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Despite protests, meeting disruptions and threats from most of Philadelphia City Council to block the vote, the city’s Board of Education approved the district’s controversial plan to close 17 schools.
Board members voted 6 to 3 in favor of Superintendent Tony Watlington’s $3 billion plan to close 17 schools and modernize 169 others during a contentious meeting Thursday that was interrupted several times by protests led by council members.
Board president Reginald Streater, vice president Sarah-Ashley Andrews and members Joan Stern, Cheryl Harper, Joyce Wilkerson and ChauWing Lam voted for the plan. Members Crystal Cubbage, Whitney Jones and Wanda Novalés voted against the plan…