DN Editorial: Sick of it all

May 23, 2014 – Philadelphia Daily News Editorial – The death of any child is a tragedy. The death of two children who fell ill while at school is unspeakable….

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Glen Mills Letter to Appropriations and Children & Youth

February 27, 2019 Senator Patrick Browne Chair, Senate Appropriations Committee Senate Box 203016 Harrisburg, PA 17120-3016 Senator Vincent Hughes Minority Chair, Senate Appropriations Committee Senate Box 203007 Harrisburg, PA 17120-3007…

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Remembering Vivian Narehood

…how voluminous.  Her belief that what she was doing mattered to struggling children and their families gave her the tolerance and patience to process mounds of educational data to find…

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nurse_survey_comments_2-24-2016

…ability to get to know our students, gain their trust, and become aware of their needs, our role is severely compromised. The impact of these cutback may not be fully…

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SDAS – Charter Schools and ELC

…that they underserve “vulnerable students.” http://thenotebook.org/december-2014/147977/state-needs-rational-fix-its-method-funding-charter-students-disabilities http://www.pccy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CharterRenewalDocsCombined1-2013.pdf http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/homepage-feature/item/80533-beyond-failing-schools-the-difficulty-of-fairly-comparing-public-schools-on-an-uneven-playing-field?linktype=hp_impact What do we know about “performance?” 57.7 63.8 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Average School Performance Profile Average SPPs for…

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Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance

…the schools to prison pipeline: One minute, a child who may be struggling at home acts out at school, the next he’s being hauled out in handcuffs and thrown into…

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