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Art Cart Picasso Project (Part 3)

Each student made two bags, one to keep and one to sell. All proceeds go directly back to Stephen Girard Elementary School to purchase art supplies. Keep Art in Education!!!!!!!

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Art Cart Picasso Project (Part 2) 

500 screen printed bags later with a design made from the students’ drawings, we coated the bags with special inkodye. The students’ drawings on acetate with black markers lay on top and block out the sun. After sitting out and being rinsed the drawings remain the color of the canvas tote.

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Art Cart Picasso Project (Part 1)

Stephen Girard Elementary 1st and 2nd grade students take a field trip the the Wagner Free Institute of Science! For a talk about food chains. Then observational drawing in the museum and back in the classroom. 

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PCCY Sends Young Voters To State Capital

By Zachary Rendin 

The PCCY (Public Citizens for Children and Youth) is an educational advocacy organization that works toward ensuring all children in Pennsylvania receive a proper and equitable education. 

On April 22, the PCCY had their “Young Voter Action Day” where 50 young voters from Southeastern, Pa, loaded up on a bus in Center City, Philadelphia and headed to the State Capital.

The young voters were there to lobby state legislators and their staff to make passing a fair educational funding formula a policy priority. The 50 young education advocates were broken into groups of 10 and were assigned specific legislators to visit, some had scheduled appointments and others were drop-ins. 

They were met with open arms and optimism from government officials. Most were very pleased to see citizen action for education by such a young group. Education funding is a priority of newly elected Governor Tom Wolf, so most legislators and advocates believe that there will be change sometime this year.