Official:Providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of the proposal set forth in a Resolution approved by City Council proposing an amendment to the Educational Supplement to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the eligibility, selection and removal of the Members of the Board of Education; relating to the Board of Education’s responsibility for the administration of the School District; and authorizing the appropriate officers to publish notice and to make arrangements for the special election.
Sponsor: Councilmember Oh
Introduced: March 18, 2021
: Committee on Law and Government
Status: Lapsed
This bill was introduced in the 2020–2023 Council term and when that term ran out. The public record shows no committee vote and no floor vote at any stage, so no member of Council ever went on record for or against it.
That is not unusual here. Of the 8,465 bills introduced between 2000 and 2025, 1,624 lapsed without a single recorded vote. Ninety percent of bills that became law carry a roll call. Three percent of lapsed bills do. How this works.
This bill proposes to ask voters if they want to divide Philadelphia's school district into five regions and allow each region to elect its own representative to the School Board.
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