Tony B. Watlington Sr. pitched his plan for the future of the Philadelphia School District to the school board and public Thursday night, promising progress if the city gets behind his vision.
The strategic plan calls for up to 10 schools to pilot the concept, which was tried in Philadelphia between 2000 and 2004, then discarded.
“The short answer is no,” Watlington said. When he visits schools — he’s been to about 75 so far, of the 216 district-wide — he can still see the effects of the brutal budget cuts of a decade ago, that resulted in the layoff of thousands.“When we don’t get better faster, people vote with their feet, and they walk out the door,” said Watlington. The school district has been losing students for decades; it currently has about 113,000; it once had about 200,000.
He wants the district to reach a level of service that’s “as good as a really nice car dealership or Chick-fil-A.”Accelerate Philly “certainly fills me with not just hope, but expectation,” Leticia Egea-Hinton said, that Watlington is “actually starting to move us in the direction of action.” “I, too, do not see in this strategic plan how we are cultivating the diversity of the students in our system,” particularly those whose first language is not English, said Lam.
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