October 11: Cleaning North Broad | $3m for Schuylkill River Trail segement | Barwin’s Civic Season

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North Broad Renaissance spent its first year finding its footing as the new organization formed to support and promote North Broad Street after Avenue of the Arts failed to do so. The Temple News reports North Broad Renaissance now has cleaning crews on North Broad and side streets, focused on areas below Germantown Avenue. (For more on the fallout from Avenue of the Arts and North Broad, check out Ryan Briggs’ story from June.)

Plans to extend the Schuylkill River Trail 2.25 miles south from Bartram’s Mile to Passyunk Point in Southwest Philly received $3 million boost from the state. PhillyMag reports that the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program funds will go to “acquisition, remediation, site work, and construction for the first two phases of the project.”

During his bid for City Council, Alan Domb vowed to give away his salary. Now Domb is giving away his $129,000 salary to Philly schools through individual $2500 checks, Tom MacDonald reports.

Could school ratings maps be a 21st century kind of redlining? NPR Ed explores the legal gray area around real estate and school ratings, fair housing laws, segregation and inequalities divided on lines of race and class, and the cyclical links between property values and schools.

Have you been following along with Connor Barwin’s Civic Season at The Philadelphia Citizen? Each week of his season, the linebacker has partnered with Richardson Dilworth III, of Drexel’s Center for Public Policy, to see how Philly stacks up against the opposing city and offers ideas to steal. Ratings include educational attainment, biking to work, diversity, voter turnout, poverty, and public transportation.