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Corbett says 'We reduced education funding if you look at it as a whole'
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MT. JOY (Feb. 9) -- Gov.
Tom Corbett, two days after chiding critics for saying he cut state funding for
the K-12 public basic education formula, made an admission.
He said his
administration had cut overall state funding for K-12 public schools in the
current budget.
In successive budgets,
the state of Pennsylvania
Need a refresher on PA state law?
Reading the piece below,
I would submit that we need to act now if we don’t want to see public education
reduced to test prep centers of last resort in the next 20 years. LAF
Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Catholic Schools Matter Winter 2012
Newsletter, February
10, 2012
If school
vouchers are enacted and EITC funding is increased, the Archdiocese of
Philadelphia can redistribute its funding to support middle-income families,
allowing all families who desire a Catholic education the ability to choose one
for their children. We must act now if we don’t want to see Catholic education
disappear entirely in the next 20 years.
Since standardized test
results showed no increase in student achievement for voucher students in Milwaukee , Pennsylvania
Parents
decry school safety cuts
Cuts to public school
programming, a shortage of nurses and the recent dismissal of more than 90
security personnel equal the last straw for Parents United For Better Schools
and its president and founder, Veronica Joyner.
Stand Up
for Public Education:
Hundreds
Come Out to Support Public Education in Chester County
Senator Andy Dinniman Press
Release WEST CHESTER (February 10)
More than 400 residents attended
last night’s meeting at Downingtown High School East to discuss Gov. Corbett’s
proposed cuts to all levels of public education, their impact on local schools,
universities and communities, and the future of public education in Pennsylvania
Discussing solutions for school budget
cuts
Published: Friday, February 10, 2012
West Chester Daily Local By SARA MOSQUEDA-FERNANDEZ
smfernandez@dailylocal.com
smfernandez@dailylocal.com
UWCHLAN -- State Sen.
Andy Dinniman convened a public meeting to host a discussion about the decrease
in state funding of local public education in Pennsylvania
Dinniman, D-19th, of West Whiteland, said the meeting at Downingtown High School East on Thursday night was a way to discuss with residents the decrease in state funding of local public education and its impact on local schools and universities.
Dinniman, D-19th, of West Whiteland, said the meeting at Downingtown High School East on Thursday night was a way to discuss with residents the decrease in state funding of local public education and its impact on local schools and universities.
WHAT
WORKS: Finding 'What Works' in Education
Online
Platforms Can Connect Educators with Proven Interventions
Center for American
Progress By Kristina
Costa | February 9, 2012
These “what works”
platforms are in their infancy but they represent a promising step toward
evidence-based public decision-making in education. Presented below are several
that the Obama administration and Congress should examine as they negotiate
federal spending on education in the FY 2013 federal budget beginning in
October this year.
The Center for
American Progress late in 2011 hosted representatives from a number of “what
works” platforms alongside several primary and secondary education researchers
and Department of Education employees to gauge the efficacy of these platforms.
Let’s first look at each of them and then examine their promise and
limitations.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/02/dww_education.html
Settlement
talks ongoing for Chester
Published: Monday, February 13, 2012
Delco Times By JOHN
KOPP, jkopp@delcotimes.com, @DT_JohnKopp
The attorney
representing state Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis said Friday the
Department of Education is in the process of receiving and analyzing financial
information requested at Thursday’s settlement conference.
Stephen Dyer 10th
period blog FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
10, 2012
Ohio
Judge: White Hat Charter Management Company is a Public Entity, Must Reveal
Records
A Franklin County Judge
has ruled that White Hat Management, the state's largest operator of Charter
Schools, must explain to the Charter Schools it runs how it's spending the
money meant for the school.
Posted at 04:00 AM ET, 02/13/2012
Ravitch:
Why states should say ‘no thanks’ to charter schools
This was written by
education historian Diane Ravitch, a research professor at New York University
By Diane Ravitch
Former D.C. school
chancellor Michelle Rhee has sent her followers to Alabama
to promote charter schools, but Alabama District
of Columbia Washington D.C. has the
biggest achievement gap between black and white students in the nation, double
the size of Alabama Alabama
Charter schools haven’t
helped other states and they won’t help Alabama
“If you can't
shut down the science, the new science-deniers appear to be saying, you should
shut down the (public) schools.”
The new
anti-science assault on US schools
In a disturbing trend, anti-evolution campaigners are combining with
climate change deniers to undermine public education
The guardian by Katherine Stewart,
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 12 February 2012 09.00 EST
They are back. There are six bills
aimed at undermining the teaching of
evolution before state legislatures this year: two each in New Hampshire and Missouri ,
one each in Indiana and Oklahoma
EDITORIAL
The Big
Money Behind State Laws
New York Times Published: February 12, 2012
It is no coincidence that so many
state legislatures have spent the last year taking the same destructive
actions: making it harder for minorities and other groups that support
Democrats to vote, obstructing health care reform, weakening environmental
regulations and breaking the spines of public- and private-sector unions. All
of these efforts are being backed — in some cases, orchestrated — by a
little-known conservative organization financed by millions of corporate
dollars.
“In other words, those who teach children with the greatest
needs are likeliest to get a bad evaluation and eventually to be fired.”
Obama Grants Waivers to
NCLB and Makes a Bad Situation Worse
The Daily Beast by Diane Ravitch, Feb 10, 2012 12:00 AM EST
The president correctly sees that No Child Left
Behind forces teaching to the test. But so do his solutions to that problem.
Secretary Arne Duncan is right about the No
Child Left Behind law: It is an unmitigated disaster. Signed into law a decade
ago by President George W. Bush, NCLB is widely despised for turning schools
into testing factories.
If you have not already, there is
still time to register for the
Thursday, February
16, 2012 , Breakfast - 8:00 a.m.
Program - 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown
Hotel - 201 North 17th Street
"Southeastern PA Breakfast Series"
SUBJECT: Governor Corbett's Proposed
Education Budget for 2012-2013
Overview of the Proposed Budget Will Be Provided By:
Representative of the PA Budget and Policy Center
Ron Cowell, President, The Education Policy and Leadership Center
Panel:
Michael Churchill, Of Counsel, Public Interest Law
Center of Philadelphia
Shelly Yanoff, Executive Director, Public Citizens for Children and Youth
Alex McNeil, Senior at Temple University and Founder of Project E.D.U.
Superintendent of Schools From a District in the Philadelphia Region
Shelly Yanoff, Executive Director, Public Citizens for Children and Youth
Alex McNeil, Senior at Temple University and Founder of Project E.D.U.
Superintendent of Schools From a District in the Philadelphia Region
Please feel free to share this with your
friends and colleagues. Registration is free, but everyone must RSVP at http://www.eplc.org/events-calendar/southeastern-pennsylvania-breakfast-series/
February 14th
Valentine’s Day Harrisburg 12:00 pm
Rally in support of public
education
Dear Gov. Corbett, Fall Back In Love
With Education.
Uploaded by PhillyStudentUnion on Jan 31, 2012
February 14th Valentine's
Day Rally at the Harrisburg
Rally at 12pm in the
Harrisburg
1:36 YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gybrEHCMxQk&feature=youtu.be
More info, registration, sponsor bus seats for students at: http://showloveforeducation.eventbrite.com/?ref=ecount
More info: www.phillystudentunion.org
PA House Democratic
Caucus Website
UPDATED DAILY –
STATEWIDE PRESS COVERAGE OF SCHOOL DISTRICT
BUDGETS
As districts consider their preliminary budgets and we await the
Governor’s February 7th budget
announcement, the PA House Democratic Caucus has begun daily tracking of press
coverage on school district budgets statewide:
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