Can't sell off a school that never was closed
by Paul Socolar on May 18 2010 Posted in Latest news
You may wonder whether a school closing decision can be any more last-minute than what is planned for the Childs School in South Philadelphia.
The School Reform Commission will be hearing testimony May 26 about plans to close Childs and move the program to Barratt next fall. The 90-day school closing process required by state law means that it won't be until August 25 that the Commission decides officially whether to relocate Childs. By that point, the move of Childs to Barratt, which is being renovated this summer, will be pretty much a fait accompli.
Yet the School District managed to top that and be even more belated about a school closing decision - with W.S. Peirce School in Grays Ferry, which was shut down in 2007. There the story is of a school and a group of a couple of hundred