YEARBOOK PHL

"what school do ya'll go to? y'all probably go to failing schools" Syvia Simms screamed this in my face tonight #phled

Commissioner Simms ridiculing our students by saying they "probably go to failing schools." #phled

Students chanting: "We won't back down, Philly is a union town!" #phled pic.twitter.com/uvCRrMTibD

This film is #propaganda to blame teachers and public schools in a broken ed system that intentionally sets schools up to fail #wontbackdown

Showing a movie that blames teachers a week after the SRC cancelled the @PFTLocal3 contract is a shady ploy to manipulate parents #phled

We're at the school district's screening of Won't Back Down. Which is also sponsored by @comcast #phled

nothing like finding out School Reform Commission has canceled your union contract while you're in middle of teaching your class. #phled

SRC, meeting w/out any real public notice, cancels labor contract w Philadelphia Fed of Teachers to impose healthcare contributions. #phled

Today's SRC mtg looks like district is canceling the contract with the PFT & changing the health insurance. #PhlEd pic.twitter.com/zA5PflIldc

59 desks lined up in front of Central High representing kids in algebra classes here. #PhlEd pic.twitter.com/PnjcsWcvdL

"Brian Burney (PSU Leader) joined a group of protesters outside Benjamin Franklin High School, where he is a sophomore. 'Last year, we didn't have any supplies,' Burney said. 'We had to buy our own printer paper. We had to share literature books and algebra books. It was a lot of chaos. It's messed up.'"

"Brian Burney, 17, a sophomore at Ben Franklin High and member of the Philadelphia Student Union, joined the protest, saying 'It's messed up because how are you funding prisons but not schools?'"

For most students the buildings felt less like schools and more like jails- Brian, PSU member #phled #yearbookphl pic.twitter.com/FvbIZd7aDr

I feel that when students walk into their schools that things will have changed for the worse- Brian, PSU leader #phled #yearbookphl

"Ain't no power like the power of the people..." #phled #yearbookphl pic.twitter.com/j7bfjBM8aF