Officials told Philadelphia schools need $5 billion in repairs
One by one, the dignitaries trooped into the computer lab at Overbrook High School – a room full of dusty desktops at least a decade old that await replacement.
Sen. Vince Hughes ( Center ) and other dignitaries enter Overbrook High School on Monday, Nov. 21. Slideshow icon SLIDESHOW
Officials told Philadelphia schools need $5 billion in repairs
Earlier, they had peered inside two nonfunctioning science labs, where trash sat inside lab sinks and water issues were common.
The Monday tour of Overbrook, a once-grand structure known as “the Castle on the Hill,” was meant to give lawmakers who will distribute school-facilities money in Pennsylvania a grounding in just how vast the Philadelphia School District’s capital needs are.
One by one, the dignitaries trooped into the computer lab at Overbrook High School – a room full of dusty desktops at least a decade old that await replacement.
From: Officials told Philadelphia schools need $5 billion in repairs
By: Kristen A. Graham
Photo: David Swanson
