Foundation Fighting Blindness Holds Annual Philadelphia VisionWalk On The Mall
A bigger walk year after year. This go around, 700 walkers on 45 teams. The goal, to raise $250,000 for research to treat and cure retinal degenerative diseases.
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A bigger walk year after year. This go around, 700 walkers on 45 teams. The goal, to raise $250,000 for research to treat and cure retinal degenerative diseases.
"Thomas Wolfe was wrong -- you can go home again," Father Kevin Gillespie said today.
CAPA has given us Boyz II Men, QuestLove, and Tony Luke, among others. Today, alumni were marking the anniversary of the school's founding.
This is the first day in 25 years that students at a West Philadelphia public elementary school can visit a library in their building.
Once inside her old high school, 16-year-old Samantha Pawlucy apparently didn't feel comfortable enough to stay.
"I go out there, I pop it open, there's water to the top of the drum. The seismograph is completely under water," recalls Prof. Jonathan Nyquist.
The Barnes Foundation has begun a year-long program which is designed to spark an appreciation for art among middle school students.
A 16-year-old high school student who says she was humiliated for wearing a Mitt Romney t-shirt returned to the classroom this morning.
If New Jersey voters pass the $750 million bond referendum on the ballot for capital improvements at the state's public and private colleges and universities, it's possible the new unified science center currently under construction at Richard Stockton College could become even bigger.
With just four weeks to go before voters go to the polls, a new survey suggests that most voters in New Jersey have little or no idea of a major bond issue on next month's ballot.
An elementary school in Mayfair was evacuated and dozens of students were taken to the hospital following a carbon monoxide leak on Tuesday morning.
Sam Pawlucy, a 16-year-old sophomore at Charles Carroll High School in Port Richmond, was allegedly removed from geometry class because she was wearing a Romney-Ryan campaign shirt.
Casey Carter, standing, is a national education consultant who has studied Catholic, charter, and public schools.
"We take a group of individuals and we put them through a challenging, adventure-based experience," says Katie Newsom Pastuszek, executive director of Outward Bound Philadelphia.
During the recent teachers strike in Chicago and throughout the nation, there is a continuing conversation about levels of teacher accountability.
October is anti-bullying awareness month and an area educator and performer is doing her part with a music based program on the issue geared towards kids from Kindergarten to 12th grade.
A documentary film on male survivors of child sexual abuse will be screened Wednesday at the Free Library of Philadelphia and the public is invited.
Students at a Southwest Philadelphia high school are getting political, and they're learning about casting their votes in the real world.
When a new principal arrived at Emerson Elementary School in Bristol Township, teachers approached her about doing away with the school's half-century-old Halloween parade in favor of a harvest festival.
Until this year, the Samuel Fels High School in Northeast Philadelphia was listed as a "persistently dangerous" school, as defined by the state. But the climate is changing there.
If kids don't feel safe, they're not going to learn. But now the victims of assaults in Philadelphia schools have someone going to bat for them.
There is a new atmosphere at one Philadelphia high school where, students say, violence used to be commonplace.
In this report, KYW's Mike DeNardo looks at how Philadelphia's new schools superintendent plans to tackle school violence.
Thanks to a giveaway, nearly a thousand needy students in the Philadelphia school district who didn't have a backpack or basic supplies now have them.
It's a 5 year commitment where actors and instructors from the theater will hold workshops and performances for the kids in grades K-8.
