Testimonial 16

"Contributions to the city's wage tax, funding for the Penn initiated Penn Alexander School (which now serves a wealthier, whiter population due to gentrification), and implementing other Penn controlled service programs through institutions like the Netter Center does not cancel out the need for Penn to contribute to an Educational Equity Fund that local Philadelphians would control themselves. By taking a paternalistic approach to its financial contributions to the city, Penn is not contributing to the process of Philadelphians deciding how to best address the educational inequity that many low-income, black and brown Philadelphia children like myself have to face every day." 

- Anea Moore, Rhodes Scholar, Former Netter Center Student Advisory Board Chair, Philadelphia Resident and Graduate of the Penrose School & Masterman High School