Voice: Debra Weiner
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Guest Commentary: How the Next Mayor Can Capitalize on Our City’s Best
The country’s poorest big city is nonetheless rich in other ways. Let’s find a mayor willing to combine Philadelphia’s successes with City services.
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Guest Commentary: Education Ideas We Should Steal — From Ourselves
For the School District of Philadelphia to improve, Superintendent Watlington need not look for new ideas. Our solutions are already here
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Guest Commentary: Mayoral Candidates, Stop the Public Education Platitudes
Voters deserve to know how the next Mayor of Philadelphia will build the new Board of Education — and, a longtime education advocate says, how they’ll hold that board accountable
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Guest Commentary: Does Girls High Have the Solution to Masterman’s Dilemma?
A longtime education advocate argues that we already know how to achieve equity and merit for the city’s magnet schools — if we look to the historic women’s high school
By Debra Weiner