On Monday evening For the Love of Childs Compassion Team joined over 50 parents and community members at the School District's first community meeting to discuss the development of a new school report card system that would be used to improve the accountability of district and charter schools. We joined public school parents in their concern and outrage that the district would impose a new accountability system on schools in a year where the “doomsday budget”, as people are calling it, is leaving schools void of counselors, all school aides, extra curricular activities, and more. Parents grilled the district leaders and explained that it seems suspicious to grade schools in a year of desolate funding and argued that the they are just trying to deem more district schools as failures in order to push more charter takeovers and closures. Tricia Fussaro spoke up reminding the hired consultants that there are hard working, loving people doing what they need to do to educate children in every school across Philadelphia; there are also children in every school who come to learn and do learn! Her comment was the first to receive a resounding round of applause from the audience.
You can find a list of upcoming meetings and more information on this facebook page.
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