They are closing nearly 10% of Philadelphia schools, causing massive over crowding for next year because Republicans chose to build a $400 million prison.
They are closing nearly 10% of Philadelphia schools, causing massive over crowding for next year because Republicans chose to build a $400 million prison. The schools they are closing would cost a fraction of that. 81% of the students losing their schools are black and 93% are poor. They are specifically targeting schools with high graduation rates in black neighborhoods. After all, if you dismantle public schools to build prisons, the school to prison pipeline is that much easier as is the Republican plan to take the right to vote away from black and poor citizens. They are also massively firing teachers in the hopes of breaking the teacher’s union and further dismantling the middle class, which is also an important ideological goal. As with Chicago, this is clearly a choice to use a manufactured crisis to destroy the public school system because rich Republicans have a vested interest in maintaining a permanent underclass.