by Susan Spicka | Dec 18, 2021 | blog
We started with a question: How can we help people understand what students experience in the commonwealth’s most underfunded schools? Our answer: Bring an old toilet to the steps of the PA Capitol! Why? With the trial in Commonwealth Court challenging the state’s...
by Susan Spicka | Dec 9, 2021 | blog
When Commonwealth Charter Academy marched in the 6abc Dunkin Thanksgiving Parade in Philadelphia this year, they did not show up with a homemade float on a tractor trailer bed. Instead, they walked with this Jerold the Bookworm Macy’s-Parade quality ballon....
by Susan Spicka | Dec 7, 2021 | blog
Students learning in a cinder block supply closet with no ventilation. Two reading specialists for 1200 students. Seventy-five kindergartners and one toilet. One guidance counselor for 400 students. These are just a few bits of testimony from school leaders who have...
by Susan Spicka | Dec 2, 2021 | blog
75 students : 1 toilet. That’s the kindergarten student to toilet ratio in a public elementary school in Pennsylvania. Hard to imagine? We will bring it to life for lawmakers, in the shadow of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court trial testing the...
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