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Days after Philadelphia officials pushed the city one step closer to a so-called doomsday education plan that would see two dozen schools close, construction began on a $400-million prison said to be the second-most expensive state project ever.
Pennsylvanias School Reform Commission voted on June 1 to approve a $2.4 billion budget, ignoring hours of pleas from students, parents, educators and community members who warned the budget would cripple city schools.
The plan would close 23 public schools, roughly 10 per cent of the citys total. Commissioners rejected a proposal that would have only closed four of the 27 schools that were on the block for closure.
Without the means to cover a $304 million debt, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, students can expect to go back to school in September without new books, paper, counselors, clubs, librarians, assistant principals or secretaries. All athletics, art and music programs would be eliminated and as many as 3,000 people could lose their jobs.
http://rt.com/usa/philadelphia-doomsday-despite-prison-project-292/
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)More like because of.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)leftstreet
(36,109 posts)DURec
Triana
(22,666 posts)How sad and misguided and blatantly purchased by moneyed corprat interests can these whackos get? (don't answer that).
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)what our governement is doing, but the two things that will ultimately drive me to another party or to not vote at all is what they are doing to our education system and not doing anything about campaign finance reform.
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)Gotta store the underclass somewhere.