PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia students who failed a class \u2014 or weren’t able to finish a course for whatever reason \u2014 have returned to school for the summer, trying to earn those final credits to graduate.<\/p>\n
Across the district, about 2,700 students are attending credit recovery classes \u2014 more than 400 are high school seniors. Associate Superintendent Tomas Hanna said the six-week summer programs are designed to provide concentrated support for students.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeachers knowing their students and understanding, like, where are the gaps and what is it that they need to be focusing on,\u201d he said, \u201cso they can use that as a high-leverage type of opportunity to get to the skills that they really need.\u201d<\/p>\n
Students can earn two credits in person and a third if necessary from the district’s Philadelphia Virtual Academy to secure enough for graduation. About 130 students have signed up for an additional online course.<\/p>\n
Superintendent Tony Watlington dropped into a summer drumline program at the School of the Future in the Parkside neighborhood, where many students had only recently picked up their first drumsticks.<\/p>\n
\u201cKids just became acquainted with each other just three weeks ago,\u201d he said, \u201cand how great do they sound already.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watlington said students involved in the arts have better attendance and better academic performance.<\/p>\n
Altogether, the district expects nearly 400 students will earn enough credits this summer to graduate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia students who failed a class \u2014 or weren’t able to finish a course…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[227,69,71,70,1998,104696,40959],"class_list":["post-244493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-education","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-school-district-of-philadelphia","tag-summer-school","tag-tony-watlington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}