School District of Philadelphia Scraps Teacher Seniority Rules
If the School District of Philadelphia has its way, seniority won't play as big a role in filling classrooms next year.
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If the School District of Philadelphia has its way, seniority won't play as big a role in filling classrooms next year.
Students in the Smyrna School District in Delaware have been evacuated after two bomb threats.
The planning for next year's World Meeting of Families continues at the Vatican.
Lab results confirm a vial recovered Thursday evening in Hatboro tested positive for ricin, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced.
Police say a man who just completed a 15-year prison term for robbing a New Jersey shoe store went back there the day after his release and committed the same crime.
Police detectives said they were questioning the girls, whom they believe are responsible for at least three assaults along North 17th Street in North Philadelphia, just off the Temple campus.
"I don't know if any of these kids will ever be Allen Iverson, but we could have the next mayor of Philadelphia," says John Dennis, 37, varsity coach for the Philly All-Stars, a Small Fry team.
Dom Giordano talked with Tony Diaz, a radio host from Houston, on Tuesday on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT about a school principal who was removed after she warned students not to speak Spanish.
Police have identified the victim who was killed in a car crash on Roosevelt Boulevard late Monday night.
Temple University officials were sounding the alarm after several students were targeted in a series of off-campus attacks.
Instacart, a grocery delivery service that launched in Philadelphia back in February, is now offering booze along with bread, butter and produce.
"If they (the Turnpike Authority) want to be more efficient, they should look at reducing the amount of administration that they have, because that's where the real salaries are," state senate president Steve Sweeney says.
The aftermath of the assault was captured on a student's cell phone and posted online.
It was a horribly bloody scene. Carol Armbruster had been stabbed with a butcher knife that remained embedded in her neck when her body was discovered.
Anna Cordella, 64, of Norristown, says she's a happy customer, securing what she says is an affordable policy after losing her job and then seeing her "COBRA" insurance run out.
