{"id":9256,"date":"2025-06-23T23:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9256\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T23:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:36:15","slug":"philly-teachers-get-career-training-boost-from-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9256\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly teachers get career training boost from City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia City Council is allocating $500,000 from the school district\u2019s budget to pay for teacher certifications for the Philadelphia School District\u2019s Career Technical Education program.\n<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia has approximately 5,000 students enrolled in 43 career and technical education programs, giving hands-on education and training in fields ranging from culinary, autobody repair, education and information technology, often earning students industry-recognized credentials in addition to a high school diploma.\n<\/p>\n<p>The teachers are former professionals who worked in their respective industries and decided to switch to a career in education. Previously, they had to pay out of pocket for the classes needed for teacher certification.\n<\/p>\n<p>The money will cover the roughly $2,600 per class tuition at certification schools, like Temple University.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s an incredible incentive to not just lighten the burden for current teachers, but to entice more industry professionals to \u2026 make that transition into education,\u201d said Jessica Lawyer, who teaches culinary arts at Thomas Edison High School.\n<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer said she\u2019s three classes short of her Master\u2019s degree, and the money will help her complete her degree.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-705786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/jessica-lawyer-tm-062325-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Teacher Jessica Lawyer speaks\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"  \/>Teacher Jessica Lawyer speaks about how she loves to teach culinary arts at Edison High. (Tom MacDonald\/WHYY)\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,10325,10326,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-9256","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-philadelphia-city-council","13":"tag-philadelphia-teachers","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114735309338294393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256","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=9256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}