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Buses from Chester Upland School District await dismissal from Chester High School. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
The Chester Upland School District is on the cusp of being dismantled and replaced with charter schools which would make it the first district in Pennsylvania to be almost completely under the control of charters. To a crowd of displeased parents and teachers, three charter school networks presented their proposals at a school board meeting Thursday night.
With a substantial number of families outraged and a parent-driven legal intervention aiming to impede the process, it’s important to understand how Delaware County’s only city became the epicenter of what many consider an education catastrophe.