Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker made a call for an increase in state funding to close the city's $1.4 billion education budget gap on TuesdayPhiladelphia officials, including Mayor Cherelle Parker, school district representatives and others, made a call to state legislators in an effort to gain an increase in funding for the city's school system on Tuesday.
Parker has called for that gap to be closed over the next seven years, and called for $242 million for the upcoming year. During the day, Tony Watlington, the superintendent of the city's public school system, said that the needed funds would provide a quality education for students. New funds, he said, would help fund improvements to school facilities, extended school hours, relaunch a program to help parents support their children, hire more teachers and other initiatives., an entertainment company founded by hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, that is intended to help children in grades K-12 from low-income households afford to attend one of the city's array of private schools.
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