Youth Network leader may head education office

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, January, 2008 | by Susan Snyder Inquirer Staff Writer

Lori Shorr, vice president for policies and planning at the Philadelphia Youth Network - the organization pioneering an effort to cut the city's dropout rate - is expected to be named Mayor Nutter's point person on education, sources said yesterday. Shorr, who previously worked in the Pennsylvania Department of Education and at Temple University, did not return calls for comment.

Nutter's staff also declined to comment. Shorr reportedly will be appointed director of education initiatives, overseeing an office of education that Nutter plans to create. More details are expected this month. Nutter, in his inaugural address, made clear that education would be a priority and said he would aim to halve the school district's 45 percent dropout rate over the next five to seven...