“I can’t do it without you, and you can’t do it without me,' Mayor Cherelle L. Parker told Council Tuesday. 'We’re interdependent on each other in order to move Philadelphia forward.”
Mayor Parker addresses Council spat, school facilities plan promised: Takeaways from school district’s budget hearing
“I respect the body — there is no one person or individual that’s bigger than this institution,” the mayor said. She added. “I didn’t try to do something other than what the law requests that the mayor does.” some members citing concerns, including her history of charter school votes and her stewardship of building issues during her time as School Reform Commission chair and school board president.chair of the education committee, did not name Wilkerson, but signaled he would not support her because “information had been covered up for years by the previous regime.”Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr.
“We believe that we can drive faster improvement when we take a look at how to best use our facilities,” Watlington said. “We know we need to repurpose some buildings to better serve our communities.” “In the districts that I’ve worked in prior to coming here, I’ve never had a school-based closure related to heat or an asbestos problem,” Watlington said.
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