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Ideas We Should Steal: The Posse Foundation
The 29-year-old organization sends promising high school grads in groups to 56 colleges across the nation. How about getting Philly in on that pipeline? (Read more.)
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Planting a Future
West Philly’s landscaping nonprofit Green City Works trains and hires local residents to beautify their neighborhood—and gain the skills to get ahead (Read more.)
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Ideas We Should Steal: Children’s Cabinet
Mayors around the country are launching city-wide efforts to get all stakeholders thinking about what’s best for kids. Can it work here? (Read more.)
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Commonwealth Court hears arguments in school funding case
The long-running lawsuit seeking adequate and equitable school funding in Pennsylvania is entering its next phase after a hearing Wednesday before the Commonwealth Court. (Read more.)
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United Way focuses on poverty, upsets groups cut out of funds
The decision by the United Way of Greater Philadelphia & Southern New Jersey to narrow its grant-making focus to fight “intergenerational poverty” means that more than half of the 233 nonprofits that receive United Way money will now come up empty-handed in the fiscal year that begins in July. (Read more.)
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Wolf asks court to expedite school funding lawsuit; GOP leaders reiterate opposition
Gov. Wolf filed a brief Wednesday asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to speed up its consideration of the lawsuit seeking to overhaul the state’s current system for funding education, abandoning his prior objections. (Read more.)
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District reboots plan for lead stabilization after problems are discovered
The Philadelphia School District has rebooted its plan to protect students from lead paint after work done in at least three schools was found to be incomplete and, in some cases, shoddy. (Read more.)
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If more Philly kids eat free breakfast, will achievement rise? This school says yes.
In Michael Halko’s fifth-grade class at Francis Scott Key Elementary, the first 30 minutes of every day are sacred – it’s time for morning meeting, and, most important, yogurt, burritos, and muffins. (Read more.)
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District is pressed to disclose health data on every school after mold outbreaks
After mold outbreaks at neighborhood schools, City Councilman Derek Green and advocates from the Philly Healthy Schools Coalition are filing a Right-to-Know request with the District for environmental health data on every school that they were promised last spring — a promise that they say the District did not keep. (Read more.)
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District scrambling to remove mold at Muñoz-Marin in time to open school
Muñoz-Marin Elementary School has suffered a severe outbreak of mold, leaving the School District scrambling to clean it up so that school can open on time on Sept. 5. (Read more.)