• Home
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • News
  • Donate Now
  • Careers
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • News
  • Donate Now
  • Careers
AACSCPA
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • News
  • Donate Now
  • Careers

About Us

AACSC is made up of African American founded and led public charter school leaders and parents whose children attend these schools with the purpose of ending systemic bias and racism in public education and, specifically, doing that by creating a non-bias system of charter oversight, renewal, and expansion.

Our schools collectively represent over 5000 children and families who are from across the city of Philadelphia and even though these families are city residents, many times, the parents of the children who attend theses schools feel like they are aren’t being heard or supported by the stakeholders who represent them. Therefore, we’ve developed the I MATTER campaign which is our effort to correct misinformation that has been spread about public charter schools as well as hold all fo our stakeholders and individuals who are positions of power accountable to not only ensure our scholars and parents feel like they do matter, but to also create a more fair and equitable system for our schools.

Our Coalition represents not only high quality and culturally focused educational programming and learning environments, but we also serve as economic engines for the communities we reside in. We also promote the social and emotional wellness and heritage of our diverse students celebrating their culture and Blackness. Despite doing all of this, there are still many inequities that exist between white and Black led schools when it comes to funding, resources, and support.

Our Major Challenge

Changing the narrative of the impact of charters in Philadelphia.  Charter schools are the people's choice.  Parents all over the city have made a consciousness choice in African American founded and lead schools as well as others.  It is import to education all Philadelphians around the funding of charter schools. The funding follows the child and should never be claimed by any district as their own when only parents can make that claim. Misinformation must be corrected at all levels

Charter Schools
​24 years later 

The Pennsylvania Charter School Law was enacted in 1997 to allow local boards of education to establish new charter schools.

19% BLACK

81% WHITE & OTHER