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Hello! This is Rebecca Redelmeier from Chalkbeat Philadelphia.
In the four years since Pennsylvania overhauled its high school graduation requirements, Philadelphia’s high schoolers have increasingly graduated without passing state exams. Instead, students last year were most likely to graduate by fulfilling alternate requirements.
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What We’re Reading
These 7 Philly principals won $20k for their schools. Here's what they plan to do with it, The Philadelphia Inquirer (Paywall)
Pa. Democrats push bills to limit immigration enforcement at K-12 schools, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
The tricks teachers are trying to fix students’ shortening attention spans, The Hechinger Report
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Thumbnail image by Caroline Gutman.
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