Arts education is alive and well in the Philadelphia School District. This will certainly be evident when the High School Jazz Festival is held this month. The auditorium of the High School for the Futures,…
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Philadelphia public school parents will be recognized at the Third Annual “Celebrating Parents, Celebrating Families” event hosted by the Northwest Community Coalition for Youth (NCCY) and its partners this month. The event will take place…
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It may have taken them a century, but finally a School District of Philadelphia school has won the state title in boys’ A basketball. Yet that was not the only stellar news for the district.…
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Pencils glided across blank white papers to sketch pictures and write the ideas of sixth-graders Alex Fernandez, Ayanna Williams and Ailisha Goodwin Dancy. Quietly, these students of Edwin M. Stanton School were crafting their own…
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Pennsylvania State Senator LeAnna Washington (D-Phila./Montgomery) shared her story of rising from a victim of domestic violence to a passionate advocate for others during a recent visit to Woodrow Wilson Middle School. The nonprofit organization…
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The Jefferson Awards are a prestigious national recognition system honoring community and public service in America. The Jefferson Awards are presented on two levels: national and local. They began in 1972 to create a prize…
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