Projects: An American Education: AE25

Students, mostly from the Philadelphia School District surround the school district's administration building. The student protesters prevented district employees from entering the building. It also forced the relocation of the School Reform Commission’s announcement of which schools would be assigned to private for-profit companies. From right are Sonya Isard a Girl's High student, Andrew Esslerhaines, a Philadelphia resident who goes to Upatina's School in Chester County, Leah Bender Siemiaroski, a Girl's High student, and Abigail Ellmand, Dyani Makous, and Kenneth Ballard, all students at Central High School.

Students, mostly from the Philadelphia School District surround the school district's administration building. The student protesters prevented district employees from entering the building. It also forced the relocation of the School Reform Commission’s announcement of which schools would be assigned to private for-profit companies. From right are Sonya Isard a Girl's High student, Andrew Esslerhaines, a Philadelphia resident who goes to Upatina's School in Chester County, Leah Bender Siemiaroski, a Girl's High student, and Abigail Ellmand, Dyani Makous, and Kenneth Ballard, all students at Central High School.