by Susan Spicka | Oct 22, 2014 | Archive
Click HERE for a PDF of our paper Who Runs the School District of Philadelphia What is the School Reform Commission? The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) is governed by the School Reform Commission (SRC) which was established in December 2001, when oversight of...
by Susan Spicka | Jun 17, 2014 | Archive
Today a 7-year-old died at Jackson Elementary school and there was no school nurse in the building because of budget cuts. Read the details here. We don’t know if would have helped to have a nurse, but it’s a problem that we even have to ask if the school...
by Susan Spicka | May 26, 2014 | Archive
Take Action to Support Philadelphia’s public school students! Without sufficient funding, our schools can’t provide the basic programs and services that our children need to have an opportunity to learn. The state budget continues to be inadequate and unfair; however...
by Susan Spicka | Feb 26, 2014 | Archive
Allocate money to Basic Education Funding instead of the Ready to Learn Block Grant program. Education Voters supports putting the increases from Governor Corbett’s proposed block grant funding into the Basic Education Funding line. Doing this provides districts the...
by Susan Spicka | Jan 28, 2014 | Archive
Check our recent coverage our this report: The Philadelphia Notebook: Reports raise concerns about stability of principal corps in Philly schools. The Philadelphia Inquirer: At high-poverty schools, lack of stability starts at the top. For a PDF version,...
by Susan Spicka | May 18, 2013 | Archive
Click HERE for a pdf version. The State Senate recently passed their version of the state budget (SB 1466), which included some restorations of the Governor’s proposed cuts. SB 1466 made the following improvements: Rejected the Governor’s proposal for a...
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