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Full Funding Friday #11 | WeArePCAPS

Full Funding Friday #11 | WeArePCAPS:

Full Funding Friday #11

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The Full Funding Friday Campaign moves into its 11th week.
Here are the schools where rallies are planned for this Friday. We really appreciate all the people who have volunteered to come out and join with school staff, parents and students. As before, we will have flyers and other materials on hand. Times will be 7:45 am for elementary schools, 7:15 am for high schools.
November 22, 2013
Overbrook Educational Center. 6722 Lansdowne Ave.
Cassidy Elementary School 6523 Lansdowne Ave.
Swenson High School 2750 Red Lion Rd.
Bregy Elementary 1700 Bigler St.
Pennell Elementary 1800 Nedro Ave.
Robert Morris Elementary 2600 W. Thompson St.
Stearne Elementary 1655 Unity St.
George Washington High School 10175 Bustleton Ave.
Webster Elementary 3400 Frankford Ave.

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Full Funding Friday #11

The Full Funding Friday Campaign moves into its 11th week. Here are the schools where rallies are planned for this Friday. We really appreciate all the people who have volunteered to come out and join with school staff, parents and students. As before, we will have flyers and other materials on hand. Times will be 7:45 am for elementary schools, 7:15 am for high schools. November 22, 2013 Overbrook Educational Center. 6722 Lansdowne Ave. Cassidy Elementary School 6523 Lansdowne Ave. Swenson High School 2750 Red Lion Rd. Bregy Elementary 1700 Bigler St. Pennell Elementary 1800 Nedro Ave. Robe
The Impact of Full Funding Fridays
  Full Funding Friday rally at Cooke-Wissahickon Elementary Ten weeks of Full Funding rallies at over sixty schools in every part of the city make one thing clear. We are winning the battle for hearts and minds. The blame game scripted by the SRC, the Mayor and Governor Corbett and their civic allies like the Philadelphia School Partnership aims at shifting the burden for the school crisis on to the unions and school employees. When faced with evidence of the District’s failures, whether it be hundreds of complaints about poor staffing or reports of mold infested buildings making children sic
Pictures from Full Funding Friday @10
Rallies at schools across the city highlighted the impact of cuts at each school. Asking for a Honk on Broad St. Student Art at CAPA At Gompers Elementary At Gideon Elementary At Gompers Elementary Student Poster At CAPA

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Full Funding Friday # 10
The Full Funding Friday Campaign moves into its 8th week. Here are the schools where rallies are planned for this Friday. We really appreciate all the people who have volunteered to come out and join with school staff, parents and students. As before, we will have flyers and other materials on hand. Times will be 7:45 am for elementary schools, 7:15 am for high schools. November 15, 2013 CAPA Hig

NOV 10

Poorly Maintained Old Buildings, Another Threat to Students and School Employees
A report today in Philadelphia Inquirer documents what many of us have long known; Philadelphia aging school buildings are a clear and present danger to the health of children and those who work with them.   The article describes buildings with chronic mold problems that are known to contibute to respiratory ailments like asthma.   Deferred maintenance has agravated these problems.   What is clea

NOV 08

Send Tom Corbett Packing!
Yesterday protestors outnumbered supporters as Tom Corbett opened his campaign in Southeast PA in Fox Chase.   The Governor was definitely not kissing babies and pressing flesh as he was whisked into his SUV as angry demonstrators surrounded him.   The “Send Corbett Packing” U-haul van that appeared in Pittsbugh filled with boxes symbolizng the Governor’s legacy of budget austerity and privatizati

NOV 07

Full Funding Friday #9
The Full Funding Friday Campaign moves into its 9th week. Here are the schools where rallies are planned for this Friday. We really appreciate all the people who have volunteered to come out and join with school staff, parents and students. As before, we will have flyers and other materials on hand. Times will be 7:45 am for elementary schools, 7:15 am for high schools.   Austin Meehan Middle Sch

NOV 06

PCAPS PEOPLE: Women in Labor Video featuring Evette Jones
This video produced by a group of young women who are part of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) features four women who have made a difference in the labor movement. One of them is Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Community Engagement staffer Evette Jones, who has also been one of the strongest and most consistent leaders of PCAPS.
There is a Better Way – The PCAPS Five Point Education Platform
WE NEED TO ELECT A GOVERNOR WHO WILL FIGHT FOR THESE THINGS: 1) An Equitable Funding Formula for Distributing State Education Dollars Currently funding is being driven by political calculation and poorer Districts are taking a big hit. We need a formula that allocates dollars based on what it costs to educate children For each District it needs to take into account: Numbers of families living i
Tell Tom Corbett to Pack His Bags!
Tom Corbett opens his campaign in Philadelphia. We will be there to remind voters of how his policies have hurt Philadelphia working families in so many ways. Starving our schools, restricting voting, rights. attacking health care, food stamps, funding for mass transist and building new prisons, but never missing an opportunity to help corporations enrich themselves. When: 10:30 a.m., Thursday,  N

NOV 04

Gubernatorial Forum

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Pictures from Full Funding Friday #8
John Barry Promise Academy Franklin Elementary in Lawncrest Barry Jerry Jordan at Overbrook High Overbrook Overbrook Overbrook Franklin