Philadelphia Inquirer – A Philly miracle: Amid closures, this elementary school is reopening its library Billy Penn – Students are ‘tearing down the walls’ to get to Fairmount’s new library KYW1060 – Crowdfunded library reopens at a Philadelphia elementary school Philadelphia Tribune – Bache-Martin Elementary School opens new library 6ABC (video) – Fairmount school opens new library CBS3 (video) – […]
Continue readingBACHE-MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CELEBRATES LIBRARY GRAND OPENING Philadelphia public school provides model for community support and student success PHILADELPHIA, Pa., January 14, 2019 – On the day before the 90th birthday of Martin Luther King, Bache-Martin Elementary School–a pre-K-8 public school located in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia—celebrated the opening of its library after being […]
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BillyPenn posted a piece on the new Bache-Martin library today. See below for a preview and a link to the full article. “After years of effort by volunteers to reopen the library at Fairmount’s Bache-Martin Elementary, no one was exactly sure how the students would react. They’re kids, after all — would they even appreciate […]
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The Inquirer published a piece on the new library today. See below for a preview and a link to the full article. “For as long as Anna Zhang has attended Bache-Martin Elementary School, the library was a locked room with old books she could not access. That changed recently, when the public school in Fairmount […]
Continue readingBACHE-MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CELEBRATES LIBRARY GRAND OPENING Philadelphia public school provides model for community support and student success PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Bache-Martin Elementary School–a pre-K-8 public school located in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia—will celebrate the opening of its library after being closed for seven years. Thanks to donations and the efforts of Friends of […]
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