The Lifting Our Cultures & Families’ Parade Celebrates Ethnic Diversity Download PDF (Philadelphia, PA) May 27, 2010 – The third, fourth and fifth grades of Feltonville Intermediate School will be joined by their teachers, families and...
SEARCH RESULTS
Education
Protecting Soda, Not Poor Black Kids – Philadelphia Inquirer – May 20, 2010
BEHIND the soda-tax debate is a much bigger (and more shameful) issue - our city's embrace of pushing non-nutritious, sugar-drenched soda products disproportionately on poor black children. One of the arguments put forth by the soda industry against additional taxes...
Can Coffee Turn Commuters Against Budget Cuts? – WHYY – May 13, 2010
Philadelphia-area social service groups have started a grass roots campaign to lobby for cautious spending cuts in Harrisburg. Members of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Budget Coalition rallied outside suburban station, urging people to "wake up and smell the budget...
Anti-Philadelphia Bias – Philly Burbs – April 16, 2010
The Pennsbury and Council Rock communities are to be congratulated for their high-performing, adequately resourced schools. Unfortunately, some Pennsylvania communities are still struggling to get there ("More state revenue for CR and Pennsbury, not Philly," April 8)....
POLICY PAPER: Breaking Cultural Barriers Through The Arts – Apr 2010
A summary of PCCY's Arts Forum held in April 2010.
Top City Schools’ Criteria in Flux? – Philadelphia Inquirer – March 18, 2010
Concerned that its top academic schools are not racially and economically diverse enough, Philadelphia Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman is proposing major changes in how students are admitted to them. The plan would take admissions decisions away from principals...
Proven School-Based Programs Boost Teen Parents and Children
On-site Education Could Benefit Philadelphia’s 12,000 Children of Teen Mothers and Pennsylvania’s Competitiveness Download PDF (Philadelphia, PA) February 23, 2010 – High quality early childhood education across the country has provided...
When Collaboration Worked – Philadelphia Public School Notebook – February 16, 2010
November 12, 2007, was Veterans’ Day, a day that few of the people in the room at 440 N. Broad Street were required to work. Yet, 60 advocates, educators, community activists, parents, juvenile justice liaisons, attorneys, service providers, and other stakeholders...
POLICY PAPER: Success Over Two Generations: School-Based Programs for Teen Parents and Children – Feb 2010
PCCY's report on school-based programs for teen families in Philadelphia, February 2010.
District Ready For Its School Renaissance – Metro – January 28, 2010
Let the experiment begin. The School District of Philadelphia outlined its process to transform 14 underperforming schools, or Renaissance Schools, a key part of the district’s five-year “Imagine 2014” plan. Read more...