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Frustrations and determination at S. Phila. school

At 9:10 a.m. Monday, Lisa Ciaranca Kaplan, principal of Andrew Jackson School in South Philadelphia, stepped into the first-grade classroom, crammed with 36 first graders.

Terry Miller, a Philadelphia School District staffer, takes a call about a transportation problem at a district school. At the Philadelphia School District Headquarters we monitor the school district's special school-opening command center and observe as a dozen district staffers field phone calls and e-mails from principals reporting problems and asking questions on what is shaping up to be a first day of school like no other. ( MICHAEL BRYANT / Staff Photographer )
Terry Miller, a Philadelphia School District staffer, takes a call about a transportation problem at a district school. At the Philadelphia School District Headquarters we monitor the school district's special school-opening command center and observe as a dozen district staffers field phone calls and e-mails from principals reporting problems and asking questions on what is shaping up to be a first day of school like no other. ( MICHAEL BRYANT / Staff Photographer )Read more
    by Susan Snyder, Inquirer Staff Writer
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