The School District will be sending out thousands of layoff notices today. In total, 3,783 District employees would be laid off, a number that includes 676 teachers, 307 secretaries, 283 counselors, 127 assistant principals, 1202 noontime aides, and 769 supportive...
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Layoffs in Philadelphia Schools Deprive Children of Education Needs
Download PDF (PHILADELPHIA) June 7, 2013 – More than 3,500 hard-working music and arts teachers, counselors, librarians and others will find out today that they will no longer have a job thanks to a lack of funding for Philadelphia schools. The district approved...
Testimony to Philadelphia City Council—Budget, Schools & The Arts
Students Urge Council to Solve Phillys Education Crisis – NBC10 Philadelphia – May 30, 2013
About a dozen students from Samuel Powel Elementary in West Philadelphia descended on City Hall today armed with 4-foot terracotta warrior puppets and a large dose of hope in their hearts. Hope that the Philadelphia School District's budget crisis will soon be...
Powel Students Bringing Their Puppets To Wednesday Budget Protest – West Philly Local – May 28, 2013
This Wednesday, May 29, Spiral Q Puppet Theatre, Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY), and a group of students from Powel Elementary are teaming up to stage an “artful action” in front of City Hall and in the City Hall Caucus Room to protest the proposed...
Who’s (Still) Killing Philly Public Schools? – Philadelphia City Paper – May 23, 2013
“Our young people will suffer under a devastating bare-bones budget,” Mayor Michael Nutter warned at a press conference last week. “The quality of education in Philadelphia will plummet and we will all suffer as a result: poverty, unemployment, crime, lost wages and...
PCCY Statement on Teacher Quality Report
More Effort, More Resources Needed To Address Issues In Teacher Quality Report Download PDF (PHILADELPHIA) May 23, 2013 – The recent report by the National Council for Teacher Quality is evidence that the School District of Philadelphia needs much more effort...
National Report Outlines Problems With Philadelphias Policies On Teachers – Philadelphia Public School Notebook – May 22, 2013
A report by a national nonprofit studying Philadelphia has concluded that the District does a poor job of hiring and assigning teachers, fails to effectively evaluate or support them, and overrelies on seniority to govern placement and layoffs. The report, from the...
New Findings: Budget Cuts To School District and Early Childhood Programs
NEW FINDINGS: FINANCIAL CUTS TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAMS IMPACT COMMUNITIES ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA Fact Sheets Available For Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Download PDF (PHILADELPHIA) May 20, 2013 – Local school...
Not Investing In Pa. Students Now Will Cost Us Later – Philadelphia Inquirer – May 20, 2013
We're in budget season, which means the city school district is experiencing yet another round of asking for money from local and state governments that have grown inured to the perpetual crisis, as common a sign of spring as azaleas. In Harrisburg, donor fatigue has...