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From YouTube: Committee of the Whole 11-9-2021
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The Committee of the Whole of the Council of the City of Philadelphia held a Public Hearing on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, at 1:00 PM to hear testimony on the following items:
181014 Resolution calling for the Council Committee of the Whole to convene public meetings and public hearings pursuant to the Educational Supplement of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to review the administration, management, operations, and finances of the School District and adopt plans to coordinate the activities of the Board of Education, the Mayor, and the City Council for the improvement and benefit of public education in Philadelphia.
G
I
E
B
This
public
meeting
and
public
hearing
of
the
council
committee
of
the
whole,
the
board
of
education
and
the
mayor
are
for
purpose
of
coordinating
our
activities
for
the
improvement
and
the
benefit
of
public
education
in
the
city
of
philadelphia,
as
required
by
section
12-209
of
the
philadelphia
homeworld
charter
and
city
council
resolution.
1-81014.
B
Thank
you
joining
us
today
are
mayor
kenny
board
of
education.
President
george
wilkerson
board.
Vice
president
leticia
iggy
hinton.
I
hope
I
got
that
right.
Keep
trying
board
members,
julia
danzi,
mallory
fix
lopez
and
maria
mcculkin,
angela
macgyver
lisa,
sally
reginald,
streeter
and
cecilia
thompson
and
school
superintendent,
dr
william
height
and
student
representatives,
rebecca
allen
and
armando,
were.
B
I
would
like
to
welcome
you
all
here
today
for
our
bi-annual
partnership
meeting.
Today's
agenda
will
go
as
follows.
First,
mayor
kenny
will
be
recognized
for
remarks
then
board.
President
joyce
wilkerson
will
be
recognized
for
the
purpose
of
introducing
board
of
education
members
and
the
school
district
superintendent.
The
board
will
make
a
presentation
on
its
current
and
upcoming
initiatives,
followed
by
questions
and
comments
from
city
council
members.
Dr
height
will
then
be
recognized
for
presentation
on
school
district
initiatives
and
plans
for
the
current
school
year,
followed
by
questions
and
comments
from
council
members.
B
I
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
mr
president,
good
afternoon.
Everyone
thanks
for
being
here
I'm
pleased
to
open
this
joint
meeting
of
the
city
council,
school
board
of
education
and
the
school
district
of
philadelphia.
This
meeting
is
one
of
the
many
ways
that
we
work
together
to
ensure
that
all
philadelphia
children
have
access
to
a
quality
education.
I
The
last
time
this
meeting
took
place
in
may.
We
still
have
many
children
attending
school
completely,
virtually
due
to
the
pandemic.
So
I'm
excited
that
today,
thanks
to
the
leadership
of
everyone
here,
all
philadelphia
students
in
the
school
district
can
attend
school
in
person
every
day
of
the
week.
This
is
no
small
accomplishment.
I
The
city
and
school
district
worked
together
to
create
access
centers
at
rec,
centers
libraries
and
community
sites
distribute
millions
of
meals
to
students
and
families
and
provide
thousands
of
valuable
summer
opportunities
for
students
and
with
the
support
of
comcast.
We
have
enabled
over
eighteen
thousand
seven
hundred
internet
connections
through
phl
connected
and
work
to
close
the
digital
divide
to
through
improved
access
to
to
access
a
digital
navigation
support.
I
Thanks
to
city
council,
the
board
of
education
and
dr
heights
leadership,
we
have
laid
a
strong
foundation
for
the
work
ahead,
including
the
upcoming
superintendent
transition.
I
am
confident
that
the
board
will
continue
to
lead
a
thorough
process
to
help
find
help
find
the
right
person
to
sustain
and
build
in
the
progress
we've
already
made.
In
the
meantime,
I
look
forward
to
our
continued
collaboration
this
year,
as
our
city
and
schools
return
to
a
more
familiar
routine
as
we
move
forward,
we
will
need
to
build
on
our
partnerships
to
advance
our
shared
goals.
I
You
must
continue
to
prioritize
safe
learning
environments
for
all
students.
We
must
continue
to
prioritize
mental
health
and
supports
and
we
must
continue
to
support
a
talent
pipeline
in
our
schools.
This
effort
will
require
a
focus
on
racial
equity
and
a
pledge
to
do
what
is
right
for
our
students
through
through
our
collective
vision.
We
will
and
commitment.
We
can
address
these
challenges
and
make
the
most
of
the
opportunities
to
come.
I
Much
has
changed
because
of
the
pandemic,
but
I've
been
happy
to
find,
as
I've
resumed
school
visits
this
year,
that
some
things
are
still
the
same,
like
the
excitement
of
students
when
they
learn
something
new
and
the
dedication
of
our
educators,
who
work
every
day
to
inspire
and
cultivate
a
love
of
learning
and
the
fierce
commitment
we
all
have
to
our
city
and
our
children.
So
thank
you
for
the
time
and
look
forward
to
today's
conversation.
B
G
G
M
Okay,
so
thank
you,
president
wilkerson
in
august
of
2022,
dr
height,
will
transition
from
his
role
as
superintendent
for
the
school
district
of
philadelphia.
After
having
served
in
the
role
for
10
years,
the
search
for
the
next
superintendent
began
in
october
and
you
can
see
from
the
timeline
on
the
slide.
What
the
main
components
of
the
search
will
include.
M
The
board
has
engaged
the
search,
firm,
isaacson
miller,
to
manage
the
search,
and
we
have
gathered
public
input
into
the
search
through
listening
sessions
and
a
community
survey
I'll
share
a
little
bit
more
about
our
engagement
process
on
the
next
slide
later
this
month,
we
will
release
a
report
detailing
the
time
the
themes
and
feedback
heard
during
our
listening
sessions
and
survey
responses
next
slide.
Please,
and
we
should
be
on
slide
four.
N
M
M
M
What
we
heard
over
and
over
again
during
this
listening
session,
is
how
important
it
is
for
the
district
and
the
board
to
go
beyond
center
city
and
connect
with
all
communities,
and
I
think
that
we've
done
that
board
member
danzi
will
now
continue
with
this
update.
If
you
could
move
it
to
the
next
slide.
Please.
D
D
We
need
a
change
agent,
we
need
someone
who
understands
the
needs
of
and
has
experience
working
within,
supporting
a
diverse
population.
We
need
someone
who
looks
at
current
systems
of
inequity
within
our
public
school
system.
We
need
someone
who
is
committed
to
student
achievement.
We
need
someone
who
is
culturally
competent.
D
So
what
are
we
going
to
do
with
this
information?
The
role
of
the
superintendent
requires
some
very
unique
skill
sets
and
the
board
is
focused
on
finding
the
best
person
to
continue
moving
our
district
forward
step,
one.
We
are
already
in
the
process
of
consolidating
all
feedback
provided
in
this
public
input
process.
D
D
Finally,
I
would
like
to
add
that
we
know
the
community
has
valuable
and
unique
insights
that
can
help
us
identify
who
our
next
superintendent
should
be,
and
we
greatly
appreciate
everyone's
participation
in
our
survey
and
listening
session
board.
Mil
board
member
sally
will
now
present
an
update
on
goals
and
guard
rails,
and
would
you
please
move
to
this
next
slide,
which
is
6.?
Thank
you.
M
D
Sorry
about
that,
I'm
unmuted
now,
okay,
and
thank
you
board
member
danzi.
Now
we
would
like
to
provide
you
with
an
update
on
goals
and
guard
rails.
The
board's
five-year
plan
to
raise
student
achievement
that
we
adopted
in
december
2020
and
began
implementing
in
january
of
this
current
year,
goals
and
guardrails
have
allowed
the
board
to
set
up
clear
expectations
for
student
success,
to
monitor
progress
towards
those
expectations
and
to
adopt
a
budget
and
policies
that
provide
support
based
on
these
needs
of
our
students.
D
To
begin
with,
we
believe
that
effective
boards
commit
to
a
vision
of
high
expectation
for
all
students
and
set
clear
goals
to
make
this
vision
a
reality.
Such
boards
then
spend
the
majority
of
their
time
focused
on
these
goals
and
ensuring
that
their
school
district
is
making
progress.
Our
vision
is
clear.
D
D
D
D
During
our
monthly
action
meetings,
board
members
devote
time
monitoring,
monitoring
the
progress
of
one
goal
or
guard
rail
by
reviewing
data
that
indicates
how
on
track
the
school
district
is
to
achieving
the
plan's
objectives.
This
data
review
also
informs
our
decision
making
as
we
review
the
school
district's
policies,
budgets
and
initiatives
the
date
the
board
has
reviewed
each
goal
twice
and
one
of
our
guard
rails.
We
will
complete
a
full
cycle
of
monitoring
of
each
goal
and
guardrail
by
the
end
of
the
calendar
year
board.
Member
fix
lopez
will
now
continue.
O
Thank
you
sally.
Since
we
began
monitoring
goals
and
guardrails,
certain
trends
have
helped
us
identify
our
students,
needs
and
then
invest
in
targeted
strategies
and
resources.
In
the
first
year
of
implementing
goals
in
guardrails,
the
school
district
has
developed
the
strategies
and
actions
shown
on
this
slide
to
drive
progress.
O
In
the
first
year
of
implementing
goals
and
guardrails,
the
school
district
has
developed
the
strategies
and
actions,
unfortunately
not
shown
on
the
slide
to
drive
progress.
The
first
strategy
is
to
implement
the
multi-tiered
system
of
supports
framework.
This
is
a
standards
aligned,
comprehensive
framework
for
improving
academic,
behavioral
and
social
emotional
outcomes
for
all
students.
O
Under
this
strategy,
action
one
is
focused
on
ensuring
that
every
student
has
access
to
grade
level
instruction.
This
is
an
example
of
bringing
a
practice
that
has
been
successful
in
some
schools
to
all
schools
across
the
system
to
provide
necessary
resources
and
targeted
interventions
based
on
the
needs
of
our
students.
O
The
second
strategy
is
to
develop
leaders
and
teachers
through
the
implementation
of
evidence-based
professional
learning
cycles.
This
is
a
redesign
of
the
district's
approach
to
professional
development
and
learning
for
educators
by
providing
professional
development
in
cycles
with
multiple
opportunities
for
learning,
to
allow
educators
to
learn
new
skills
and
then
have
the
opportunity
to
practice
those
skills.
O
These
culturally
and
linguistically
inclusive
curricula
reflect
on
students
and
make
learning
more
relevant
and
engaging
for
them.
The
district
has
developed
cross-departmental
strategy
implementation
teams
that
are
supporting
schools
and
educators
district-wide
to
bring
these
strategies
to
the
classroom
at
monthly
meetings.
We
hear
updates
on
these
strategies
from
staff
and
how
they
expect
to
impact
progress
on
a
goal
or
guardrail.
O
A
Thank
you
board
member
fix
lopez.
This
year
the
board
welcomed
two
new
students
to
serve
as
non-voting
student
board
representatives.
Rebecca
allen
is
a
junior
at
central
high
school
who
has
committed
herself
to
advocating,
on
behalf
of
her
peers
through
her
involvement
with
proactive
student
groups.
Rebecca
is
the
co-founder
of
unheard,
which
means
uprooting
negligence
by
habituating
equity
and
anti-racism
through
real
discussions.
A
Our
second
student
board
representative
is
armando.
Ortez,
a
senior
at
northeast
high
school
as
a
first
generation
honduran
american
armando
has
committed
himself
to
ensuring
that
all
students
have
access
to
safe,
comfortable
spaces
that
they
may
not
have
at
home.
Armando
currently
takes
dual
enrollment
courses
at
community
college
in
philadelphia.
A
A
this
year,
rebecca
and
armando
have
identified
three
guiding
principles
for
their
work.
Those
principles
are
exposure,
advocacy
and
diversity,
since
they
begin
their
term
rebecca
and
armando
have
worked
together,
using
their
unique
voices
and
perspectives
to
ensure
that
students
have
a
voice
in
the
discussion
making
process
over
the
past
few
months,
rebecca
and
armando
have
been
hard
at
work
to
accomplish
these
goals.
A
The
students
kicked
off
their
year
meeting
with
the
phl
youth,
commission
and
community
schools
cohort
to
discuss
the
impact
of
the
program.
Additionally,
rebecca
joined
a
cohort
of
student
board
representatives
from
across
the
country
to
discuss
key
topics
affecting
all
students
and
ways
to
use
their
position
as
a
way
to
advocate
for
her
peers.
A
Before
closing,
I
like
to
note
that
rebecca
and
armando
continue
to
participate
in
the
board's
monthly
action
meetings
and
play
a
key
role
in
helping
us
in
our
monthly
progress
monitoring,
around
wolves
and
guardrails.
Rebecca
and
armando,
asked
thoughtful
questions
of
the
district
staff
and
challenged
us
as
a
board.
To
remember
that
all
we
have
all
we
do
impacts
their
educational
experiences
and
outcomes
as
a
board.
We
thoroughly
enjoy
having
student
board
representatives
and
thank
rebecca
and
armando
for
their
outgoing
efforts
ongoing
efforts
to
ensure
that
student
voice
is
heard.
A
H
H
H
The
advisory
council
has
been
a
crucial
part
of
the
work
of
the
board
and
has
been
invaluable
in
helping
us
establish
our
goals
and
guardrails
in
the
past
two
years.
They
have
helped
us
focus,
helped
us
host
focus
groups
to
collect
input
as
we
develop
our
goals
and
guardrails,
and
this
year
they
helped
us
host
listening
sessions
as
we
began
or
began
our
superintendent
search.
G
B
Thank
you
very
much
and
thank
you
all
for
your
continued
commitment
to
the
children
of
the
city
of
philadelphia.
We
really
appreciate
it.
It
would
be
good
if
we
could
pay
you,
but
it's
not.
It's
not
a
charter
authorized
option
at
this
time,
but
on
a
serious
note,
I
really
appreciate
what
you
all
have
done.
It's
just
it's
so
significant
to
give
up
your
time,
understanding
the
the
need
for
us
to
have
the
appropriate
direction
for
our
young
people.
B
You
know
in
the
middle
of
micromanaging
the
school
board,
but,
as
you
know,
we
are
responsible
for
some
aspects
of
the
operation.
In
the
school
board,
primarily
around
funding,
but
at
the
end
of
the
day
we
will
be
held
responsible,
like
all,
are,
as
it
relates
to
the
function,
and
so
with
that
said,
I
do
want
to
ask
the
question-
and
this
is
actually,
at
least
in
my
mind-
has
been
magnified,
because
I
had
this
this
feeling
for
quite
some
time.
B
Like
many
things
that
proven
19,
the
pandemic
has
magnified
a
lot
of
different
things:
inequities,
shortcomings,
racism,
all
kinds
of
things,
but
one
of
the
things
that
it
has
done
in
terms
of
opportunities,
employment,
careers,
business
startups.
I
don't
think
things
will
ever
be
the
way
it
used
to
be
that's
just
a
simple
reality.
B
B
It
has
there
been
any
serious
thought
or
significant.
I
don't
want
to
say
serious,
significant
thought
about
having
a
real
look
at
the
curriculum
focusing
on
those
job
opportunities
that
will
be
that
will
realize
sustained
growth
as
opposed
to
the
basic
education
which
we
understand
we
need,
but
this
has
really
shown
that
there
are
growth
industries
and
there
are
some
indus
industries
that
could
basically
be
diminished
dramatically
as
a
result
of
a
pandemic
or
some
other
thing
unforeseen
incident
in
this
country.
B
G
Yeah,
sooner
rather
than
later
I'll
pivot
and
turn
it
over
to
dr
hike
to
talk
more
about
the
curriculum
in
shaping
goals
and
guardrails,
it
was
important
to
the
community
and
the
board
that
it
not
be
simply
about
passing
tests,
and
so
a
number
of
our
guard
rails
in
particular.
Our
second
guard
rail,
focuses
on
making
sure
that
we
have
well-rounded
students
and
that
extracurricular
activities
are
integrated
into
the
curriculum.
G
More
to
your
point,
though,
we
also
are
looking
at
progress
in
our
cte
schools
and
the
kind
of
issues
that
you
bring
up.
You
know,
is
it
irrelevant
curriculum?
What
kind
of
connection
is
there
to
industry
is
a
critical
part
in
the
kinds
of
questions
that
that
we're
asking,
but
I
want
to
turn
to
dr
height,
because
the
district's
doing
a
lot
of
work
around
curriculum.
We,
you
know,
as
we
consider
koz.
P
Thank
you,
madam
president,
and
good
afternoon,
council,
president
and
members
of
council
and
I'll
be
able
to
talk
through
the
question
more
in
depth
as
a
part
of
my
presentation,
but
I
do
want
to
add
so.
The
short
answer
is
yes,
we
are
doing
a
lot
of
what
you
just
requested
and
I'll
give
a
couple
of
examples,
and
so
thinking
through
the
work
that
we're
now
partnering
with
the
community
college.
P
On
the
I
know,
the
councilwoman
keone
sanchez
and
councilwoman
gilmore
richardson
were
with
us
recently
at
frankfurt,
high
school
when
we
announced
the
solar
energy
program
out
there,
which
is
the
first
of
its
kind
in
the
nation,
and
so
we're
excited
about
that.
But
we're
also
now
in
conversations
with
amazon
around
a
logistical,
a
logistics
training
center,
so
that
our
young
people
can
be
equipped
with
the
types
of
skills
to
move
directly
into
those
experiences
and
those
jobs
that
will
be
available
and
those.
B
Let
me
let
me
be
a
little
more
fine.
I've
been
saying
for
a
while.
Ever
since
we
took
a
trip
out
to
the
job
corps
down
in
the
old
armory,
and
we
saw
the
health
care
training
down
there,
and
I
was
just
amazed
had
no
idea.
What's
going
on
the
city
of
philadelphia,
it
may
be
probably
number
one
employer
in
the
city
of
philadelphia,
healthcare
institutions.
B
It
will
continue
to
grow
and
you
guys
always
talk
about
traveling
out
34th
street.
It
is
a
new
citizen,
entire
city
and
councilwoman
got
the
air
can
talk
to
you
about
that.
The
growth
out
there
and
these
jobs
and
health
care
are
labor
intensive,
councilman,
gilmore
richardson.
You
referenced
her
this
initiative
that
she's
working
with,
I
think
ibx,
and
I
believe
it
was
one
of
the
unions.
B
The
reality
is
is
that
with
somewhat
minimal
training
we
can
move
people
from
one
stage
in
their
life
to
a
much
higher
paying
stage
and
it
stays
with
much
more
benefits.
And
my
question
is
on
things
like
that,
and
I
appreciate
what
you've
just
laid
out.
I
just
continue
to
think
that
health
care
is
just
something
that's
in
my
mind,
I
mean
I
know
what
I'm
talking
about
which
a
lot
of
people
say.
P
B
K
K
I
know
this
was
a
long
day
and
we
had
important,
there's,
obviously
important
committee
hearings
that
go
on
all
the
time,
but
just
appreciate
the
board's
patience
and
especially
the
public's
patience,
because
I
know
a
lot
of
people
are
watching
from
home
and
how
much
time
it
takes.
So
you
know
one
of
the
things
and
I
know
this
will
be
discussed
at
some
point,
but
as
the
board,
one
of
the
central
issues
for
the
board
will
be
to
think
about
a
large-scale
planning
process.
K
That
is
concurrent
with
the
next
superintendent
and,
as
you
know,
a
number
of
us
on
city
council
were
at
sla
bieber
in
september,
which
was
the
12th
school
to
close
in
the
last
two
years
because
of
problems
within
the
building
and
in
general.
You
know
the
district
has
suffered
tremendously
from
the
consequence
of
decades
of
failing
to
invest
in
modernizing
school
facilities,
planning
out
for
growing
populations
that
are
happening
all
across
the
city
of
philadelphia.
K
Some
schools,
elementary
schools,
in
fact
that
can
be
larger
than
college
campuses,
which
shows
promise
really
for
the
district.
The
last
facilities
assessments
were
completed
in
2017
and
documented
in
need
of
nearly
5
billion
over
10
years,
and
one
of
the
challenges
was
that
those
assessments
didn't
actually
result
in
a
robust
process
to
develop
a
master
plan
that
was
in
partnership
with
educators,
families,
communities,
neighborhood
stakeholders.
K
G
G
You
know,
after
consultation
with
the
broader
community,
developing
a
plan
for
21st
century
schools
and
and
so
there's,
you
know,
there's
a
lot
of
work
that
needs
to
happen.
We,
you
know
we
are
awaiting
a
report
from
the
district
and
an
opportunity
to
review
those
materials,
so
we
can
also
have
those
conversations
with
the
broader
community.
I
think
we
agree
with
you
that
it's
not
good
enough
to
simply
patch
these
old
buildings.
These
buildings,
in
many
cases,
don't
serve,
can't
support
21st
century
education
and
that's
really
our
starting
point.
G
What
should
a
21st
century
education
look
like
and
then
what
is
it
that
a
building
needs
to
consist
of
in
order
to
support
that
education?
So
we're
mindful
of
the
need
to
take
a
broader
view
of
the
challenge
in
front
of
us,
and
we
will
certainly
be
sharing
documents.
You
know,
as
they
become
available
to
us.
K
Thank
you
very
much
chair
wilkerson
and
similarly
you
know.
I
guess
the
question
really
is
about
whether
you
have
thought
through
the
timing
of
what
a
facility's
master
plan
can
look
like,
given
that
we
need
significant
and
robust
community
engagement.
There's
a
capital
budget
that
needs
to
be
developed.
K
There's
a
city
budget
that
needs
to
be
concurrent,
as
you
know,
there's
always
state
money
that
needs
you
know
that
can
and
should
I
think,
most
of
us
the
degree
should
be
in
more
significant
play,
but
I
assume
that
you
know
part
of
this
is
that
we
don't
want
to
restart
this
process
with
the
new
superintendent,
given
your
timeline
being
august
of
2022
for
the
arrival
and
formal
installation
of
the
superintendent,
but
that
we
actually
need
things
to
move
now.
So
do
you?
Can
you
give
any
indication
about
a
timeline
for
development.
G
We're
engaged
in
conversations
with
the
district
now
I
think
we're
very
sensitive
as
well
to
and
and
in
particular
dr
hyatt
is,
you
know,
feels
feels
a
commitment
to
his
successor
that
the
successor
not
walk
into
the
same
situation
that
he
encountered
when
he
became
superintendent.
So
we're
you
know
we're
conscious
of
the
timeline
trying
to
figure
out
how
much
of
the
conversation
we
can
have
in
in
the
coming
months.
G
K
Yeah,
okay,
that's
helpful
to
hear
and
it
it
certainly
informs
our
planning
process,
as
we
think
about
it.
In
our
city,
council
bodies-
and
I
know
councilman
greene
and
myself
have
been
talking
about
a
hearing
around
financing
and
what
a
facilities
plan
has
been
looking
like.
So
we
look
forward
to
being
a
partner
with
the
school
district.
On
that
my
last
question
for
the
board,
that's
very
specific
to
the
board
is
specifically
around
the
recent
policy
around
spanning
school
staff,
from
communicating
with
media
about
any
school
issues.
K
This
has
been
raised
as
a
serious
consideration
of
being
incredibly
broad
and
for
all
of
us
I
mean
we
are
all
on
public
bodies.
We
are
responsible
for
large.
You
know
a
large
and
broad
employee
base,
and
you
know
our
work
relies
on
both
the
strength
of
a
unified
message,
no
doubt,
but
also
on
the
robust
commitment
of
our
our
staff
and
our
team
towards
voice
and
visibility.
G
We've
just
so,
we
have
a
a
many
step
process,
so
we
have
a
policy
committee.
The
district
has
proposed
policy,
9
11,
that
that
sets
parameters
around
staff.
Speaking
to
the
media,
it
was
presented
to
the
board.
The
board
had
any
number
of
questions,
so
we're
now
actively
engaged
in
making
sausage-
and
you
know
something
will
be
eventually
reported
out
to
the
board
at
a
meeting.
The
public
will
have
an
opportunity
to
weigh
in
it
will
lay
over
for
an
additional
week
and
well.
G
The
public
will
have
an
another
opportunity,
as
will
the
board
to
amend
whatever
it
is
that
is
proposed,
so
we're
just
at
the
very
beginning
of
the
process.
Nobody
has
signed
off
on
the
proposed
policy
911,
I'm
sure
there
were
a
lot
of
questions
that
were
raised
at
the
board
meeting
and
I'm
sure
those
questions
will
will
will
continue
to
be
raised
as
we
work
on
trying
to
shape
a
policy.
P
Council,
councilwoman
kim,
if
that's
okay,
that
so
policy
911,
is
also
a
it
is
up
for
revision,
because
it's
not
a
new
policy.
It's
been
a
policy
that
is
existed
since
2011
and
we're
required
every
so
often
to
provide
updates
on
those
policies,
and
so
it
was
a
recommendation
for
updates.
But,
as
you
heard
from
the
board
president
still
a
lot
to
do
as
we
listen
and
consider
all
the
feedback
that
we've
heard
around
that
the
set
of
recommendations.
P
K
Transparency
is
a
challenge,
but
it
is
been
one
of
the
best
ways
that
we've
been
able
to
drive
some
resources
and
collaboration
with
the
district
so
strongly
believe
in
upholding
first
amendment
rights
and
to
free
speech-
and
you
know
we'll
be
following
this
closely.
So
council
president,
those
are
my
questions
for
the
school
board.
Thank
you.
So
much.
Q
G
Q
G
So
our
policy
committee-
isn't,
you
know,
engaged
around
those
very
issues.
I
want
to
also
note
that
that
there
are
other
avenues.
You
know
we
hear
from
faculty
all
the
time
from
staff
all
the
time
at
our
board
meetings
and
and
so
want
to
assure
the
public
that
you
know
there
are
opportunities
for
employees
to
come
forward
and
express
concerns,
but.
E
G
You
know
we're
we
are
going
to
take
a
hard
look
on
the
revisions
that
are
proposed
for
the
policy
and,
like
you
said,
we're
going
to
be
taking
a
look
at.
What's
what
what
works
nationally
before
we
make
any
decisions,
any
final
decisions
about
whether
to
have
a
policy
whether
to
revise
the
policy
so
we're
at
the
very
very
beginning
of
this
process.
Q
So
I
definitely
have
some
concerns
about
this
level
of
censorship,
because,
just
from
my
experience,
a
lot
of
complaints
following
dead
ears
or
piled
up
in
lists
of
papers
and
write-ups,
so
I
really
would
be
paying
very
close
attention
on
how
this
policy
is
implemented
and
carried
out.
I
have
another
question
about
the
vacancies.
G
We
we
have
to
have
those
conversations
with
the
administration
and
one
of
the
things
that
we're
all
learning
is
that
being
a
board
member
is
an
extraordinarily
challenging
it's
challenging
and
trying
to
figure
out
what
reasonable
expert
you
know.
I
worry
about
what
reasonable
expectations
are
for
for
terms
for
board
members.
You
know
when
you
look
nationally.
It's
interesting.
It
breaks
down
in
part
based
on
the
age
of
the
board
member
younger
board.
G
Members
tend
to
serve
three
years
or
less
you
know,
and
then,
when
you
get
to
vintage
board
members
like
myself,
you
know
we're
on
the
board
much
longer,
but
it's
it
trying
to
figure
out
a
cadence
for
bringing
new
board
members
on.
I
also
worry
about
the
home.
Rule
charter
does
not
provide
for
staggered
terms,
and
so
we
will
have
all
eight
board
members
nine
board
members.
If
we
get
a
new
appointee
stepping
down
when
a
new
mayor
is
appointed
and
and
have
concerns
about
how
that
plays
out.
G
But
but
we
are,
you
know
we
will
be
talking
with
the
administration.
You
know
we're
down
one
board
member
and
it
you
know
it's
it's.
It's
also
a
challenge:
bringing
new
board
members
on
there's
a
lot
of
orientation
that
has
to
happen
getting
people
up
to
speed.
So
you
know
that
that's
an
issue
that
that
we're
cognizant
of
and
we'll
be
talking
with
the
administration
in
the.
G
And
I
don't
want
you
to
think
that
board
members
are
complaining
because
you
know,
like
we've,
just
finished,
having
46
engagement
sessions
board
members-
I
I
think,
particularly
with
our
our
work
around
goals
and
guardrails,
feel
that
we're
focused
in
a
way
that
that
will
result
in
in
positive
outcomes
for
students
and
and
so
we
feel
that
our
time
is
well
spent.
But
it's
very
demanding-
and
you
know
one
thing
I
you
know
I
I
just
worry
about
not
having
staggered
terms
and.
Q
Yep,
so
I
just
want
to
echo
council
president's
sentiment
early
on
that.
I
definitely
understand
the
need
for
this
opportunity,
potentially
to
be
a
paid
opportunity
for
board
members,
because
it's
hard
to
serve
such
long
hours
and
still
maintain
a
job.
That's
probably
why
some
of
the
less
seasoned
board
members
aren't.
They
don't
know
why
they
have
families
and
jobs
to
uphold.
So
I
just
want
to
let
you
know.
I
hear
that,
and
you
know
we'll
continue
to
work
towards
that.
I
have
a
few
questions
around
the
superintendent
search
process.
Q
Q
M
Q
M
M
Actually,
we
have
reached
out
to
students,
but
we
have
also
been
working
with
our
student
board
reps,
who
have
also
been
reaching
out
to
their.
You
know
to
the
student
board
to
the
board.
Comm
I
mean
I'm
sorry
to
the
student
community
there's
themselves.
We
have
ensured
that
students
had
the
opportunity,
I
mean
we
do
send
out
the
surveys
to
them,
etc.
M
Q
M
Well,
we
have
extended
the
survey
portion
of
the
engagement
to
the
12th
of
the
month,
so
we're
that's
one
way
that
we're
doing
it.
I
know
that
and-
and
I'm
not
trying
to
put
the
councilwoman
game,
I
know
she's
having
a
number
of
sessions
as
well.
So
that's
one
of
the
significant
ways
that
we
thought
we
would
be
able
to
reach
out.
M
Q
M
M
Q
M
You
know
well
one
thing
we
have:
we
have
the
slide
that
we
have
presented
to
you
that
provided
some
of
the
ethnicities-
and
one
thing
I
wanted
to
point
out
to
you-
is
that
the
ethnicities
portion
of
the
survey
people
completed
it
voluntarily,
so
we
didn't
necessarily
we
couldn't
require
it
of
course
right.
So
we
know
that
that
most
of
the
information
is
not
complete
in
that
way,.
Q
M
Well,
one
one
of
the
things
that
we
did
understanding
this
we
kind
of
knew
that
we
wanted
to
really
reach
out
and
connect
with
communities
that
normally
would
not
connect
with
us.
That's
why,
when
we
started
preparing
for
the
listening
sessions,
what
we
did
was
we
engaged
with
key
organizations
in
these
communities
like
africom
congreso,
you
know
those
types
of
groups.
We
even
went
to
puerto
riqueno.
It
was
an
in-person
listening
session
that
I
went
to
so
we've
really
been
relying
on
these
key
organizations
to
help
us
do
that.
K
You
so
much
council
president.
First,
I
wanted
to
thank
the
the
all
of
the
board
members
and
commissioners.
I
do
hope
you
know
we
are
doing
a
couple
of
upcoming
sessions.
We'll
also
include
some
more
intensive
dialogue
with
many
of
our
immigrant
communities,
some
of
whom
comprise
the
majority
of
of
schools
in
many
different
parts
of
the
city.
K
Mayfair
kirk
bride
key
have
predominantly
immigrant
student
population,
so
we
welcome
the
school
board's
presence
at
these
hearings,
one
of
which
will
include
about
50
young
people
through
one
of
the
organizations
that
we
often
partner
with
and
council.
Nomo
will
be
having
that.
So
we
certainly
welcome
the
school
board
to
participate
and
hear
directly
from
young
people
and
look
forward
to
you
know
recognizing
that
there's
a
formal
process,
but
hopefully
that
they'll
find
some
space
for
continuing
to
listen
on
people's
priorities.
E
You,
mr
president,
I
just
want
to
briefly
say
you
took
me
aback
when
you
talked
about
how
long
dr
height
had
been
here,
and
it
was
10
years.
It
seemed
like
only
last
year.
I
asked
him
a
question
in
the
budget
session
about
how
he
would
sometime
in
the
future,
give
the
report
card
of
his
progress
over
time.
I'm
not
going
to
ask
him
to
do
that
today,
but
I
will
ask
that
same
question
and
series
of
questions
during
the
budget
process
a
little
later
on.
G
F
Thank
you
very
much
council
president
yeah.
I
I
have
questions
about
the
change
in
process
for
selection.
I
believe
selection
to
magnet
schools,
I'm
not
sure
if
that's
everything
or
if
it's
a
there's
a
difference.
My
understanding
and
I
may
be
wrong.
Is
this
36
magnet
schools?
Did
this
apply
to
all
magnet
schools,
some
magnet
schools,
I'm
not
clear
on
that.
P
Yes
and
so
councilman
o
the
the
that's
also
in
my
presentation.
Let's
talk
about
the
school
selection
process
and
the
change
of
that
question.
There
are
approximately
35
36,
we
call
them.
We
call
them
criteria
based
schools
and
then
some
are
city-wide
admission
schools
that
includes
our
cte
schools,
some
of
the
performing
arts
schools
and
then
there
are
only,
I
think,
five
schools
that
are
criteria
based
or
that,
where
someone
has
to
meet
a
certain
criteria
in
order
to
enroll.
F
F
B
Why
don't
we
do
this?
I
think
we
have
councilman
thomas
teed
up
and
then
after
councilman
thomas
councilwoman,
quinona
sanchez
will
come
on
to
give
a
statement,
a
half-time
statement
and
then
we'll
start
get
the
presentation
from
dr
height
and
then
we'll
ask
questions
because
I
see
a
lot
of
the
questions
are
probably
best
answered
by
dr
pate
as
the
operations
of
manager
of
the
school
councilman
thomas.
L
D
L
D
L
G
With
respect
to
the
investigation
that
that
the
board
has
launched
pursuant
to
the
the
allegations
by
minority-led
charters,
the
investigation
is
in
its
early
stages,
so
there's
limited
information
we
can
provide.
The
board
has
retained
ballard's
bar
to
conduct
the
investigation.
Eller
spar
has
agreed
to
conduct
the
investigation
on
a
pro
bono
basis.
Pursuant
to
its
pro
bono
initiative.
G
G
The
investigation
will
con
the
investigators
will
conduct
an
investigation
into
specific
allegations
of
unlawful
discrimination
and
whether
their
discriminatory
effects
of
charter
authorizing
practices.
More
generally
they'll
also
provide
recommendations
for
moving
forward.
The
investigation
will
be
independent,
not
subject
to
any
restrictions,
limitations
or
prohibition
imposed
by
the
school
district
unless
required
by
law.
A
final
report
will
be
made
public.
The
anticipated
date
for
the
completion
of
the
report
is
august
22.
G
Although
the
timeline
may
be
altered
as
the
investigation
proceeds,
the
board
is
consulting
with
other
stakeholders
to
define
the
scope
of
the
investigation,
including
members
of
the
council
and
representatives
of
the
charter
sector.
The
investigation,
as
I
said,
is
still
in
its
early
stages.
This
is
all
that
we
have
to
share
right
now.
D
A
number
of
different
stakeholders,
as
well
as
council
members
who
are
concerned
about
the
process,
thus
far,
we
want
to
make
sure
that
there
are
remains
some
level
of
transparency
as
it
relates
to
the
report,
so
that
we
can
assure
that
it
is
genuine,
authentic
and
reflective
of
the
experiences
that
so
many
have
communicated
as
it
relates
to
their
concern.
Thank
you,
council
president.
C
C
I
think,
as
president
wilkerson
has
highlighted,
the
amount
of
work
and
related
to
this
and
the
expectations
from
this
locally
controlled
board
have
been
tremendous,
and
I
want
to
thank
them
for
stepping
up
to
the
plate,
the
mayor
and
the
administration
and
their
selection
committee,
and
you
know
we
will
continue
to
work
not
only
through
our
role
as,
as
you
know,
the
tax
authority,
but
really
try
to
support
and
uplift
the
board
as
they
make.
You
know
the
the
necessary
policy
decisions
to
move
the
school
board
forward.
C
I
particularly,
and
I
know
councilman
councilmember
thomas
just
brought
it
up.
I
think
one
of
the
areas
where
we
see
the
the
board
really
responding
to
concerns
has
been
around
the
conducting
of
the
investigation
around
the
black
charters
and
we
hope
to
use
that
process
and
the
tensorflow
conversations
around
that
around
what
locally
the
board
does
and
then
how
council
views
and
and
interacts
with
that
around
policy
formation,
but
really
getting
to
an
issue
around
equity
as
decisions
are
made.
C
So
I
just
wanted
to
you
know,
as
we
move
to
dr
hayden
and
to
the
operations
piece
really
thank
all
the
school
board.
Members
for
the
education
committee
members
who
helped
host
some
of
the
engagement
we've
had
many
conversations
between
the
education
committee,
dr
dr
height
and
joyce
wilkerson,
and
this
community
engagement
piece
continues
to
be
on
the
forefront
and
there's
a
real
sense
of
urgency
and
need
for
us
to
do
everything
and
anything.
C
We
could
to
engage
stakeholders
and
and
in
really
meaningful
ways
and
hope
that
the
process
of
the
search
leading
to
the
to
the
new
superintendent
that
that
that
is
clear
and
really
built
in.
And
I
appreciate
that
that
the
president
and
the
school
board
members
have
really
been
open
to
those
really
honest
conversations
that
have
been
going
on.
So
thank
you
very
much
council
president,
and
to
the
board
members
as
we
moved
on
to
the
operations.
C
C
P
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you
for
the
work
of
the
education
committee
and
and
you
chairing
that
committee.
Thank
you
and
thank
thanks
to
all
the
other
council
members
thanks
to
council
president
for
providing
the
time
and
space
for
us
to
do
this
today,
and
I
want
to
reiterate
all
of
the
comments
that
have
been
said
about
these
board:
the
board
members
and
this
board
under
the
leadership
of
board
president
joyce
wilkerson,
I
mean
the
amount
of
work
that
these
individuals
are
doing
on
a
volunteer
basis
has
been
pretty
extraordinary.
P
P
We've
also
kept
the
safety
of
our
students
and
staff
at
the
forefront
of
decision
making.
These
times
have
forced
us
to
pivot
to
redefine,
as
the
council
president
was
describing
earlier,
how
we
care
for
our
students,
as
we
support
their
short-term
and
long-term
educational
needs
and
safeguard
their
health
and
well-being.
P
I
want
to
share
with
all
of
you,
an
update
about
the
work
of
the
district,
as
I
indicated
earlier,
including
those
things
that
we
consider
success
and
identify
and
be
very
honest
and
upfront
about
the
challenges
to
date,
as
well
as
what
lies
ahead.
So
next
slide,
please
so,
as
you've
already
heard
the
board
adopted
goals
and
guard
rails,
this
is
slot
14,
and
these
are
they
adopted
goals
and
guard
rails
in
december
of
2020..
P
These
goals
and
guardrails
help
to
serve
as
the
guiding
strategic
framework
for
how
we
inside
the
district
will
move
toward
our
vision
for
all
children
to
have
access
to
a
great
school
close
to
where
they
live.
The
borderline
on
three
overarching
goals
that
and
four
god
rails
to
shape
that
work
and
the
work
of
the
district
going
forward
next
slide,
please,
as
also
which,
as
was
shared
earlier
also
this
year.
P
We
want
our
approach
to
be
active
ongoing,
but
and
we
will
be
sharing
an
update
on
our
spending
plan
in
january
and
continue
to
share
updates
for
the
funding,
as
at
various
points
over
the
next
four
years,
including
during
the
normal
budget
cycle.
This
means
continually
refining
our
approach,
seeking
input,
sharing
information
and
responding
to
public
feedback,
and
ultimately,
we
will
evolve
our
strategies
based
on
what
is
working
and
what
is
not
working
to
support
our
young
people
and
our
educators
next
slide.
P
So
as
we
prepare
to
bring
all
students
back
to
school
for
in-person
learning,
after
18
months
of
virtual
and
hybrid
learning,
we
took
significant
steps
to
radiator
schools.
Those
steps
included
hiring
more
than
600
new
employees
across
various
positions,
including
teachers,
psychologists,
occupational
and
speech
therapists,
bilingual
counselor
assistants
and
counselors.
P
We
launched
a
new
academic
framework
which
is
a
more
culturally
and
linguistically
inclusive,
inclusive
curriculum,
and
I
know
a
question
about
curriculum
was
asked
earlier.
We
also
also
delivered
thousands
of
pieces
and
continued
to
deliver
thousands
of
pieces
of
ppe
supplies
so
that
our
schools
had
what
was
necessary
in
order
to
keep
children
and
staff
members
safe,
and
at
this
time,
I'd
like
to
ask
a
chief
operating
officer,
reggie
mcneil,
to
share
an
update
on
the
progress
of
our
work
related
to
environmental
services.
P
P
P
P
C
P
Additionally,
we
have
a
city
approved
compliance
program
that
aims
to
have
all
district
buildings
led
safe
by
2024,
and
we
have
prioritized
elementary
schools
as
a
part
of
that
work.
For
many
reasons.
One
being
that
elementary,
I
mean
younger
children
are
more
likely
to
consume
chips
of
paint
and
the
district
have
we've.
Also
posted
those
assessments
and
reports
on
the
websites
and
then
update
those
on
a
regular
basis.
We
now
I'm
I'm
pleased
to
say
that
we
have
122
schools
that
are
led
safe,
21
schools
are
led,
free
and
73.
Schools
are
pending
an
assessment.
P
P
We've
intensified
our
focus
on
student
level
data,
as
I
talked
about
earlier,
as
I
was
mentioning
common
planning
time,
and
that
was
really
to
strengthen
educational
educator
capacity
to
develop
what
we
call
personalized
growth
plans.
Some
people
would
refer
to
the
personalized
growth
plans
as
a
a
system
of
continued
support,
a
multi-tiered
system
of
support
services
for
every
student
or
mtss,
and
for
the
second
year
we
did
not
level
down
in
order
to
help
support
and
sustain
strong
teacher-student
relationships.
P
P
P
P
Undoubtedly,
the
start
of
the
pandemic,
and
the
time
that
was
followed
has
been
one,
unlike
anything
that
we've
ever
experienced
before.
We
continue
to
feel
the
excitement
of
being
able
to
return
to
full
in-person
learning
for
all
of
our
students
and
having
to
operate
following
a
virtual
hybrid
model.
We
took
the
lessons
we
learned
over
the
course
of
the
18
months,
leading
up
to
the
start
of
this
year
to
help
guide
our
plans
for
school
operations
this
year
next
slide.
P
Next
slide.
Please
also
one
thing
that
I
was
excited
about,
particularly
given
everything
that
we
had
to
do
over
the
past
nine
to
ten
years.
At
the
start
of
this
school
year
we
opened
two
new
buildings
and
those
two
schools
included
power
elementary
and
sla
middle,
and
we
call
it
p
slams
that
was
a
school
that
opened
in
the
university
park
area,
the
university
city
area,
and
then
we
had
solace
cohen,
which
was
a
new
school.
Then
we
also
had
one
brand
new
school.
The
northeast
community
propel
academy
next
slide.
P
They
are
also
the
only
schools
in
philadelphia
and
two
of
only
13
schools
in
the
commonwealth
of
pennsylvania
to
achieve
blue
ribbon
status.
This
year,
gamp
was
designated
an
exemplary
high
performing
school,
while
penn
alexander
was
designated
as
an
exemplary
achievement
gap
closing
school.
They
are
the
16th
and
17th
school
district
of
philadelphia.
Schools
named
a
national
blue
ribbon
school
since
the
department
of
education
began
this
program.
P
This
recognition
is
a
testament
to
the
hard
work
and
commitment
of
the
tremendous
staffs
at
these
schools.
The
leaders
at
these
schools,
the
students
and
the
families,
and
I
also
want
to
acknowledge
the
important
role
that
the
community
partners
and
volunteers
played
in
achieving
this
kind
of
success
next
slide.
Please
I'm
also
happy
to
share
that
our
covet
positivity
rates
have
remained
below
1
since
we
returned
to
school
some
10
weeks
ago.
We
contribute
this
to
the
multiple
layers
of
safety.
P
P
We
know
that
vaccines
are
an
effective
mitigation
strategy
to
stem
the
spread
of
covet
19
and
the
science
is
clear,
covet
19
vaccines
are
proven
to
significantly
reduce
the
health
effects
and
transmissibility
of
the
virus.
This
is
why
we
view
a
vaccine
mandate
for
district
employees
as
yet
another
layer
of
protection
and
safety
for
our
students
and
staff
and
their
families.
We're
pleased
with
the
response
received
by
our
employees
regarding
the
mandate.
P
Employees
who
chose
not
to
comply
with
the
mandate
will
be
required
to
submit
to
two
weekly
testing,
twice
weekly
testing
and
will
no
longer
have
access
to
10
days
of
direct
quarantine,
leave
for
employees
who
have
tested
positive
for
covet
19
or
have
been
directed
to
isolate
following
a
covet.
19
exposure
at
a
school
district
building,
81
percent
of
almost
15
000
or
almost
fifteen
thousand
employees
are
fully
vaccinated
now
and
two
percent,
or
about
three
hundred
employees
are
possibly
partially
vaccinated
as
they
await
their
second
shot.
P
Mandatory
weekly
testing
continues
for
all
employees.
Additionally,
as
of
october
1st,
all
new
hires
must
now
be
fully
vaccinated
in
order
to
start
work
with
the
district
next
slide
and
at
the
start
of
the
2021
this
school
year.
In
response
to
the
impact
the
pandemic
was
having
on
their
children,
we
launched
various
social
emotional
supports.
P
As
a
result
of
our
initial
review,
we
are
implementing
several
important
changes
to
this
year's
process,
including
to
councilman
o's
question.
School
selection
will
move
to
a
computerized
lottery
system
to
support
greater
access
for
students
who
meet
the
qualifications,
as
as
we
determine
last
year,
pssa
scores
will
not
be
used
as
a
criteria
for
admissions
in
this
year's
process
and,
quite
frankly,
the
the
rationale
behind
that
is
that
many
of
the
young
people
did
not
take
the
pssas
a
year
ago
or
the
year
before.
P
The
online
application
will
be
available
in
nine
different
languages
and
an
online
writing
sample
is
required
for
students
applying
for
9th
grade
admissions
to
the
following
schools,
central
engineering
and
science,
mastermind
palumbo
and
parkway
center
city.
While
we
continue
to
look
critically
at
our
school
selection
process,
it
is
our
hope
that
this
year's
the
the
changes
we
made
this
year
will
be
a
catalyst
for
long-term
improvements
to
school
selection
and
provide
greater
opportunities
for
all
students
to
attend
the
school
of
their
choice.
P
P
The
use
of
innovative
technology
modalities,
mentoring,
project-based
learning,
variation
in
assessment
and
application
of
learning
and
courses
aligned
to
graduation
requirements,
post-secondary
employment,
post-secondary
education
or
a
combination
of
all
of
those.
We
are
in
the
planning
phases
for
both
of
these
programs
and
look
forward
to
continued
collaboration
with
labor
partners
in
preparation
for
launching.
P
P
Those
are
teachers,
aides
who
work
as
paraprofessionals,
and
we
have
created
now
a
new
career
development
program
that
will
allow
those
individuals
to
become
certified
educators,
a
transition
from
a
caseload
model
to
a
workload
model
for
ot
staff,
a
pt
staff
and
speech
and
language
staff.
Next
slide.
Please,
and
in
order
to
fulfill
our
commitment
toward
anti-racism
and
equity,
as
outlined
in
our
statement
on
anti-racism
and
to
ensure
its
sustainability,
we
established
an
office
of
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion
that
supports
our
goal
to
lead
and
sustain
systems
level
change.
P
This
aligns
with
our
work
to
advance
guardrail.
Four.
Our
students
potential
will
not
be
limited
by
practices
that
perpetuate
systemic
racism
and
hinder
student
achievement
over
the
past
year.
The
work
of
this
office
has
expanded
significantly
and
includes
establishment
of
an
equity
coalition,
the
completion
of
a
year,
one
equity
audit
development
and
ongoing
implementation,
equity
framework
development
and
implementation
of
professional
learning
pathways,
and
we've
launched
inaugural
equity
partners
fellowships
that
also
includes
high
school
students
and
strengthening
district-wide
dei
awareness
and
cultural
competencies.
P
While
the
district
employs
just
under
200
bus
drivers,
the
majority
of
the
district's
transportation
services
are
provided
by
local
transportation
vendors.
The
transportation
schedule
for
the
for
this
school
year
was
developed,
based
on
an
initial
commitment
of
1092
drivers
across
nine
non-district
owned
vendor
garages,
as
well
as
the
192
planned
drivers
across
f3
district
garages.
P
P
Only
619
have
been
provided,
that's
473
or
43
percent
fewer
drivers
than
we
planned
for
and
expected
to
be
clear.
This
is
not
a
management
issue
with
their
vendor
garages,
but
a
local
reflection
of
the
national
shortage
of
drivers
that
is
driven
by
professional
drivers,
making
different
choices
given
the
covet
19
pandemic
and
or
pursuing
much
more
lucrative
driving
jobs.
No
matter
what
the
cause.
One
thing
is
clear:
this
is
not
a
short-term
issue,
but
a
long-term
one
that
will
cr
that
will
require
a
fundamental
change
in
how
we
provide
the
reliable
transportation
services.
P
P
As
you
know,
the
driver
shortage
has
impacted
the
service
quality
of
the
trash
collection
vendor
responsible
for
emptying
school
dumpsters,
resulting
in
significant
overflow
at
many
of
our
schools,
in
addition
to
working
with
the
city
to
ensure
access
to
dumpsters
by
removing
illegally
parked
vehicles
and
using
our
maintenance
staff
to
temporarily
relocate
excess
trash
to
additional
dumpsters
placed
throughout
the
city.
We
have
now
hired
five
additional
vendors
who
are
focused
on
keeping
areas
around
dumpsters,
clutter,
flip,
clutter,
free
and
we're
happy
to
report
that
our
original
trash
collection
vendor
was
back
at
full
service
capacity.
P
P
The
reality
is
that
our
city
is
seeing
an
increase
in
violent
activity,
as
indicated
by
councilman
jones
earlier,
an
increase
that
is
causing
too
many
people
to
live
in
fear
in
our
own
neighborhoods
and
too
many
lives
to
be
lost.
The
office
of
school
safety
has
always
worked
very
closely
with
the
philadelphia
police
department,
and
that
relationship
is
especially
important
now,
as
we
collaboratively
work
to
address
issues
that
are
taking
place
outside
of
our
schools,
but
still
impacting
students
and
staff
who
have
looked
at
our
schools
as
safe
places.
P
Next
slide,
so
we
have
collaborated
with
the
philadelphia
police
department
to
create
a
school
safety
zone
strategy
that
will
expand
police
presence
and
support
in
school
communities
throughout
the
city.
Ppd's
school
safety
zones
will
encompass
25
zones
across
the
city,
neighborhoods,
where
38
schools,
district
and
charter
are
located.
P
These
neighborhoods
were
selected
based
on
higher
incidence
of
violence,
and
I
want
to
stress
that
the
schools
in
these
areas,
as
well
as
all
of
our
schools
in
general,
are
not
seeing
increases
in
violent
activity
inside
the
buildings
or
on
school
grounds.
However,
there
have
been
incidents
around
the
community,
some
involving,
unfortunately,
our
students
that
make
it
clear
that
increasing
the
presence
by
law
enforcement
may
be
will
be
needed
to
deter
criminal
activity
from
happening.
P
Last
week
we
introduced
the
safe
path
program,
with
the
support
of
225
000
grant
from
the
philadelphia
commission
on
crime
and
delinquency
or
pccd
to
staff
community
corridors
with
community
members.
In
addition
to
the
pccd
funds,
the
district
has
made
an
investment
of
seven
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
000
total
over
the
next
three
fiscal
years
in
esser
funds
to
support
the
same
body
of
work.
Through
this
work
we
will
recruit
and
train
community
members
to
positively
engage
with
students
and
school
communities
in
addition
to
the
school
safety
zones.
P
The
safe
path
program
funded
by
the
pccd
grant,
will
address
four
targeted
areas,
and
these
are
communities
around
lincoln
high
school
motivation,
high
school
roxboro,
high
school
and
sare
high
school.
This
is
work
that
will
also
involve
the
philadelphia
anti-drug,
anti-violence
network
or
pan.
A
wonderful
community
partner
pan
will
hire
personnel
to
provide
extra
supervision
and
support
for
students
traveling
to
and
from
as
an
effort
to
reduce
the
rate
of
violence
and
conflict
involving
and
or
impacting
our
students.
P
P
As
an
additional
layer
of
safety,
we
have
made
the
proactive
decision
that
all
students
participated
in
into
scholastic
sports,
for
the
remainder
of
the
of
this
school
year
will
need
to
be
fully
vaccinated
against
covet
19
unless
they
have
an
approved
medical
or
religious
exemption.
Students
planning
to
participate
in
winter
sports.
P
P
This
decision
was
based
on
recommendations
from
the
centers
for
disease
control
and
prevention,
and
the
pennsylvania,
interscholastic
athletic
association
and
the
philadelphia
department
of
public
health
and
other
sports
and
health
organizations
stating
that
participation
in
close
contact
sports
can
put
student
athletes
at
increased
risk
for
getting
and
spreading
covet
19.
a
vaccinate.
A
vaccinated
team
will
prevent
cancellations
of
practices,
games
and
potentially
hold
seasons,
and
we
want
to
keep
our
players
on
the
courts
and
fields,
and
this
is
the
way
we
believe
that
you
can
achieve
that.
P
We
will
expand
this
requirement
to
include
students
participating
in
performing
arts,
and
we
are
working
with
several
vaccine
providers
who
are
hosting
free,
vac,
covet
19
vaccine
events.
Those
events
can
be
found
on
the
district's
website
and
now
that
children,
age
5
through
11,
are
eligible
for
the
vaccine.
We
are
encouraging
all
eligible
students
to
get
the
vaccine
as
well.
Aside
from
the
events
hosted
by
our
vaccine
provider
partners,
students
can
receive
the
vaccine
at
healthcare,
clinics,
pharmacies
and
other
locations
throughout
the
city.
P
Next
slide,
so
as
we
continue
to
navigate
this
new
normal
of
life
within
the
pandemic,
our
focus
continues
to
be
on
teaching
and
learning.
As
such,
we
are
expanding
our
work
to
include
virtual
tooting,
tutoring
opportunities
in
core
content
areas
for
grades
6
through
12,
beginning
in
december,
more
before
school
and
after
school
programming
for
students,
we
released
the
rfq
in
order
to
gain
more
qualified
partners
to
support
our
children
in
before
and
after
school
programming,
and
in
addition,
an
additional
fifteen
thousand
students
will
be
served.
P
And
so,
as
we
conclude,
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you
and
if
we
move
to
the
next
slide,
I
think
that's
our
last
one
and
thank
you
for
this
opportunity
to
share
and
update
about
the
district's
work.
I'm
happy
to
answer
questions.
I
hope
reggie
was
able
to
log
in
again
or
or
upgrade
his
microsoft
teams
so
that
he
will
be
available
to
answer
questions
around
the
environmental
work.
We
also
have
quite
a
few
other
staff
who
can
answer
other
questions
specific
to
those
topic
areas.
So,
madam
chair
turn
it
back
over
to
you.
C
Thank
you,
dr
height,
and
I
will
go
through
the
names
of
the
council
members
that
are
queued
up,
we're
going
to
start
a
series
around
the
questions
for
five
minutes.
So
I
want
to
give
colleagues
an
opportunity
to
get
your
question
in
for
for
dr
height,
we're
going
to
start
with
councilmember
jones,
then
given
brooks
and
then
cued
up
will
be
oh
councilmember
greene,
who
has
questions
directly
for
dr
height
and
and
miss
and
reggie
mcneil,
catherine
gilmore,
richardson
and
gotti
air.
C
E
E
My
question
was:
I
want
to
take
a
deeper
dive.
I
saw
what
you
want
to
do
with
the
carter
programs.
That's
what
we
call
it
in
west
philadelphia.
We've
been
doing
that
monday
morning,
roll
call
7
a.m.
Remember
kim
managed
to
get
up
that
early
and
join
us
to
see
our
schools
work
together
and
work
with
the
philippine
police
work
with
town
watch
work
with
septa
police
to
try
to
coordinate
pathways
to
and
from
school
safely.
E
E
We
had
the
will
smith
foundation
across
the
street
from
overbrook
at
tustin
rec
center
and
we
were
building
a
brick
project
where
we
put
motivational
words
on
a
brick
and
we
had
a
number
of
volunteers
come
out.
It's
one
young
man
who
came
over
and
other
people
were
trying
to
get
him
to
engage.
He
kind
of
was
there
reluctantly
and
I
found
out
that
he
his
first
day
at
overbrook
was
now
monday.
E
He
had
an
ankle
brace
little.
He
was
being
monitored
because
of
prior
convictions.
He
was
17
years
old.
You
wouldn't
have
known
him
from
any
of
the
other
hundreds
of
students,
but
except
for
the
fact
that
when
you
engaged
him
he
it
was
a
cloud
around
him
like.
I
don't
know
why
I'm
here,
I
don't
know
where
I'm
going.
So
I
asked
him
I
said:
listen,
I
know
you
got
in
trouble.
I
don't
have
a
problem
with
that.
E
E
E
Should
he
expect
to
go?
And
when
I
tell
you
dr
height,
he
seemed
like
everybody's
kid.
He
didn't
seem
like
he
came
from
space
looking
for
violence.
He
just
seemed
to
have
found
himself
in
that
space
and
I'm
wondering
how
we
are
prepared
when
we
look
at
the
high
number
of
iups
and
high
number
of
placement
of
young
people
that
have
that
criminal
background,
how
are
we
guiding
them.
P
Councilman
jones,
I
appreciate
the
question
I
knew
you
were
going
to
that
specific
type
of
example.
So
I
wanted
kevin
bethel
to
come
on
because
he
he
can
talk
specifically
about
things
that
we're
doing
for
young
people
now
who
are
transitioning
back
into
the
system,
and
then
I
can
share
more
about
the
social
and
emotional
supports
and
the
behavior
health
counseling
that
we
can
provide
at
schools.
L
A
lot
of
them
were
just
getting
in
trouble.
You
know
fighting
and
then
ultimately
wound
up
violating
or
dropping
out,
and
so
we
started
at
the
beginning
of
the
school
year,
we're
actually
now
going
to
move
into
the
jjsc
and
supporting
dr
ramsey
in
the
in
the
school.
That's
there
they're
saying
let's
move
up
even
further
upstream
and
start
capturing
those
kids
while
they're
in
that
space
as
well
and
also
as
they
move
into
some
of
our
core
neighborhoods.
L
As
you
know,
overbrook
edison,
mlk
barton,
many
of
our
neighborhood
schools,
get
a
large
percentage
of
those
kids
coming
back
from
placement
and
so
we're
trying
to
down
and
just
actually
met
with
the
support
team
today
about
how
we
can
even
further
align
our
work
as
they
have
the
step
program
and
other
activity
in
the
in
the
juvenile
center.
How
we
can
really
really
really
really
align
our
work
and
compare
and
working
with
dr
bonds
as
we
transition
those
kids.
L
So
there's
soft
hands-offs,
you
know
continuing
through
that
process
and
so
we're
excited
about
where
that's
going
and
we're
hoping
to
expand
that
model,
because
we're
seeing
early
great
results.
The
officer
was
working
with
the
kids
is
really
building
a
great
relationship
with
those
young
people,
and
so
we're
excited
about
that
and
then
I
also
would
share.
I
know
earlier
in
your
conversation.
You
talked
about
the
school-to-prison
pipeline
and
and
one
of
the
things,
as
you
know,
in
2014,
when
I
was
in
the
police
department,
we
started
the
school
diversion
program
through
that
process.
L
Even
now,
working
with
the
philippine
police
department
they
allowed,
they
moved
the
actual
school
police
office,
school
diversion
officers
into
my
office
at
440.,
and
so
now
we
divert
children
on
a
daily
basis
and
my
school
safety
officers
are
diverting
as
well.
You
know
that
we
understand
the
strains
on
the
police
department,
so
we
have
a
amazing
relationship.
You
know
in
2016
I
mean
2013-14.
L
School
year
we
had
almost
1600
kids
arrested
our
last
full
school
year.
We
had
254.,
I
mean,
and
so
we've
dropped
almost
84
percent
in
our
school-based
arrests
and
then
the
recidivism
rate
for
those
young
people
is
only
27
percent
after
two
years
and
73
of
them
are
staying
out
of
trouble
two
years
later.
L
So
so,
when
you
talk
about
that
school
to
prison,
pipeline
you're,
getting
that
11th
grader
and
10th
grader,
who
are
getting
through
school
and
not
getting
arrested
and
not
falling
into
that
process
and
that's
a
relationship
with
you
know,
with
department.
Human
services.
Dhs
has
been
a
phenomenal
partner
in
in
providing
the
coolest
to
service
those
young
people.
We've
diverted
almost
2
400
students
over
this
over
this
period
of
time.
L
Drexel
university
has
been
researching
the
model
and
it's
going
extremely
well
nationally,
recognized
now
and
the
philadelphia
police
department
has
been
an
amazing
partner
because
at
the
end
of
the
day
they
actually
do
the
diversion,
but
we
support
them
a
hundred
percent.
So
we
really
moved
away
from
criminalizing
our
kids.
E
I
appreciate
that
response,
and
that
is
what
I'm
looking
for,
that
type
of
engagement
that
you
know
can
prevent,
as
opposed
to
respond
to
acts
of
violence
in
our
schools,
and
when
I
tell
you,
I'm
appreciative
of
kevin
bethel's
work.
I
remember
sharing
on
the
criminal
justice
reform
committee
chairmanship
with
him,
where
he
had
a
15-minute
rant
about
over-criminalization
of
some
juvenile
offenders
and
it
changed
dhs's
policy
within
that
15
minutes.
C
P
I
was
going
to
say
kevin
answered
all
of
the
he
included
things
I
was
going
to
include,
but
he
he
he
hit
all
of
the
points
and
those
meetings
that
you
started
on
monday
morning,
councilman
jones.
We
are
now
doing
those
and
engaging
schools
in
those
with
now
deputy
commissioner
dale
as
well,
and
so
I
think
I
think
councilwoman
kim
has
been
a
part
of
some
of
those
meetings
as
well
as
yourself,
and
we
we
are
that
those
have
been
happening
weekly
now.
K
C
K
K
K
But
you
know
what
we're
what
I'm
interested
in
is
not
to
kind
of,
like
you
know,
look
at
who's
doing
wrong.
But
what
is
our
re-engagement
strategy
for
bringing
back
young
people,
especially
after
16
months,
especially
young
people,
who
are
concentrated
in
some
schools
that
have
been
deeply
harmed
by
by
by
not
just
violence
but
the
damage
that
it
does
to
young
people's
relationships
with
one
another
to
their
to
their
relationships
within
school
communities
and
to
their
relationship
to
the
broader
world?
You
know
we
are.
K
We
would
like
to
see
if
you
could
share
with
the
education
committee
the
current,
I
guess
I
would
say
the
the
the
truancy
rate
for
the
district
and
how
that
compares
to
pre-pandemic,
and
I
think
partly
what
we're
interested
in
is
not
like
seeking
problems
but
trying
to
identify
areas
where
we
need
to
concentrate
a
re-engagement
strategy.
So
is
that
something
that
you
can
provide?
And
do
you
actually
have
those
numbers.
P
P
K
Would
be
helpful
yeah
and
usually
we
talk
about
attendance
rates,
but
this
is
about
the
numbers
of
students
who
are
missing
more
than
you
know.
10
days
of
school
already
or
you
know
are,
are
on
a
track
too,
and
then
I
you
know,
I
think
one
of
the
things
that
we
wanted
to
talk
about,
and
this
relates
back
to
chief
bethel's
tremendous
work
about
getting
school
safety
zones.
K
But,
more
importantly,
you
know:
we've
been
talking
about
the
safe
corridors
program,
I'm
going
to
be
a
relentless
cheerleader
supporter
and
accountability
manager
for
staffing
all
of
our
school
crossing
guards
that
that
is
an
important
issue.
But
you
know
what
has
changed
with
the
district
in
terms
of
engagement
getting
out
into
communities
working
with
other
agencies
to
engage
young
people
who
are
currently
disconnected.
P
Thank
you,
and
and
thanks
for
the
question,
and
so
I'm
going
to
go
back
to
the
other
question
first,
because
I
have
been
able
to
find
the
information,
so
the
percentage
of
students
attending
95
of
school
days
or
more
through
october
is
now
55.7
percent.
Last
year.
At
the
same
time,
that
number
was
65
percent
of
student
students
were
attending
95
of
the
time
at
this
portion
of
the
year,
so
we
are
slightly
down
from
where
we
have
been
in
the
past
and
then
we
have
all
of
those
we
have
information.
P
K
We're
just
trying
to
figure
out
a
way
to
get
some
of
that
supports
with
the
intent
of
re-engaging
reaching
young
people
and
making
sure
that
any
approach
around
truancy
is
fundamentally
about
re-engagement
of
disengaged
youth
right
now
and
not
about
you,
know,
chasing
them
down
identifying
them,
marking
them
putting
labels.
But
we've
got
to
bring
them
back
into
the
fold,
and
I
I'm
still
waiting
to
hear
like
what
the
actual
strategy
can
be
and
how
the
disc,
how
the
city
needs
to
be
your
partner
in
helping
that.
P
Indeed,
and
I'm
happy
to
say,
we
have
now
identified
and
re-engaged
some
5
000
students
and
who
were
previously
not
engaged,
and
so
we
have
been
able
to
re-engage
and-
and
that
was
through
a
variety
of
things
you
just
described
like
identifying
other
barriers
of
home
visits
in
some
cases,
working
with
those
other
agencies
having
directing
additional
behavior
health
support
to
schools
that
are
more
impacted
or
more
likely
to
be
impacted.
But
I
think
if
we,
if
we
get
to
your
second
round
of
questions,
karen
is
also
karen.
Lynch
is
also
on
on.
Q
Q
D
Good
afternoon-
and
I
hope
you
can
hear
me
sorry
for
the
technical
difficulties
that
I
was
experiencing
earlier
yeah
so
for
done
safe,
it
is
up
and
running
right
now
we
have
a
module
called
a
hero,
inspection
module
that
we're
going
through
at
this
point.
It
is
not
public
facing.
Yet
there
are
some.
We
are
planning
out
what
the
dashboard
is
going
to
be
for
the
public-facing
document,
but
for
right
now
we
have.
Q
Q
Safe
okay,
thank
you
so
much.
My
next
question
is
about
vacancies.
This
is
something
dr
height.
You
mentioned
a
little
bit
during
your
testimony
and
I
could
also
send
this
over
in
writing.
But
can
you
please
provide
me
with
the
current
number
of
vacancies,
for
I
have
a
list
of
positionings
if
and
if
you
don't
know
it
right
off
hand
I'll,
take
it
another
way,
like
I'm
concerned
about
paraprofessionals
the
nurses,
the
bca's,
the
teachers,
counselors
administrators
and
bus
drivers.
P
P
We
do
a
quarterly
report
that
what
is
going
to
be
released
this
friday
and
that
report
shows
1869
vacancies
across
all
schools
and
across
all
roles
right,
and
so
it
also
includes
current
and
future
dated
vacancies
over
the
course
of
the
year
that
we
are
that
we
already
know
of,
and
so,
if
someone
has
said
they
will
be
leaving
at
the
end
of
december,
then
those
numbers
are
also
counted
as
a
part
of
this,
and
so
the
so.
For
instance,
there
are
257
teacher
vacancies.
P
The
three
secretary
vacancies-
the
student
climate
staff,
is
one
of
the
largest
areas
where
we
need
additional
staff,
and
that
was
one
reason
we
wanted
to
take
those
from
a
part-time
to
offer
for
individuals
working
in
that
union
full
time
for
this
year,
and
so
there
are
202
vacancies
of
student,
climate
staff
or
field
rate
of
81
special
education
assistance
or
the
paraprofessionals
205
vacancies,
91
bus,
chauffeurs,
80,
86
or
72
percent
and
general
cleaners,
59,
general
cleaning
or
92
percent
fill
rate.
Those
are
the
numbers
I
have
and
we
can.
Q
One
of
the
things
you
mentioned
and
what
I've
heard
is
that
people
applying
for
the
jobs
has
taken
longer
to
hear
back
from
the
district.
So
what
is
the
average
turnaround
for
the
district
to
reach
out
once
the
application
is
received,
and
is
the
district
calling
folks
back
to
acknowledge
the
receipt
of
the
application
and
talking
them
through
next
steps
and
timelines?.
P
I
think
that's
an
excellent
question.
Councilwoman
brooks-
and
I
don't
have
the
direct
answer
to
that,
but
I
think
larissa
shambo,
who
is
our
chief
of
chief
of
talent,
is
also
on
some
of
some
of
my
staff.
Colleagues
are
having
difficulty
unmuting
themselves,
but
if
larissa
is
on
I'd
love
for
her
to
provide
a
response
for
that.
Oh
there
she
is
yeah.
Okay,.
D
Good
good
afternoon,
good
afternoon
councilwoman
to
to
answer
your
question
there
there
has
been,
or
there
were,
delays
with
the
sheer
number
of
additional
staff
that
we
were
hiring
at
the
beginning
of
the
year
on
that
it
was
taking
longer
in
august
and
in
september,
for
bringing
people
on
board.
I
equate
it
similar
to
the
boats
that
are
floating
off
of
the
coast
of
long
beach
waiting
to
dock.
There
was
just
things
that
were
ripple
effects
of
not
hiring
individuals
for
a
long
period
of
time
when
our
buildings
were
closed,
that
when
they
reopened.
D
If
there
were
delays
at
the
initial
part
of
the
school
year,
we've
made
some
changes
to
our
process
to
ensure
that
those
delays
have
been
lessened.
So
we
are
now
hosting
sessions
for
individuals
in
a
different
way.
Some
of
the
roles
we
started
to
host
more
sessions
on
site
so
that
we
can
more
easily
work
through
the
technological
issues
for
certain
roles,
we're
also
holding
office
hours
for
individuals
to
come
in
where
it
takes
about
30
minutes
for
them
to
walk
through
online
every
every
component
of
their
process.
D
So
I
think,
there's
some
parts
of
our
process
itself
that
have
changed,
but
I
think
we're
also
seeing
people
starting
to
work
through
the
the
pathway
much
more
quickly.
So
if
you
look
just
at
teachers
right
now,
I
believe
there's
about
28
teachers
that
are
going
through
our
onboarding
process.
This
right
now
and
24
of
them
have
been
onboarded
for
less
onboarding
for
less
than
six
days.
So
there's
really
only
a
small
number
of
teachers
that
are
more
than
six
days
in
the
queue
of
the
process.
D
We
are
looking
at
trying
to
reduce
those
numbers
for
other
fill
rates
as
well
for
student,
climate,
stuff
bus
drivers,
other
things
through
our
information
sessions,
which
are
then
combined
with
our
onboarding
sessions.
So
we've
definitely
seen
an
increase
in
the
turnaround
time
and
looked
to
increase
it
even
further
for
some
of
our
school-based
staff
roles.
Now.
Q
Thank
you
for
that,
because
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
doing
everything
that
we
can
in
terms
of
recruitment,
especially
around
student
climate
staff.
We
know
that
several
communities
that
you
know
are
having
huge
issues
with
problems
that
are
feeding
into
schools,
and
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that
adequate
staff
is
in
support
is
in
place
to
support
this
shortage
in
general,
but
also
to
make
sure
we're
supporting
our
students
every
day.
So,
thank
you
so
much.
C
Thank
you.
Let
me
just
add
to
that
because
I
know
council
dr
hyde
mentioned
there's
202
climate
staff
and
they
became
full-time
positions.
Can
you
speak
to
what
the
salary
is
of
those
climate
staff
because
they're
so
critical
at
schools?
What
is
the
rate
I
know?
You
said
they
went
from
part-time
to
full-time.
So
what
does
that
make
that.
P
D
D
If
you
would
like
to
move
yourself
from
a
three
hour
a
day
to
a
six
hour
a
day,
that
would
obviously
increase
your
rate,
but
also
have
you
access
benefits,
so
we're
happy
to
get
you
the
rate
from
what
they
go
from
three
hour
to
six
hour,
but
also
want
to
emphasize
the
power
of
offering
benefits.
Well,.
C
C
F
P
O
O
Excellent
excellent,
thank
you
so
of
our
215
schools.
21
are
a
criteria
based
or
what
you
are
referring
to,
as
special
admit.
We
have
16,
actually
17
city-wide
schools,
one
of
the
17
is
weidner
and
that's
a
school
where
you
cannot
apply
to
enter
that
school.
You
have
you're
referred
to
that
school.
The
there
are
five
of
our
21
schools.
O
Are
this
team
here
for
the
first
time,
four
of
the
five
are
using
a
writing
sample
parkway
center
city.
One
of
the
five
has
used
a
writing
sample
for
the
last
few
years,
and
you
know
that
this
is
the
school
that
admits
students
to
receive
a
dual
degree
at
the
community
college,
so
that
writing
sample
was
very
instrumental
in
helping
to
identify
and
select
students
who
were
prepared
to
engage
in
a
college
curriculum.
So
I
say
all
of
that
to
highlight
that
the
writing
sample
is
not
new,
not
new
to
the
school
district.
O
F
Okay,
thank
you
can
I
can
I
ask
dr
height
or
whoever
you
you
would
have
answered
this
question.
Why
is
that
a
better
process?
In
other
words,
I
know
that,
for
example,
for
most
of
the
charter
schools,
that's
lottery
based.
People
have
to
basically
hit
a
lottery
in
order
to
get
to
one
of
these
charter
schools,
and
we
have
criteria
based
schools
and
and-
and
I
believe
we
have
people
who
look
over
a
number
of
things-
from
gpa
to
standardized
tests
to
essays
and
letters
of
recommendation.
P
Yeah
so
I'll
start
and
then
have
karen
finish,
councilman,
o
and,
and
so
the
the
reason
we
looked
at
this
was.
It
goes
back
to
a
pew
study
from
several
years
ago.
That
indicated
that
there
were
certain
areas
of
the
of
the
city
where
young
people,
for
whatever
reason,
did
not
have
access
to
these
types
of
programs,
although
they
qualified
for
the
programs.
P
Additionally,
we
saw
from
the
pew
from
that
same
pew
study
that
there
were
also
children
in
some
of
these
communities
that
qualified
but
then
chose
for
whatever
reason
not
to
apply
to
those
schools.
Instead,
they
may
have
gone
to
their
neighborhood
high
school
or
to
a
charter
school
or
to
some
other
or
to
some
other
program,
and
so
when
we
talked
about
the
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion,
work
and
created
a
framework
and
a
lens,
and
when
we
applied
that
lens,
we
it
when
it
was
applied
to
like
this
process.
P
It
showed
that
there
were
essentially
several
areas
in
the
city
that
that
guaranteed
placement
into
this
program
and
then
other
areas
of
the
city
where
there
was
almost
no
access
to
the
criteria-based
schools.
Although
there
were
qualified
individuals
living
in
those
areas,
and
so
that's
why
we
chose
to
change
the
process,
I
will
add
that
we
would
normally
be
using
the
pssa,
but
because
students
didn't
take
the
pssa,
so
it
was
hit
and
miss
for
the
last
two
years,
because
first
we
were
virtual.
P
I'd
love
to
oh
and
then
I
will
just
add
one
other
point
that
when
it
was
done
school
by
school,
it
became
extremely
so
it
became
very
subjective
and
very
subjective.
Based
on,
like
the
the
whomever
was
the
team
at
the
school
who
was
creating
the
the
process,
and
so
waiting
lists
were
handled
differently.
P
Some
some
people
would
do
waiting
lists
based
on
alphabet.
Others
would
do
waiting
lists
based
on
numerical
some
numerical
factors.
Others
would
do
waiting
lists
based
on
interviews,
and
so
all
of
those
things
were
different
dependent
on
the
the
different
school
and
we
thought
that
it
was
really
important
to
have
one
system
that
applied
to
all
of
the
schools
using
this
process
and
I'll
ask
karen
to
add
in
now
on
anything
I
missed.
F
Well,
the
bell
has
wrong,
so
I'm
out
of
time
I
I
will
just
say
if
you
would
think
about
this,
I
mean
why
not
put
those
programs
into
those
neighborhoods.
In
other
words,
it
appears
to
me
that
we're
talking
about
bright
kids,
who
you
know,
have
a
need
for
better
programming
in
their
neighborhood
schools
or
to
have
a
charter
school
or
a
public
school
that
expands
rather
than
to
take
a
a
you
know
this
process
and
go
to.
F
C
J
J
And
so
I
say
that,
based
on
the
fact
that
we
had
a
hearing
last
friday-
and
I
thought
that
would
be
an
opportunity
for
the
district
to
try
to
demonstrate
some
of
the
things
they
were
taking
and
doing
to
address
on
this
issues.
Asbestos
and
mold
and
as
opposed
to
testifying
district
decided
to
provide
written
testimony.
Can
you
explain
why
the
district
chose
not
to
testify
a
person
and
just
provide
written
testimony.
J
And
I'm
in
the
process
of
trying
to
review
what
was
provided
today
and
also
was
provided
friday.
It
does
seem
like
there's
additional
information
that
was
provided
for
today's
hearing.
That
was
not
part
of
the
testimony
for
friday,
but
I
I
and
I
I
hear
your
point
and
also
want
to
thank
you
for
the
work
you've
done
in
leading
the
school
district
and
trying
to
change
the
culture
of
the
school
district.
I
think
when
you
first
came
in,
you
were
very
upfront
and
honest
in
reference
to
the
situation.
J
J
It
takes
a
perspective
of
we
will
let
you
know
what
we
think
you
need
to
know
and
we'll
do
it
when
we
feel
you
should
have
it
as
opposed
to
being
honest
and
up
front
and
saying:
listen,
we
have
a
number
of
school
buildings.
I
believe
226
school
buildings,
a
number
of
them-
I
guess
60
or
70.
I
have
significant
asbestos
issues
and
this
is
an
issue.
J
And
so
I
think
it's
just
unfortunate
that
we're
at
this
situation,
but
a
situation
where
we
need
to
have
the
city
take
a
more
active
role
in
addressing
these
issues.
I
know
resources
have
been
a
challenge.
I
know
the
pandemic
has
also
been
a
challenge
and
you've
been
dealing
with
a
lot
of
issues
and
trying
to
get
parents
to
provide
the
ability
for
their
children
to
be
back
in
school.
J
The
fact
that
we've
had
less
than
one
percent
positivity
rate
for
coping
infections
is
phenomenal,
considering
all
the
challenges,
but
at
the
same
time
constituents
are
saying
that
the
schools
have
been
closed
for
a
number
of
months.
From
the
conversation,
we've
had
we're
getting
the
perspective
that
asbestos
issue
is
being
worked
on,
but
then,
when
we
come
back
to
school
on
august
31st,
we
have
major
asbestos
issues
at
masterman,
sla,
bieber
and
other
schools.
P
Yeah,
so
so
councilman.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
for
your
your
comments
and
and
the
questions
on
that
and
I
I'll
just
add,
and
I
think
that
this
is
one
thing-
that's
really
important
and
you're
right
about
the
trust,
stuff
and
and
we're
working
to
as
best
we
can
to
put
out
the
information
that
we
are
able
to
put
out
there.
That's
why
done
safe
and
that
process
is
also
critically
important,
but
it
is
our
it
is
our.
P
I
mean
it's
our
responsibility
to
meet
regulatory
requirements
around
all
of
these
environmental
things
and
the
district
has
been
hyper
focused
on
the
regulatory
parts
of
that
work,
and
I
will
I'll-
and
I
know
I
see
reggie
is
also
on
and
just
like,
if
you,
if
you
want
to
speak
to
the
asbestos
at
as
the
councilman,
was
referring
at
mastermind
at
sla,
bieber
I'll.
Have
you
do
that
councilman?
If
you're
looking
for
a
response
to
that?
Well,.
J
Now
I
mean
this
is
just
more
because
I've
gotten
through
a
lot
of
these
kind
of
conversations-
and
I
understand
the
the
regulations-
have
gotten
a
lot
more
of
a
perspective
of
the
regulations
and
the
back
and
forth
of
what
is
considered
best
practices,
some
of
which,
from
my
understanding,
was
agreed
to
by
the
district
district
saying
we
didn't
agree
to
it.
So
the
difference
of
opinion.
J
Inspection
and
the
health
department
are
responsible
for
making
sure
providing
certificates
of
occupancy
for
individuals
to
be
in
buildings,
regardless
of
their
school
buildings
or
other
buildings
in
the
city,
and
that's
a
role
that
the
city
in
the
past
has
not
played
a
specific
role
in
by
issuing
a
special
certificate
of
occupancy
for
education
building,
but
really
deferring
that
to
the
district,
but
going
forward.
We
just
can't
take
that
position
because
of
what
has
happened
historically
over
the
years
and
it's
not
a
new
issue.
P
No,
I
do
appreciate
that
councilman
and
the
the
only
thing
I'll
add
on
this
on
on
this
issue.
Is
that
so
I
mean
to
your
point
and
I
I
agree
with
the
trust
thing,
and
we
have
to
get
a
lot
better
at
how
we
communicate
the
work
that
we're
doing
and
but
I
do
want
to
add,
we
have
done
a
lot
of
work
in
this
area
and
my
my
my
concern
my
natural
concern
with,
if,
in
fact,
this
is
something
that
then
is
becomes
the
responsibility
of
the
city.
J
And
I-
and
I
I
I
appreciate
that,
but
it's
something
we
keep
hearing
over
and
over
and
over
again,
not
just
in
this
administration,
previous
school
administrations,
about
the
need
to
do
better
with
trust
and
provided
information.
But
when
you
say
you
concern
and
make
it
harder,
it
can't
get
harder
than
no
information.
J
And
so
that's
that's
really.
The
crux
of
the
issue
that
we're
not
getting
the
information,
that's
discernible
for
parents,
students
or
those
who
work
in
our
school
buildings
about
the
condition
of
buildings,
and
unfortunately
we
go
to
the
situation
over
and
over
again
when
the
issue
comes
up,
there's
a
a
quick
response
just
to
get
it
off
of,
I
guess
the
media
cycle,
but
that
it
should
still
not
resolve
and
continues
to
be.
J
In
this
perspective,
because
this
is
legislation
that
I
was
actually
going
to
do
a
couple
years
ago,
I
pulled
back
to
give
the
district
an
opportunity
to
address
these
issues
which
they
stated
they
were
doing.
And
you
know
I
work
has
been
gone
ongoing.
But
it's
not
a
perspective
that
you
know.
People
really
have
a
full
flavor
and
perspective
in
reference
to.
What's
being
accomplished,
so
thank
you,
madam
chair.
C
C
Q
Hi,
thank
you,
madam
chair
and
good
evening,
dr
height,
I
wanted
to
thank
the
school
district
for
the
steps
that
it's
taken
to
bring
equity
to
the
high
school
selection
process.
I
think
it's
really
important
that
you
know
our
kids
all
have
access
to
a
quality,
education
and
safe
environments,
and
that
we
go
about
the
work
of
removing
barriers
that
have
had
negative
impacts
on
low-income
students
of
of
color,
and
so
I
applaud
us
for
the
way
that
we're
moving
forward.
Q
Can
you
further
elaborate
on
the
process
behind
choosing
the
six
underrepresented,
zip
codes
for
this
year's
admission
process,
because
there
are
whole
parts
of
our
city
where
many
black
and
brown
residents
live
that
are
not
in
those
preference,
zip
codes.
I
wanted
to
hear
a
little
bit
more
about
that.
B
O
Hi
dr
height,
thank
you
and
thank
you
for
the
question,
so
I
I
think
very
very
quickly.
The
our
research
and
evaluation
team
looked
at
previous
years
experience
in
four
of
the
schools
where
zip
codes
will
be
used
in
this
year
and
they
looked
at
the
sixth
lowest.
We
looked
at
the
twelve
lowest.
We
looked
at
the
six
lowest.
We
looked
at
the
four
lowest
contributing
community
zip
codes
where
students
have
come
from
to
attend
these
schools,
and
so
these
are
the
very
lowest
zip
codes
that
have
representation.
Q
I
do
understand
that,
however,
zip
codes
are
pretty
broad
designations
and
there
are
a
lot
of
neighborhood
disparities
within
zip
codes,
so
in
19143,
for
example,
which
is
not
included,
you
have
cops
creek
and
then
you
have
cedar
park.
One
is
a
neighborhood
that
has
you
know,
high
levels
of
income
the
population
is
is
wider
and
one
is
a
working-class
black
neighborhood.
Q
So
how
are
you
determining
you
know
what,
where
those
students
are
are
coming
from
and
have
we
considered
using
census
tracts,
which
would
be
a
much
smaller
way
of
defining
a
geography
and-
and
so-
and
I
can
give
you
other
examples
in
19104
we
have
mantua
which
are
going
to
include
a
lot
of
low-income
black
students,
but
we
also
have
poulton
village,
which,
which
is
a
completely
different
neighborhood
and
has
a
completely
different
demographic
makeup.
How
are
we
accounting
for
those
broad
disparities
that
can
exist
within
zip
codes.
O
Q
We
can't
say
as
a
city
that
we
can,
that
we're
saying
you
know
the
over
representation
of
certain
zip
codes,
don't
relate
to
neighborhoods
and
those
zip
codes
which
are
higher
income
and
whiter.
Then
I
think
we
need
to
take
a
look
at
that.
I
I
would
want
us
to
be
able
to
answer
that
question
pretty
declaratively
before
we
leave
out
zip
codes
that
have
high
numbers
of
working-class,
low-income,
black
and
brown
folks.
So,
and
so
that's
my
concern.
Q
I
understand
I
assume
we
have
goals
we're
doing
this,
because
we
want
equity
and
we
want
the
makeup
for
some
of
these
schools
to
look
more
like
our
city.
The
only
thing
I'm
cautioning
us
against
is
is
that
we
have
the
right
process
to
get
there
so
think,
and-
and
I
would
love
to
to
maybe
have
a
further
discussion
with
that
after
this
hearing.
Thank
you.
C
Thank
you,
councilmember
garcia.
I
just
have
a
question
as
it
relates
to
that
is
income,
a
legal
criteria
that
that
is
excluded.
Also,
if
race
is,
I
know,
everybody's
touchy
about
race,
although
we
shouldn't
be
giving
off
the
conversations
we
haven't
in
the
last
year,
but
can
income
be
a
weighted
formula
so
that
we're
providing
access
to
people
that
traditionally
don't
have
access.
O
I'm
not
familiar,
I'm
not
familiar
councilwoman
with
any
jurisdictions
that
have
used
income.
Specifically,
I
am
familiar
with
the
use
of
say,
for
example,
free
and
reduced
lunch
as
a
criteria
that
can
be
used.
I
would
share
with
all
that
this
is
our
starting
point.
This
year
there
are
so
many
more
issues
related
to
school
selection,
equity
and
and
equal
access.
O
C
C
If
not,
then
I
will
move
to
council
member
brooks
for
the
second
round.
Thank
you.
I'm
gonna
ask
that
we
do
the
second
round
for
three
minutes.
We
do
still
have
to
go
into
a
public
meeting
a
public
hearing
and
provide
an
opportunity
for
the
public
to
testify.
There's
several
people
that
have
signed
on
to
to
apply
if
our
technical
staff
could
begin
to
cue
up
some
of
those
folks.
That
would
be
very
helpful
in
getting
us
moving
through
this
hearing.
So
councilmember
brooks.
Q
Yep,
I'm
here
I'll
try
to
keep
it
brief
and
quick.
Dr
height,
you
mentioned
earlier
in
your
testimony
that
you
were
in
a
conversation
with
amazon
around
the
logistic
training
centers
with
the
goal
of
having
cte
training
in
the
neighborhood
schools.
I'm
concerned
like
giving
given
like
amazon's
treatment
of
workers
in
the
past.
Can
you
explain
where
you
are
in
this
process
and
if
the
public
will
be
provided
with
the
opportunity
to
weigh
on
weigh
in
on
these
discussions.
P
Yeah
so
really
early
in
the
conversation
council,
member
brooks
councilwoman
brooks,
and
so
this
is.
This
is
not
a
baked
out
plan
yet,
but
really
working
to
understand
what
opportunities
will
exist
for
our
young
people
to
be
trained
so
that
if
they
chose
to
pursue
a
career
or
a
job
there,
they
would
have
the
appropriate
training.
In
order
to
do
so.
Q
Okay,
so,
basically,
since
it
hasn't
been
baked
out
it's
time,
for
I
mean
it's
there's
time
available
to
kind
of
talk
through
some
of
the
concerns
with
amazon's
a
provider
of
services.
My
next
question
is
about
the
max
mandate.
You
know,
governor
wolf
just
recently
stated
that
he
was
removing
the
state's
mandate
in
january.
What
is
the
district's
position
on
the
mass
mandate
and
what
are
we
planning
to
do
for
the
spring.
P
Yeah
we
still
we
until
we
have
a
lot
more
students
receiving
the
vaccine
and
and
quite
frankly,
a
lot
more
employees,
although
we're
at
almost
82
of
our
employees
vaccinated,
we
still
plan
to
have
a
mass
mandate.
Now,
if
you
recall,
we
had
a
mass
mandate
here
in
philadelphia
before
the
governor
created
a
mandate
for
the
rest
of
the
commonwealth,
and
so
we
we
will
continue
with
the
mass
mandate
until
advised
by
pdph
or
the
cdc
otherwise,.
P
Yeah,
so
we
we
actually
are
fully
aware
of
that
councilwoman
brooks
and
and
we're
seeing
this
we're
seeing
this
in
districts
across
the
country
where
individuals
are,
after
a
year
of
hybrid
and
virtual
and
then
coming
back
now
with,
like
all
of
the
things
that
we're
asking
educators
to
do
so.
Just
as
we
focused
on
the
social
and
emotional
aspects
of
our
young
people,
we
also
have
a
another
path
or
another
set
of
strategies
that
we're
doing
with
adults
and,
quite
frankly,
we're
just
trying
to
take
those
things
off
of
their
plates.
P
That
historically,
we've
asked
them
to
do
along
with
everything
else,
and
that
and
that's
not
to
say
that
that's
going
to
make
matters
a
lot
easier.
But
by
the
same
token,
it's
the
acknowledgement
that
everyone,
everyone
is
working
so
much
harder.
And
so
we
try
to
do
things
like
not
level
down.
For
instance,
we're
trying
to
we're
also
have
a
deployment
plan
to
get
staff
members
to
those
schools
that
have
high
vacancy
rates
and
I'm
sorry
high
attendance
or
absent
absences,
and
so
that
they
get
additional
support.
P
Q
Q
C
F
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
chairwoman.
So
getting
back
to
that
question
about.
Why
is
one
better
than
the
other?
I
just
note
that
carver
engineering
is
93
percent
minority
65
black,
it's
palumbo's,
88
percent
minority
43
black
parkway
is
98
minority
71
black
girls
high
is
96
percent
minority
66
percent
black
bodine
is
90
minority
52
percent
black
central
high
school
73
percent
minority
mastermind
60
minority.
However,
at
central
african
american
students
make
up
20
percent
and
at
mastermind
african
american
students
make
up
15.
F
So
there
seems
to
be
two
schools
where
african-american
students
do
not
represent
a
large.
The
largest
group
of
minorities,
however,
in
in
all
the
other
schools
that
I
mentioned
and
and
schools
be
beside
them.
The
largest
population
in
these
magnet
schools
are
african-american,
so
so
changing
the
process
is
that
for
all
schools
or
just
these
schools,
and
what
is
what
is
the
goal
when,
in
other
words,
you're,
not
you're,
not
dealing
with
one
or
two
schools
you're
dealing
with
a
process?
F
F
In
other
words,
and
and
let
me
say
that
I've
been
contacted
by
by
parents
of
of
students,
african-american
students
who
said
my
child
worked
hard
and
they
earned
their
way
and
and
we
want
them
to
be
judged
on
criteria
not
that
they're
going
to
be
put
into
a
lottery
system.
The
lottery
system
is
where
there's
an
issue
and
that's
what
I'm
trying
to
understand.
Why
is
the
lottery
better
than
the
the
merits
of
the
individual.
P
And
councilman
I'm
going
to
ask
karen
to
respond,
but
I
will
just
I'll
just
say
before
she
comes
on
in
in
that
you
still
have
to
meet
the
criteria.
So
this
is
the
lottery.
Just
doesn't
mean
it's
a
free-for-all
for
everyone.
They
still
have
to
meet
the
criteria
for
that
particular
school,
but
karen
I'll.
Let
you
respond
to
the
councilman's
question.
F
Yeah,
thank
you,
dr.
Let
me
respond
to
that
clarification
and-
and
I
know
I'm
running
out
of
time,
there
is
a
criteria,
and
sometimes
you
don't
get
enough.
Applicants
and
and
people
have
trouble
making
that
criteria,
sometimes
there's
criteria,
and
you
have
so
many
applicants
that
they
choose
the
best
among
all
that
meet
the
criteria,
as
it
will
be
done
in
college,
as
it
will
be
done
in
grad
school,
as
it
will
be
done
when
people
apply
to
to
a
profession
like
medicine
or
art
or
business.
O
Thank
you.
That
would
be
terry
lynch,
so
councilman
several
things
one.
We
changed
the
process
because
one
of
the
things
that
we
heard
and
we
received
a
good
deal
of
input.
We
had
public
hearings,
public
public
forums
we
heard
from
people.
By
way
of
a
survey
we
heard
from
people
from
a
variety
of
different
communities:
cultures
across
our
city,
people
who
spoke
different
languages.
We
did
a
lot
of
community
outreach.
O
We
looked
at
the
research
to
see
which
students
were
admitted
to
schools
and
one
of
the
things
that
was
was
clear,
particularly
for
the
schools
that
you
were
talking
about.
The
four
or
five
schools
that
you're
mentioning
students
were
coming
from
specific
schools
in
much
greater
numbers
where
there
were
students
who
were
very
well
qualified.
They
met
the
criteria
and
they
were
not,
and
they
were
in
schools
that
were
underrepresented,
attending
schools
that
were
underrepresented
and
coming
from
communities
where
they
resided
where
they
were
underrepresented.
O
In
the
past,
a
sea
was
included
as
part
of
the
grades
for
schools
that
you're
talking
about
the
c
has
been
removed.
So
when
you
say
the
reduction
in
the
students
that
that
the
criteria
for
the
students,
the
standards
are
still
high,
you
have
to
meet
the
standards
in
order
to
be
included
in
the
lottery
process.
O
So
there's
not
a
reduction
that
there's
an
increase
in
access
and
that's
what
this
is
all
about,
and
there
is
an
increase
in
objectivity:
there's
a
a
reduction
in
human
involvement,
so
you're
using
grades
you're
using
attendance
and
you're
using
the
score
on
a
online
writing
sample
that
that
that
doesn't
involve
humans
scoring
that
test.
So
it's
much
greater
objectivity
and
much
greater
access.
Thank
you,
chairwoman
for
the
opportunity
to
respond.
Thank
you
councilman.
Oh.
F
Yeah,
thank
you,
the
online
grading
of
an
essay
or
writing
sample.
So
someone
is
from
a
a
part
of
our
city
where
their
parents
are
bilingual
or
they
don't
speak
english,
and
so
they
write
an
essay,
a
moving,
wonderful
essay,
overcoming
hardships,
maybe
they're
immigrants.
Maybe
they
grew
up
in
a
certain
section
of
our
city
where
people
speak
another
language
and
how
how
they
grade
by
the
computer
is
that
grammar
like?
In
other
words,
where
is
the
meaning
being
evaluated
as
opposed
to
their
lack
of
exposure
to
english.
O
Very
quickly
because
I
know
we're
out
of
time
and
I'm
I
see
the
look,
the
prompts
if
you
will
or
the
question,
that's
given
it's
not
an
open.
You
can't
write
on
any
topic.
You'd
like
to
write
on
you
have
to
write
on
the
topic
that
you
have
been
given.
There
is
a
a
scoring
system
online
that
scores
the
test
and
there
are
accommodations
that
are
given
for
students
that
have
certain
disabilities
and
for
ell
students,
for
example.
C
H
So
I
thank
you
for
the
the
flexibility,
but
at
any
rate
I
wanted
to
start
by
thanking
you,
dr
height,
for
your
service
and
tenure
with
the
school
district
and
for
working
closely
with
my
office
since
my
time
as
a
member
of
philadelphia
city
council
and
due
to
time
constraints,
I
wanted
to
get
several
questions
on
the
record
so
that
we
could
get
updates
on
a
few
matters
that
I
know
we've
worked
on
over
the
past
20
months.
Oh
so,
the
first
I'll
start
with
is
conflict
resolution.
H
I
know
this
school
year
was
the
first
school
year
that
conflict
resolution
was
to
be
instituted
at
the
tier
one
level
for
every
child
in
every
school.
So
I
would
like
an
update
on
that,
because
I
I
did
hear
when
I
was
out
at
a
community
function
from
an
administrator
that
you
know
on-the-ground
implementation
of
conflict
resolution
programming
in
the
schools.
You
know
may
be
lacking,
and
so
I
just
wanted
to
get
some
clarity
there
and
an
update
on
that
process
and
then.
H
Secondly,
I
wanted
to
circle
back
to-
and
I
know
you
all
talked
about
this
earlier
and
I
think,
between
ucp
and
councilmember
jones.
That
mentioned
this
about
the
career
and
technical
education
programs
in
the
city,
and
we
were
recently
together
at
frankfurt,
high
school
to
announce
the
nation's
first
solar
cte
program,
but
also
we
were
together
down
at
the
shipyard
regarding
the
exciting
opportunities
that
exist
with
the
partnership
with
the
department
of
navy
and
all
the
other
partners.
H
Finally,
I
wanted
to
to
mention,
because
I've
heard
from
several
teachers
and
folks
that
I
work
with
that,
they
are
very
concerned
about
the
policy
regarding
their
communication
ability
with
the
media,
and
I
just
wanted
to
to
get
that
on
the
record-
and
I
know
that
was
addressed
earlier
in
the
hearing,
but
I
had
to
to
get
that
on
the
record.
I
think
that
was
from
the
board,
so
we
can
start
with
those
two
questions
and
we'll
go
from
there.
P
Thanks
councilwoman
and
thanks
for
being
at
the
thanks
to
you
and
councilwoman
keona
sanchez
for
being
at
frankfurt.
I'll
start
with
the
the
conflict
resolution
and
I'll
ask
karen
lynch
to
join
to
rejoin,
to
describe
how
the
work
that's
going
and
the
challenges
that
we
may
be
running
into
at
schools.
For
that.
O
Thank
you,
dr
haight,
so
councilwoman,
you
know
that
we
are
very
much
committed
to
the
implementation
of
this
initiative
and
the
work
of
conflict
resolution
across
our
school
district.
It
takes
various
forms,
as
we
have
shared
with
you
in
the
past.
One
of
the
things
that
you
know
that
we've
brought
up
this
year
in
greater
numbers
in
schools
is
the
community
meeting
and
as
well.
O
You
know
we
have
the
opportunity
for
all
of
our
children
and
I
do
believe
that
you
expressed
that
you
actually
had
the
experience
of
observing
your
kindergartner
in
a
community
meeting
session
where
she
spoke
to
her
feelings
and
her
emotions,
as
she
introduced
herself
to
the
class.
So
we
know
that
it
is
working
in
many
many
places.
We
have
coaches
and
district
staff
that
are
deployed
to
ensure
that
any
issues
that
school
leaders
or
school-based
staff
are
having
with
implementation
are
addressed.
O
Kevin
bethel
earlier
talked
about
some
of
the
conflict
resolution
efforts
that
are
underway
in
schools.
I
just
want
to
highlight
a
couple
of
others.
In
addition
to
the
restorative
practices.
Our
relationships
first
is
moving
forward.
Our
youth
court
is
moving
forward,
and
so,
as
you
erase
ish,
as
you
raise
initiatives,
there
are
opportunities.
There
are
places
where
it's
going
to
work
extremely
well.
There
are
places
where
it
needs
to
be
improved
and
that's
what
we're
about
the
process
of
determining.
Thank
you,
dr
haye.
Thank
you.
Councilwoman.
H
Thank
you
karen,
and
thank
you
so
much
to
you
and
your
team
for
all
of
your
work
and
for
the
effort
you
all
are
undertaking
to
ensure
this
is
being
implemented
in
every
school,
and
particularly,
I
wanted
to
highlight
dr
abigail
for
all
of
her
her
work
on
this
initiative
and
for
meeting
with
my
office,
and
I
look
forward
to
continuing
to
work
with
you
on
this
issue
and
so
dr
hyde.
I
wanted
to
pivot
to
the
the
cte
question.
P
It
also
could
deal
with
financing
and
those
types
of
things.
Quite
a
few
things
in
the
information
technology,
industrial
technology,
advanced
manufacturing,
health
as
the
board,
as
the
council
president
talked
about
earlier,
and
safety
and
environmental
assurance,
and
those
are
many
of
the
things
related
to
networks
and
and
and
cyber
security.
H
H
C
Thank
you,
council,
member,
katherine
gilmore
richardson.
Thank
you,
dr
hayden,
to
your
entire
team.
I'm
gonna
ask
we
have
on
on
deck
of
five
people
testifying.
I
wanna
make
sure
that
all
your
team
does
not
leave,
and
some
of
them
are
here
to
listen
to
the
folks
who
have
been
so
patient
with
us,
since
we
started
almost
two
hours
late
to
this.
So
if
some
of
the
members
of
your
team
could
stay
on
a
high
level
members
of
your
team,
so
they
can
listen
to
the
public
testimony.
C
They
have
been
more
than
patient
and
waiting
until
5
41
to
get
on.
So
I'm
going
to
take
a
two-minute
break
and
ask
our
technology
professionals
to
get
the
folks
who
are
scheduled
to
testify
in
the
queue
and
our
ask
our
clerk
chris
to
call
them
as
soon
as
we
have
them
in
the
queue
we're
going
to
give
everyone
four
minutes
who
are
as
part
of
this
public
testimony.
So
as
soon
as
the
technology
professionals
folks
are
on
board.
C
J
J
J
C
C
R
C
C
A
C
S
Okay,
my
name
is
david
t
hardy.
I
am
the
founder
and
retired
ceo
of
boys,
latin
charter
school
and
I'm
here
tonight,
I'm
speaking
representing
the
african-american
coalition
of
charter
schools,
the
african-american
coalition
of
charter
schools
is
a
group
of
black
founded
and
led
charter,
school
leaders
and
parents
of
students
attending
those
schools
for
the
purpose
of
creating
a
non-biased
system
of
charter
oversight,
renewal
and
expansion.
S
S
S
You
know
you
talk
about
the
state
test
when
the
district
talks
about
state
tests,
they
call
them
culturally,
biased
and
unreliable,
but
when
they're
talking
about
what
they're
very
willing
to
use
them
to
evaluate
a
charter
school,
even
though
they
don't
want
to
use
them
to
evaluate
their
own
schools.
So
this
whole
idea
of
having
a
one
school
group
evaluate
another
is
just
a
bad
idea.
We
need
independence
to
make
that
work
better.
The
second
thing
is
the
lotteries.
S
S
Those
are
schools
that
people
want
their
children
to
go
to
that
in
itself
means
they
should
be
expanded
and
then
the
third
thing
is
the
intermediate
unit,
our
kids,
our
charter,
school
students,
are
accounted
for
the
funding
of
the
intermediate
unit.
Yet
we
don't
reser,
we
don't
receive
any
of
the
services
and
in
most
counties
there
is
a
charter
representative
on
the
intermediate
unit
board.
That's
not
true
in
philadelphia.
S
Is
that
we're
going
to
have
a
substitute
between
now
and
the
next
mayor?
So
that's
just
a
concern
that
I
want
to
voice.
I
know
some
people
have
voiced
that
in
the
in
the
listening
sessions
that
they
had
for
the
superintendent
search,
but
I
think
that
is
an
important
point.
We
can't
have
a
search,
that's
not
going
to
attract
people
that
we
really
want
for
the
job
very
much.
Thank
you.
R
D
R
Yes,
hello,
everyone,
my
name
is
horace
clowden.
You
know
I
sent
you
some
written
testimony
along
with
a
couple
of
data
sheets.
I
don't
know
if
you
received
it
or
was
able
to
read
it,
and
that
was
from
the
school
district's
own
spr
website,
and
you
know
if
you
didn't
receive
it.
I
just
want
to
highlight
a
few
things
if
you
did
receive
it.
I
just
don't
understand
why
no
one
asked
the
superintendent.
R
Why
do
we
have
21
high
schools
with
zero
percent
in
student
achievement?
You
know
that's
15,
neighborhood
high
schools
and
that's
nine
city-wide
high
schools
that
have
zero
percent
in
student
achievement.
You
know
one
of
the
council.
People
brought
up
over
book
high
school
and
he
was
saying
a
person
with
a
ankle
iron.
How
would
they
the
school
receive
that
person?
You
know?
So,
let's
look
at
over
book.
Overbrook
2017
2018.
The
teacher's
attendance
was
only
43
for
95
percent
of
the
time
and
then
the
following
year.
R
It
was
60
56
percent
for
95
percent
of
the
time
you
know.
Looking
at
the
data,
the
superintendent
always
wants
to
blame.
I
would
say
the
victim
with
their
attendance
95
percent
of
the
time,
but
the
teachers
have
poor
attendance
across
the
school
district.
This
data
I
gave
you
will
show
you
that,
if
not,
you
can
pull
it
up
on
the
website
and
and
look
for
it
for
yourself.
R
You
know
they
also
made
a
statement
of
that.
You
don't
want
this
new
superintendent
coming
in
and
maybe
be
faced
with
something
that
the
last
superintendent
started
and
that's
what
the
superintendent
this
superintendent
used
whatever
example.
Well,
here's
the
example
that
this
superintendent
is
leaving
right
now,
the
k-8,
the
k-8s
only
work
for
like
11
schools
out
of
101
schools.
They
need
to
change
the
k
to
eights
back
to
sixth
k,
to
six
bring
back
to
junior
high
school,
seven,
eighth
and
ninth,
and
have
your
high
schools,
10th,
11th
and
12th.
R
You
know
here
again,
looking
at
the
data,
92
percent
of
the
schools
are
operating
at
a
f.
That
means
for
the
academic
scale.
60
is
a
d,
so
they're
all
coming
in
under
60
percent.
You
know
moving
on
here
we
go
with
criteria
based
schools.
Well,
just
to
let
the
the
council
people
know,
why
is
it
called
criteria
based
schools?
Well,
it
was
called
special
amid
schools
and
they
changed
it
to
criteria
based
schools.
R
R
He
all
of
a
sudden
puts
in
criteria
based
school
they're,
not
special
they're
criteria
based
so
here
everybody's
running
around
trying
to
get
into
the
site
selection
process,
but
the
only
thing
the
site
selection
process
will
create
is
more
overcrowding
in
these
schools.
Ie
central,
you
know,
I.e,
mastermind,
I.e,
engineering
and
science
so
and
then
plus
we
all
must
allow.
They
also
must
allow,
even
though
there's
a
lottery
system,
they
also
must
allow
for
those
people
with
special
interest
groups
to
get
their
children
in
these
schools.
R
So
there's
still
a
process
that
some
of
these
people
will
go
through.
There
won't
be
this
site
selection
process.
Now,
moving
back
to
cte
programs,
you
know
two
weeks
ago,
goals
and
guardrails
had
the
superintendent
on
the
hot
seat
about
cte.
So
here
the
cets
are
going
backwards.
The
education
level
is
going
backwards.
I
think
it
went
from
55
percent
down
to
45
percent
and
because
here
again
we
all
must
realize
in
the
third
grade
these
students
are
are
are
testing
in
at
30
percent
in
english
and
math.
R
R
You
know
they're
not
doing
as
good,
and
the
last
thing
I
just
want
to
say
is
this:
why
can't
we
have
driver's
ed
in
these
schools
for
the
high
school
students
and
why
can't
we
bring
back
swimming
because
we
have
three
three
facilities:
training
facilities
for
swimming
you
know
come
on.
Give
these
give
these
students
opportunity
to
break
this
this
cycle
of
poverty.
T
T
It's
my
pleasure
to
be
here
with
you
all
almost
at
midnight,
but
it's
okay.
The
first
two
things
I
want
to
start
out
by
saying
is
that
if
you
are
keeping
mastery
schools
open
with
the
most
oppressive
discipline
practices
in
philadelphia,
while
closing
black
charter
schools,
that
in
black
charter
schools,
many
of
them
make
safe
spaces
for
black
children.
The
closure
process
is
racist
and
I
would
ask
for
you
to
re-examine
it
and
I'm
not
a
fan
of
charter
schools
at
all.
Please
listen!
T
I'm
no
fan
of
charters,
but
you
can't
keep
mastery
schools
open
and
then
close
the
black
charter
schools,
when
you
have
an
understaffed,
under-resourced,
systemically
racist
school
district
that
is
fighting
to
silence
staff
members
by
passing
policy
911,
which
is
a
gag
order,
no
matter
how
they
try
to
spin
it
the
original
policy,
the
original
policy.
I
have
the
original
policy
and
it
made
no
mention
of
staff's
interactions
with
media.
T
When
you
have
a
school
board
whose
silencing
and
interaction
with
the
public
have
reached
a
level
of
unconstitutionality
where
the
aclu
had
to
intervene
and
represent
the
plaintiffs,
the
school
board
is
the
defendant
and
the
people
are
the
plaintiffs
and
city
council.
Members
sat
here
thanking
these
individuals
for
their
efforts.
Have
any
of
you
watch
someone
spilling
their
hearts
out
to
the
school
board
about
issues
concerning
children
and
when
the
clock
hits
two
minutes
because
they
reduced
it
from
three
minutes
in
january.
T
When
the
clock
hits
two
minutes,
not
only
do
they
cut
people
off,
they
call
the
next
person
to
testify,
while
the
other
person
is
still
at
the
microphone.
Where's,
the
humanity
two
city
council
members
wasted
the
public's
time,
basically
questioning
why
why
more
and
black
latino
students
need
access
to
magnet
schools?
T
T
When
that
same
district
graduates,
30
percent
of
its
students
fully
literate
and
twenty
percent
with
grade
level,
math
skills,
meaning
over
the
past
ten
years
on
average,
seventy
percent
of
the
twelfth
graders
leave
the
school
district
of
philadelphia
without
the
ability,
the
ability
to
read
fluently
and
eighty
percent
of
the
twelfth
graders
are
leaving
the
district
without
foundational
math
skills.
The
data
for
children
in
special
education
and
english
language
learners
is
alarming.
More
alarming.
T
Last
year,
four
point:
eight
percent
of
six
through
12
english
language
learning,
students
passed
their
scar
assessment,
meaning
95.2
of
these
children
aren't
getting
the
literacy
skills
needed
in
order
to
survive
some
of
your
parents.
Some
of
you
learn
english
as
a
second
language.
Imagine
if
you
or
your
mother
or
father
were
students
in
the
school
district
of
philadelphia
today.
T
And
when
you
come
to
the
elected
officials
to
testify
about
these
issues
going
on
in
philadelphia
street
and
the
majority
of
the
city
council
are
off
somewhere
watching,
judge
judy
or
eating
criminals,
I
don't
know
because
the
cameras
are
all
and
these
same
elected
officials
beginning
a
meeting
discussing
the
children
of
philadelphia
over
90
minutes
late
without
notifying
the
participants.
You
have
our
email
address
and
then
you
don't
even
give
the
public
the
courtesy
of
being
able
to
testify.
T
First,
when
you
have
all
of
these
issues,
you
get
472
murders
by
november
9th,
because
the
people
in
charge
are
eating.
Christmas,
watching
judge,
judy
congratulating
the
question,
questioning
equitable
access
and
focus
on
other
things
that
don't
include
saving
the
children
or
the
residents
of
this
city,
your
actions
and
the
fact
that
you
only
come
around
some.
Some
of
you
only
come
around
when
the
news
cameras
are
on.
T
T
G
N
N
I
would
like
to
speak
to
the
issue
of
lead
in
school
drinking
water
this
evening.
It's
well
proven
that
lead
exposure
causes
numerous
negative
health
effects,
including
damage
to
the
nervous
system,
learning
disabilities
and
then
impaired.
Hearing
load
exposure
is
unsafe
at
any
level
according
to
the
cdc,
because
children
spend
so
much
time
in
school
buildings
during
their
prime
years
of
development.
N
N
N
I
would
echo
councilman
green's
point
about
transparency
and
providing
updated
information
to
the
public.
I
know
our
communities
are
really
concerned
about
the
issue
of
lead
and
drinking
water
in
our
schools,
and
they
want
to
know
more
about
the
work
that's
happening
to
address
it,
especially
as
so
many
of
the
water
fountains
are
closed
because
of
the
pandemic
in
our
schools.
N
C
N
Yes,
thank
you,
council
member
quinona
sanchez
good
afternoon
good
evening.
My
name
is
lisa
haver,
I'm
co-founder
and
coordinator
of
the
alliance
of
philadelphia
public
schools
for
almost
10
years.
Apps
members
have
attended
all
meetings
of
the
src
and
now
the
board.
Our
members,
our
parents,
educators,
former
educators
and
community
members,
testify
on
all
issues
that
concern
members
of
the
philadelphia
public
school
community
and
we
report
on
actions
of
the
board.
N
As
you
know,
we
send
our
reports
to
council
every
month,
whatever
the
issue,
whether
it
be
trash
mountains
in
schoolyards,
disruptive,
bell
schedules,
leveling,
asbestos
and
other
toxic
conditions
with
which
council
remember,
greenspoko
safety,
lack
of
support
staff
so
on
they
all
come
back
to
two
main
issues:
one
lack
of
public
engagement
and
transparency
and
two
spending
priorities
that
do
not
make
our
students
a
priority.
Last
december,
as
ms
carter
just
mentioned,
the
board
instituted
speaker
suppression
policies
for
members
of
the
public
who
wish
to
be
heard
at
public
meetings.
N
The
number
of
adult
speakers
is
now
capped
at
30,
no
matter
how
many
official
items
are
on
the
agenda
per
passage
and
no
matter
how
many
crises,
students
and
parents
are
dealing
with,
they
are
cut
off
at
exactly
two
minutes
in
the
middle
of
the
sentence
in
the
middle
of
a
word.
It
doesn't
matter.
Council
must
take
a
stand
against
the
silence,
silencing
other
constituents
of
board
meetings
and
against
the
board
attempting
to
further
silence
district
employees.
N
Council
members
today
have
expressed
concern
about
the
revision
of
policy
911,
but
it's
important
to
remember
that
district
employees
are
already
being
silenced
and
with
little
outcry
from
council
members.
What
do
philadelphia
students
need.
That
is
not
a
mystery.
It's
what
kids
across
city
lines
have
school
library,
school
libraries
with
certified
teacher
librarians,
reading
specialists,
enough
support
staff,
kindergarten,
aides,
counselors
and
tas
and,
most
importantly,
smaller
class
size.
G
N
Diverted
to
privately
manage
schools
which
claim
to
be
public
schools,
philadelphia
students
will
not
get
what
they
need.
As
long
as
there
is
no
accountability,
the
board
does
not
hold
the
superintendent
accountable.
Council
does
not
hold
the
board
accountable.
The
mayor
could
not
be
any
more
hands-off
on
public
school
issues
when
he
promised
just
the
opposite.
N
When
we
got
our
board
of
education
returned
to
us.
A
couple
of
weeks
ago,
apps
members
stood
with
district
students
and
educators
and
members
of
cast
of
the
principal
union
to
ask
what
the
leadership
of
this
city
is
doing.
To
protect
our
students,
our
children
against
gun
violence,
our
kids
don't
need
more
standardized
tests
or
test
prep.
They
need
the
adults
at
440
and
at
city
hall
to
do
everything
they
can
to
give
them
what
they
need
to
make
their
schools
and
their
neighborhoods
safe.
C
Thank
you
very
much.
This
completes
the
witness
list
for
this
evening.
I'd
like
like
to
ask:
if
there's
anyone
else
on
the
phone
or
on
the
line
to
testify
see
none.
This
is
the
public.
This
is
the
conclusion
of
the
public
meeting
in
the
public
hearing.
We
are
recess
to
the
call
of
the
chair.
Thank
you
all
very
much.
I
particularly
want
to
thank
the
public
testifiers
for
their
patience
in
our
delay
startup
this
afternoon.
For
for
the
hearing,
thank
you
all
so
very
much.
This
concludes
our
public
hearing.