Sara Hoover WHYY An education nonprofit has launched a website to help recruit teachers — and retain them — in Philadelphia. To help make it easier to find teaching jobs, the Philadelphia School Partnership created teachPHL.org, which has a job board for any teaching position in the city — whether it’s at a traditional public, …
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Inquirer: Help wanted: Teachers for Philly district, charter and private schools
Kristen A. Graham December 4, 2018 Philadelphia Inquirer Want to teach in Philadelphia? A new website will make it easier to find a job in hundreds of city schools. Launched Tuesday and backed by Mayor Kenney and Superintendent William R. Hite Jr., TeachPHL lists open educational positions in traditional public, charter, and private schools across …
Notebook: KIPP gets $945,000 grant for expansion this fall
The Philadelphia School Partnership announced it will award $945,000 to KIPP Philadelphia for the startup of the organization’s latest school, set to open this fall in North Philadelphia. KIPP North will contain an elementary and middle school, though KIPP Philadelphia treats those as separate schools to get access to an additional $300,000 grant from the …
Inquirer: Group wants to raise $140 million for city’s charter, parochial and public schools
The Philadelphia School Partnership, a powerful nonprofit that has raised and distributed $80 million to city charter, parochial and public schools since its inception in 2011, wants to raise $60 million more, it announced Thursday. The nonprofit (PSP), already the Philadelphia School District’s largest private funder, aims to expand its reach. Its investments have already affected …
Newsworks: Drexel starts program to lessen Philadelphia’s middle school teacher shortage
With a wary eye toward the shrinking supply of Pennsylvania teachers, Drexel University has started a new program to train more middle school math and science instructors. Dragons Teach Middle Years (DTMY) has been in development since 2015, but received its official launch Monday with the announcement of a $1.2 million grant from the Philadelphia …
Inquirer: City school getting $1M
Roxborough High School will receive $1.1 million to continue its transformation, a city nonprofit is to announce Monday. The money is coming from the Philadelphia School Partnership, which has amassed $75 million to give away to charter, private, and traditional public schools and aims to raise more. The grant – which will allow Roxborough to …
Inquirer: St. Malachy to receive $1 million grant to grow after move
by Martha Woodall, Staff Writer St. Malachy, a heralded Catholic elementary school in North Philadelphia that was saved from closing five years ago, will receive a $1 million grant from the Philadelphia School Partnership to help it grow and improve its academics. The grant, which is scheduled to be announced Friday, is the largest the …
Metro: Philly High School fair to be held at Pennsylvania Convention Center
More than 100 schools will be on hand to help students figure our their options. For about nine years, Philadelphia’s 8,500 8th graders have done all (well, most?) of their homework. Now comes the biggest project yet. Finding a high school. More than 100 public, private, charter and Catholic high schools will be on hand …
Inquirer: S. Phila. Catholic school to get $1.4 million grant
By Kristen A. Graham, Inquirer Staff Writer It’s a grant the pontiff would appreciate: A South Philadelphia Catholic school that serves predominantly poor immigrant students is getting $1.4 million to improve and expand. The gift to Independence Mission Schools – the network that runs St. Thomas Aquinas and 14 other former Archdiocese of Philadelphia parish …
Inquirer: Top city HS gets funds to fuel expansion
By Kristen Graham, Inquirer Staff Writer One of the the city’s top high schools just got more support for its newest venture, a middle school launching in the fall. Carver High School for Engineering and Science, which is expanding to serve 120 seventh and eighth grade students in September, was awarded $200,000 from the Philadelphia …