Published: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 5:53 PM
With the more than $1 billion cut in state aid to school districts, "if we fail to relieve school districts of some of the cost drivers that they face, we will see local property taxes increase. This is unacceptable," said Sen. Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin County
Piccola vowed to not introduce any new legislation imposing mandates on districts, but Christopher Wakeley, executive director to the Democratic House Education Committee, noted Piccola's school choice bill, Senate Bill 1, is rife with mandates on districts. Among those he cited is a mandate for districts to transport children to the school they choose to attend, and one requiring them to pay for full-day kindergarten at a private school even if the public school offers only a half-day kindergarten program. (Thanks Chris!)
Bills in State Senate aim to help schools on budget cuts
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
By Laura Olson, Post-Gazette Harrisburg
Yesterday afternoon’s coverage of the mandate relief package and press conference:
Keystone Exam Briefing/PVAAS Senate Education Committee Public Hearing of Tuesday, March 22nd
Informational Briefing from the Department of Education on status of: The Keystone Exams (17 page PDF), Implementation of Pennsylvania's Value Added Assessment System (PVAAS) disclosure via Act 104 of 2010, Capabilities of PVAAS system in evaluating student achievement and the new 4-year cohort graduation rate .
Team Pennsylvania Foundation coverage of Senate Keystone Exam Briefing
(Team PA was a strong proponent for the adoption and implementation of the Keystone Exams) Senate Education Committee members were assured by department officials at a public hearing Tuesday that the one-year moratorium on the implementation of the Keystone Exams was a temporary move designed to accomplish two things.
(Read this post by Linda Darling-Hammond and then send it to your state and federal policymakers…)
Darling-Hammond: U.S.
By Valerie Strauss
This post was written by Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University , where she was founding director of the National Commission on Teaching and America Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. A former president of the American Educational Research Association, Darling-Hammond focuses her research, teaching, and policy work on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity.
By Linda Darling-Hammond
The first ever International Summit on Teaching, convened last week inNew York City , showed perhaps more clearly than ever that the United States
The first ever International Summit on Teaching, convened last week in
Bangor could lose 22 teachers, classes, activities
With $2.5 million deficit, district says it has no choice but to balance budget with staffing cuts.
By Andrew McGill, OF THE MORNING CALL, 11:01 p.m. EDT, March 22, 2011
What does a $2.5 million budget deficit look like in the Bangor Area School District ?
By the administration's calculations, more than 20 teachers, full-day kindergarten and the high school's block scheduling system, all of which could be on the block — even with a tax increase
March 30, 2011 at the Chester County
Manage Your Energy: The Energy Management Workshop for Schools
Info and registration: http://dvgbc.org/education/k-12-schools-energy
Pennsylvania school vouchers: Your child, your choice!
By ANTHONY H. WILLIAMS
THE CONCEPT of school choice is simple. You, the parent, decide where your child goes to school. It's very basic, and the time has come to embrace it. That's why state Sen. Jeffrey Piccola (R-Dauphin/ York
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