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Ray “Ghostbuster” Collazo gains momentum
May 19, 2020
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| Apr 2004, Community News, T Martin

State legislative candidate boasts new endorsementsBy T Martin If the warm weather was supposed to relax the young candidate whose campaign to make the primaries against incumbent Bill Reiger for the 179th state legislative district, it’s not happening. In fact, since Spring arrived, the campaign of 29-year-old Rafael P. Collazo has gained momentum, garnering endorsements from the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), Salsa singer Frankie Negron and the Philadelphia Daily News. The journey that started in freezing cold on…

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Aspirantes STEP it up
May 19, 2020
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| Apr 2004, Community News, Cover Story, Entertainment News, T Martin

Educational dance team performs liveBy T Martin “Stupid packed” doesn’t even begin to spell out how hype and intense ASPIRA’s S.T.E.P. group’s first live dance performance was on Friday night, April 16th. But that was dancer John Mull’s prediction when the dance troupe’s founder and director Hector Serrano invited NorFilly™ Magazine to attend the event held at Concilio’s Hall at 7th and Fairmount. Starting at the top with parents involved in the implementation of the education through dance and…

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Olney drums for the Christ
May 19, 2020
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| Apr 2004, Community News, T Martin

Olney kids join local church’s annual paradeBy T Martin Christ and St. Ambrose Episcopal Church’s annual Via Crucis through the streets of North Philadelphia boasted an added attraction for the third year in a row on Good Friday, April 9th – Olney High School’s percussion troupe. Beside the youths already affiliated with the church, these teens from Olney High are rapidly becoming a staple of the Church’s event. They brought a new “flavor” to the parade as it moved…

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Will work for fun
May 19, 2020
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| Apr 2004, Community News, T Martin

ASPIRA fills students’ week offBy T Martin From games to movie night to overnight bowling, the sixty some-odd students that attended ASPIRA during their Spring Break enjoyed the week off from start to finish. Aspirantes, students enrolled in any of the after-school youth leadership programs of ASPIRA Inc. of Pennsylvania, might not have had school from April 5th to the 9th, but they did have things to do, places to go and people to meet! After news that the…

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Bracetti Academy, Part 5
May 19, 2020
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| Apr 2004, Community News, Editor's Note, T Martin

Part 5 of 5 – Accentuate the positive NorFilly™ is – or was until getting hooked into this story – a positive magazine. It is a positive resource for young people interested in any of our focus topics, such as photography or technology. It is a positive outlet for teens and young adults to express their views of the world. It is a positive place for schools to share success stories and achievements. As such, we are sincere in…

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Bracetti Academy, Part 4
May 19, 2020
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| Apr 2004, Community News, Editor's Note, T Martin

Part 4 of 5 – Qualified administration Understanding that bit of history brings you up-to-date. Bracetti Academy has gone through a number of appointed and acting administrators, most deemed un- or under-qualified, by the board of trustees or by the educational management organization (EMO), to run the school. The Philadelphia School District cannot, by law, dictate the day-to-day operations of a charter school; it can only advise or suggest where a school might fail to live up to lawful…

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Bracetti Academy, Part 3
May 19, 2020
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| Apr 2004, Community News, Editor's Note, T Martin

Part 3 of 5 – Student voice As promised, in their April 15th edition Focus Newspaper published the writings of several students expressing positive feelings about their school and its staff. While there was never a doubt that the staff at Bracetti School is loving and caring (at least, NF never wrote such), the school felt that it was necessary to point that out. So four students’ works were published to show that for the most part – less…

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Bracetti Academy, Part 2
May 19, 2020
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| Apr 2004, Community News, Editor's Note, T Martin

Part 2 of 5 – NorFilly reflects, Bracetti responds The thing about the first article we ran on the school is the fact that local grassroots newspaper Community Focus also carried the story. Being a lesser known (just a baby) publication, NF took some heat, but not as much as Focus. David Roche, production manager at Focus, received a number of calls about the article, published on the front page of his periodical. Professional to the core, he passed…

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Mariana Bracetti Academy Charter School
May 19, 2020
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| Apr 2004, Community News, Editor's Note, T Martin

Part 1 of 5 – Parents scream “Discrimination!”By T Martin (as Escritor X) Last month, several parents supporting Ida Navarro’s fight for a better qualified administration at a local charter school came to NorFilly Magazine with a story. Their story was about how they felt mistreated and misguided about the principles of Bracetti Charter School, located at Kensington Avenue and Cumberland Street, where they thought their children would be given the educational experience for which founding staff members toiled…

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Valid complaints or empty accusations?
May 19, 2020
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| Apr 2004, Community News, Editor's Note, Features, T Martin

Bracetti School discount parent concernsBy T Martin (as Escritor X) Whoa! Hold the phone! NorFilly Magazine published an article on parents’ tales of “humiliation” and “discrimination” last month, but not without some rebuke. In fact, grassroots periodical Community Focus also carried the story last week, receiving several bitter – and rightly so – phone calls. Admittedly, we dismissed much of what was brought to us by parents, even during our interviews, as “normal” for any school setting. However, language…

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