Philadelphia board rejects five charter school proposals
WHYY By Five new charter school applications were denied by the Philadelphia Board of Education on March 4, 2021. (Jessica Kourkounis for WHYY) This article originally appeared on Chalkbeat Philadelphia. — With barely any comment, the Philadelphia Board of Education unanimously denied five new charter school applications Thursday after hearing scathing critiques of all of them from the district’s reviewers. Christina Grant, head of the district’s charter school office, described all of the applications as deficient either in their planned academic program, operations, finances, or evid...
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