{"id":253197,"date":"2025-09-25T08:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253197\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:50:20","slug":"school-district-of-philadelphia-relaunches-parent-and-family-university-as-free-classes-start-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253197\/","title":{"rendered":"School District of Philadelphia relaunches Parent and Family University, as free classes start in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School District of Philadelphia has relaunched its Parent and Family University, offering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/PFU\/#courses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">free classes for families<\/a>\u00a0beginning in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The program, unveiled Wednesday during a kickoff event at Lewis C. Cassidy Academics Plus Charter School in Overbrook, is designed to give parents and caregivers tools to support their children&#8217;s success in school and in daily life. Classes will be held both online and in-person and will cover topics ranging from academics to financial literacy. Officials said light dinner and childcare will be provided at the in-person sessions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will have programming available throughout the city,&#8221; Superintendent Tony Watlington said. &#8220;Right now, we&#8217;ve set eight locations to launch next month, and we&#8217;ll end up rotating those locations over time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The district last offered Parent and Family University more than a decade ago. Officials said the relaunch is part of a broader effort to expand services for families and strengthen community ties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re so excited that our board of education saw fit to bring this back to Philadelphia,&#8221; Watlington said.<\/p>\n<p>Board of Education President Reginald Streater, Chief Education Officer Debora Carrera of the Mayor&#8217;s Office of Education and other city leaders joined Watlington for the relaunch. Resource tables from more than two dozen organizations were set up after the press conference, giving attendees a chance to connect with partner organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Parents said they are eager to take advantage of the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely good to have because we need to have support throughout \u2014 at home and at school,&#8221; said Tyrone Zachary, who brought his daughter, Zara, who attends first grade.<\/p>\n<p>Nadirah Mozee, the mother of a kindergarten student, said she is particularly interested in the financial literacy courses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In our community, it&#8217;s good to know a lot about your finances,&#8221; Mozee said. &#8220;People do better with money \u2014 better with saving \u2014 better with business plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watlington said the district-funded classes will continue &#8220;as long as there are resources available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The School District of Philadelphia has relaunched its Parent and Family University, offering\u00a0free classes for families\u00a0beginning in October.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":253198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,10774,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-253197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-school-district-of-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115264082742959140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}