For 15 years, JEVS’ Project WOW has been giving Philadelphia dropouts the skills they need to enter the professional world and turn a new page in their lives.
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El martes 13 de septiembre la Corte Suprema de Pennsylvania se reunió en City Hall para decidir si consideraría un pleito que propone que el método actual de distribuir fondos para la educación viola la constitución estatal.
On Tuesday, September 13, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court convened in City Hall to decide whether it would hear a lawsuit arguing that the current method of funding education at the state level violates the state constitution. The decision has yet to be announced, but the wait time is a chance to look closely at the context of the case and try to understand what’s at stake for the community.
Una reciente columna sobre mi retorno a la profesión pedagógica agradó a muchos lectores que escribieron para felicitarme.
Un lector de larga data me tomó el pelo por columnas pasadas, en que expresé apoyo por los exámenes estandarizados: ”Por favor, contáctame en el momento en que tengas la epifanía de que “los exámenes estandarizados son una pérdida de tiempo’. Será un cambio fundamental. Estaré esperando al lado de la computadora.”
“No ocurrirá”, repliqué agregando una carita sonriente.
Los billenials son por su definición seres híbridos que comparten más de una cultura y hablan más de una lengua, un fenómeno que se está volviendo más común entre los nuevos residentes de la ciudad.
Women politicians in the U.S., who like Hillary, have great political aspirations and want to serve and imprive their communities.
The "billenials" are, by definition, hybrid creatures that share more than one culture and speak more than one language. This is becoming more commonplace in Philadelphia among the newest, youngest residents of the city.
Mujeres políticas en los EE.UU., quienes como Hillary, tienen grandes aspiraciones políticas y quieren servir y mejorar sus comunidades.
Me encontré con este libro de nuevo esta semana, inicialmente lo recogí hace varios años en una tienda de Barnes & Noble en Filadelfia.
Es un libro que el ex director general de la Corporación Chrysler, el Sr. Lee Iacocca, escribió, después de su cambio mágico y también polémico de la empresa fabricante de automóviles, quien es una de las "Tres Grandes" en Estados Unidos.
Los panelistas discuten la reforma educativa.
What is the state of public education?
I came across this book again this week, after I first picked it up several years ago in a Barnes & Noble Store in Philadelphia.
It is a book the former CEO of Chrysler Corporation, Lee Iacocca, wrote, after his magical and also controversial turnaround of the car manufacturer company, one of the "Big Three" in America.
En conjunción con una exposición titulado, "Una Sola Voz", Marisol Vélez-Aquino y Gustavo Santiago-Jiménez están organizando talleres titulados, “Oscar López, el Educador”. La iniciativa fue creada para ayudar a los estudiantes a entender el impacto de nacionalista puertorriqueño Oscar López-Rivera.
Oscar Lopez Rivera.
Well, there were already 2 in my family.
My brother Agustín, Electrical Engineer, and my brother Raúl, who just retired from his noble profession, after a long and meritorious career as a Mechanical Engineer.
At age 16, I wanted to be, if not "somebody", at least somebody else.
Make my life count for something —not like in an act of heroism— but, in a more earthly purpose, to avoid being a blatant redundancy.
Or perhaps, God forbids, a plain-vanilla, mediocre, self-conceited brat.
Nos gustaría averiguarlo nosotros mismos.
Por esta razón, AL DÍA lanzó la semana pasada uno de los proyectos editoriales más excitantes en los 25 años de historia de este medio de comunicación independiente, fundado y dirigido por periodistas. Un medio ubicado aquí mismo, en Filadelfia, el segundo mayor enclave de la diáspora portorriqueña en los EEUU.
We would like to find out ourselves...
That is why AL DÍA launched last week one of the most exciting editorial projects during our 25 years of existence as an independent news outlet —owned and operated by journalists— here in Philadelphia, home to the second largest settlement of the large Puerto Rican Diáspora in the U.S.
Taking advantage of the DNC2016, which was hosted in our city the final week of July, AL DÍA launched an unique editorial crowd-sourcing project to document an untold, undocumented story:
Achieving the Dream announced last month that the Community College of Philadelphia will be a participant in a new initiative that will engage part-time faculty as active contributors to CCP’s reform efforts under the leadership of full-time faculty.
25 local middle and high school students will join thousands of journalists in covering the Democratic National Convention this week, as part of the DNC Committee’s Youth Engagement Program.
This ‘‘Colombiana,” in the good, not bad sense of the word, is influencing more the U.S. mainstream culture than Julián Castro ever would do, even if he gets the shot of being the running mate of Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton.
Dozens of volunteers from the DNCC, RealClearPolitics, CHOP, and local and national credit unions collaborate to help build a Health and Wellness Garden at CHOP’s Karabots Pediatric Care Center in West Philadelphia.
Coded by Kids is seeking applicants for a newly designed teaching fellowship that will provide project-based technology education to Philadelphia middle and high school students.
Filadelfia se ha convertido en la primera gran ciudad de los Estados Unidos en aprobar un impuesto sobre las bebidas azucaradas. El Concejo de la ciudad dio luz verde al ‘Soda Tax’ con 13 votos a favor y 4 en contra.
Today Mayor Kenney signed the sugary beverage tax into law.
From tha passing of the sugary beverage text, to a hearing on the 1996 immigration laws. It’s been a rather busy week for Philadelphia City Council.
