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Philadelphia Home and School Council President Ms. Sakeda Gaines breaks down the needs of parents and childcare during the delayed reopening. A lot of needs that only community building can fix. #Phled
Kimberley Callahan from @reclaimphila recounts the high barrier to getting internet access without a commitment to universal internet access. #phled
Based on this testimony, sounds like students and parents are more likely to give up than figure out the high costs and other barriers to internet access. How can we have equitable distance learning like this? #phled
Now sharing 4 demands directed at @comcast to making internet access available. Includes opening up residential hotspots and other steps. Thanks for the leadership, @reclaimphila! #phled
We are just one site of many across the country for a national day of resistance. See all of the demands here: https://www.demandsafeschools.org/demands/ #phled #PoliceFreeSchools
Oop! it's Ms. Zion Brooks breaking down how much schools are spending on police instead of resources students need in schools. #PoliceFreeSchools #phled
Now from Sanai: "schools need to pay attention to students and their families because we will deal with the aftermath" talking about a return to school without resources for success in schools. #policefreeschools #phled
Both student leaders speak clearly about opportunity for more trauma after a traumatic experience with this pandemic if we reopen with #PoliceFreeSchools. #phled
Ms. Shakeda Gaines from brings us back to the galaxy brain BAD idea of bringing kids back to buildings with asbestos and lead during a PANDEMIC. #phled
"When our kids go to school, they're going to school - not prison". - Ms. Shakeda Gaines on why we need #PoliceFreeSchools #phled
"Now is the time to invest in our children." - Robbin Blake on the need for INVESTMENT in students and their families, something they know a lot about as a para-professional in the school district. Para-professionals need our support! #phled
Now we have @TeachKizzyTeach sharing the need for anti-racist and anti-bias training for school communities. #phled
"We need to keep that going." - @HelenGymAtLarge on the people power from students, parents, educators and staff on pushing the district to create a safe, equitable plan for reopening. #phled
"We don't need to play games with our students' education." - @HelenGymAtLarge on @comcast opening up residential hotspots and coming up off that internet. #phled
"We are already in a precarious position." - Ms. Lerner on the need to maintain funding and resources in public schools, not austerity. #phled
Instead of cuts we need big, generative ideas and solutions. One of them is a Philadelphia public bank. Sharing details on the stream now. Keep Philly money in PHiladelphia! #phled
"These are my roots - whether the fight for police free schools, ending the abatement of racial justice." - @KendraPHL on their background building community power. Yes! #phled
Talking about the abatement, @KendraPHL breaks down the connections between racial injustice and how the abatement extracts money from the city at the cost of students. #phled
"The answer is not luxury development....the answer is quality low-cost units for families that have been here for decades." - @KendraPHL is getting ahead of a housing crisis with the real answers. #phled
"What we know is now is the time to invest in schools...now is the time to invest in our young people." - @KendraPHL #phled
It's clearly an equity issue - why do high-income folks get tax cuts but working class families get school cuts? @KendraPHL breaks it down.
