City panel hears of more targeting of immigrants at schools | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/26/2010

City panel hears of more targeting of immigrants at schools | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/26/2010

SRC OKs spending plan that relies heavily on state aid

If Harrisburg doesn't come through with the state aid the Philadelphia School District is banking on, cuts to its newly adopted $3.2 billion budget could come from the classroom, officials said Wednesday.

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Report Card on the Schools

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A Doorway Back

With the dropout problem in Philadelphia at crisis proportions, a chance-of-a-lifetime program offers 40 select students a shot at breaking the cycle of failure. But can they take advantage?

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Under revised budgets, districts make do with much less

In Cherry Hill, Mount Misery is back, but four Spanish teachers and two reading coaches are out. In Rancocas Valley, an adult-education program that lasted a half-century appears to be truly gone.

City panel hears of more targeting of immigrants at schools

Refugee students from Iraq are the latest target of violence in the Philadelphia School District, an advocate told a city panel Tuesday.

Lower Merion's laptop tracking system easily hacked

A Seattle-based security firm says it needed just hours to hack into a version of the laptop tracking system that the Lower Merion School District used, suggesting that tech-savvy outsiders could have commandeered the computers and watched students through their webcams.

Ex-S. Phila. principal still on district payroll

Former principal LaGreta Brown is gone from troubled South Philadelphia High School but remains on the School District payroll at $124,000 a year, officials confirmed.

24 South Jersey schools to get state aid

Ten schools in Burlington County and 14 in Camden County are in line for a total of $11.4 million in capital-improvement money, state officials announced Monday.