PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philly parents may soon have easy access to school information in the palm of their hands.<\/p>\n
The school district is working on developing a mobile app for schools. The aim is to make it easier for parents to see schedules for school and sporting events, lunch menus and attendance information.<\/p>\n
Superintendent Tony Watlington said parents have told him the school district\u2019s website works fine on a computer, but that it\u2019s \u201call jumbled\u201d on mobile web browsers and \u201cdoesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve learned from our families that they get more information from their cell phones than sitting down sometimes at a computer,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Watlington said that with parents inundated with information these days, the district decided to design an app that simply lays it all out. <\/p>\n
He said the app should be ready by December and will see a limited release at a select number of schools to start, with the end goal of eventually rolling it out to all Philadelphia public schools. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philly parents may soon have easy access to school information in the palm of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46404,69,71,70,8973,13842,108215],"class_list":["post-275340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-mobile-app","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-school-district","tag-public-schools","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275340","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=275340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}