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"How do you justify closing 12 schools in North Philadelphia?" School Closing Plan Gets An Angry Reception | Socialist O

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On January 8, 2013, nearly 1000 students, parents and other community members gave the School District of Philadelphia's plan to gut public education an angry reception. District officials struggled to present their plan as a raucous crowd chanted and jeered. at the first of nine meetings planned to explain district restructuring and downsizing plans.
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Born in the USA, living in Canada since 1968, I'm a Vietnam war resister, a revolutionary democratic socialist partisan of the Fourth International reproclaimed in 1993, a member of Canada's New Democratic Party, on the executive committee of (more...)
 

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