PRINTER'S NO. 1083
No. 92 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY C. WILLIAMS, M. COHEN, JOSEPHS, McGILL, STRITTMATTER, J. TAYLOR, WASHINGTON, BEBKO-JONES, BROWNE, BUNT, CAPPABIANCA, CLYMER, L. I. COHEN, DeWEESE, FLICK, FREEMAN, GEIST, GRUCELA, HENNESSEY, LAUGHLIN, LESCOVITZ, MANDERINO, MANN, McCALL, R. MILLER, MYERS, ORIE, SAINATO, SHANER, STABACK, STURLA, THOMAS, J. WILLIAMS, HARHAI, McILHATTAN, BISHOP, B. SMITH, BELFANTI, RUBLEY AND PRESTON, MARCH 14, 2001
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, MARCH 14, 2001
A RESOLUTION 1 Honoring the PARTNERS program and designating April 27, 2001, as 2 "PARTNERS Day" in Pennsylvania. 3 WHEREAS, The PARTNERS program is a unique urban-suburban 4 school partnership program which pairs first through eighth 5 grade classes from Philadelphia public schools with their 6 suburban school counterparts to pursue yearlong academic 7 activities and bridge-building social interaction; and 8 WHEREAS, The PARTNERS program has successfully linked city 9 and suburban students, teachers, parents and schools for ten 10 years, currently reaching 1,800 students and 60 teachers from 29 11 schools; and 12 WHEREAS, The PARTNERS program has improved racial relations 13 in the greater Philadelphia area, enabling the students to 14 transcend the barriers and stereotypes which stand between
1 African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic and white urban and 2 suburban youth; and 3 WHEREAS, The student participants learn to interact 4 comfortably with people of different backgrounds and to view the 5 world from multiple perspectives; and 6 WHEREAS, The PARTNERS program was featured as an exemplary 7 human relations program by the Pennsylvania Human Relations 8 Commission; therefore be it 9 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor the 10 PARTNERS program and designate April 27, 2001, as "PARTNERS Day" 11 in Pennsylvania. L11L82MSP/20010H0092R1083 - 2 -