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 …
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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 …
Carver High School is Awarded A National Blue Ribbon for Excellence
(Photo: “I had potential I did not realize I had. Now, [after being at Carver] I do know.” – Aziz McDaniels, Senior at Carver High School) Today, it was announced that George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science was one of only two schools in the city, and one of just 362 schools …
Pennsylvania’s charter sector needs a scalpel, not a sledgehamme
Mark Gleason is the Executive Director of Philadelphia School Partnership Thomas B. Fordham Institute – Flypaper 9.4.2019 Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Tom Wolf garnered headlines recently when he announced vague plans for taking funding away from the state’s public charter schools. He also described charters as benefiting from an unlevel playing field for accountability and transparency. …
New Charter Schools “Ups the Game for Public Education in Philadelphia”
Impact of PSP-Suported Public Charter Schools The Philadelphia Inquirer’s feature story about PSP-supported MaST II and MaST III charter schools concludes by stating, “If only every school in Philadelphia could offer students as much [as they do].” PSP provided grants to both MaST II, which opened its doors for the 2016-17 school year, and MaST …