Lower Merion High School Kids March With Overbrook Counterparts – Dean, Sen. Hughes And Others Weigh In
Inspirational march led by Lower Merion and Overbrook high schoolers yesterday to stand up to education inequity.
— Madeleine Dean (@MadeleineDean) August 31, 2020
This inequity in funding is racial injustice. Everyone deserves a quality education and equal opportunity- regardless of where they live. https://t.co/gFOLKlzY37
.@SenatorHughes and @holston_gregory have joined student-led march against the inequities in public school funding. They are highlighting how Lower Merion and Overbrook High Schools are about 4 miles apart but worlds apart in terms of funding:https://t.co/e1nBA2T5JX pic.twitter.com/6rhLeD17y2
— SenatorHughesOffice (@SenHughesOffice) August 30, 2020
Lower Merion March@215studentunion pic.twitter.com/JGmQL7vE8Q
— Shuja Moore (@shujamoore) August 31, 2020
Students protest education inequity in march from Lower Merion to Philly’s Overbrook High School https://t.co/fm5xhMtQFi via @phillyinquirer
— Janice Asher MD (@JaniceAsherMD) August 31, 2020
"...Lower Merion spent $26,422 per student — at least $12,000 more per student than the Philadelphia School District could muster."
Lower Merion HS’s Kisara Freeman, a founder of its new I Will Breathe chapter to match the one in #phled: “Apparently ‘solidarity’ needs a lot of explanation. We think it’s simple... you can’t own a cause from an armchair.” pic.twitter.com/iONR60DcVh
— Bill Hangley Jr (@HangleyJr) August 30, 2020
Protest march on the way from Lower Merion high school across City Avenue to Overbrook high school pic.twitter.com/NJODcGUqR0
— Chuck Bonfig (@ChuckBonfig) August 30, 2020