Inquirer: City school getting $1M

Roxborough High School will receive $1.1 million to continue its transformation, a city nonprofit is to announce Monday.

The money is coming from the Philadelphia School Partnership, which has amassed $75 million to give away to charter, private, and traditional public schools and aims to raise more.

The grant – which will allow Roxborough to continue its shift to a career and technical education model – represents PSP’s first grant to a Philadelphia School District comprehensive high school, widely viewed as the toughest type of school to reform, given its mandate to take all students, regardless of needs.

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