Civic and Community Engagement
Pennsylvania governor candidates are far apart on education
Here’s a comparison of Doug Mastriano and Josh Shapiro say they plan to do on education funding. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Latest reports
Housing
Your guide to utility assistance in Philly
What you need to know about help from PECO, PGW, the Water Department, as well as heating assistance. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Education
Philadelphia: Bilingual Program Inaugurated in School
A school in North Philadelphia celebrated the inauguration of a new bilingual program, which will be available to both Hispanic students and any parent who wants Spanish as a second language for their children. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Education
Biden cancels $10,000 in Student Loan Debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000
Biden cancels $10,000 in Student Loan Debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000. | From: Al Dia (Read more.)
Income and Wages
Philly organizations complain after nonprofit fumbles paying teen workers
King is one of many Philadelphia teens who have had their first work experience turn sour as the program that funds their summer work, WorkReady, has struggled to pay youths they’ve vowed to support. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Education
Cheap school supplies are tough to find in Philadelphia
The school supplies giveaway at Izlas Latin Cuisine in West Kensington began at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Less than 30 minutes later, one woman estimated she’d already given backpacks — stuffed with crayons, pencils, folders and notebooks — to 50 people. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
How a community fridge in Germantown built a community of its own
By now, most of us know what a community fridge is: a freestanding refrigerator stocked with food that anyone can take, anytime, no questions asked. Nowadays, Philly has a whole network of them. But at the start of the pandemic, as New Yorkers and Los Angelenos started installing them, Germantown was community fridge-less. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
Education
Philadelphia reinstates test score cutoff for magnet schools
Philadelphia school district officials announced Tuesday they will resume using state standardized test scores as a criterion for admission to the city’s most selective high schools for the class that will start ninth grade in September 2023, but the acceptable minimum scores are being reevaluated, they said. | From: Chalkbeat Philadelphia (Read more.)
Education
Drexel training program gives young people tools, career paths
But, after completing a free nine-week training program offered by Drexel University, the 20-year-old West Philadelphia resident felt more equipped to deal with those challenging situations. | From: Metro Philly (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
New Philly gun violence solution? Meet Corners to Connections
This is Corners to Connections, a violence interruption initiative based out of North Philadelphia’s Taylor Memorial Baptist Church. Rev. G. Lamar Stewart, senior pastor at the church and founder of the operation, huddled his volunteers and split them into two teams. | From: WHYY (Read more.)