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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Interview on School Layoffs with Donna Cooper (Video) – FOX 29 – June 9, 2013
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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...
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...
Layoff Notices Going To Thousands of Phila. School Workers – WHYY Newsworks – June 7, 2013
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...