At the Philadelphia School Partnership, we are deeply upset by the horrific death of George Floyd and the systemic racism that continues to manifest itself across the country. We stand doubly committed to listening and working with schools, donors, families and partners to ensure black people—and especially black students in Philadelphia—have the same freedoms, fairness …
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Career-Connected Learning Goes Virtual
2 Schools Funded by Grant from PSP Pivot from Planned Internships to Online Career Panels Last month, students from Swenson Arts and Technology High School had the opportunity to interact virtually with a pediatric surgeon from St. Christopher’s Hospital and a Burn Care Unit nurse from the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center. The students asked …
Neubauer Fellowship Will Bring 21 Top School Leaders Together to Tackle New Challenges
Five of the Distinguished Leaders Are Alumni of Leader Development Programs Supported by PSP The 21 Philadelphia school leaders selected as the next cohort of the Neubauer Fellowship in Educational Leadership come from different parts of the city and from a variety of schools--two faith-based, six public charter, and 13 district public schools--but they all …
Donors Create Jump-Start Philly Schools Fund to Reignite Learning; 15,000 Chromebooks on Way to Charter and Catholic School Students
Founding Donors Provide Nearly $4M to Help Students Participate in Online Learning Philadelphia, PA – April 2, 2020 – The Philadelphia School Partnership (PSP) today announced that Philadelphia area donors have come together to launch the Jump-Start Philly Schools Fund, aimed at meeting the immediate needs of low-income students and families across the city during …
2020 GreatPhillySchools Ratings Show More Philadelphia Schools Are Achieving High Academic Growth
Over 100 district and charter schools earned a high growth indicator Philadelphia, PA – Philadelphia School Partnership (PSP) announced that 2020 ratings for schools of all types – 213 public district, 98 public charter and 44 private – across Philadelphia are now available on the GreatPhillySchools website, GreatPhillySchools.org. The new ratings show 46 schools …
Twice as Many Schools in the Top Two Performance Tiers and Half as Many in the Lowest Tier as Several Years Ago, Continuing a Steady Trend
The Philadelphia School District recently released its School Progress Report (SPR), which grades every public school in the city—216 traditional public and 87 charters—on its overall performance in 2018-19 and places each of them in one of four performance tiers. Overall, schools continued their modest but steady improvement based on the district’s measurements over the …
Faced with “Challenge,” Parkway students find solutions
Students Help Companies Solve Problems Impact of PSP’s Support What is a great school? Effective schools come in different shapes and sizes, but they ultimately prepare students for what comes after. Whether students pursue college or a career, the best schools give them the learning skills, and the confidence, to succeed. With that in mind, …
Over 34K Students Apply to Public Charter Schools in Philadelphia Using Apply Philly Charter
Nearly 170,000 applications submitted to 80 schools Philadelphia – On January 27, 2020, the application window closed for families to apply to most Philadelphia charter schools for the 2020-21 school year on applyphillycharter.org. This concluded the second year of Apply Philly Charter, an easy-to-use system created by public charter schools to provide families with …
How PSP is Supporting Families in Choosing Their Great School
Philadelphia Families Want the Opportunity to Find Great Schools for Their Children Over 153,000 students exercise school choice everyday The Philadelphia Inquirer recently ran a series of opinions on school choice and wanted a fact-based op-ed about the state of choice in the city from a credible source, so they turned to Philadelphia School Partnership …
Parents want school choice. Here are tools that can help them. | Opinion | Inquirer
Parents want school choice. Here are tools that can help them. | Opinion Salma Khan and Eileen Walsh work for the Philadelphia School Partnership, where Khan is the director of GreatPhillySchools and Walsh is the manager of Apply Philly Charter. Philadelphia Inquirer October 20, 2019 Policies in support of school choice have been bitterly contested …