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Cherelle Parker: “We have a plan to modernize and rebuild 169 schools.”

Featuring: Cherelle Parker, Democratic | Mayor of Philadelphia | Pennsylvania

Mayor Parker announces solution to prevent Philly school cuts

Published June 10, 2026 | Video Starts at 12:51

We've made sure we've done our best to take care of our own. And we have a plan. You can't do anything without a plan. We have a plan to modernize and rebuild 169 schools. And we're coming to Harrisburg united because our children deserve it. Thank you so much and give a round of applause for our council president, Kenyatta Johnson. Thank you, Madam Mayor. (12:51–12:57)

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Asserts that there is a plan to modernize and rebuild 169 schools in Philadelphia.

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“The $300 million structural deficit facing our School District of Philadelphia [is] the result of the expiration of federal Covid relief…”
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“We had 340 school based positions within the school district of Philadelphia that were critical to the progress that our students were…”
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“We have been able to find the recurring revenue in our five year plan that the School District of Philadelphia needed to stave off those 340…”
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“We were very focused and committed to ensuring that we would find a predictable and recurring revenue source for the School District of…”
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“There is no new predictable and recurring revenue source in the budget that we will actually end with on tomorrow.”
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“City Council of Philadelphia took a big step in ensuring a $48 million in revenue for the School District of Philadelphia in FY27.”
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“Today the goal was to announce the plan that is balanced for five years that will prevent three hundred and forty school based cuts from…”
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“A one-time contribution of $50 million in one year of our budget was not enough, is not enough to sustain those 340 positions.”
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“The total amount of dollars in our five-year plan will be about $216 million.”
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“We have to have a balanced budget for five years in a row and then that budget and that funding has to be approved by PICA here in the…”
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“Those 340 positions, they are funded in each year of our five-year plan.”
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“We needed a predictable recurring revenue source for the school district of Philadelphia because it is facing a structural deficit.”
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“I proposed a $1 ride share tax that was not passed in the city Council of Philadelphia.”
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“We know the school district of Philadelphia needs a new predictable and recurring revenue source and we are committed to working together to…”
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“We have limited revenue generating capacity.”
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“We knew we could not look at a property tax. It would have been unconscionable for anybody to propose it.”
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“The uniformity clause prevents the city of Philadelphia from charging different tax rates on different classes of property.”
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“We don't find a predictable and recurring revenue source [for the school district of Philadelphia].”
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“We are facing right now an immediate crisis of potentially losing 340 essential workers in the school district of Philadelphia.”
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“Council President Kenyatta Johnson and I met, we directed our teams to meet to figure out a way to hammer out a path to fund those 340…”
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