Focus on Organizing for Equity
Fall 2007 Vol. 15 No. 1
Students say small schools not all created equal
by Dale Mezzacappa and Shani Adia Evans
Lawrence Jones-Mahoney is one of several student activists who have been in the forefront of the Philadelphia small schools movement. He has gone to more than a hundred meetings and traveled to several cities as a member of the Philadelphia Student Union (PSU), which has been pressing the District since 2002 to convert West Philadelphia High into four smaller, themed schools.
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Youth organizers talk ... about organizing
Phillip Pearce
West Philadelphia High School graduate
Joined PSU in ninth grade
Getting into it: I started getting involved in ninth and tenth grades when PSU was organizing agains tprivatization and trying to get it out of the School District. We had a real big fight about that and that's what interested me in Student Union. I saw that we actually won something and made a change, and that was decent.
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Grants boost five Philly organizing groups
Philadelphia Student Union
Philadelphia Student Union (PSU) provides leadership training to Philadelphia high school students, who organize to ensure that every student gets a quality education.
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Table of Contents
Theme articles
- Students say small schools not all created equal by Dale Mezzacappa and Shani Adia Evans
- Are you a player? Are you being played?
- Youth organizers talk ... about organizing
- Forty years of organizing for better schools
- All dressed up with no place to go by Dontae Brabham, Steven Butler, Robert Denson, Livingston Edwards, Khryi Henry, Marcus Jones, Anthony Linton, Michael Magobet, and Andrew Rivera
- Parents, students increase clout through collective action by Shani Adia Evans
- After years of organizing, a groundbreaking is near by Sarah Mills
- Student activists push for more college prep by Sarah Mills
- Groups make strides in uphill battle for fair funding by Dale Mezzacappa
- Less turnover, but teacher quality gap persists by Dale Mezzacappa
- Funders collaborate to show impact of investing in organizers by Deborah Russell-Brown
- Grants boost five Philly organizing groups
Other news & features
- Brady and Dungee Glenn move up as old guard exits by Paul Socolar
- Public input on CEO search
- Budget dilemma: how to spare schools but cut $99M by Paul Socolar
- Remembering Marci Resnick
Cartoon
- The Notebook's Fall 2007 cartoon by Eric Joselyn
In our opinion
- Don't agonize ... organize!
- Parents change District budget
From our readers
- To the editors:
- To the editors:
Eye on special education
- District plans to focus on inclusion, transitions
Activism around the city
- SRC pressed to rethink school-closing process
- ACORN polls candidates on education, jobs, housing
News in brief
- Scores up, but schools hit with added targets
- Jordan takes over as PFT president
- Breakthrough on fares: students travel free
En español
- Estudiantes encuentran que no todas las escuelas pequeñas son iguales por Dale Mezzacappa y Shani Adia Evans
- Padres y estudiantes aumentan influencia mediante acción colectiva por Shani Adia Evans
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