Kristen A. Graham January 13, 2021 Philadelphia Inquirer Though most Philadelphia schools have made academic strides in recent years, 6 in 10 city children still attend a low-performing school, and the picture is much starker for Black and Latino children and kids living in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. The patterns are not new, but the …
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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, …
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 …
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 …
It’s not either or: Philly needs more jobs and better schools. | Opinion
Mark Gleason, For the Inquirer March 20, 2019 Chicken or egg? Education or economic growth? It’s essentially the same question, with the same answer: It doesn’t matter which comes first. To move Philadelphia — and Pennsylvania — forward, we need higher-achieving schools and more economic prosperity. We need both. When it comes to preparing our …
Philadelphia School Partnership Offers an Array of Programs and Services
Center City Quarterly, Spring 2019 Issue
Nearly 30,000 students apply to Philadelphia charter schools through new website
Maddie Hanna Philadelphia Inquirer Nearly 30,000 students submitted more than 120,000 applications for Philadelphia charter schools this year through a new website that allowed families to apply to multiple city charter schools at once. More than half of the applications — 54 percent — came from the Lower and Far Northeast sections of …