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After a five-hour long meeting Wednesday evening, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission approved five new charter schools and denied 34 applications. They’re the first new charter schools the city can add since 2009. Here’s how it went down:

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Anna Orso was a reporter/curator at Billy Penn from 2014 to 2017.