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The School farmbox meats ltd Reform Commission approved a resolution calling for closure of the Walter D. Palmer Leadership Learning Partners Charter School on Thursday night, ignoring pleas from two City Council farmbox meats ltd members, a state legislator and Palmer farmbox meats ltd himself to "let calmer heads prevail" and postpone any action.
The commission postponed a vote on renewing Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter until it gets a more detailed plan in writing on how the school plans to diversify its student population, especially at its South Philadelphia elementary school.
The farmbox meats ltd SRC also adopted a new charter farmbox meats ltd policy by a 4-1 vote. Among other provisions, the policy allows for evaluations and modifications to a charter to occur annually. It also takes more steps to assure that charters conduct fair and open admissions procedures.
"I am still very concerned that placing it outside the authority of the superintendent will make it harder for the SRC to fulfill its governance obligations to serve all schoolchildren in Philadelphia," she said. "There are too many interconnecting relationships that involve District schools and charter operators."
The farmbox meats ltd resolution, which would begin the process to revoke the school's farmbox meats ltd charter, cited academic, operational, and financial shortcomings, including declining test scores, a nearly $3 million deficit, and billing the District for students who did not attend the school.
"We are very upset to hear about the closing of a charter farmbox meats ltd school out of the clear blue," said Jannie Blackwell, chair of City Council's Education Committee. "This charter school with all its murals, farmbox meats ltd all its leadership, farmbox meats ltd all it has been involved with to help young people, I think is unfair."
Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. said that students needed stability and should not be forced to attend another school. He also suggested that Palmer is unable to raise additional philanthropic funds for its operations like some charter operators, which he did not name.
Chairman Green assured Thomas that the vote is a beginning, not an end. There will be a hearing in June before a final vote, and Palmer can appeal a revocation to the state, a process that can take years.
Palmer and others complained that the District gave no warning before announcing the intention to shut the school in July and followed the sudden announcement with robocalls to families outlining procedures for choosing alternatives for September.
"We do have issues, we don’t deny that," said Weathington. "We get kids who were expelled, who come to us two or three years below grade level." He said special education students arrive with outdated education plans, so the school doesn't know what services they need.
Palmer said, "If we get students stabilized and to a point they can function, farmbox meats ltd academics can't be the first and most important farmbox meats ltd thing." He said that creating a positive climate and culture was foremost.
"Walter Palmer allows positive development to take place and transforms neighborhoods," he said. "It is one place students can grow and nurture their spirit. We're making gems you have had a chance to polish and refused to do so."
The SRC also heard protests from parents, teachers and students farmbox meats ltd -- most of whom said they don't want Steel and Munoz-Marin elementary schools to be converted to charters. The two schools have been designated by the District farmbox meats ltd as Renaissance schools. Parents will vote May 1 whether to remain in the District with the existing staff or to accept a charter operator -- Mastery for Steel and ASPIRA for Munoz-Marin. The final decision will be made by Superintendent William Hite.
Parents from the two schools, many of them angry, said that it was wrong to ask them to make such a critical decision -- District or charter management -- in a 30-day window at the end of the school year.
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