When Duane Watts was a student at Edward Steel Elementary School in Philadelphia’s Nicetown neighbourhood more than 40 years ago, he remembers running excitedly out of his classroom for recess and being confronted with concrete.Read more
When teachers at Children’s Playhouse, a pair of child care centres in South Philadelphia, noticed children sneaking school-provided snacks into their book bags to take home, it was a ‘huge red flag’, says founder and...Read more
In mid-March, some 200,000 Philadelphia students were sent home from their public schools due to the coronavirus, with hopes they would return two weeks later. That didn’t happen, and the buildings have been shuttered ever...Read more
