“A view of West Kensington from inside Sheppard, near the epicenter of Philadelphia’s opioid epidemic.” (Heather Khalifa/Staff Photographer)
According to an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Sheppard School’s performance “… over the last several years, a new principal and her team have brought new energy to the school. Now, the school is a place where teachers stay; turnover is improving. In 2017-18, three-quarters of the staff were the same as the year before. For 2018-19, that climbed to 85 percent — up from just 50 percent in 2012.”
(Calefati, Graham, Purcell)
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