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PHILADELPHIA
Students join nurses' fight against layoffs
Published Jan 22, 2012 7:57 PM
High school students joined school nurses fighting against layoffs at their weekly protest in front of the Philadelphia School District headquarters on Jan. 11.
“Every day, 33,000 students attend schools that lack a registered nurse,” Eileen DiFranco, a Roxborough High School nurse, told participants. Nurses are forced to work at several schools per week, and each RN is now responsible for 1,500 students on average.
“If there’s no nurse, and you’re sick, kids are just going to leave school,” one high school student reported. “Basically, it’s not fair for our students. We need our high school nurses,” added her friend.
Protesters are demanding that the 47 nurses furloughed in December be returned to their assignments in the school district.
— Report and photo by Joseph Piette
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