Deal will keep 25 Northeast schools open after-hours 2
City and school district officials have reached an agreement to keep gyms and theaters in public schools open on afternoons and weekends. Cost-cutting plans announced amid the district’s $61 million shortfall included closing the facilities at the end of the school day.
Forty-eight schools will keep their extra-curricular doors open after hours through Saturday, March 17, according to Thursday’s announcement from the city. Twenty-five of those schools are in the Northeast:
- Baldi
- Watson Comly
- Stephen Decatur
- Hamilton Disston
- Henry Edmunds
- Louis H. Farrell
- Fels
- Aloysius Fitzpatrick
- Fox Chase
- Anne Frank
- Frankford
- John Hancock
- Thomas Holme
- General J. Harry La Brum
- Abraham Lincoln
- William Loesche
- Thurgood Marshall
- Mayfair
- Austin Meehan
- Northeast
- Robert B. Pollock
- Rhawnhurst
- Solis-Cohen
- James Sullivan
- George Washington
Parks & Recreation programs administered through city schools will be consolidated into those 48, with the city paying $175,000 for the deal to help the financially struggling district.
“We really still have easily another $40 million to cut before the end of June,” School Reform Commission Chair Pedro Ramos said in a press conference. “So the net effect of this compromise takes us part of the way there.”
So glad the broke city has money to help the broke school system. Now the drive- by shooters can save gas, knowing where to go. WAKE UP PHILA. The city’s getting rid of school cops, firehouses, firefighters FOR WHAT?? So they have $$$$$ to offer the next Ackerman who’ll do more of the same.
I am relieved to see that these programs will not get the Buzz saw approach. It seems, recently, that many important programs that the government says will reduce our debt or taxes, should be treated with a scalpel and not a buzz saw. For everyone’s good.