This year, with a still-fluid Facilities Master Plan in play — designed to eradicate the bulk of the PSD\’s more than 70,000 empty classroom seats this year by closing some schools and redrawing catchment boundaries for others — the anxiety is greater than ever.
Parents who weighed the options and chose to raise their children in Philadelphia, in the neighborhood public school system, have invested big: either financially, in properties in sought-after catchments like Penn Alexander (where housing prices have quadrupled since the school opened in 1998, according to a study by Penn\’s Urban Research Institute), or with their time, sometimes 20 or 30 hours a week devoted to improving schools their children might not even be old enough to attend for years.
City Paper
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