Reality Check: Kenney’s Community Schools Gap

Following the Mayor’s comments in D.C. last week, WURD’s afternoon host notes that the community schools effort could be a delicious hoagie...once they put the meats in it

By Charles D. Ellison

Ideas We Should Steal: Children’s Cabinet

Mayors around the country are launching city-wide efforts to get all stakeholders thinking about what’s best for kids. Can it work here?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Talking ‘Bout A Revolution

Mayor Kenney’s dissolving of the SRC is an opportunity to take a page from Silicon Valley and radically rethink education.

By Ajay Raju

Residents to Kenney: Clean our streets

A recent resident survey found that Philadelphians care about clean streets more than easy parking

By Jon Geeting

At What Price Soda Tax?

A recent TV investigative report of the city’s pre-K initiative raises questions about just what it means to be progressive in Philadelphia

By Larry Platt

Staying Ahead of Educational Tsunamis

A public school principal argues that real education reform requires measuring schools more broadly and fixing them more locally

By Hilderbrand Pelzer III

Reality Check: SO NOW PHILLY HAS A VIOLENCE PROBLEM?

A WURD host notes the way media and politicians worry over violence—except when it’s in poor neighborhoods

By Charles D. Ellison

Crisis? What Crisis?

Mayor Kenney says his budget gets the pension fund 80 percent funded in 13 years. Does it?