PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — At its annual “State of the Schools” address on Wednesday, the School District of Philadelphia announced plans to launch two new year-round schools in North Philadelphia.
Superintendent Tony Watlington said the year-round K-8 and high schools would be modeled after schools in the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York.
“We’re going to be partners and open these two state-of-the-art schools in existing facilities. They’ll be choice schools. We won’t make anybody go,” he said…