‘Life or death issue’: Kensington schools seek higher graduation rates by embedding student support
Jeán Ruiz remembers their high school years in Kensington as a period of stress and survival.
What Is Trump’s Proposal and How Does It Affect the Immigrant Community?
What Is Trump’s Proposal and How Does It Affect the Immigrant Community? By: Centro Integral de la Mujer Madre Tierra Editorial Team | Kensington Voice, Madre Tierra October 22, 2025 | Tagged: community, Immigration. Photo by Barbara Burgess on Unsplash. In 2023, 47.8 million immigrants lived in the United States, including naturalized, permanent and temporary…
Autobuses a pie, un parque infantil, una verja a prueba de balas: Cómo las escuelas usan fondos del acuerdo por opioides
La escuela primaria Willard, en Kensington, está a punto de recibir su primer parque infantil. Sin embargo, también tendrá algo menos extravagante: una verja resistente a balas. Ambos tienen una fuente de financiamiento inusual: las compañías farmacéuticas responsables de alimentar la crisis de opioides en el patio trasero de la escuela. La directora de Willard,…
Ideas We Should Steal: A one-stop shop for addiction recovery
On the stretch of Kensington Avenue between the Allegheny and Somerset SEPTA stations, wound care vans, mobile drug treatment clinics, drop-in centers and harm reduction sites offer daily care to the hundreds of people who openly use drugs on the neighborhood’s sidewalks. And still, the 19134 ZIP code sees the highest number of overdose deaths citywide as…
Philly schools traumatized by opioid crisis use settlement money to remind kids ‘they’re special’
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…