Superintendent William Hite addresses the public about school closings.
About 17,000, or 10 percent, of public school students will feel the impact if a massive overhaul for the School District of Philadelphia goes into effect, the superintendent said in a news conference Thursday. On the heels of announcing that 37 buildings will close and 18 grade configurations could take place if the School Reform Commission adopts the recommendations, Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite said the district "embarks on a difficult process, a process that will rightsize the district." Since taking the top schools position in September, Hite had to get up-to-speed with a facilities problem that annually bled the district of money. The restructuring plan considered the best way to improve the district academically and …
In total, 37 facilities will close citywide; many other changes planned.
A year after an elementary school closed and a middle school moved in, Roxborough was spared any closures by a proposed restructuring plan from the School District of Philadelphia released Thursday. Lankenau High School, a magnet environmental science school house on Spring Lane in Upper Roxborough, will relocate and share space at Roxborough High School in 2013-14, according to the plan. No other schools were impacted. In total, 44 public schools will either close or relocate to new buildings, with 37 facilities closing, if the plan is adopted. Lankenau will continue as a special admissions school, but will lose its own building. Last fall, the district expanded enrollment at Lankenau and Saul High School, also in Roxborough. The move …
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Shirley
12:03 pm on Friday, December 14, 2012
Does the article "Test Scores Drop for Philly Schools" have anything to do with the closing of Germantown High? Just curious. Maybe it's time for teachers to learn how to communicate with their students in order to teach them. Like 'Yizzo" them back so they know you're all on the same page. Getting my knuckles whacked by the Nun's clacker didn't take me long to learn to shut up and stop passing … more ›