No benefits left behind

The Philadelphia Citizen

On a windy afternoon in November, a busload of seniors arrives on a verdant campus in West Oak Lane. Passing by persimmon trees and a koi pond, they enter a building with an array of services and activities, everything from health care and vocational training to bingo and mahjong. These grounds belong to the nonprofit…

Philly schools traumatized by opioid crisis use settlement money to remind kids ‘they’re special’

Chalkbeat Philadelphia, Kensington Voice

Kensington’s Willard Elementary School is getting its first playground. It’s also getting something less whimsical: a bullet-resistant fence. Both have an unusual funding source: drug companies that fueled the opioid crisis in the school’s backyard. Willard Principal Diana Garcia said that every child across Philadelphia should get 30 minutes of play time outside. But students…