Phila. school students and parents plan protest
Source: By Susan Snyder, Philadelphia Inquirer (PA), Wed, Feb. 13, 2008
Parent and student groups plan to block traffic at Broad and Spring Garden streets at 4 p.m. today to call on the Philadelphia School District to end contracts with six outside groups that manage nearly 40 city schools.
The group's action comes as the district finishes plans to overhaul 70 of its lowest performing schools. More than a dozen of the 70 are managed by the outside groups including Edison Schools Inc., Victory Schools, Foundations Inc., Universal Companies, the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University.