Public Schools — THERESA ROSE

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Edward W. Bok Technical High School

Stanton M. Hall Elementary School

Stanton M. Hall School is a regular public school located in North Philadelphia, PA with 393 enrolled students in primary, middle levels, providing services for grade levels PK-8. In 1993, Stanton had been the subject of an Academy Award-winning documentary, “I Am a Promise,” which demonstrated that despite the efforts of a dedicated, hardworking, and caring principal, the students were not learning to high standards. However in 2006, Stanton Elementary School won the Dispelling the Myth Award.

Students participating in free or reduced-price lunch program 88%

Charles Carroll High School

Located in Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, Charles Carroll High is a neighborhood public school that serves 416 students grades 9-12. The school’s namesake, Charles Carroll (1737 -1832), was a Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

The school hosts a peer mediation team, boasts several art contest winners, provides career and college workshops as well as maintains student/ teacher mentors.

Students participating in free or reduced-price lunch program 96.8%

Joseph Leidy Elementary School

Located on the edge of West Fairmount Park, the former site of the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition (the first U.S. World’s Fair), Joseph Leidy Elementary School serves 310 students grades K-8. The mission of Joseph Leidy school is to provide all students with the educational skills and tools needed to be productive and engaged citizens. The school maintains high expectations with the belief that all students will reach their potential, as they understand the practices and conditions necessary to promote academic progress. The school is named after Joseph Leidy (1823- 1891) an American paleontologist who was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.

Students participating in free or reduced-price lunch program 100%

PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC SCHOOL RE-OPENINGS

On March 7, 2013, twenty-three Philadelphia public schools closed their doors after a vote by the School Reform Commission. Philadelphia’s public school enrollment had declined 23 percent over the past decade due in large part to the growth of charter schools whose performance remains relatively the same as public schools. With a projected budget shortfall of $1.4 billion over the next five years if major restructuring did not occur, the schools’ doors, many of which serve the poorest communities in the city, were shuttered.

One year later, an emergency school reform commission was established. With a frank acceptance that neither privatization of the education system through charter school outsourcing was the appropriate answer nor the maintaining of the antiquated system of top down management and standardization, a series of proposals were drafted which highlighted the need for community control, local participation and an education based on the needs and backgrounds of each school.