- Audenried faces uncertain future as charter school
- A serious beating amid Gratz’s day-to-day violence
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Efforts by Phila. administrators to stem the complex problem have fallen short.
- Safety post still needed, former advocate says
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Cases of students fighting, hitting teachers, making threats are discovered much later.
- Search: School-by-school violence data
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Children ages 5 to 10 assault staff and classmates. Some commit sex offenses.
- TEACHER SURVEY: see the results here
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In the last school year, 690 teachers were assaulted; in the last five years, 4,000 were.
AN INQUIRER INVESTIGATION
- CSAP fails to aid a learning-disabled boy
- At Philly disciplinary school, students face a strict day
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An effort to help students and limit violence is seen as little more than paper-shuffling.
- Philadelphia looking to decrease its reliance on use of out-of-school suspensions
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They are being applied haphazardly across the Phila. School District, but not being used on a wide scale.
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Principal Otis Hackney strives to remake the school’s spirit following the 2009 violence against Asian students.
LATEST
The findings echo an Inquirer investigative series that found crime was widespread and underreported.
Response
Some readers have said they're having trouble accessing the district's full response to our Assault on Learning series. I will reprint it in its entirety...


