Ernie Bennett, longtime Philadelphia school building engineer and union leader, has died at 66. He fought fiercely — up to and including acts of civil disobedience — for the things he believed in.
Ernie Bennett, a longtime Philadelphia School District building engineer and labor leader, died Sept. 18. He was 66.Ernie Bennett, 66, of North Philadelphia, a longtime city school building engineer, community activist and labor leader, died Sunday, Sept. 18, of complications of a bacterial infection at Lankenau Hospital.
But Mr. Bennett spent most of his working life at the School District of Philadelphia, where he worked as a cleaning leader and, for more than 30 years, as a building engineer, serving at multiple schools. “We didn’t create this deficit,” Mr. Bennett said before his arrest. “We should not be held accountable for the mismanagement of these people in here.”painful but important concessionsMr. Bennett also advocated in City Hall, Harrisburg and Washington, D.C., for fair funding for Philadelphia schools and for the end of the state takeover of the district. When the pandemic hit, Mr.
“His life meant something to Philadelphia,” City Councilmember Curtis Jones Jr. said of Mr. Bennett. “I pray for 1,000 more Ernie Bennetts to take his place in our streets and in our community.” “He was always teaching lessons,” said Mr. Bennett’s son Ernie Jr. He fixed the girls’ hair and bought the boys their first suits. He attended every game, cheering the loudest.
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