A New Leader For The School Reform Commission
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It's a new era for Philadelphia's School Reform Commission. The panel's new chair presided over her first meeting last night.
"Good evening, everyone."
With those words, Joyce Wilkerson began her first meeting as the newly-appointed chair of the School Reform Commission, the five-member unpaid state panel running Philadelphia schools.
She said she's spent the last ten days getting briefed on district operations, an experience she called "a real eye opener."
"I look forward to getting out in the city and visiting the schools and getting to know the teachers, the parents and the children," Wilkerson said.
Wilkerson is a former chief of staff for Mayor John Street, and she currently serves as an adviser to Temple University's president.
More SRC changes are ahead: Governor Wolf's nominee Estelle Richman is awaiting state senate confirmation, and commissioner Sylvia Simms' term expires in January.