RFA: Once and For All: Placing a Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Philadelphia Classroom

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Research and Reporting Activity

Submitted by jgottschalk on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 14:49

Once & For All: Placing a Highly  Qualified Teacher in Every  Philadelphia Classroom

The Philadelphia public schools- under pressure from the public, civic, and education leaders, the 2001 state takeover of public schools, and new federal requirements to raise test scores dramatically- are at a crossroads. Either the district and community will find the right formula for school and student success, or there will be a growing lack of confidence in public education and an increasing exodus of students away from the city's schools. Philadelphia schools have already been subject to strong outside intervention. As of the fall of 2002, 70 of the district's 178 low-performing schools had undergone once of several radical interventions, ranging from privatization of their management to for-profit or non-profit organizations, assignment to "restructured" status in a sub-district of the system, or conversion to charter school status.


Activity Information

What students and communities are you learning about or reporting on?
What educational elements and reforms are you learning about or reporting on?
What educational resources are you learning about or reporting on?
What education policies and laws are you learning about or reporting on?
How did you or will observe and learn about these things?
Obtain written documents or policies
Attend a school board meeting
Meet with school officials
What were or are the most effective ways to use what you observe and learn?
Give a report to a meeting of your group.
Write a letter to school officials or policy makers.
Write a letter to the newspaper editor.
Meet with school officials or policy makers.
Plan an advocacy or organizing action to draw attention to your concerns.
Make a presentation to the school board.
Develop recommendations to change education policies or laws.
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