Philly school board unanimously rejects five new charter schools
Maddie Hanna, Kristen A. Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia school board unanimously denied five new charter schools Thursday night, continuing its streak of rejecting proposals that would expand the city’s sizable charter sector.
District officials cited flaws in all the proposals, which would have created more than 4,000 openings in new charters, and transferred millions of dollars from the district to the independently run schools.
“We are focused on high-quality education for all students across the city,” board member Mallory Fix Lopez said after the meeting. “When you have applications that just have glaring holes in them, it just doesn’t seem to match high standards” that the board expects, she said.