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ver the course of four days and nights, Neighbors Invested in Childs Elementary (NICE) was very busy. From a Progressive Dinner Party with three stops throughout Newbold on Saturday to Tuesday eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Educational Mayoral Debate at G.W. Childs School, 1599 Wharton St., 2013 South Philly Review Difference Maker Megan Rosenbach has been busy. The resident of the 1500 block of South 15th Street hosted the entrĂŠe course of the Dinner Crawl at her home on Saturday and introduced WHYY/Newsworks senior education writer as the debate moderator on Tuesday in the Childs auditorium.
In circular fashion, NICE is in fact currently raising money to improve the auditorium and bring it up to 2015 standards of technology, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where five mayoral candidates spoke on issues facing Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s struggling schools. NICE recently raised funds with volunteer power to create and establish a much-needed library at the K-8 building. Now theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re turning their eye on a slightly larger project â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the auditorium. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our motive is to always be listening and listening to what their needs are,â&#x20AC;? Rosenbach told her packed living room, and celebrated Kim Smith, a resident on the 1200 block of South 15th Street, an alumnus of Childs whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sent her two children through the school.
Smith also directs assemblies and arts performances with directing and arts education experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She runs basically any performance. She is the center of all the school performances that happen there and we want to make sure that the students have space,â&#x20AC;? Rosenbach said. The $11,000 project is reportedly $3,000 under way, half of which came from 2nd District City Council candidate Ori Feibush. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I found out the Councilmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office is going to be helping us with capital, too,â&#x20AC;? Rosenbach reported. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any technology,â&#x20AC;? Smith said, noting that the electric in the room doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reach the stage and their current projector is falling apart and barely mobile.
She explained they have an outside agency that visits the school to teach strings, drums, horns, saxophone and flutes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;all of that,â&#x20AC;? she said. But they get music or art once a week for 45 minutes and, come fall of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;15-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;16 school year, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be choosing one over the other. Smith is running a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youth Job Ready Workshopâ&#x20AC;? for ages 14 to 22 with 2nd District City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson Saturday at the Dixon House, 1920 S. 20th St. Jonathan Fineman, a fifth grade teacher from the 1500 block of South 15th Street, says the Childs principal Eileen Coutts is doing great things, including bringing 250 hours of volunteer services care of Comcast and ASS <713 230/B3 ^OUS ,,