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Destination Maternity moving from Phila. to S. Jersey
2013-09-13 12:41:14| Apparel - Topix.net
Lured by $40 million in tax incentives, Destination Maternity Corp., a leading maternity apparel retailer, announced Thursday that it would move its corporate headquarters from Philadelphia to South Jersey.
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State says violence is down in Phila. schools
2013-09-11 18:27:22| Electronics - Topix.net
The number of assaults and other violent incidents reported in city schools dropped 32 percent during the last academic year, and the number of schools on the state's dangerous list fell from six to two.
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Phila. SRC approves doomsday school budget
2013-05-31 10:37:02| Electronics - Topix.net
Students play their instruments in front of protesters at a rally outside the School District of Philadelphia headquarters on North Broad Street before a public meeting by the School Reform Commission.
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Phila. Democrats to meet with Hite
2013-05-23 09:28:32| Electronics - Topix.net
A week after Philadelphia School Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said he was targeting seniority in the teachers' contract to win support from Republican lawmakers for more state aid for the cash-strapped district, the city's Democratic legislative delegation is scheduled to meet with him Thursday to discuss its concerns.
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Phila. school staff paint a doomsday budget picture
2013-05-06 11:39:12| Electronics - Topix.net
If the doomsday budget being floated by the nearly broke Philadelphia School District comes to pass, this is what school will look like in September: "No books, no paper, no clubs, no counselors, no librarian," Masterman teacher Elizabeth Taylor grimly told City Council last week.
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