Official:Providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to provide for a preference in civil service examinations for any qualified graduate of a Career Technical Education program in the School District of Philadelphia, as approved by Resolution of the City Council; fixing the date of a special election for such purpose; prescribing the form of ballot question to be voted on; and, authorizing the appropriate officers to publish notice and to make arrangements for the special election.
Sponsor: Councilmember Gilmore Richardson
Introduced: January 23, 2020
Signed: June 23, 2022
: Committee on Law and Government
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill puts a question on the ballot to ask voters if they want to give preference in city civil service exams to graduates of Career Technical Education programs in Philadelphia's public schools.
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