Daily News | City Council wants an independent authority to take over Philly school facilities management ASAP
Philadelphia Councilman Isaiah Thomas, shown in this March file photo, wants to use an independent authority to bond and manage Philadelphia school facilities' modernization process. Thomas is concerned about the district's ability to handle the massive scope of its environmental issues - and Harrisburg's trust in the system.
Thomas will call for hearings on the subject in a Council resolution to be introduced Thursday, and wants to fast-track the process to take advantage of a historic budget surplus in Harrisburg, the education committee chairman said. Thomas and others want the state to give $5 billion over five years for improvements to school buildings across Pennsylvania, with a significant chunk dedicated to Philadelphia.
, Thomas said. It also attempts to diminish the historic distrust many state-level politicians have for Philadelphia’s school system.“The goal is to put us in a position to try to get as many dollars and as much resources as we can from Harrisburg right now, in this moment,” Thomas said Tuesday. Between a budget surplus and a rainy-day fund, Pennsylvania has about $13 billion available.
. District officials have said that they are discovering some asbestos-containing material was erroneously characterized as safe for decades, and the school system’s inspector general is investigating how that happened at Building 21, the West Oak Lane district high school that was the first building closed because of asbestos this academicSuperintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr.
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