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By Diane Payne
March 5, 2016
This special meeting of the SRC was another jam-packed one—35 speakers listed. The final vote on twelve new charter applications was the sole agenda for this meeting. Farah Jimenez acted as Interim Chair; Marge Neff was on medical leave but present by phone.
Click here to read the entire Ears on the SRC: February 16 and 18, 2016
All four videos are located here.
To see individual videos click on their picture below.
Video of APPS member Lisa Haver testifying at the Education Committee of the Philadelphia City Council – February 29, 2016.
The full transcript of Lisa’s testimony.
Video of APPS member Karel Kilimnik testifying at Education Committee of the Philadelphia City Council – February 29, 2016.
The full transcript of Karel’s testimony.
Video of APPS member Coleman Poses testifying at the Education Committee of the Philadelphia City Council – February 29, 2016.
The full transcript of Coleman’s testimony.
Video of APPS member Barbara McDowell testifying at the Education Committee of the Philadelphia City Council – February 18, 2016.
by Karel Kilimnik
February 22, 2016
This year’s overview has been delayed due to the increasing trauma inflicted on our public schools and our intense fight to save public education. What a year! You think it can’t get any worse…and then it does. We began the year pursuing our lawsuit against the SRC for violations of the PA Sunshine Act after their illegal termination of the PFT contract without any public comment and ended it supporting the Wister school community’s fight to stop being charterized and stay a real public school.
Now the SRC has overruled Superintendent Hite’s recommendation about which schools should go into the Renaissance Charter School program…without any public comment.
January
APPS members and attorneys appear in Common Pleas Court to begin the long road of settling our Lawsuit charging the SRC with violating the state Sunshine Act on Oct. 6, 2014 when they abruptly cancelled the PFT contract and allowed no public comment before their vote.
On February 18th the Philadelphia School Reform Commission held its monthly meeting.
This is the testimony of members of the Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools at this meeting.
All of the videos can be viewed here. Testimony is in the order of appearance.
Click on the picture to view the individual video.
Video of APPS member Coleman Poses testifying at the Philadelphia School Reform Commission meeting – February 18, 2016.
The full transcript of Coleman’s testimony.
Video of APPS member Karel Kilimnik testifying at the Philadelphia School Reform Commission meeting – February 18, 2016.
The full transcript of Karel’s testimony.
Video of APPS member Lisa Haver testifying at the Philadelphia School Reform Commission meeting – February 18, 2016.
The full transcript of Lisa’s testimony.
Video of APPS member Carol Heinsdorf testifying at the Philadelphia School Reform Commission meeting – February 18, 2016.
The full transcript of Carol’s testimony.
Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools 