What Teachers Unions Don’t Want You to Know about School Choice - Janine Yass

“The first time I saw a shootout with my own eyes, I was nine years old,” he recalls. “When I was ten, I saw my first drug transaction. When I was eleven, it was the first time I saw someone get killed. And it wasn’t the last.”

Growing up in North Philadelphia’s notorious Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, Anthony Samuels saw his share of violence...
Strawberry Mansion High School ranks as one of the most dangerous schools in the country. 

And despite the Philadelphia School District’s spending nearly $30,000 per student per year in district-operated public schools, the latest data from the Nation’s Report Card shows student performance in the city is lower than students in most other large cities. 

• Last year, 81 percent of Philadelphia fourth-grade students were not proficient in math, 
• while 83 percent were not proficient in reading. 
• Among Black, Hispanic, and economically disadvantaged students, the numbers were even higher...