For Michael Rocco, principal of Philadelphia Learning Academy South, working to improve the lives of troubled youth is an ordinary day. Although he’s been working for the School District of Philadelphia for 31 years, Rocco [continue reading…]
In mid-September, the Freedom Rings Sustainable Broadband Adoption Partnership, a coalition of non-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, private businesses and government organizations, was awarded an $11.8 million grant to increase Internet access in Philadelphia. [continue reading…]
The door of the Orange Korner Arts House is hard to miss. Its coat of bright orange paint stands out among the otherwise ordinary exteriors of white and red lining the block. The door itself [continue reading…]
“I call this particular site here ‘one stop,’” Lenora Jackson-Evans beams from her seat at the Strawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation’s conference table. “We try to do whatever we can for the neighborhood as a [continue reading…]
Many houses in Logan are in poor condition. On some streets boarded-up windows are as common as glass ones. Factories are abandoned, crumbling and filled with graffiti. Most of these structures were built in the [continue reading…]
Nestled among a mix of row homes, auto body shops and the Hunting Park Community Garden rests a small brick building, which might go unnoticed to passersby. But for 15 students who call the area [continue reading…]
Summer vacation felt alive and well last Saturday afternoon on the 1600 block of Susquehanna Avenue. School may have started a week ago for most of the children in the neighborhood, but the smell of [continue reading…]
It may be a new school year for most, but one teacher didn’t clean up his room and redecorate for new students. Instead he spent his summer sitting in a storage closet waiting for answers. [continue reading…]
For most teenagers, high school helps define where they are headed in life, molding young men and women by exposing them to pathways suitable to fulfilling their desires. Philadelphia’s unique Microsoft High School of The [continue reading…]
Graduation marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of the next in everyone’s life. In 2006, the Microsoft High School of the Future located on 40th Street and Parkside Avenue opened its doors [continue reading…]
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