KaTiedra Argro has been on a mission: restore her school’s reputation as a premier Philadelphia educational institution where young women hone their skills, excel as leaders, and find their voices.
The principal of the Philadelphia High School for Girls spent last fall visiting 48 elementary and middle schools to recruit students. She went all over the city, from Northeast to Southwest, to sell kids on an historic all-girls school that was founded 13 years before the Civil War.
A member of Girls High’s Class of 1999, Argro came to a difficult conclusion. “My takeaway was that nobody knows what the Philadelphia High School for Girls was anymore,” she said…