Yesterday the Pennsylvania Senate passed school vouchers legislation that would give public funds to poor students at underperforming schools to attend private schools, including religious institutions. The legislation has been a priority for Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, and received support…
Thomas Pitilli “I copyrighted this thing called The Cheesesteak Theater,” George Martorano tells me during a conversation frequently interrupted by a succinct and monotone recording: “This call is from a federal prison.” “I write the plays,” George continues. “They buy…
News email print font size options Posted: Thu, Oct. 20, 2011, 4:28 AM Avoiding the Subject Philadelphia schools are failing when it comes to sex education. Daniel Denvir Evan M. Lopez [ omissions ] Ericka Johnson, 18, learned about…
Evan M. Lopez [ omissions ] Ericka Johnson, 18, learned about sex all over the place: from music, from gossip on the street and, especially, from watching her peers. “Mostly all my friends became pregnant,” says Johnson, a college student…
More than 1,000 activists packed into the Arch Street United Methodist Church to decide where and when to Occupy Philly, in solidarity with the booming Occupy Wall Street protests against corporate greed and financial exploitation in New York. People split…
A painting of Jesus presenting the Founding Fathers and fellow Americans past and present with the Constitution is a creative solution to the nagging problem of the separation of church and state, according to a press release someone named Julie…
The community activists in North Philly that I have now written about twice–opening a neighborhood recording studio and campaigning against shootings–have released a Youtube video for the Community Rap-tivist Michael Ta’Bon song Education Over Incarceration, featuring the Youngest Rapper Alive…
Legs fly out, swing under and then around torsos before the pretzel-shaped forms freeze upside down the breakdancers mocking their opponents in classic battle form. A big crowd comes to watch the tournament made up mostly of local high…
City Councilman Bill Green is calling for the City Controller and Auditor General to investigate former Superintendent Arlene Ackermans communications office. On Tuesday, City Paper reported that Ackerman used the School District Communications office as a personal public relations machine…
A personal PR team. Two knowledgeable sources tell City Paper that former Superintendent Arlene Ackerman ran a School District communications team dedicated to promoting and defending her personally, and which coordinated and assisted public rallies in her favor, communicated regularly…
