The charter schools give the finger to open records law (link below)
"...were exempted because of their quasi-public status. Though they receive hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid, they are not state-run..."
The above quote captures the general strategy, of city departments and Penn, for ignoring the sunshine law on city policies until the city is taken to court. The unaccountable entities, which have replaced government, such as the Clark Park Partnership, center and university city districts, etc.; destroy our rights through "invitation only" backroom policy meetings.
In a functioning republic and city , the sunshine law requires policy meetings of governmental agencies to be properly announced and open to public scrutiny. Like privatization of public spaces eliminates all rights of "trespassing" citizens, the sunshine law is being deliberately violated by privatizing CONTROL to these quasi-public corporate created entities.
Example: Any minority, working class, or intellectual person will be cuffed and arrested for having a single beer in Clark Park with their picnic. But the FOCP can flagrantly trade beer in the park for gang memberships and post illegal signs all over the neighborhood. (No one wants anything to do with FOCP unless they are coerced to give them money, like soccer kids and beer drinkers.)
Equal treatment under the law was once considered a right in functioning democracies. (see 14th amendment; see also 1st amendment Supreme court rulings for abuse of permits by local officials)
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20130514_Pa__official__Charter_schoosl_routinely_flout_public-records_law.html
