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The Yin and Yang of School Reform
More than 1 in 5 U.S.
children poor, Census says
(Reuters) - The number of
children in the United
States considered poor rose by 1 million in
2010, the U.S. Census said on Thursday, with more than one in five of the
youngest Americans now living in poverty.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/18/us-usa-poverty-children-idUSTRE7AG2C920111118
Mr. Gureghian’s company runs Pennsylvania’s
largest charter school, which Governor Corbett visited earlier this year. Gureghian was Corbett’s largest individual
campaign donor and served on his Education Transition Team.
Palm Beach Florida Daily News
By DARRELL HOFHEINZ
DAILY NEWS HOME
& LOGGIA EDITOR
Posted:
4:04 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011
Owners
on the record — There’s finally word
about who bought 1071 N. Ocean Blvd. and the lot next door for a combined $28.9
million — the year’s second-largest Palm
Beach residential purchase by a single buyer.
http://keystonestateeducationcoalition.blogspot.com/2011/06/follow-money-contributions-by-vahan.html
Despite the large
political contributions made by Mr. Gureghian and the pro-voucher Students
First PAC, our elected officials may
want to stand up and take notice that education voters will not be sitting idly
by…..
Chesco school
vote tally drags on
It
is still not clear whether a coalition's write-in effort won in the West Chester Area School District .
By Anthony Campisi and Dan Hardy, Inquirer
Staff Writers November
20, 2011
For as long as anyone can remember, the path
to the West Chester
Area School
District school board led through the Republican
Party. A GOP endorsement was the ticket
to primary and general-election victory. That may have changed Nov. 8. An improbable coalition of moderate
Republicans, Democrats, and independents, saying the school board had been
taken over by right-wing, anti-public-education forces, decided to fight back.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20111120_Chesco_school_vote_tally_drags_on.html?page=1&c=y
Related websites:
West
Chester VOTE.org
Chester
County Americans for Christian Traditions in our Nation
"The
lowest-performing schools are filled with the greatest number of children in
poverty, and as a nation, we don't talk about that," he said.
"Instead, we threaten the teachers of poor children for not winning a race
that's clearly unfair to begin with."
Politics mix with
education reforms
State seeking Race to the Top cash,
undecided on No Child Left Behind waivers.
By Steve
Esack, Of The Morning Call
11:45 p.m. EST, November 20, 2011
But state officials have yet to decide if they
will apply for another of Obama's education plans — one that would waive much-maligned
mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act if states agree to adopt many of the
same reform measures the president is pushing in Race to the Top.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-pa-race-to-the-top-20111120,0,4615102.story
EPLC School Choices Forum on 11/29 in Harrisburg
Sponsored by The Education Policy and Leadership Center
Tuesday, November
29, 2011 , Hilton Harrisburg
Hotel
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs043/1103584053062/archive/1108649292598.html
Franklin and Cumberland County
Legislative Forum on Public Education
Thursday, December 1, 2011
from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET), Shippensburg , PA
Co-sponsored
by The Shippensburg University Teacher Education Department and Education
Matters in the Cumberland
Valley .
RSVP here: http://franklinandcumberlandcountylegislativeforum.eventbrite.com/
Video:
School Vouchers and a Financial
Literacy Update on Terry Madonna’s Pennsylvania Newsmakers
LancasterOnline.com; Education segment runs from 4:27 to 13:00 of the
video
This week's Pennsylvania Newsmakers with Terry Madonna
features Scott Detrow of StateImpact PA,
with a Marcellus Shale update, and Tom Gentzel, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania
School Boards
Association, who discusses school reforms and school choice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4zrw3Olv2U
“our failing public
schools”
Fast Facts: The success story of Pennsylvania public education
http://standupforpubliceducation.org/2011/10/06/the-success-story-of-pennsylvania-public-education/
Use Education Voters PA website to contact your PA State
Representatives today asking them to oppose taxpayer funded vouchers:
For more info/background - PSBA’s Tuition Voucher Issue Page
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