Resolution 220344
Calling on The Pennsylvania Legislature to use Federal COVID-19 Relief Money to fund Freedom Schools across the state, and in Philadelphia.
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“Good morning. I'm Dr. Kelli Sparrow Mickens and I'm here to testify in support of Resolution No. 220344 calling on the Pennsylvania Legislature to use federal COVID-19 relief money to fund Freedom Schools STATED MEETING 45 4/28/2022 across the state and in Philadelphia. I am a proud member of the Philadelphia Freedom Schools Board as well as the Director of Service Leadership for Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter Schoo…”
Dr. Mickens · Stated Meeting, April 28, 2022 · Apr 28, 2022 · official transcript, this passage
“Good morning. My name is Elijah Lee-Kirton and I'm here to testify in support of Resolution No. 220344 calling on the Pennsylvania Legislature to use federal COVID-19 relief money to fund Freedom Schools across the state and in Philadelphia. I am a veteran junior servant leader and a 10th grader at Sankofa Freedom Academy. These are the main reasons why we join Councilmember Thomas in calling STATED MEETING 50 4/28/2…”
Mr. Lee-Kirton · Stated Meeting, April 28, 2022 · Apr 28, 2022 · official transcript, this passage
“Good morning. My name is Samyayah Dent-Moore. I am here to testify in support of Resolution No. 220344 calling on the Pennsylvania Legislature to use federal COVID-19 relief money to fund Freedom Schools STATED MEETING 52 4/28/2022 across the state and in Philadelphia. I am a veteran classroom assistant called a junior servant leader of Philadelphia Freedom Schools and I am a sophomore at Sankofa Freedom Academy Char…”
Ms. Dent-Moore · Stated Meeting, April 28, 2022 · Apr 28, 2022 · official transcript, this passage
“Thank you. Good STATED MEETING 54 4/28/2022 morning. My name is William Nettles and I'm here to testify in support of Resolution 220344 calling on the Pennsylvania Legislature to use federal COVID-19 relief money to fund Freedom Schools across the state and in Philadelphia. I'm a son, a brother of a voter, I'm a veteran junior servant leader, and a sophomore at Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School. The main reasons…”
Mr. Nettles · Stated Meeting, April 28, 2022 · Apr 28, 2022 · official transcript, this passage
“Resolution No. 220339, entitled a "Resolution approving the appointment of Debra McCarty to the Philadelphia Water, Sewer and Storm Water STATED MEETING 58 4/28/2022 Board"; and Resolution No. 220340, entitled a "Resolution authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority deeds conveying fee simple title to 3438 West Allegheny Avenue in the Fourth Coun…”
Chief Clerk · Stated Meeting, April 28, 2022 · Apr 28, 2022 · official transcript, this passage
Status timeline
- Apr 21, 2022Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar · CITY COUNCIL
- Apr 28, 2022ADOPTED · CITY COUNCIL
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..Title Calling on The Pennsylvania Legislature to use Federal COVID-19 Relief Money to fund Freedom Schools across the state, and in Philadelphia. ..Body WHEREAS; The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will receive approximately $4 billion in federal Covid-19 Relief funds and has the capacity to match Illinois' recent $17 million funding initiative for Freedom Schools, and WHEREAS; Funding Freedom Schools with Covid-19 Funds can address the education gaps widened by the pandemic and improve the lives of disadvantaged families, and WHEREAS; Freedom Schools are a part of literacy and cultural enrichment programs, with a heavy emphasis on servant leadership, rooted in the civil rights movement of the 1960s; and WHEREAS; The First Formal Freedom Schools began in the summer of 1964, when US Civil rights workers taught students about their rights in order to counter the poor education Black people received; and WHEREAS; Philadelphia has had Freedom Schools since the 1999 and in the summer of 2006, the Philadelphia Freedom Schools launched their very own curriculum model and became a network of independent freedom schools; and WHEREAS, Freedom Schools, with summer programming, also engage young people during Out-Of-School Time (OST) with quality afterschool and summer programming; and WHEREAS; Other states, such as Illinois, have taken the initiative to fund freedom schools with the Federal dollars; and WHEREAS; Illinois State Board of Education says the initiative will supplement student learning taking place in the classroom with a research-based, multicultural curriculum offered during the summer or after-school; and RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That we hereby call on The Pennsylvania State House and Senate to use Federal COVID-19 Relief Money to fund Freedom Schools across the state, and in Philadelphia. ..End