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MPIP Releases Charter School Policy Brief: "From Neighborhood Schools to Charter Schools"
The Spatial Consequences of Philadelphia's Shifting Enrollments: Philadelphia's Mayor Michael Nutter has identified the rebuilding of the city's education system, along with fighting crime and violence, as the highest priorities of his second term in office. The education crisis was pushed to the top of the list of policy priorities by the turmoil surrounding the departure of Superintendent Arlene Ackerman and the massive deficits in the 2011-2012 budget of the School District of Philadelphia (SDP).
Among the factors contributing to the education crisis is...
MPIP Work On Subrime Mortgages and Foreclosures Featured in Urban Institute's MetroTrends Report
The Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project's David Bartelt, authored a report on the current impact of subprime mortgages and foreclosure rates both within the Philadelphia region and across other major metropolitan areas.
The report can be accessed on the Urban Institute's MetroTrends website: A 'report card and toolkit for researchers, students, journalists, elected officials and the public on the state of metropolitan economies.'
MPIP Weighs in On the State Budget and Population Change
Recent stories in the Philadelphia Press featured comments from MPIP principal investigators. The Philadelphia Weekly spoke with David Elesh about the PA budget in relation to economic concerns for the region, and The Philadelphia Inquirer spoke with David Bartelt about Philadelphia's slight upturn in population revealed by the 2010 Census.
New Grant Creates Center for Public Interest Journalism at Temple's School of Communications and Theater
MPIP is working with Temple's School of Communications and Theater in their initiative to promote public affairs journalism; a project supported by the William Penn Foundation. Click here to read more, or read about it on page three of the March 18th edition of Temple Times.