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Philly Power Research
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PPR is a group of volunteer researchers investigating our city's most powerful people, corporations, and organizations. https://t.co/yRHHsnQxYX
Apr 27 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Many charter schools have the ability to selectively admit students in ways which neighborhood public schools cannot. Even then, the median Philly charter school has a lower % of students who scored at least proficient in PSSA math in 22-23 than median Philly public school. 🧵1/ Jitter box and whisker plot comparing Philly charter schools and Philly public schools on % of students proficient or advanced in PSSA math, grades 3-8, School Year 2022-2023. Median for charter schools is 10.8%, median for public schools is 12.45%. Here's Boys Latin of Philadelphia Charter School, which was founded by billionaire Republican mega-donor and education privatization bankroller Jeff Yass' wife Janine. 2/ Same chart as in initial post, with Boys Latin of Philadelphia Charter School highlighted, where 5.6% of students were proficient or advanced in PSSA math, grades 3-8, SY 2022-2023
Jan 30, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Kind of overwhelming, but here's a diagram of Jeff Yass PA political funding from 2021. The richest man in PA is the single largest source of $ for PA GOP campaigns, and he was the 2nd largest funder of Back to School PAC, which donated to GOP school board campaigns across PA. 1/ A lot of Yass' $ last year went toward the competitive PA state-level judicial races. Yass-funded PACs alone were responsible for 38% of the financial support for GOP candidates in these races and 56%(!) of Supreme Court Judge Brobson's support. All but Crompton won. 2/
Apr 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Added 2021 Cycle 1 data to the Campaign Finance Data Explorer (just for Krasner, Vega and Rhynhart). Also here's a more detailed breakdown chart for the DA race (data from 1/1/20-3/29/21). A few high-level takeaways...
public.tableau.com/profile/philly… Vega has received more support from the typical big 3 donor sectors in Philly - real estate, (building trades) unions and lawyers. Of all $ that we identified as coming from lawyers in this race, 79% went to Vega. 26% of Vega's lawyer support came from pre-Krasner DA employees.
Apr 13, 2021 • 19 tweets • 13 min read
Egregious facts about our local billionaires and wealthy corporations, a thread...learn more by checking out the Revenue for a Just Recovery report. #TaxTheRichPHL 1/n
taxtherichphl.org/wp-content/upl… @comcast CEO Brian Roberts' net worth increased by $200 million during the pandemic. Comcast brought in $11.7 billion in profit in 2018, yet pays zero property taxes on their $1.2 billion Technology Center building in Center City thanks to the tax abatement. #TaxTheRichPHL 2/n Image