ALL PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOLS
“A Call for Action Rally”
Monday, April 15, 2013
The Philadelphia School District - 440 N. Broad St.
(across the street from MCSCS)
4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
All Charter School Parents:
For
the first time in the history of Philadelphia African-American and
other minority families have a choice! Parents are choosing to send
their children to charter schools and charter school operators are in a
battle to educate children in Philadelphia.
1. Charter Schools must operate on 20% less than public schools.
2. The
School District took $500.00 from every charter school student this
year after re-calculating charter funds due to the School District’s
budget deficit (304 million). Charter school operators were not
consulted on the impact of the reduction on children.
3. The
School Reform Commission voted to place a cap (not allowing increases
of students) on charter schools in Philadelphia. The state charter
school law prohibits caps.
4. Re-calculated charter schools Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) figures to reduce the number of charter schools passing state exams.
5. After
numerous complaints from charter school operators about unfair grading
of charter schools on the School Performance Index (SPI), the School
District hired an independent firm to re-calculate the SPI scores for
charter schools.
6. The refusal of the School District to approve new charter schools.
7. State Representative James Roebuck released
a negative report on charter schools as an introduction to House Bill
934 which also negatively impacts charter schools.
8. The excessive oversight of charters is just some of my very serious concerns.
Come
out and support charter schools and save the schools that are educating
your children. Please call Mrs. McCrewell at (215) 923-4880 to confirm
your attendance at the Call to Action Rally on Monday at 4:00 p.m.
Monday, April 15, 2013
440 North Broad Street
4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
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