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Byline: Mensah M. Dean
May 11--Students, parents and a state representative yesterday told the Philadelphia School Reform Commission that Edison High students need help getting home from school because of violent street gangs.
"Remember, there are 28 days of school to go. The weather is hot, the streets are hotter," Sarah Mulero, president of the Edison High Home and School Association, told the officials. Attacks by gangs have occurred on at least nine days between Feb. 28 and May 5, resulting in some students needing stitches, said Mulero. She asked that the school be given two to three more school cops, more outside surveillance cameras and newer…