Just read about the shooting. I’m assuming that’s the one. Hopefully they find the piece of shit who murdered a child walking to school.

No, but it needs to get scoped into a project.

Typically stuff like that goes under open ends (like TOITS or VIZOC), and the political pressure to get that scoped can come through a councilperson or RCO.

Streets identifies other projects based on prioritization by planning, DVRPC, and OTIS, as well as the mayor's office.

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Do you still qualify for public sector forgiveness- or is continuous |persistent employment in said declining public sector jobs the impossible hurdle to clear?

i got stuck reading to this guy. i wont give up OPs place of work but i was stuck waiting for something and had to read the whole paper.

Traditional school libraries are being phased out and usually replaced with more computer workstations in the same space. Noticed this at some community colleges too.

https://www.phila.gov/2022-10-14-neighborhood-slow-zone-program-applications-now-open/

I think unfortunately applications for this year are closed but this is a program to look into. A friend of mine runs the street committee for our local neighborhood association. Talking with him recently this program also helps install physical barriers in crosswalks so people can't park inside of a crosswalk.

https://www.fox29.com/news/police-investigating-morning-shooting-in-nicetown-neighborhood

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Yeah I find this kind of analysis silly and ridiculous.

"We may be getting the same amount of money as other schools, but when you factor in how much money I actually wish I had, we should be getting much more!"

Why are you responding like a smug prick instead of just raising your (good) point civilly?

Pleasure chatting with you.

both things can be serious problems. We can walk and chew gum at the same time dumbass

From the Inquirer

> The district spends close to the state average per student, but when adjusted for student need, it ranks below many districts. Philadelphia’s weighted, per-student expenditure — a need-adjusted measure of what districts actually spend — is $10,796 per student; the state average is $13,688. Lower Merion, by comparison, spells $26,362 per student.

> Because many Philadelphia students require special education services, are homeless, live in foster care or in distressed communities, the cost of educating them is high, Monson said. City students often lack “things that should be basic in order to be prepared for education. We have to supplement in order to make up for that.”

Not yet, it will happen though. Right now I can only think of Caphe roasters, The Makers space across the street and Bulk Vintage in that neighborhood. East Kensington still isn’t completely built out. Once more lots there like automotive repair biz off Frankford start falling development will be pushed up to Huntington and Tioga. Even York-Dauphin isn’t completely built up yet!

l didn't even realize it but yeah, l work at a school and we don't have a library. The school does have books at the front desk that they purchase to give out to students whenever they want, but the selection is far smaller than a library would be.

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I just saw an article yesterday about how Teslas are so expensive to fix even from minor accidents and the wait time for repairs is so long that insurance companies are being forced to total out cars that are in minor accidents

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The point I was trying to make is that it is simply false to pretend like the problem is "federal policies siphoned away money to suburban schools" when the schools are in fact getting more money than suburban schools.

If you think that the schools in the city need/deserve more money than suburban schools, that's a fine argument to make/have, but I'm so tired of hearing about this fantasy of the schools being "underfunded".

In a city as poor as Philly, it makes sense we can’t duplicate resources. We’re already funding public libraries, so it’s not as if kids don’t have access to free books. It would be nice to have them in schools, too, but it seems that money could be better spent.

My mind isn’t made up here.

It's not that they don't have physical libraries, it's that they don't have the staff to run them

Please tell me how accessible our public libraries are.

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Oh, that's right, they aren't. They're open only from like 1-5, M-F at most locations. So while kids have the time after school to go, they don't have parents available to take them

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It's not so much that schools don't have a library, it's that they don't have a functional library. They don't have the staff to run it so it stays closed

It’s a potpourri bag of activity this morning!

Edit: on a more serious note, I’m pretty sure a student was shot and killed up in HP