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have not already, there is still time to register for the
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Continental 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
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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
Governor
proposes scaling back Keystone Exams
ANDREW SHAW The York 02/09/2012 02:46:43 PM EST
The Keystone Exams, once trumpeted
by Gov. Tom Corbett as the key to proving high schoolers know their stuff
before graduating, have been scaled back in his budget proposal.
The exams are a series of
end-of-course tests high schoolers take to show they are competent in a
subject. A majority of the 10 tests, as originally designed, would need to be
passed in order to graduate, and the tests would affect a student's class
grade.
Educators pore over
fine print
Posted: 12:01am
on Feb 9, 2012 ; Modified: 9:43am on Feb 9, 2012
During Gov. Tom
Corbett’s second budget address Tuesday afternoon, he accused critics of
practicing “deception” and creating an “urban legend” about the $860 million
that was cut from public schools last year.
But now, educators, district officials, Democratic lawmakers, and
leaders of some those special interest groups say they’re trying to figure out
the real numbers behind Corbett’s budget proposal — both for 2012-13 and for
future years.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/02/09/3083667/educators-pore-over-fine-print.html#storylink=cpy
By Dan Hardy, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER,
Posted: Thu, Feb.
9, 2012 , 6:56 PM
Officials from the Chester Upland
School District and the Chester Community Charter
School
It's Your Money: Some
Charter Schools Get Failing Grades
WTAE.com
Pittsburgh UPDATED: 7:48 pm
EST February 9,
2012
Why doesn't the state
Department of Education stop funding the ones that are failing? Channel 4
Action News investigative reporter Jim Parsons put that question to Pennsylvania
Read more: http://www.wtae.com/news/30391220/detail.html#ixzz1lwvUO63C
Read more: http://www.wtae.com/news/30391220/detail.html#ixzz1lwvUO63C
A very long
time ago, when teaching was a respected profession, pensions were a
decades-in-the-future abstract notion, and obsessive metastasized standardized
testing wasn’t even a gleam in some future testing company CEO’s eye, I
attended Philadelphia’s Thomas Creighton Elementary School which happens to be
mentioned in the voucher article below.
As this posting from last February details, Creighton was number 85 on
Senator Piccola’s list of 144 failing schools:
Seemed to fit nicely with the NY Times Education Gap article…….LAF
Poverty Level at 144 SB1
Schools is 80.8% vs State Avg of 39.1%
A push
for vouchers
(Philadelphia 11:11 am
Junior citizens take to the streets to fight for their right to school
choice
“It’s not fair that
Catholic schools don’t get money,” she said. “Part of the reason that schools
are closing down is that there isn’t enough financial aid. It would help a lot.
Every kid should be able to have a Catholic education and get closer to God.”
Education
Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Say
“We have moved from a
society in the 1950s and 1960s, in which race was more consequential than
family income, to one today in which family income appears more determinative
of educational success than race,” said Sean F. Reardon, a Stanford University
sociologist. Professor Reardon is the author of a study that found that the gap in standardized test scores
between affluent and low-income students had grown by about 40 percent
since the 1960s, and is now double the testing gap between blacks and whites.
Education Week Politics K-12 Blog February 09, 2012
Kline
ESEA Bills Would Squelch the Federal Role in K-12
The federal role in K-12 education would be
almost entirely eviscerated under a pair of bills introduced today by Rep. John
Kline, R-Minn., the chairman of the House Education and the Workforce
Committee. The bills would get rid of
the adequate yearly progress provision, and allow states to craft their own
accountability systems. Schools would be able to come up with their own
improvement strategies. They wouldn't have to offer free tutoring or school
choice. But schools would still test students in reading and math in grades 3-8
and once in high school. Testing in science would become voluntary, though.
NSBA advocates for ESEA
revamp
The National School Boards
Association (NSBA), along with four other state and local government
organization, are urging Congress to reform the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA) and enact legislation that would reframe the
federal-state-local partnership before the next school year begins.
February
09, 2012
Ten
States Get NCLB Waivers, New Mexico Has to Wait
Education Week Politics K-12 Blog By Sean
Cavanagh
Ten of 11 states that applied for waivers from
the No Child Left Behind Act have received that flexibility from federal
officials, while one of them, New
Mexico
The states awarded waivers are Colorado ,
Florida , Georgia ,
Indiana , Kentucky ,
Massachusetts , Minnesota ,
New Jersey , Oklahoma ,
and Tennessee
Why Obama’s NCLB waivers
aren’t what he says they are
President Obama sounded like the king of flexibility when he
announced that his administration was granting 10 states the right to ignore the
most onerous requirements of No Child Left Behind. “Sounded” is the key word in
that sentence.
Regent Square school
gets with the Michelle Obama program. Kids comply.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
By Taryn Luna, Pittsburgh
The school -- which
contracts with local restaurants to serve their students healthy and often
organic, locally sourced food -- Wednesday tested the new school lunch
regulations announced by first lady Michelle Obama late last month.
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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