Performance Audit for 2014 Renewal Seeking Charter Schools PCCY identifies barriers to enrollment among 10 Philadelphia Charter schools up for renewal. Click here to download the report. PCCY Recommendations to Improve Charter School Accountability PCCY analysis finds...
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Budget Advocacy At the city level, PCCY advocates for the City of Philadelphia to provide adequate funding for Philadelphia schools each year. Here are tools for parents to help advocate for school funding in Philadelphia. PCCY Tool Kit for Giving Testimony on School...
School, City Assess Impact Of School Funding Crisis – The Philadelphia Tribune – August 8, 2014
City, school and union officials said they expect sub-par conditions in Philadelphia public schools to remain unchanged from last year without an infusion of cash from a cigarette tax bill that still needs state approval. “Last September, our schools opened with a...
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PCCY Bottom Line Report on Early Care and Education in Montgomery County PCCY’s report finds that only 20% of licensed child care programs in Montgomery County are considered high-quality. As a result, only 7% of children under five in Montgomery County attend a high...
Key Questions And Answers On The Budget Crisis – The Notebook – August 7th, 2014
Notebook editors Paul Socolar and Dale Mezzacappa prepared a question-and-answer sheet, updating the budget crisis for distribution at E! Day, the District's annual back-to-school event to be held Friday at School of the Future. This is the event at which the District...
Philadelphia Public School Advocates Push Governor for More Action to Guarantee Schools Open
Download press release PHILADELPHIA (August 6th, 2014) – Philadelphia’s leading public school advocacy organizations joined in calling for the Governor to back up his words with actions, this morning. In response to Governor Corbett’s call for the legislature to...
No Cig Tax, But State Leaders Promise School Support – Philadelphia Magazine – August 5, 2014
Another day on the brink for Philly schools: Activists and officials headed to Harrisburg on Monday — the day the Pennsylvania House was supposed to approve a cigarette tax to fund city schools — to rally and lobby state officials for the funding authority. They...
In Cigarette Tax Haze, An Overlooked Point About Philly’s Tax Circumstances – WITF – August 5, 2014
As state lawmakers appear at a stalemate over a cigarette tax proposal for Philadelphia schools, advocates worry that tax-averse legislators have a fundamental misunderstanding of their city’s situation. An “us-versus-them” mentality pervades any debate involving...
Corbett Ready To Give Philly Schools A Cash Advance?: Tuesday Morning Coffee – The Patriot News – August 5, 2014
Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Well, yesterday was supposed to have been the day that the state House returned to work to pass a Philly-only increase to the state's cigarette tax, thus providing the city's schools with a badly needed cash infusion. But as most...
No Cigarette Tax Vote, But Promise For Funds To Tide Philly Schools Over – WHYY Newsworks – August 5, 2014
After a fruitless meeting of Pennsylvania legislative leaders and the Corbett administration, a cigarette tax for Philadelphia city schools remains in limbo. But despite the lack of legislative deal, work continues on sending the struggling school district a funding...