Tensions rise within the Philadelphia City Council who approved eight of Mayor Cherelle Parker’s nine nominees to the Philadelphia Board of Education while controversy swirls around the ninth.
Eight of the nine nominees from Mayor Cherelle Parker’s picks to sit on the new Board of Education will be heading to a full City Council vote Thursday.
There were tense moments in Philadelphia City Hall Friday as some members of City Council pressed school board nominees on the closure of Black-led charter schools.