Topic: Guest Commentary

The director of a local tech ed nonprofit calls for awareness around access to high-speed internet and its role as a driver of inequity

Equity, a former Temple education professor notes, is not a zero-sum game that some lucky children win and others lose

The president of Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha challenges local partners to join their efforts to address escalating depression and anxiety in Philly’s marginalized neighborhoods

A young Kensington resident implores: It’s time for McPherson Square Library to get more city funding

Two charter school officials on why communities must come together to get our kids through Philadelphia’s gun violence crisis

Over 100,000 Americans suffer from sickle cell disease, most of them African American. A local state rep urges federal health authorities to do more to help

The anti-litter evangelist plans to donate a big portion of sales of his new children’s book to schools — in a very Ya Fav way

A column last week argued that Philly’s reputation as one of the highest taxed big cities in the nation was unwarranted. Center City District’s president responds.

A Greater Philadelphia last week released poll data about the City’s sweetened beverage tax that showed residents divided. Here, the City’s first Pre-K director refutes the premise and results of the survey

Boys’ Latin’s co-founder blasts Tom Wolf for imposing new rules on charter schools that will keep thousands of students from the schools of their choice