Councilman Derek S. Green and the Philadelphia School District will be hosting a career fair on Thursday, July 12th from 4pm-6pm at 400 N. Broad St. The career fair will offer jobs for non-instructional school based support staff.
Federal Donuts Supports The Eagles and Philly Schools Grabbing a donut and coffee these days will not only show off your Philadelphia Eagles pride, but it will benefit a good cause. Federal Donuts has unveiled their newest creation – the Iggle donut. It’s described as, “Kelly green glaze sprinkled with Philadelphia grit and brotherly love.” […]
NEW PROGRAM GIVES PHILLY STUDENTS A UNIQUE CHANCE Parkway Center City Middle College, the first of its kind in the state, is a program that offers first-generation college-bound students the opportunity to earn an associate’s degree from the Community College of Philadelphia while also earning their high school diploma. Students at the school can end […]
Mayor Jim Kenney moves to retake control of city school system Mayor Jim Kenney said that it is time for the city to be accountable for the education of its 200,000 schoolchildren, Thursday took steps to take control of the city’s struggling public school system after 16 years of state oversight Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, […]
Superintendent Dr. William R. Hite announced earlier this morning at a news conference that The School District of Philadelphia “WILL OPEN” in September but with temporary “service reductions.” The reductions include: High school students who live within two miles of school will not receive transportation support. This will impact about 7,500 students at district, charter, and non-public […]
William C. Bryant Elementary School/Google Maps The Philadelphia School District has been in the news often lately, with the closing of almost 40 schools in…
Big Shout outs to Philadelphia’s own Kevin Hart! He continues to put on for his city when yesterday via Instagram he put out a video saying that he was aware of the trouble that the Philadelphia school system was in and he wanted to help out. So he decided to donate $250,000 into the school […]
With only two short days left to hear the $50M verdict of the school closing, parents and staff of the Philadelphia School District took action today by staging a daylong hunger strike outside of the school district headquarters’. Concerned Philadelphians sat under tents demanding the school district to rehire the 1,200 noon time aides that were laid off […]
With all the laying off and school closings the Philadelphia’s School District has done this year, you would think things couldn’t get any worst. School District Superintendent William Hite is calming he needs an additional $50 Million in funding to be able to open up schools by next month. Hite is unsure at the moment […]
The law says “no child is left behind.” So, why don’t black people value education? Statistics have shown that there are more black people facing the issue of poverty versus white people. Especially for the black families that reside in urban communities, it becomes easy to put education on the back burner for which it […]
Effective June 30th, 3,000 Philadelphia School District employees will be laid off; including all 160 assistant principals! The layoffs are a part of what opponents are calling a “Doomsday Budget”, as the district continues to try to close a $304 million deficit. Our prayers go up and out to the workers that will be given […]
