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Keystone Crossroads PlanPhilly New parent resource center opens in North Philly elementary school Members of the School Reform Commission join parents and school officials in cutting the ribbon to open a new Parent Resource Center at Thomas Pierce Elementary School.

Ahead of Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney’s push to create 25 “community schools,” the Philadelphia School District is also working to make its schools hubs for community engagement.

“We’re trying to update the resources in those rooms so that parents have access to things like how to enroll children in high schools, information about how they can help teach their children to read, do math, how they can become involved, how they can complete job applications themselves,” he said.

The grant was awarded to the school because of the efforts of School Reform Commissioner Sylvia Simms’ advocacy group Parent Power which has opened similar centers at nearby Murrell Dobbins High School and James G.

Simms and Divine faced questions this week in a piece by The Philadelphia Public School Notebook for their actions and connections regarding the possible charter school conversion of Wister Elementary in Germantown.