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The Philadelphia Student Union (PSU) aims to empower young people to demand a high-quality education in the Philadelphia Public School system. It is a youth-led organization that makes positive changes by teaching students how to organize to build power. The organization is training a new generation of leadership that understands the root causes of social problems and is highly skilled at building unity among diverse groups of people.
PSU bases its work on the following principles:
- Every young person has the right to a high quality education;
- Young people should have a voice in the decisions that affect their lives; and,
- Young people have the right and the capacity to lead public schools forward.
CPER Funded Project
PSU's CPER-funded work includes:
- Expanding a network of citizens (both youth and adults) informed and engaged around the issues of equitable school funding and quality education;
- Increasing capacity of students, parents and other stakeholders to hold state policymakers accountable for fair funding and quality education with joint actions in several locations around school funding;
- Demonstrating measurable increased level of equity between schools with the passage of a small schools policy supporting the conversion of West Philadelphia, Kensington and Olney High Schools into small community centered schools; and
- Increasing coordination and collaboration at a state level between education organizing groups by building a strong network of students Southeastern Pennsylvania whose youth voices play a central role in the regional work.
Issue Area(s)
School Culture ReformCurriculum Reform
School Funding Reform/Fiscal Equity
Student Leadership Development
Small School Reform
High School Reform
Fund
Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) Contact Representative
Nijmie Dzurinko
Executive Director
5011 Baltimore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19143
Philadelphia, PA 19143
Tel. (215) 471-5970
Fax: (215) 471-5970
Fax: (215) 471-5970