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5 days ago | inquirer.com | Yong Kim |Elizabeth Robertson |Tyger Williams

The Philadelphia skyline during day 2 of the Roots Picnic 2025 at the Mann Center. Read more

3 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Tyger Williams

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania made something abundantly clear almost 18 months ago - regardless of his enthusiastic endorsement of Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016, his long support for the LGBTQ community, and his strong backing of unions and other views aligning him with liberal Democrats. "I'm not a progressive," Fetterman, who reportedly faces more staff departures amid concerns about his health and behavior, told NBC News in December 2023.

4 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Tyger Williams

The meeting started off normally enough, with representatives from Pennsylvania's largest teachers union thanking Sen. John Fetterman for defending public education. But as the teachers from the Pennsylvania State Education Association and the National Education Association pressed Fetterman to do more to push back on federal education cuts, he grew frustrated and his tone shifted, according to two sources familiar with the May 1 conversation.

4 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Tyger Williams

Two years ago, a Commonwealth Court judge ruled that Pennsylvania had unconstitutionally deprived poor school districts like Delaware County's William Penn of the resources needed to educate students. Increased state funding followed. But instead of bolstering its programs headed into next year, William Penn is weighing cuts - confronting a $6 million budget deficit even after halving the number of academic interventionists for struggling students, and proposing to raise taxes by nearly 6%.

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Tyger Williams

PHILADELPHIA - The Philly kids took it all in: a brand-new learning lab stocked with 3D printers and drones, a music studio, and a wellness room, with views of an in-progress golf course - all for them to use, for free, year-round. People have a lot of negative things to say about Philadelphia, said Saniyah Brown, a senior at Girls' High. But Brown felt differently eyeing the just-opened TGR Learning Lab on a recent field trip.