The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) will hold a rally at the Henry C. Lea School (47th and Locust) on Tuesday to protest cuts in school funding.

The rally is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. and is one of many events that the PFT is holding at neighborhood schools around the city in response to cuts in school funding. The PFT contract expires on Aug. 31.

Gov. Tom Corbett has made it clear that the state will contribute another $45 million to help close the $304 million budget shortfall if the union agrees in millions of dollars in concessions in its new contract.

The School District of Philadelphia laid off about 4,000 school personnel, including hundreds of teachers, in response to the budget crisis.

UPDATE (7:50 p.m.): Police confirmed the break-in at Pho & Cafe Saigon and said that the incident has been classified as a burglary. The suspect or suspects took $50 from the register, police said. They broke out the side window with a brick.

Earlier: We have received a report of an apparent break-in at Pho & Cafe Saigon, a Vietnamese restaurant at 43rd and Spruce Streets, Monday morning. A neighbor, Helen, reports that someone tried to use a brick to smash the front door of the restaurant and another neighbor reportedly heard car crashing noises some time between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. The photos below show the restaurant door damaged and one of the windows smashed open. Helen says that she called the police at 8:30 a.m. We are trying to get more details.

Photos by Helen Hong.

Screen capture from surveillance video.

Police have released surveillance video of an apparent hit and run accident on 48th Street between Osage and Pine early Sunday morning and that left an unidentified 23-year-old woman critically injured. The video shows a taxicab with a large ad display on top and a dark stripe down the side, going very fast and dragging the victim along 48th Street shortly before 3 a.m. on Sunday. The cab fled the scene.

The victim was found lying face down and unconscious on the street with apparent head trauma. Police reported yesterday that the victim had a brain injury and was in “very critical” condition. If you have any information about the incident please call 686-TIPS or email: tips@phillypolice.com.

UPDATE (5:40 p.m.): Police report that the woman has a brain injury and is in “very critical” condition. She is 23 years old, according to CBS Philly. Police are still searching for the car that hit the woman and fled.

Earlier: Police are looking for witnesses to a hit-and-run accident that left a woman face down and unconscious in the middle of 48th Street between Pine and Osage early Sunday morning.

A neighbor who lives near the scene says that she woke early this morning, around 2:30 a.m., to people screaming outside her window and saw a woman lying in the middle of the street. The neighbor said the woman looked unresponsive and it looked like she had head trauma.

“It looked like she either had on flats or no shoes at all and only a cell phone (no purse, etc.),” the neighbor wrote by e-mail this morning.

“I heard a very loud and constantly pacing man saying that he just found her like that and almost drove over her,” she wrote. “He stayed until the last cop left the scene.”

Police tweeted that the woman was in critical condition and that they are looking for witnesses. If you saw something call 686-TIPS or write tips@phillypolice.com.

This in from reader Joel DeGrands:

“Pine Street is closed today until 4pm between 47th and 48th as a crane replaces two cell phone cabinets.  The crane is extended to 237 feet, quite a distance above the 14 stories because the cabinets are 60 feet from the edge of the building.  The replacement cabinets are en route and are scheduled to arrive around 10:30. The sidewalk and businesses are open.”

Photo by Joel DeGrands

West Philadelphia’s People’s Emergency Center is holding a school supply drive for current and new children who come to PEC throughout the school year. The following donations are accepted: school uniforms, children’s shoes and other clothing, school supplies, gift cards or monetary contributions. All donations are needed by September 5, 2013, delivered to 3902 Spring Garden Street. See the flyer below for more details.

For any additional information, please contact Meredith Pollock at: mpollock@pec-cares.org or 267-777-5829.