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From: Amara Rockar <[email protected]>
Date: May 22, 2014 12:41:56 PM EDT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [UCNeighbors] Following death of student, Jackson School
community needs our help!
Hi all,
A 7-year-old attending Jackson Elementary became ill at school
yesterday without a nurse on staff and died at CHOP several hours
later.
Please support the Jackson community in making these two productive,
actionable, and achieveable demands of our leaders. I have excerpted
the demands below. The full statement is very moving.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/school_files/After-childs-death-school-community-demands-more-funding.html
"We are asking all Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians to support us
in making two demands:
1st: We demand that every city council member release a statement
TODAY that they will vote for the $120 million dollars that is
already on the table to be provided to our schools immediately. Our
schools desperately need this money.
2nd: Unfortunately, even with that $120 million, we will still have
the same inadequate staffing next year. We demand that every city
and state elected official pledge to do everything in their power to
ensure that when Philadelphia’s schools open this Fall, that every
one of those schools has a full-time nurse, a full-time counselor,
and teacher staffing levels that ensure the safety of our children
and give them the opportunity to learn.
It is time to stop playing politics with the education and lives of
the children of this city and provide permanent funding that matches
the devotion of our teachers and staff and the hopes and dreams of
the 200,000 children in Philadelphia’s public schools."
Below are the names and phone numbers for City Council:
Councilman Mark Squilla 215- 686 -3458
Councilman Kenyatta Johnson 215- 686- 3412
Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell 215- 686- 3418
Councilman Curtis Jones 215-686-1934/35
Council President Darrell Clarke 215-686- 3442/43
Councilman Bobby Henon 215-686-3444/45
Councilwoman Maria Quinines-Sanchez 215-686-3448
Councilwoman Cindy Bass 215-686-3424
Councilwoman Marian Tasco 215-6896-3454
Councilman Brien O'Neill 215-686-1939
Councilman- At- Large Bill Greenlee 215-686-3446
Councilman-At- Large Wilson Goode 215-6863414
Councilman-At-Large Jim Kenney 215-686-3450
Councilman-At-Large David Oh 215-686-3452
