Board of Education Meeting: June 29, 2023
by Lisa Haver and Lynda Rubin
During this month’s meeting, APPS member Barbara Dowdall was detained by district security who told her she couldn’t go into the auditorium because she wasn’t on the speakers list. (In May it was Lisa Haver, in April Ilene Poses.) The board set up 96 chairs for this meeting in an auditorium with a 240-person capacity. When APPS wrote to the board about their setting up only 82 chairs in April, President Reginald Streater replied that they were “working with building management to address it”, as if building management staff could overrule the president of the board. When we wrote to him again in June because the board had barred people from attending because of the current speaker suppression policies, we received no reply. No matter how the board sets up its arbitrary number of chairs, forcing people to stand, they cannot bar people from attending a public meeting. That is illegal.
Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools 