This site adds a human face to school funding talks

As the state Senate discusses a new school funding formula, the Media Mobilizing Project has a reminder: There are real people — students, teachers, families — who will be affected by what the Senate decides.
“We need to ground the debate about public schools statewide in lived human experiences,” wrote MMP co-director Rebekah Phillips in an email.
That’s why the group has launched Voices From Our Public Schools, a site with video interviews and photos from eleven Philly public schools.
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From one interview:
“I refuse to deprive my son of being able to be active in the community,” said Jasmine Bennett, a parent of a student at Fox Chase Elementary School in the Northeast:

I want to know that my child can go across the street to the neighbors house, because they go to school together. I want to be able to talk to a mom about a sale that was at a local grocery store because our children are in the same school, we’re familiar with each other. I refuse to become a person that lives in a house and goes someplace else outside the neighborhood to take my kid to school.

Wrote Phillips: “We’ll be working through the end of this budget session and in the next year to make sure stories like these are the key voices decision-makers listen to as they craft a just funding solution for Philly schools and all schools statewide.”