MPOWER Financing, a leading fintech company and provider of global educational loans, announced the launch of a series of scholarships in support of refugee and international students, “with a promising future,” who wish to continue their higher education studies in the United States and Canada. | From: Al Día (Read more.)
FirstHand students said their reasons for launching their own ventures ranged from wanting to stay busy to spiting naysayers: “‘Oh, you’re a business owner at your age?’ Like, yes.” | From: Technical.ly (Read more.)
The movement to preserve Black-operated charter schools won’t be deterred by the Philadelphia Board of Education’s votes last week to begin the process of closing two such charters, say members of a coalition who believe certain schools face racial bias in how they’re regulated. | From: Chalkbeat (Read more.)
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and City Council President Darrell Clarke announced Tuesday that the city is expanding its Community Schools program, which brings social services and other supports directly into school buildings. | From: Chalkbeat (Read more.)
But in Kensington, systemic racial and economic disparities map onto our public spaces: libraries and recreation centers. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
Geanna Williams-Davis beams at the entrance of a basement room in the Shepard Recreation in West Philly, greeting a line of still-waking adolescents headed in for breakfast. They take plates of baked goods, fruit, and cereal before sitting down at an arrangement of folding tables that will serve as their classroom for the day. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Emlen is one of more than 100 schools in the School District of Philadelphia — or about 60% — that lack central air conditioning. Coats estimates just about a third of the classrooms at Emlen have functional window units, but his second-floor classroom is not one of them. | From: Plan Philly (Read more.)
The group of fourth graders at the Kensington school, organized to fight for things they believe in, told their truth to the Philadelphia school board — kids speaking in loud, clear voices about how much they love their school, but how much it needs. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
In cities like Philadelphia with large numbers of under-resourced schools that many parents and guardians do not consider safe, learning-focused environments for their children, admission to a selective school can be a ticket to success. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
Philadelphia’s free preschool program doesn’t offer the 6,500 seats city leaders envisioned when it launched more than five years ago, but a modest expansion planned for the coming school year could bring the number to 4,300. | From: Chalkbeat (Read more.)
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