FOR YOUTH, A WEEK OF A JUSTICE SUPREME With little fanfare, from both the nation’s highest court and the country’s chief executive, this week saw a quiet revolution for youth justice, recognizing what we all know to be true: kids are not adults. In 2012, the U.S....
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Three new charters, same old problem — January 22, 2016
Three new charters, same old problem With continued pressure on the District from Harrisburg to convert more public schools into charters (and the PSD dependent on support from Harrisburg for its under resourced schools), we’ll continue to see charters presented as a...
We’re not #1? Go climb a tree! – January 15, 2015
We’re (not) #1! Almost all students in the United Kingdom and Germany graduate high school (93% and 92%) but here in the U.S. we’re stuck at 77%. The U.K. also has more students performing at an advanced level in science than in the U.S. (14% of eighth-graders vs. 10%...
Did We Just Lose $855,837,937? – January 8, 2016
Harrisburg Still Owes Us $855,837,937. Severe funding cuts from 5 years ago affected every school district and student across Pennsylvania with the already beleaguered and overburdened Philadelphia School District and its 130,000 students bearing the brunt of the...
Rendell inciting class warfare at PA Society? – December 18, 2015
Top of the Heap Former governor Ed Rendell addressed the resplendent attendees at this year’s Pennsylvania Society Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, famed birthplace of a $20 apple salad. Rendell, who along with his wife Judge Marjorie Rendell, was being...
Sick of budget talk? – December 11, 2015
PCCY's report on neighborhood high schools was released on Monday at a special press conference with SDP Superintendent Hite. Click here to get the report. Something Else to Talk About... Anyone else sick and tired of hearing about the budget? Let’s take look at high...
Study: Philly comprehensive high schools in trouble – The Philadelphia Inquirer – December 8, 2015
High school choices have expanded dramatically in Philadelphia over the last decade, but at a steep price: The large comprehensive schools are "hanging on by a thread," according to a new study by a local child-advocacy organization. Though more options are available...
After another tentative agreement falters, uncertainty returns to long-overdue Pa. budget – WHYY Newsworks – December 8, 2015
For the second time in a month, a tentative deal to end Pennsylvania's five month-long budget impasse has fallen apart. Gov. Tom Wolf and legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle came to an agreement late last week that would provide an historic $400 million...
Report calls for more investment in neighborhood high schools – The Philadelphia Tribune – December 8, 2015
One of the region’s most influential children’s advocacy organizations called for priority funding for the city’s public neighborhood high schools, which it said educate higher numbers of the system’s most vulnerable students, and at higher cost. In a 26-page report...
Report Finds Gap Between Philly’s Citywide High Schools And Struggling Neighborhood High Schools – CBS Philly – December 7, 2015
A new report says there’s a wide gap between Philadelphia’s neighborhood high schools, and its magnet and special-admission schools. “We’re forced to work with minimal resources, but we’re supposed to have high expectations,” said Roxborough High School senior Devin...