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The first time William Hartwyk stood in front of a classroom, his pupils were fellow Marines who hadn't realized they would need high school algebra to navigate boats far from shore.
Cutbacks will have to be made in order to give teachers and other unionized school employees pay raises in their next contracts, Philadelphia School District Superintendent Arlene Ackerman warned yesterday.
With dozens of heavy hitters in the arts community looking on, Philadelphia schools chief Arlene Ackerman said yesterday that she would solidify the leadership in art and music education by the end of the month.
Two-year community colleges are seeing record enrollment as families squeezed by tough economic times steer high school graduates away from more expensive four-year universities.
The partnership leaps over Fox Chase, which pondered expanding into the state.
The battle for cancer patients in Delaware is heating up. Two months after Fox Chase Cancer Center said it was considering a second campus in northern Delaware, its biggest rival, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, announced its first foothold in the state.
With a major funding source threatening to pull support for Philadelphia's music program and with turmoil over who will teach and direct the arts, some in the arts community are questioning the state of art and music education in the Philadelphia School District.
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Olympic Proportions: The supposedly unbeatable U.S. softball team, the team so dominant the IOC kicked the sport out of the Games, was upset by Japan in the gold medal game.

But across town, the U.S. women's soccer team pulled off an upset of its own, as Delran native Carli Lloyd's overtime goal beat a highly talented Brazil team.