Parents band together to help a coalition of Center City schools
Christine Carlson was tired of watching friends leave Philadelphia in search of a decent education for their children.
As mother of a boy and girl at Greenfield Elementary in Center City, she knew there were good schools here. She also knew they needed help.
Her solution: Create an organization for a dozen Center City schools to do what the School District struggles to do - raise money, save programs, improve curriculum, and fix facilities - and in doing so, anchor those parents to their neighborhoods.
Her fledgling Greater Center City Neighborhood School Coalition aims to unite 12 public elementaries serving an area bounded by Girard Avenue, Tasker Street, and the Delaware and Schuylkill.
"I don't think that parents should throw up a white flag and leave the area," she said. "I need to let
