It is a very important morning for the Chester Upland School District.
There will be two separate hearings centering on the financially ailing city schools.
First, state Sen. Dominic Pileggi, R-9, who just happens to be a former Chester mayor, will hold a forum from 8:30-9:30 at the Chester Upland School District Administration Building, at 15th and Melrose in the city.
Pileggi wants to hear from concerned parents and also offer an update on the district’s cash crisis.
Then at 10 a.m. state Rep. Bill Adolph, R-165, of Springfield, will hold a public hearing of the state House Appropriations Committee, which he chairs. The hearing will take place at Widener University. Both state and local officials are expected to testify.
There also is word that both the school district and Chester Community Charter School are expected to hold a press conference this morning to rap the state for a lack of funding.
In the meantime, it is beginning to look more and more like the state plan is to put the district back under state control, as it was for 16 years.
A draft plan from the state Department of Education points to a “Special Board of Control.”
It would have fiscal control over the district, as well as control over personnel and the authority to convert a public school to a charter school.
We’ll likely hear more today, including the public reaction to such a plan.
Stay tuned.
There will be two separate hearings centering on the financially ailing city schools.
First, state Sen. Dominic Pileggi, R-9, who just happens to be a former Chester mayor, will hold a forum from 8:30-9:30 at the Chester Upland School District Administration Building, at 15th and Melrose in the city.
Pileggi wants to hear from concerned parents and also offer an update on the district’s cash crisis.
Then at 10 a.m. state Rep. Bill Adolph, R-165, of Springfield, will hold a public hearing of the state House Appropriations Committee, which he chairs. The hearing will take place at Widener University. Both state and local officials are expected to testify.
There also is word that both the school district and Chester Community Charter School are expected to hold a press conference this morning to rap the state for a lack of funding.
In the meantime, it is beginning to look more and more like the state plan is to put the district back under state control, as it was for 16 years.
A draft plan from the state Department of Education points to a “Special Board of Control.”
It would have fiscal control over the district, as well as control over personnel and the authority to convert a public school to a charter school.
We’ll likely hear more today, including the public reaction to such a plan.
Stay tuned.
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