Last month, the Biden administration quietly abandoned its plan to force school districts to allow boys to compete against girls in sports. Before that about-face, districts across the country had been threatened with a loss of federal funding if they failed to comply with yet another revision of the Title […]
From the Editors: Pennsylvania’s crime statistics shouldn’t be open to retroactive edits
Collecting crime data has always been difficult and will always likely remain so. But just because collecting crime statistics is difficult doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done — it absolutely should. Yet one troubling fact about Pennsylvania’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) database stands out to us as needing a change. […]
Paul Davis: Schools need metal detectors to prevent classroom shootings
I was a student at South Philadelphia High School in the late 1960s. Southern, as the school was called locally, was a rough school back then. Race relations in Philadelphia were at an historical low and there were fights in the school nearly every day between black and white students. […]