past 13 months has exploded into public view as parents, teachers, and school administrators battled over how to safely reopen schools in the midst of a pandemic. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
coronavirus
As Philly schools reopen, Kensington students and teachers still need help with online learning
While online learning, hybrid or not, continues for the majority of students, Mejía said she and her fellow students deserve a better plan from the school district. That plan should address accessibility issues, like internet (Read more.)