Mallory Fix-Lopez

Philly educator. First Gen. ESL and Ed Faculty at CCP, Penn GSE, Temple. Philly BOE member 2018-2024.

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@jayamccalla1 They do not have a $5B budget bc they have to pay for 86 charters schools from that … the money for charters passes through SDP

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@AnneDornPhilly If you started following meetings in 2022, you missed the entire context of the actual premise for why changes needed made

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@AnneDornPhilly Go back and listen. I can’t explain marathon meetings in a tweet

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@AnneDornPhilly I agree the carver thing was an issue… as I verbally discussed many times in meetings. I don’t ever recall it being in a handbook. But all of this has been fixed…so you don’t like the fix that now they can stay? Or you want to go back to broken promises?

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@AnneDornPhilly Yes. Hands down, yes.

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@AnneDornPhilly I am not sure what specifically you’re talking about w Masterman, but I’m talking about a system wide process. My comments have been system wide. Go back to the beginning… this convo started in 2020 w/ Covid and no PSSAs to use for selection… watch all the videos from then on

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@AnneDornPhilly I honestly don’t remember the dates…I think it was beginning of TW tenure but I don’t remember. But again- you said youve followed it all- so you would know as well as I do. The remedy was centralized process so it was same process for all

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@AnneDornPhilly Why do you only care about one school? Is this about equity at large? Or masterman?

Everything I’m talking about is public… if people were paying attention like they pretend to be, they would know

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@AnneDornPhilly And agree… it is the board’s job to pay attention and look at ALL the facts… and they did. And that’s why you have changes.

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@AnneDornPhilly I never name a school… audit and findings were throughout many schools.

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@AnneDornPhilly And I’m not implying anything about the application- im stating fact. go back and watch the board meetings from that time. It’s all public… but again, people weren’t paying attention.

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@AnneDornPhilly I said they need to listen to the WHOLE convo… so if you didn’t see all the data presented about backdoor entry, you didn’t. And trust had to be built after the writing test debacle— I was very vocally against that at that time. and after not having PSSA scores due to Covid

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

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[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

It’s not a Philly issue. It’s a public education funding issue… and until City Council admits that… we as not gonna get anywhere.

[The Philadelphia Inquirer @PhillyInquirer]

Pittsburgh school board votes to close nine schools, 12 other facilities https://t.co/aJdW15Tz3K

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

“Though elected officials are publicly fumingabout the closures, no City Council member has proposed a plan to help the district close its budget deficit.”

[Chalkbeat Philadelphia @ChalkbeatPHL]

City councilmembers said the budget vote amounts to the district doubling down on the school closure plan. https://t.co/pSk9Clevgq

[Kristen Graham @newskag]

Supt Watlington is introducing results from the Education Scorecard, a research project of Stanford & Harvard. Philadelphia posted the highest learning rate of the largest school districts in the US - 13.4%. Next closest was Fairfax Co, Va., at 9.4%, then Chicago, at 7.5 #PHLed

[Mallory Fix-Lopez @FixMallory]

@AnneDornPhilly Anyone seriously paying attention to this topic would know this- it was publicly presented during this entire process… that’s why important people listen to the ENTIRE convo