The Philadelphia School Partnership (PSP) today announced it has awarded $375,000 in grants from its Great Schools Fund, including incubation grants to support turnaround plans at two Philadelphia high schools. This latest round of grants brings the total investments of the Great Schools Fund to $35.8 million to create better educational opportunities for nearly 16,000 …
Workshop School
Getting Things Done at The Workshop School
by Kevin McCorry, WHYY/NPR Imagine a school where classes are organized not by subject but by project … A school created not by administrators but by teachers fed up with the status quo … A school where kids from a city’s toughest neighborhoods are given the opportunity to experiment and the freedom to fail. In …
Philadelphia Inquirer: $6 million to aid three Phila. public schools
Three progressive Philadelphia public schools will expand in the fall as a result of a $6 million investment from a city nonprofit with growing clout, officials announced Wednesday.
Daily News: Nonprofit awards $6 million to expand 2 schools, alt program
The Philadelphia School Partnership, a fundraising nonprofit, awarded the district a $6 million grant yesterday to expand two district schools and one alternative program, adding 1,600 seats.
Three new investments in public schools
Yesterday we announced $6 million in grants to help expand three high-performing and innovative public schools. You can read about on the front page of today’s Inquirer. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: it’s not about school type, it’s about school quality. Hill-Freedman, Science Leadership Academy, and the Workshop School have great …
PSP invests $6 million in expansion of high-quality public schools
Grants from Great Schools Fund will support the growth of Hill-Freedman Middle School, Science Leadership Academy, and The Workshop School The Philadelphia School Partnership (PSP) today announced it is investing $6 million in grants from its Great Schools Fund to support the expansion of two high-performing School District of Philadelphia schools and the growth of …
Fox Philly: PSP Invests $6 Million in Expansion of District Schools
Watch coverage of the announcement here