• Education is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution; the creation of the world’s first system of universal public education—from kindergarten through high school—and of mass higher education is one of the great achievements of American democracy. It embodies a faith…
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Today’s Metro Stories
• An 11-month-old baby girl remained at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Thursday after she and her mother were attacked by a vicious dog inside an Upper Darby home. • As the conventional wisdom of Philly politics go, Sam Katz’s dreams…
Former Mayor Street on Charles Bowser’s Passing
Couldn’t fit this all in the paper today (but please pick up a copy to see the story), what with limited space. Here’s the Metro story about civic leader Charles Bowser’s Monday death…. Charles Bowser, a widely respected African-American civic…