Tweet All About It: The School District Budget Hearings, Told in Tweets

Here's an article entirely made up of tweets sent over the past 24 hours or so that have to do with a City Council hearings Wednesday and Thursday, during which parents, teachers and members of education-advocacy groups urged the council to give the School District of Philadelphia .

If you want more conventional stories, check out recaps of City Council hearings  (from the hearing Tuesday) and  (Wednesday).

And off we go...

Over 70 speakers registered to offer remarks before Council. Record turnout from Faith-based leadership imploring Council to help SDP.

Dude. If you're going to schedule a hearing in the middle if the work day, have the courtesy to start on time! Hearing starts 28 minutes late with only 4 council members: Green, Blackwell, Goode, Greenlee. 

Dear District Councilmembers, you have a stake in this too! Where are you? Absolutely unacceptable behavior from Philly's City Council. If I didn't bother to show up for work, I'd be fired. Even 10 members of Council would be acceptable at this point.

Green's back. Tasco just arrived. With Verna at the helm, Blackwell steps out. We hold at 6 members. Donna Reed Miller makes an appearance. Darn, if Clarke hadn't walked out we'd have a record 8 council members.

Great to see so many young people in the Council chamber for #phillyeducation hearing!

Parent from Jenks school: "Our great arts & music program will be cut. We can't take full day K backwards." Jenks 6th grader: "I've played violin since Kindergarten. Please don't cut our music program." Kudos to 6th Grade violinist William Bess who testified on need 2 preserve music in #phillyeducation budget!

Kindergarten students from the Ethel Allen Promise Academy chanted "Save our kindergarten program." Cutting full day Kindergarten should be non-negotiable. Not even part of the discussion.200 high school students in uniforms now marching around City Hall chanting "Save our schools!"

Ackerman to city council: "SHOW ME THE MONEY!" Finding $75-$110 Million for SDOP. 3 Options: Option #1: Raise Taxes #2: Raise Revenue #3: Service cuts.

Mayor Michael Nutter says #Philly faces leadership moment. More city $ for schools. Not about next election, it's about next generation.

Prop tax increase for schools infeasible - 2 years of a temp prop tax increase in addition to a broken assessment system. I'm unsure if Mayor Nutter has ideas on how to generate revenue to help the SDOP. Fumbled on general fund budgets.

Councilman Clarke just issued a resolution calling on the Law Department to sue the State on how schools are funded particularly in Philly. 3 days of US funding in Afghanistan could fund Philly's budget gap.

Yesterday, I was very encouraged to see so many people turn out to testify about the School District budget. Constituents will listen 2 what we SAY, but ultimately we will be judged by what we DO & how we vote. NOW IS TIME FOR LEADERSHIP AND SHARED SACRIFICE!!

Fire alarm goes off during city council session.