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.
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