Harrisburg School District
Paul Chaplin / The Patriot-News
Harrisburg School District
Paul Chaplin / The Patriot-News
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The mayor of Harrisburg and state lawmakers who represent the city want the state to take over city schools there. The moves come after financial scandals, a grading investigation and in-fighting among board members, PennLive’s Christine Vendel reported.
Meanwhile, PennLive’s Charlie Thompson explains how takeovers worked out in Duquesne City in Allegheny County and Chester-Upland in Delaware County. “We have no finances. We don’t have nothing here for people to stay for. There are no jobs,” the board president for Duquesne City schools told Charlie.
The state nearly took over the York City School District back in 2014, but that fell through after Tom Wolf was first elected governor. Now, the district has filed paperwork to exit a state recovery plan. Andrea Berry, who was recently appointed superintendent for the district, told CBS21 that the “district is to the point in which we should start seeing data that highlights achievement.”
WHYY’s Laura Benshoff takes a look at the case of two men from Cuba who have been held in immigration detention in York County Prison for more than a year. Laura shows how their cases fit into a larger and changing history of Cuban immigrants receiving favorable treatment in the United States.
The president of Bloomsburg University, who was accused of sexual harassment months into the new job, was previously forced out of two jobs, a Philadelphia Inquirer investigation found.
A recent study found that Pennsylvania’s approach of counting inmates based on where they are incarcerated — instead of where they are from — has given suburban and rural, predominantly white communities more political power when it comes to legislative districts, WITF’s Katie Meyer reports.
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