Upper Darby Enlists Residents' Help In Tackling School Deficit
The Upper Darby School District, facing a nearly $10-million shortfall in the next budget year, is doing something unusual: essentially deputizing its citizens to help find a solution.
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The Upper Darby School District, facing a nearly $10-million shortfall in the next budget year, is doing something unusual: essentially deputizing its citizens to help find a solution.
If you check the Hollywood A-list for film editors, William Goldenberg's name comes up quite often. He won the Oscar for editing the film "Argo."
The poll, which was conducted by Monmouth University, surveyed more than 800 residents about their environment, neighborhood safety and local schools.
It started in Rosemont at the Agnes Irwin School with a handful of students.
Congress heard testimony from a number of organizations about the impact that sequestering, or cutting of domestic programs, would have on the country.
Twelve adult students do all the work from taking orders, to serving, to cooking and when they leave the program they'll have the degree and skills needed for jobs in local restaurants.
School kids from the area attend a performance that is part music lesson, sponsored by the Cafe's non-profit partner "Live Connections."
Caroline Pla (#10 in photo) began playing football at age five. Last season, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia caught wind of Caroline's presence on the team and told her it violated CYO policy.
Flanked by The Host co-stars Max Irons and Jake Abel, Meyer posed for the paparazzi before sitting down and greeting a thousand fans who had stood in line for hours.
The new School Reform Commission policy means that vendors looking for school contracts have to have their use and occupancy taxes and other city taxes paid up.
Beyond Babysitting, a documentary promoting quality early childhood education, features a Philadelphia day care provider that got with the program.
Superintendent William Hite said the district can't afford to maintain underutilized schools. "The district's financial challenges jeopardize its survival."
Speakers talked about the establishment of the university in 1821 by 68 prominent Philadelphia apothecaries who pledged "to invite a spirit of pharmaceutical investigation."
The appreciative audience of schoolkids at the Scottish Rite Auditorium listened as the orchestra played Camille Saint-Saen's "Carnival of the Animals," with two pianos.
In 11 years of teaching, ditching students' desk chairs in favor of yoga balls is one of the best decisions Robbi Giuliano thinks she ever made.
About 500 projects were submitted to the 34th annual George Washington Carver Science Fair by area 4th, 5th and 6th graders.
The country's oldest city-wide science fair got underway Wednesday afternoon at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University on the Ben Franklin Parkway.
"I think this is a great opportunity for our students to really be at the forefront to make a statement and take a stand against bullying," said Michael Calderone, principal of Harding Middle School.
Two years ago, the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia filed a class-action lawsuit against the School District of Philadelphia on behalf of the 1,600 children with autism in grades K through 8.
The next test for students at St. Joseph's Prep school won't require a pen and paper - it'll take a single strand of hair.
One notable school coming off of the school closure list is Strawberry Mansion High School, which will remain open.
LEAP's board chair, Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, says her relationship with Michael Pastorello is well known and, for that reason, she declined to vote on the food service contract that set his $95,000 salary.
The pint-sized programmer recently unveiled her game at the University of Pennsylvania's "Bootstrap Expo."
The borough council in West Chester, Pa. is expected to vote Wednesday night to designate some neighborhoods around the university as "quiet zones."
A former Essex County teacher of the year has admitted having sex with a 15-year-old boy enrolled in an honors class she taught.
