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Philadelphia City Council members decided not to vote Wednesday on legislation that would increase the city liquor tax. Mayor Michael Nutter proposed the measure which would increase the liquor tax from ten to 15 percent in an effort to generate $95 million dollars...

Download PDF Great Visuals: City Council Will Be Given Letters Written by Students Telling Council Members to Support Liquor Tax What: Hundreds of education advocates will converge on Philadelphia City Council to deliver THOUSANDS of letters from public school...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Inside City Council Chambers, parents and education advocates continued to urge City Council members to find a solution to the school district’s budget crisis during a committee hearing Wednesday.     They even presented 4,000 letters...

Download PDF Great Visuals as Mothers Deliver and Children Read From Thousands of Letters from Philadelphia School Children What: Mothers converge on the Pennsylvania State Capitol to deliver and read from some of the THOUSANDS of letters from students, urging...

MEDIA ALERT WITH CUTS LOOMING, STUDENTS HOLD FINAL PERFORMANCE Download PDF WHAT: Students from Bregy Elementary school will hold their final performance of “The Lion King”. With “Doomsday budget” cuts looming, children will no longer take the...

With a second round of layoffs looming for Philadelphia public schools, parents, students and other supporters will intensify pressure on City Council and state lawmakers to help close a $304 million budget shortfall. Those funding cuts are drastic, potentially...

Superhero capes were presented to Councilmen Curtis Jones and Wilson Goode Jr. for their support of enhanced funding for both public and arts education. Back in February, we reported on an exciting new initiative from the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance (GPCA)...

Download PDF Great Visuals: Thousands of letters written by students to be presented at council meeting (PHILADELPHIA) June 10th, 2013 – Mothers plan to use the smallest voices in a big way today, Wednesday, June 12th at 2pm to urge Philadelphia City...

Philadelphia Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. announced Friday that the School District had begun mailing layoff notices to 3,783 employees, informing them they will lose their jobs July 1 because of the district’s financial crisis. The list includes 676 teachers,...

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