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 sick, they have one answer… it’s the union’s fault. If only teachers and support staff would take huge wage cuts and agree to work rules that would weaken their job security and erode their working conditions, all would be well.
The good news is that it’s not working, at least in Philadelphia’s working class neighborhoods. Today at Grover Washington Middle School in Olney was typical. Hundreds of middle schoolers with PFT signs lined up along Olney Ave. along with their teachers. As teachers and students chanted for full funding, passer by motorists honked
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