Mallory Fix-Lopez, the only educator on the board, is leaving April 18. She has withdrawn her name from consideration for the new school board Mayor Cherelle L. Parker will soon choose.
Mallory Fix-Lopez, the Philadelphia school board vice president, is resigning from the board in April and withdrawing her name from consideration for the school board that will be seated by Mayor Cherelle L. Parker this spring.Mallory Fix-Lopez, the school board vice president, announced her resignation from the board Monday — an unexpected twist and a sign of major changes coming to the Philadelphia School District’s governing body.
“I have reflected a lot more on my family, and when I look at the task ahead through this next transition, I have to put my family first,” said Fix-Lopez. “I want to be deeply committed to my local school and I can’t do that while on the board. What gives me pause is knowing how much work the board is, with any administration. I need to put my attention on my family.”
charged school board meeting Thursday, at which the board voted, 6-3, to deny for the third time an applicationis pro-charter, and amid pleas from politicians, parents, and students to consider the charter application. The majority of the board, and Fix-Lopez, said they could not support the school, given concerns about the other charters the organization runs.
She often spoke out for issues she cared about, particularly around language access for multilingual students and families and the district’s groundbreaking Policy 252, which. Fix-Lopez also helped bring “Goals and Guardrails” to the district — an accountability framework that centers the board’s work on student achievement, withFix-Lopez helped write the board’s governance policies as it transitioned to local control, and was the point person for superintendent evaluations.
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