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==Storia==
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La ''Central High School'' di Filadelfia venne fondata nel 1836 come "''crowning glory''" del sistema scolastico pubblico della Pennsylvania. Poiché i cittadini erano riluttanti ad accettare la necessità di una ''[[high school]]'', il programma scolastico fu accuratamente e pubblicamente elaborato per venire incontro ai bisogni dei contribuenti. I fondatori della scuola evitarono perciò di imitare i programmi dei collegi privati dell'epoca, in cui lo studio delle lingue e letterature clasiche era il centro dell'educazione<ref name="tfaoi"/>.
Central High School of Philadelphia was founded in 1836 as "the crowning glory" of Philadelphia Pennsylvania's public school system, "the worthy apex to a noble pyramid", and the first "high" school in the state. Because city voters only reluctantly had been convinced of the need for a high school, the curriculum was carefully and publicly geared to the needs of taxpayers. Central's founders made an especially concerted effort to avoid educating students in the manner of private academies of the day, where classical languages and literature were of paramount importance.<ref name="tfaoi"/>
La ''Central High School'' fu autorizzata dal parlamento della Pennsylvania il 13 giugno 1836. nello stesso anno fu acquistato il terreno su Juniper Street e il 19 settembre 1837 fu posta la prima pietra. La scuola fu aperta il 26 ottobre 1838 con quattro professori e sessantatre studenti.
Central High School is the second oldest continuously public high school in the United States. The school was chartered by an Act of Assembly and approved on June 13, 1836. A site was purchased on the east side of Juniper Street below [[Market Street (Philadelphia)|Market Street]] and on September 19, 1837, the [[cornerstone]] was laid. The school opened on October 26, 1838 with four professors and sixty-three students.
AnUna Actsuccessiva oflegge dello AssemblyStato, approvedapprovata onil April9 9,aprile 1849, providedstabilì thatche "Thei Controllersprovveditori ofalle thescuole Publicpubbliche Schoolsdel ofprimo thedistretto Firstscolatico School District ofdella Pennsylvania shallavevano haveil andpotere possessdi powerconferire totitoli conferaccademici academicdelle degreesarti inai thediplomati arts upon graduates of thedella ''Central High School"''<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Pepper|editor-first1=George Wharton|editor-last2=Lewis|editor-first2=William Draper|title=A Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania: From the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred to the Sixth Day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-three|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r5FCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA845|volume=1|year=1896|publisher=T. & J. W. Johnson & Co.|___location=Philadelphia|pages=845–}}</ref> In accordance with this Act, the Board of Controllers on September 11, 1849, authorized the conferring of appropriate degrees upon graduates of Central High.
In September 1854, the school transferred to a new building, located at the southeast corner of [[Broad Street (Philadelphia)|Broad]] and Green Streets. In September 1900, the school moved to its third ___location in a newer and larger building located at Broad, Green, Fifteenth, and Brandywine Streets.
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