DN Editorial: Not a prayer

Posted: March 16, 2011

HOW EXACTLY will Renaissance Schools work to turn around student achievement?

How are the charter schools in the city measuring up against district schools and other options?

What are some of the more encouraging forms of educational reforms that are working elsewhere in the country?

What will be the impact on the Philadelphia School District if school vouchers are approved by the General Assembly?

How will Gov. Corbett's budget ax to education affect the progress that Philadelphia students have made?

These, to us, are some of the burning educational questions of the day. And these are the questions that we wish City Council would explore as it wields its power to hold public hearings.

Not the absence of prayer in public schools, nor the state of our students' souls or spiritual lives.

But those are the hearings that Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, as head of Council's Education Committee, wants to hold this spring, to explore whether there's a way to encourage student prayer in school.

We pray she changes her mind. *

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