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Pa. House pulls the plug on charter
reform bill, killing the measure for this year
By JAN MURPHY, The Patriot-News on October 17, 2012 at 11:42 PM
A
historic charter school reform bill was all teed up for a House vote on
Wednesday, but the vote never happened. Enough
House Republicans peeled away their support from the bill as the day wore on,
making it apparent the measure did not have the 102 votes needed to pass. It
would have been the first significant reforms to the 1997 charter law that
created these independent public schools.
Concerns arose over a charter school funding study commission it would
have created and other reforms it contained, said House Speaker Sam Smith,
R-Jefferson.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/10/pa_house_pulls_the_plug_on_cha.html
Charter school bill falls apart in Pa. House
October 18, 2012 12:28 am
By Karen Langley / Post-Gazette
Harrisburg Bureau
HARRISBURG -- An
agreement to change charter school regulations this year fell apart Wednesday
night when House leaders found themselves short on votes and declined to bring
up the bill. For days, aides to the Republican
leaders of the House and Senate had said they and the governor had agreed to
set aside controversial proposals for charter reform so they could pass a set
of changes to fiscal, governance and academic accountability rules. Earlier
Wednesday, Gov. Tom Corbett said he planned to sign the legislation, which he
described as a compromise among parties.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/education/charter-school-bill-falls-apart-in-pa-house-658047/#ixzz29e3Z6hrk
House
Speaker Smith: Too many "moving parts" derailed charters vote.
Capitol Ideas Blog by
John Micek, October 17, 2012
The top Republican in
the state House said Wednesday that an inability to build consensus among both state lawmakers and interest groups
derailed an expected vote on a charter school reform bill. The state House broke for the year late
Wednesday night without voting on the bill, which would have -- among other
things -- allowed existing charter schools (with state oversight) to
consolidate their operations. The bill would also have created a special state
commission charged with studying special education funding issues.
http://blogs.mcall.com/capitol_ideas/2012/10/house-speaker-smith-too-many-moving-parts-derailed-charters-vote.html
Pennsylvania
charter schools reform bill dies when House fails to take action
HARRISBURG,
Pa. (AP) — A closely watched proposal to rewrite the state's charter schools
law died Wednesday when the House wrapped up its two-year legislative session
without putting it to a final vote. The
Senate approved the measure to toughen oversight of the publicly funded,
privately run schools on Tuesday, but House Speaker Sam Smith, a Republican,
said after adjournment there had not been enough time to deal with the
complicated bill, and funding was a sticking point.
SB1115 charter bill dies
as House adjourns
Statement on House SB 1115 October 17, 2012
Ted Kirsch, President, AFT Pennsylvania
Ted Kirsch, President, AFT Pennsylvania
“The Pennsylvania House adjourned tonight
without taking up Senate Bill 1115, which was amended to include ill-advised
charter school ‘reforms’ that would have removed charter school authority
and oversight from parents, local taxpayers and school boards and given it to
the state Department of Education.
“Proponents of the charter amendments, which
were tacked onto a special education funding bill with broad and bipartisan
support, did not have the votes to pass SB 1115.
Seeking Aid, School Districts Change Teacher Evaluations
New York Times by MOTOKO
RICH Published: October 15, 2012
LONGMONT, Colo. — In an exercise evoking a corporate
motivation seminar, a group of public school teachers and principals clustered
around posters scrawled with the titles of Beatles songs. Their assignment:
choose the one that captured their feelings about a new performance evaluation
system being piloted in their district.
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