{"id":308305,"date":"2026-10-16T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308305\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:18:07","slug":"will-the-district-follow-up-on-its-pilot-for-some-year-round-philly-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308305\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the district follow up on its pilot for some year-round Philly schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Last January, the Philadelphia School District indicated it was piloting a couple of year-round schools. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/philly-school-district-new-year-round-schools\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">there hasn&#8217;t been an update since<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dashboards.philasd.org\/extensions\/facilities-data-dashboard\/index.html#\/schools\/bethune\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">facilities plan on the district\u2019s website<\/a> still calls for a year-round K-8 school co-located at <a href=\"https:\/\/dashboards.philasd.org\/extensions\/facilities-data-dashboard\/index.html#\/schools\/welsh\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bethune Elementary in North Philadelphia<\/a> next fall, and later, a year-round high school at the current Welsh Elementary School. Parents would opt into the year-round pilot. <\/p>\n<p>But Superintendent Tony Watlington says the district isn&#8217;t ready to define a firm timeline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve not gone any further with making any additional announcements about the North Philadelphia Promise School, a year-round school. We&#8217;ll have more to say about that pretty soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the pilot was first announced in January, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers President Art Steinberg said any changes in working conditions must be negotiated. A union spokesperson said so far, that hasn&#8217;t happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Last January, the Philadelphia School District indicated it was piloting a couple of year-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[227,69,71,70,8973],"class_list":["post-308305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-education","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308305","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=308305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}