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When Rafi Cave dropped his daughter off at school Friday, it felt like a revelation — it was the first time since classes began Sept. 4 that children at Evans Elementary in Yeadon had a full day’s instruction. “We’re a week into school, and she...
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Much has been made of the inequities built into the state’s system of education funding. It has gotten so bad that a group of parents, headed by a family in the William Penn School District, has taken the state to court, looking for the opportunity to argue that the...
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by Meghan Bobrowsky, Staff Writer Property owners in the Upper Darby School District — where local tax rates already are among the highest in the region — will pay even more starting July 1. With officials warning of a potentially dire financial situation and...
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By Kathleen E. Carey, Delaware County Daily Times The issue of how to appropriately fund education has been a decades-long conundrum that has seen well-attended school board meetings, lawsuits, rallies and even doses of frustration shared by all sides of the debate....