SUB

Jumping into the substitute teaching pool with only five hours of training and asalary of $40 per day, ex-sitcom writer Clayvon Harris was determined to make adifference. Instead, she came face-to-face with burnt-out teachers, indifferentadministrators and chaotic classrooms dominated by a few out-of-control students whomade it nearly impossible to teach or learn. At the end of the school year, she quitwith no intention of ever returning. But nearly two decades, four superintendents,three mayors and a state-wide cheating scandal later, the author heads back into theSchool District in search of a straightforward answer to a deceptively simplequestion: What''s wrong with Philly''s public schools?