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"Partnering" Public Schools
28 September 2004Paul Vallas, CEO of the 210,000-student Philadelphia School District, is attempting to form large-scale partnerships with local religious groups, asking them to "adopt" one of the district's 276 schools in the hope that the congregants will help with tutoring, mentoring, "crisis intervention" counseling and discipline. So far, one third of the schools are so "partnered," making Philadelphia's incorporation of religious groups into its program the most direct of any district, reports Mary Beth McCauley, of The Christian Science Monitor. No details were given regarding the diversity of religion in the groups assigned to schools, nor what limits religious participants had when counseling students during "crisis interventions."
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