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...
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City Council Hears Proposal To Increase Liquor-By-The-Drink Tax (Video) – CBS Philly – June 12, 2013
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...
Mothers Head To Harrisburg To Fight For Their Children’s Education
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...
With Cuts Looming, Students Hold Final Performance (Bregy)
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...
Pressure Builds As New School Budget Cuts Loom – Philadelphia Tribune – June 11, 2013
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...
Philly School Students Send A Clear Message to City Council
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...
Checking In On GroundSwell: A Shift To Public Education Advocacy – Generocity – June 10, 2013
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)...
More Than 3,700 School Employees Are Being Laid Off – The Philadelphia Inquirer – June 9, 2013
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,...
Interview on School Layoffs with Donna Cooper (Video) – FOX 29 – June 9, 2013
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District Lays Off More Than 3,700 Employees – Philadelphia Public School Notebook – June 7, 2013
Calling the development "nothing less than catastrophic," Superintendent William Hite announced Friday that layoff notices have been sent to 3,783 of the 19,530 District employees, from teachers to food service workers, from counselors to maintenance staff, from...