Carly Sitrin

1 week ago | chalkbeat.org | Carly Sitrin

Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system. Members of the Philadelphia teachers union voted to authorize a future strike Tuesday, flexing their political muscles amid contract negotiations with the school district.

2 weeks ago | chalkbeat.org | Carly Sitrin

Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system. Philadelphia’s new $6.8 billion city budget does little to help what many call the city’s chronically underfunded school district close its looming deficits — and public education advocates say the city could have done more. The final budget — which reflects a deal between Mayor Cherelle Parker and City Council leadership — passed 15-1 on Thursday.

2 weeks ago | chalkbeat.org | Rebecca Redelmeier |Carly Sitrin

Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system. The Philadelphia school district has pledged that any future school closures — which officials have said are likely — will be markedly different from the last, brutal battle over shuttering local schools more than a decade ago.

4 weeks ago | phillyvoice.com | Carly Sitrin

The Philadelphia Board of Education voted Thursday to approve the city's first new charter school in nearly a decade. At a tense board meeting in a packed room, board members said they were "obligated" to approve the Early College Charter School of Philadelphia – since the application met all of the standards set by the state charter school law. Still, several members expressed serious reservations about the new school's impact on the district's budget.

4 weeks ago | chalkbeat.org | Carly Sitrin

Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system. The Philadelphia Board of Education voted Thursday to approve the city’s first new charter school in nearly a decade. At a tense board meeting in a packed room, board members said they were “obligated” to approve the Early College Charter School of Philadelphia — since the application met all of the standards set by the state charter school law.