Download Press Release Community Eligibility Provision Will Help Increase Participation in School Meals PHILADELPHIA (April 30th, 2014) – High-poverty schools in southeastern Pennsylvania are now eligible to provide healthy school meals to all of their students...
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Lies, Damned Lies, and the PA Budget
PCCY has long advocated for a restoration of the nearly $1 billion cut from public education during Governor Corbett’s first year in office. Now there is a new argument against restoring the cuts: they never happened. In fact, the Governor and some of his...
What’s Really Causing The Chaos At Bartram High?
While the city continues to reel from the assault on a conflict-resolution specialist by a student at Bartram High School, we must look at the conditions that allowed it to happen and what can be done about them. Dangerous things can happen when you mix increasing...
Not Adding Up: Disparities in Access to Full Course Loads and Suspensions in Philly Schools
We have long known that disparities in access to early childhood education lead to an achievement gap later in school and in life. Now we know that access is not the only disparity that needs to be addressed. According to a new study by the Department of...
Six Leading Education Organizations Comments on Recent Action by the Philadelphia School District and the School Reform Commission
Download Press Release PHILADELPHIA, PA (March 26th, 2013)- Six leading education organizations: Congreso de Latinos Unidos, the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Education Fund, Public Citizens for Children and Youth, the Urban Affairs...
Testimony to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission: Proposed Philadelphia School District Charter School Authorizing Policy
Governor Blames School Cuts on Phantom Deficit
Governor Corbett has taken a lot of heat for cutting nearly a billion dollars from education during his first year in office, money he has not yet replenished. Recently, the Governor explained that this was necessary due to the $4 billion deficit he inherited...
School Funding Coalition Calls for City Council to Ensure Swift and Certain Funding for Philadelphia School District
Download PDF PHILADELPHIA (March 13th, 2014) – An alliance of Philadelphia organizations dedicated to improving conditions in Philadelphia schools, today called on Philadelphia City Council to take immediate action to provide $195 million in local funding for...
PCCY issues Recommendations to Philadelphia School District Charter School Authorization Policy
Download PDF PHILADELPHIA (March 11th, 2014) – Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY) issued a series of recommendations to improve the Philadelphia School District’s charter school authorizing policy called the “Authorizing Quality...