Walter D. Palmer Students March on District Headquarters, Demand $1.7 Million from Ackerman (UPDATE: Video)
While most kids in Philadelphia headed back to the classrooms today, students from the Walter D. Palmer Leadership Charter School got a real-world lesson in protest and activism. About 500 students, parents, teachers and administrators from the Northern Liberties school marched down Broad Street this morning to the Philadelphia School District headquarters on...
Continue ReadingSchool Reform Commission Task Force: Things Aren’t Good
This headline pertains to the other problems the school district is facing, by the way. Namely: 55 percent of African-American youth don’t graduate from high school in Philadelphia. Fifty-seven percent of Latino youth suffer the same fate. So, the School Reform Commission commissioned a task force to study some of our districts’ problems for the past 10 months....
Continue ReadingThe School District Needs the Feds to Tell Them What to Do?!
PhillyNow column in our Sept. 1 print edition: If it takes a village, the Philadelphia School District is the idiot. Asian students’ claims of being abused at South Philly High School in December 2009 have merit, according to the Justice Department. The claims are that about 30 Asian students were attacked by a group of mostly black classmates on Dec. 3—and...
Continue ReadingMore Than 60 Teaching Vacancies In School District’s Promise Schools
An empty hallway inside of Roxborough High. (Photo by Matt Petrillo) The Philadelphia School District released new numbers today that reveal more than 60 teaching vacancies within the district’s six Promise Academies, including 22 in Clemente Middle School. The extended vacancies may force the district to settle for potentially lower-qualified applicants,...
Continue ReadingAckerman Makes a New Hire
Nothing could possibly go wrong here. Superintendent Ackerman has a new second position – deputy superintendent! And she’s named Leroy Nunery to the just-created position. We love when Ackerman appoints people. Though, in fairness, Nunery has got quite the resume. He’s the founder and principal at PlusUltre LLC, a consulting firm specializing in “unique,...
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