School District Of Philadelphia To Come Up With Plan For Excess Capacity
The school district says a plan will be devised to figure out how to deal with the 70,000 empty seats in its school buildings.
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The school district says a plan will be devised to figure out how to deal with the 70,000 empty seats in its school buildings.
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