Resolution 110061
Calling for Public Hearings before the City Council Committee on Education to Discuss the Possibility of Using City Health and Social Service Agencies to Compliment School District Nurse and Guidance Counselor Resources in Public Schools.
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“Thank you. The Chief Clerk will please read Resolution No. 110061. I'm sorry. I keep forgetting about that. Before our first speaker comes forward -- I'm sorry. Thank you. Before considering these bills and resolutions, we will consider public comment on those matters listed on the Second Reading and Final Passage portion of the Calendar for possible action at this week's Council session. Before our first speaker com…”
Council President Verna · Stated Meeting, February 10, 2011 · Feb 10, 2011 · official transcript, this passage
“Thank you. 2/10/11 - STATED - 2ND READING We will now consider bills and resolutions on the Second Reading and Final Passage Calendar. I would ask the Chief Clerk to please read Resolution No. 110061.”
Council President Verna · Stated Meeting, February 10, 2011 · Feb 10, 2011 · official transcript, this passage
Status timeline
- Feb 3, 2011Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar · CITY COUNCIL
- Feb 10, 2011ADOPTED & REFERRED · CITY COUNCIL
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..Title Calling for Public Hearings before the City Council Committee on Education to Discuss the Possibility of Using City Health and Social Service Agencies to Compliment School District Nurse and Guidance Counselor Resources in Public Schools. ..Body WHEREAS, There is conceivably a four hundred million dollar shortfall expected in the School District Budget for the 2011-2012 school year; and WHEREAS, The District may be forced to make painful staffing reductions including cutting nurses and guidance counselors at District middle and high schools; and WHEREAS, Nearly fifty percent of our youth drop out of school between the 9th and 12th grades; and WHEREAS, School nurses and guidance counselors can provide important support to students experiencing barriers to learning due to psychological, social, economic or medical issues; and WHEREAS, During the 2010-2011 school year, school-based case management services were administered to approximately twenty-six hundred students while twenty-two hundred others received one-time consultations; and WHEREAS, The current ratio of two hundred and fifty students to one counselor in middle schools and three hundred to one in high schools, leaves many students without access to needed counseling and health services; and WHEREAS, Supplementing the District's school-based social services programs with the City's social services and health department programs could provide more students with access to those services while helping the District to mitigate costs; now therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the Philadelphia City Council Calls on the Committee on Education to Hold Public Hearings to Discuss the Possibility of Using City Health and Social Service Agencies to Compliment School District Nurse and Guidance Counselor Resources in Public Schools. ..End