Parents Go On Hunger Strike To Protest School Budget Cuts

Parents Go On Hunger Strike To Protest School Budget Cuts: A group of four parents and school employees kicked off a hunger strike on the steps of the governor’s office on Monday to protest Philadelphia’s recent decision to close dozens of underutilized schools and lay off some 19 percent of the workforce, including “all 127 assistant principals, 646 teachers and more than 1,200 aides.” The [...]/p