Main message the article: "We need to create a vision and plan that expands the opportunities for families to access quality schools: 1. Identify schools’ most successful current assets and examine how and why they are working to beat the odds for their students. 2. Convene a group of education and civic leaders to define, with input from families and teachers, what quality and best practices mean for Philadelphia schools, and create sensible metrics to measure progress toward ensuring they exist in all of our neighborhoods and catchment areas. 3. This should include leaders of school systems, as well as members of Mayor Parker’s team and City Councilmembers, who all have visions for what quality schools entail. 4. Formulate a comprehensive, long-term plan that strengthens existing quality schools and creates the conditions for more schools to reach this bar. 5. Ensure the people who serve on both the school board nominating panel and the school board are focused on and committed to pursuing this unified vision."
Great article by Stacy Holland, Ed.D. "Elevate 215 is answering the Mayor’s call to action by laying out the steps we believe — based on research, data and feedback from all levels of the education community — the city needs to take to move our schools forward." Franklin Towne Charter High School is lucky to have a partnership with Apply Philly Charter so that we can provide education to the students in the city of Philadelphia. #PHLed #studentsfirst https://lnkd.in/eZ2vHpQb
