All posts tagged "Pennsylvania"

Bucks County, PA children, youth and family nonprofit support grants

GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth/Family Services, Behavioral Health, Nonprofit Support, Bucks County, PA | Amount: Up to $50,000 | Deadline: Jan. 15, 2025 (LOI)

Philadelphia schools get state grant to plant more trees: young students with shovels stand and smile in front of newly planted tree outside school building

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Philly schools get state grant to plant more trees

The $500,000 to Philadelphia schools is part of $79.4 million in state grants.

Online schools: 4 children with dark hair sit and stand around a dining table with school supplies in front of each of them while a woman in hijab leaning down next to one of them

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Why thousands of Philly families are switching to cyber charter school

Families see online schools as safer, more flexible educational options for their children. They are also drawn in by the resources the...

out-of-school time, outdoor learning grant: teacher and students in backpacks out in nature

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Philadelphia out-of-school time learning access grants

GRANT FOCUS: Out-of-School Time (OST) Learning, Early Learning, Education, Philadelphia | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Oct. 25, 2024

Pittsburgh area grants to address learning loss: young Asian girl working at school desk

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Pittsburgh area grants to address disparities in learning loss for PreK-12 students

GRANT FOCUS: Education, Learning Loss, PreK-12, Student Success, Pittsburgh | Amount: $150,000 - $500,000 | Deadline: Sept. 13, 2023

School start times: Six teen students sit on wide, long, outdoor, cement steps going up grassy hill.

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To improve kids’ mental health, some schools start later

Later school start times are a way to help adolescents get more sleep.

Mental health: young black girl sitting on school steps with head lowered and hugging her legs

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Mental health figures into Pennsylvania’s education funding

Amid a growing population of youth experiencing mental health crises, as well as another spate of mass shootings around the country, Pennsylvania...

mandated reporter: Young woman wearing a summer dress looks concerned while looking out the window blinds

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I Took a ‘Mandated Reporter’ Training Course On Child Abuse

The course isn’t really training; it’s an exercise in propaganda and paranoia designed to encourage you to report based on little more...

Pittsburgh nonprofit support grants; people holding hands with Pittsburgh skyline in background

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Pittsburgh Area Nonprofit Support and Relief Grants

GRANT FOCUS: COVID-19, Nonprofit Support, Social Justice, Pittsburgh, Disadvantaged Communities | Amount: Up to $25,000 | Deadline: Ongoing

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Column Was Based on Incorrect Pennsylvania Statistics About Child Abuse Investigations

Recently Youth Today published a column (“Pennsylvania County Has Wildly High Rate of Needless Child Abuse Investigations”) by Richard Wexler...

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Pennsylvania County Has Wildly High Rate of Needless Child Abuse Investigations

It is child welfare’s equivalent of stop-and-frisk. It happens over and over again, it’s traumatic, it’s usually baseless...

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