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Theme articles
- Looking to divide the pie more fairly by Dale Mezzacappa
- How to find and read your school's budget by Dale Mezzacappa
- This deficit is no surprise – but unknown cuts loom by Paul Socolar
- Coalition: Rendell funding plan is formula for success by Meghan McHugh
- The real cost of charters? No easy answer by Dale Mezzacappa
- District budget shows no new money for teachers by Ron Whitehorne
- SRC heeds call to lower class size in some schools by Paul Socolar
- Guest Opinion: Underfunding is only part of the District’s fiscal story by Helen Gym
- Quick takes: If your school got more money, how would you use it?
Other news & features
- SRC is asking more from charter operators by Dale Mezzacappa
- SRC to decide whether EMOs return to 38 schools in fall by Paul Socolar
- S. Phila. bilingual program helped ease pain of transition by Benjamin Herold
- A hidden athletic dynasty by Benjamin Herold
Cartoon
- The Notebook's Summer 2008 cartoon
In our opinion
- Long time coming
- Let the sunshine in
Letters to the editors
- Making sure all students are fed
- Transporting our precious cargo
Eye on special education
- Pennsylvania needs new funding system to educate its students with disabilities by Baruch Kintisch
Activism around the city
- Window washing
- More translators needed, immigrant parents say by Paul Socolar
- Teacher incentive grants: priority for local activists by Paul Socolar
- A call for changes in District food program by Stephen Kummerling
News in brief
- “First Person” documentary
- Contracts renegotiated with disciplinary schools
- In West Philadelphia, two schools face closure
- Overbrook wins mock trial title
School snapshot
- School Snapshot
En español
- Una dinastía de deporte poco conocida por Benjamin Herold
- Coalicíon: plan de financiamiento es fórmula para el éxito por Meghan McHugh
Black and Latino boys disrespected, task force finds
by Dale Mezzacappa
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Comments (4)
Submitted by Teacher (not verified) on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 18:11.
If the basics were paid for - pens, paper, etc. - I'd say a SmartBoard in every classroom, along with a digital projector. These valuable tools - now commonplace in suburban classrooms - would help bring our classes into the 21st Century.
Air conditioning wouldn't hurt either - it would help keep the kids on task during the summer. They're struggling to stay awake/control themselves in this sweltering heat.
Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 21:22.
Teacher...I agree with you on that...Smartboards...let's bring these schools to the 21st century...and all that...yes, yes...of course...and, how it has worked in the School of the Future...now there is a well-funded school that has all the high-tech gadgets and it is quite a success...isn't it...?
Submitted by EnoughIsEnuff!!! (not verified) on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 21:09.
Geez, you don't want much, do you? Air conditioners, ingrate! Why we just unbolted your windows for you last year. Remember when the district bolted shut every other windown in every classroom throughout the district after that sub lost three of her fingers? Decreased lawsuits 50% with that stroke of genius. Now be grateful for the free air we've given you or we'll make you start sweeping up your own floors with your own broom.
Submitted by EnoughIsEnuff!!! (not verified) on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 22:13.
The only thing missing at the School of the Future are laserswords for the teachers to protect themselves.
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