Tyger Williams

4 days 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.

5 days 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%.

6 days 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.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Tyger Williams

PHILADELPHIA - While much attention was on antisemitism complaints at the University of Pennsylvania over the last year and a half, the much smaller Haverford College was weathering a storm of its own. A group called Jews at Haverford, including several students, filed a federal lawsuit alleging the college was indifferent to complaints about antisemitism.

1 week ago | kentucky.com | Tyger Williams

PHILADELPHIA - A Temple student was placed on interim suspension over an antisemitic incident at a Barstool Sports bar in Philadelphia. "In the strongest terms possible, let me be clear: antisemitism is abhorrent," Temple president John Fry said in a statement.