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Artists Steve Donegan (center) and Syd Carpenter (right) created the hugel mound project, La Cresta, with the Woodmere Museum. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
The Woodmere Museum’s stone Victorian mansion has been a landmark in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood for 80 years, but few know what lies behind it. The museum is on a 6-acre estate whose back half slopes down toward the Morris Arboretum. Until relatively recently, that rear acreage has been largely ignored.
“I’ve been living here in the area for 30 years, and I come up here to the museum a bunch of times, but I’ve never walked back here,” said Anna Herman, a neighbor who teaches urban agriculture in the Philadelphia School District. “I didn’t realize there was a whole property.”
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Thursday, April 8, 2021
Troubled by the repetitive involvement of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in schools, a Latinx immigrant rights organization has asked the School District of Philadelphia to lay out clear rules and guidelines for ICE involvement on school premises. The group has also asked the school district to better train its staff and teachers.
In February 2020, ICE officers detained a pregnant mother who had just dropped off her child at the Eliza B. Kirkbride Elementary School in Philadelphia. This incident raised panic in the minds of immigrants and refugee communities.
Juntos – Latinx Immigrant Organization
Juntos, a community-led Latinx immigrant organization in Philadelphia, launched its Sanctuary Schools Campaign at a news conference. The organizers called for more training for teachers and staff, clearer district guidelines, and renewed financial investment aimed at making schools a safer place for children immaterial of their immigr