
Rebecca Redelmeier
Journalist at Freelance
Covering Philly's public schools for @chalkbeat.
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1 week ago |
chalkbeat.org | Rebecca Redelmeier
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system. The Universal Vare Promise Neighborhood Partnership Charter School, which enrolled more than 120 students in grades 5-8 this year, will not pursue renewing its charter after next school year, effectively ending its operations. The announcement marks the third school that the Universal Charter Schools network plans to cease operating, leaving the campus’s future uncertain.
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2 weeks ago |
chalkbeat.org | Rebecca Redelmeier |Carly Sitrin
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system. The Philadelphia school district has pledged that any future school closures — which officials have said are likely — will be markedly different from the last, brutal battle over shuttering local schools more than a decade ago.
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4 weeks ago |
datiak12.io | Rebecca Redelmeier
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newslettersThe Philadelphia Board of Education was scheduled to consider and vote on an agreement Thursday with the U.S. Department of Justice related to an investigation into how it manages asbestos in its buildings.
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4 weeks ago |
chalkbeat.org | Rebecca Redelmeier |Christine Ferretti |Malachi Barrett |Bridge Detroit
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. Stavros, a 4-year-old at Denver’s Palmer Elementary School, stood on a low blue chair scooping soil into a white pot he’d decorated with his school picture and stickers of a donut, a camera, and the word “lucky.” Next, he shook in a packet of seeds for wildflowers native to Colorado and swirled them around with his index finger.
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4 weeks ago |
chalkbeat.org | Rebecca Redelmeier
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system. The Philadelphia Board of Education was scheduled to consider and vote on an agreement Thursday with the U.S. Department of Justice related to an investigation into how it manages asbestos in its buildings.
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NEW: Philly school district officials have promised any future school closures will be benefit students. But community leaders involved in the planning process say it's become opaque. "We are not looked at as resources. We are looked at as obstacles.” https://t.co/qbua6SbtOy

It's my first day at @Chalkbeat, where I'm covering the School District of Philadelphia! I am so happy to get to dig into the education beat in this great city. If you wanna chat Philly schools, please reach out! https://t.co/9mGckOgjUW

Very cool data visualization from @puddingviz on how middle schoolers are doing, based on survey answers from millions of students. https://t.co/E7ePgc860W