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It’s Back-to-School-Day as Students Face $81 Million Deficit, More
Demonstrators outside Benjamin Franklin High School this morning. Photo: Emily Babay/Philly.com By Dustin Slaughter As students head back to school today, they face swelling class sizes, a serious lack...
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With Charter School in Crisis, School District Welcomes Displaced Children
By Dustin Slaughter Despite pledges from Philadelphia School District officials that the Walter D. Palmer Leadership Learning Partners Charter School would remain open throughout the current school...
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Impact of Classroom Overcrowding Hits Philly Schools Hard
By Dustin Slaughter The Inquirer‘s Kristen Graham reports that as the new school year begins, classroom overcrowding has quickly become a serious obstacle to learning throughout the district. Class...
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Philadelphia School District Comments on Preparedness for Enterovirus
By Dustin Slaughter “The School District of Philadelphia has been working with parents and school-based staff on ways to prevent respiratory illnesses for many, many years. We feel like we’re ready to...
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Philly Public School Enrollment Dropping Faster than Expected as More Cuts...
By Dustin Slaughter The savings windfall School Reform Commission officials claimed would occur when they cancelled public school teacher contracts may not be all it’s cracked up to be, reports The...
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What’s the difference between the Philadelphia 76ers and the School District...
A Special Sports Report for the Declaration by that man with one first name and two last names, Steve Miller-Miller. Steve By Steve Miller-Miller Truant officers don’t come to your house if you don’t...
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Thousands March in Philadelphia to ‘Reclaim MLK’
Thousands rally outside Philadelphia School District headquarters, before marching to Independence Mall, Jan. 19th, 2015. Photo: Joshua Albert By Austin Nolen and Sachio Takashima Under gray skies and...
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Daily Dec Roundup – Feb. 9th, 2015
Flaring off of a well in north-central Pennsylvania after the completion of the hydraulic fracturing process. Photo: philadelphiafed.org Pa. lawmakers propose 8 percent shale tax to help fund...
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School District of Philadelphia Police Directives, Now Public Here
The Declaration recently obtained the directives which govern school police in Philadelphia. These documents were linked on the School District’s website, but until our records request, had not been...
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In Photos: Protest Targets Wells Fargo Over Pipeline, Philly Schools, and...
All photos by Kristi Petrillo Protesters hit the streets of Center City yesterday to call out Wells Fargo Bank’s involvement in issues ranging from the Dakota Access Pipeline to debt service of...
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