The Daily Numbers - March 14

The Daily Numbers: 26.4 million dollar spending plan for Chester Upland School District laid out by state Department of Education officials yesterday.


6.65 million for the district’s creditors.


6.42 million for Chester Community Charter School.


1.14 million for Widener Partnership Charter.


1.01 million to several cyber charters.


12.47 million for Chester Upland. That does not include the $3.02 million emergency payment made to the district to cover this week’s payroll.


10 percent cut in expenses for Chester Community Charter recommended in the study.


3 burglary suspects arrested after they ran into Village at Chester Upland school yesterday, causing a lockdown.


10,000 dollars ripped off from Maggie O’Neill’s Irish Pub in Drexel Hill. The owners have now asked police to drop the charges against the suspect.


38 caliber gun found on man who was walking around Granite Run Mall dressed as a police officer.


900,000 dollars stolen from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The former chief financial officer now faces charges.


73, today’s expected high temperature. It was even warmer yesterday. My kind of winter.


7,500 dollar reward being offered for info on vandals who are slashing tires in the Mayfair section of Northeast Philly.


55 cars have had their tires slashed in incidents over the past couple of months.


14, age of boy on dirt bike who was struck and killed by a car in Port Richmond yesterday.


0 goals surrendered by Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov last night.


3 consecutive shutouts for the Flyers netminder.


196:13, how long it’s been since Bryzgalov has given up a goal.


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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.This is the guy the Flyers had in mind when they gave that massive contract to Ilya Bryzgalov. He needs to put this team on his back for a big playoff run. You can’t play much better than he has the last three games.


 


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I Don’t Get It: There’s now a $7,500 bounty out there for information on the knuckleheads who are slashing tires in Philly’s Mayfair section. Some people have now been hit two or three times. I don’t get it.


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Today’s Upper: Chester Upland schools will remain open. But they’re still broke.


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Quote Box: “I just hope they have someone in mind who understands public education and understands funding for public education.”


- Chester Upland Acting Assistant Superintendent Thomas Persing, on recommendation from state that a financial overseer be put in place in the district.

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