Send a Letter to the
President on October 17
Diane Ravitch’s Blog October 3, 2012 /
I got some excellent
suggestions.
To begin with, this is
not an online petition, but an invitation to join together to write your own
individual heartfelt letter to the President and to email the White House on
the same day.
Daily
postings from the Keystone State Education Coalition now reach more than 1650
Pennsylvania education policymakers – school directors, administrators,
legislators, legislative and congressional staffers, PTO/PTA officers, teacher
leaders, members of the press and a broad array of P-16 education advocacy
organizations via emails, website, Facebook and Twitter.
These daily
emails are archived at http://keystonestateeducationcoalition.org
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Hey look – another reported instance of questionable financial
dealings by “vendors of local agencies”…using public tax dollars…Let’s just go
ahead with SB1115 and exclude them from the state’s right-to-know laws….
PA Cyber condo deal defies traditional math
$933,000 home sold for $10 now on market for
$875,000
By Rich Lord / Pittsburgh October 12, 2012 12:06 am
A Florida
condominium bought last year by the Pennsylvania
Cyber Charter
School
The four-bedroom,
41/2-bathroom house passed in December from PA Cyber CEO Nick Trombetta to
Palatine Development LLC. That Ohio-based firm was created by former PA Cyber
technology director Brett Geibel, who left the school in 2007 for a series of
positions with direct or indirect vendors of the school.
A Palatine campus in Calcutta , Ohio
Should Pennsylvania
Published: Thursday, October 11, 2012
Delco Times Opinion By
Lawrence
While there are some great charter schools,
sixteen years of charters in Pennsylvania
Next week the Pennsylvania State Legislature is expected to consider charter school reform legislation that, among other things, would give a state appointed body the power to create charter schools without approval by the local communities and school districts that they might be located in. Under present charter school law, only local school boards have that authority.
Next week the Pennsylvania State Legislature is expected to consider charter school reform legislation that, among other things, would give a state appointed body the power to create charter schools without approval by the local communities and school districts that they might be located in. Under present charter school law, only local school boards have that authority.
If
You’re Explaining, You’re Losing: PA GOP Education Funding Edition
Tom Corbett’s education
cuts continue to be a hot issue in a lot of state legislature races,
and my advice to Democrats is to keep pushing this as hard as possible. Blame
the Republicans for the cuts to school districts, blame them for local property
tax hikes and teacher layoffs, blame blame blame. This message is working.
If you want some
evidence that it’s working, take this paragraph from Keegan Gibson’s article on Rob Teplitz’s new ad hitting John
McNally on the Corbett education cuts:
Biden Hits Ryan for Education Cuts in VP Debate
Vice President Joe Biden attacked GOP vice
presidential nominee Paul Ryan at Thursday night's debate for cuts in Ryan's
proposed budget that Biden said would that kick 200,000 children out of the
Head Start early childhood program.
The vice president also said at one point that
the Ryan budget would cut $450 billion from education—it seems likely that he
misspoke and meant to say about $4.5 billion, which is the figure cited in this
White House analysis of
the cuts. He also criticized Ryan for plans to cut a college tuition tax
credit.
Beyond that brief exchange, education barely
registered in the 90-minute debate at Centre
College in Danville , Ky.
When It Comes to Kids, America Gets a C-
Commentary: PA charter school reform
should protect taxpayers, not just K12, Inc. CEO Ron Packard and CSM
CEO Vahan Gureghian
The PA Legislature is in recess until October 15th
Please contact your state
senator and state rep regarding charter school reform during this break
You can bet that the charter school lobbyists are not taking a
break
Registration is Now Open! Hershey Lodge & Convention Center, Hershey, PA
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