Philadelphia Teachers Protest Policy They Say Punishes Them For Taking Sick Days

By Marcella Baietto and Ed Specht, CBS Philadelphia

March 1, 2024

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Philadelphia teachers are pushing back on a policy that they say penalizes them when they take sick days.

Educators chanted and marched outside of the School District of Philadelphia holding signs expressing their frustration with a nearly 40-year-old policy unofficially known as the "3-5-7-9 policy."

"It penalizes them for using their sick leave," Mastbaum High School teacher Adam Blyweiss said.

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