09/01/2026
“We’ve got to do some things differently in Philadelphia to address the fact that we have a 65% occupancy rate across the district, which means 35% of our seats in our buildings in the district-operated schools are empty,” Watlington said at a news conference in a third-floor classroom.
“We’ve got to do some things differently in Philadelphia to address the fact that we have a 65% occupancy rate across the district," Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. said Monday.