The Carver Times - Philadelphia mayor plans to implement a school year round program for stude

In 2024, cherrlell parker, mayor of philadelphia announced that some schools would be trying a new all year policy as an attempt to keep kids off the streets. It aims to help kids have more access to programs and more time in schools.

Her plan was to keep kids off the streets by extending the time schools are open and getting rid of long extended breaks. Parker talked about this on her blog; “Cherelle is introducing the Parker Plan for Education, and its cornerstone for better schools, increased economic opportunity, a more affordable place to live, and violence prevention: allowing kids to stay in school with enriching programs before and after classes and through the summer.”

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Another part of her plan was to add more resources to before and after school programs. In an interview with chalkbeat.org, principle Lukov of southwark school said that it was working.

“Sometimes you have to tell families ‘no’ when we know that they really need these before-school services,” Lukov said.

Studies show that it can improve scores and would be a better alternative to the long summer break. The California department of education said that “student achievement scores improve when those students are attending year-round schools. The explanation is simple: the loss of retention of information that occurs during the three-month summer vacation is minimized by the shorter, more frequent vacations that characterize year-round calendars.”

She plans to find better ways to give students of philadelphia with the highest education they can provide. “A Safer, Cleaner, Greener Philadelphia with Economic Opportunity for All starts with ensuring our children have access to the highest quality education,”

Principle Dr. Johnson also likes the idea of the year round program implementing it in carver, “Carver kind of is doing something similar. We have every summer. We have about four programs that are still running concurrently throughout the school year”

Lee Silverman, a teacher at Craver, checking out chrombooks for kids

Eyoel Trfa, Ethan Dickerson, Curtis Kelly, and Lucas Aptowicz, are collobrating on a school projeet in their history class.

When students were asked what they though about it, they had mixed reactions, carver E&S student Ike Bermeo shared his thoughts about the policy.

“I think it is somewhat of a good idea” said bermeo “I just don't like the thought of us not having a large period of break during the summer". He also said “it will help us maintain our knowledge that some students forget over the summer”

Student Lucas Aplowitz shared his opinion on the program.

"I think that more time at school will give us, like, more time to really learn." he later added comments about extracurriculars "I think [as far as] extracurriculars, we don't really have enough time after school. So coming early, that gives us time to do stuff that we couldn't before."

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