Jay Cooke Elementary News Today

Shakeera Morgan, Tyriese Holloway, and Rosemary Jacob are among the 60 winners of a top Philadelphia School District teaching prize, the 2024 Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philabundance, the Philadelphia Zoo, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the School District of Philadelphia are among the organizations challenging Kansas City over its football spirit ahead of the big game on Sunday, Feb. 12. Several organizations have placed wagers on the Super Bowl, whether it's to increase childhood literacy or raise money for important causes.

Chapel Hill Elementary School is gearing up for a playoff of its own next week against Philadelphia’s Jay Cooke Elementary.

If a family chooses to pivot their pre-K through second grade student to the hybrid learning model, he or she will have two days per week of in-person instruction and three days per week of online learning. The new schedule would take effect the week of April 5 after all pre-K through second grade students who are already enrolled in the hybrid learning model have successfully begun some in-person instruction.  If a family does not respond to the survey, their student will continue with all-re...

WHYY By Philadelphia’s school buildings are a tribute to its past. That’s true of the structures themselves, some of which date back over a century. But it’s also a nod to the people commemorated in the names of those school buildings. Those names — in ways big and small — help tell the city’s history. The vast majority of public schools in the city are named after white men. (The school-namers of yore were partial to Union Civil War soldiers and former school board officials.) Stil...