Wister Parents Defeat Mastery and Offer Hope to Cooke and Huey Families
Parent voices can bring about change and restore hope for Philly’s public neighborhood schools.
On January 11, 2016, The School district of Philadelphia announced Dr. Hite’s recommendation for Jay Cooke, Samuel B. Huey and John Wister – the three schools slated for renaissance charter conversion last fall. Dr. Hite’s recommendation announced that John Wister be removed from the process due to faulty data, Jay Cooke be taken over by charter operator Great Oaks and Samuel B. Huey be given to charter operator Global Leadership Academy.
After 2 months of organizing to keep their district public school status and working with teachers and school administration to create transformational plans to improve the quality of education, parents at each of these three schools are ready to take the next step to ensure that their voices will continue to be heard.
Parents at Wister have vowed to join forces with both Huey and Cooke parents to continue their fight to keep their schools out of charter operators’ hands. Although Hite has made his recommendation to hand over Cooke and Huey to charter providers, the victory for Wister proves that this fight is not over. From the start, School District officials have insisted to parents that there was no win for public education at these three schools. The victory for Wister proves that there is hope.
As parents, we will not continue to accept the status quo of misrepresentation, manipulation, and dissension Wister Parents Defeat Mastery and Offer Hope to Cooke and Huey Families | Parents United for Public Education: