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Education Voters
PA – Statewide Call to Action day April 10th
Download 1 page pdf with information about the April 10th
call-in day.
Join Education Voters PA for
the Statewide Call to Action next Wednesday April 10th!
“…there is encouraging momentum
among lawmakers who recognize the need to promote more sensible funding,
quality in planning and governance, better fiscal and educational
accountability, and more transparency in operations. Various legislative
proposals have recently been introduced that would address key shortcomings of
existing law. Some would quickly produce dramatic fiscal benefits for school
districts and their taxpayers. For instance, eliminating the pension double-dip
-- charter schools now receive pension reimbursements from both school
districts and the state -- would save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars
over the next several years.”
FixPennsylvania
Fix
Post-Gazette Opinion By Stuart
L. Knade April 4,
2013 12:19 am
Stuart L. Knade is interim executive director of the Pennsylvania School
WhenPennsylvania
When
Take 5 minutes and join Education Voters PA
for the Statewide Call to Action next Wednesday April 10th!
Education Voters PA
Join thousands of parents,
students, teachers and community members from across the state to SPEAK UP in
support of our public schools on Wednesday, April 10th! Harrisburg
Negotiations for the 2013-14
state budget are heating up, and the Governor and state legislature need to
hear from us that we want them to support public schools. We know that
just 10 calls in one day to one legislator will put this issue on the
radar! Mark your calendar today for Wednesday April 10th – and do 3 things
in 10 minutes to make a difference!
The Keystone State Education Coalition is a member of the Pennsylvania School
Help spread the message of the Pennsylvania
School Funding Campaign for the 2013-2014 State Budget
The
Pennsylvania School Funding Campaign is an unprecedented coalition of more
than 30 statewide and regional education and advocacy
organizations representing hundreds of thousands of parents, students,
educators, school board members, administrators, and other concerned citizens
advocating for adequate and equitable funding of Pennsylvania’s public schools.
http://keystonestateeducationcoalition.blogspot.com/2013/03/help-spread-message-of-pennsylvania.html
SEWICKLEY — Nearly $3.2
million of Quaker Valley’s projected $42.2 million budget for the 2013-14
school year will go toward pension obligations, and that figure will likely
only increase in the years ahead. John
Sheline, director of finance and operations, reviewed a 30-year pension payment
projection with the 20-member public budget committee Tuesday night. It showed
that the district will pay as much as $9 million to the state Public School
Employees Retirement System in 2034-35, before dropping significantly to just
over $5 million in 2036.
“No central listing of Philadelphia
Mayor's education office seeks to lift the
veil on Philly charter board meetings
WHYY Newsworks By Benjamin
Herold @BenjaminBHerold April 4, 2013
Seeking to better understand
the operations of Philadelphia
Nutter Wants Money For Schools, No Plan To
Find It Yet
Philly.com by Troy Graham @troyjgraham POSTED: Thursday, April 4, 2013 , 4:24 PM
Mayor Nutter said this
afternoon that he wants to fulfill the School District of Philadelphia
“We don’t have all the answers
today. We don’t have a plan today,” he said. “What I’m committed to is
high-quality education for children here in Philadelphia
Ex-charter official testifies on school's
shortcomings
Martha
Woodall, Inquirer Staff Writer POSTED: Friday,
April 5, 2013 ,
3:01 AM
During a hearing to determine
whether Truebright deserves to have its charter renewed, Susan Farley-Ellison
detailed the North Philadelphia school's
academic shortcomings.
Farley-Ellison, the school's
supervisor of curriculum and instruction in 2010-11, said the school had
textbooks but lacked a curriculum because the charter's chief executive told
her the school could not afford one. She said the school did not have a program
for students whose first language was not English. And, she said, many of the courses Truebright
listed in its renewal application filed in November 2011 had never been
offered.
First Lady Susan Corbett, Department of
Education Team Up to Help Struggling Students
PDE Press ReleaseApril 04, 2013
Harrisburg –First Lady Susan Corbett and the Pennsylvania Department of Education have teamed up to develop an early warning system to identify middle school students who are at risk of dropping out of school. The goal is to provide an appropriate intervention to keep the students on track to graduation. The first phase of the state’s early warning system is expected to be launched in the fall in several school districts. The participating school districts will be chosen by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The system is expected to be available to allPennsylvania
PDE Press Release
Harrisburg –First Lady Susan Corbett and the Pennsylvania Department of Education have teamed up to develop an early warning system to identify middle school students who are at risk of dropping out of school. The goal is to provide an appropriate intervention to keep the students on track to graduation. The first phase of the state’s early warning system is expected to be launched in the fall in several school districts. The participating school districts will be chosen by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The system is expected to be available to all
Why renowned educators — and new teachers —
are ‘occupying’ Ed Dept
Today teachers, students,
parents, researchers and other activists are starting the second annual “Occupy
the DOE” event on the grounds of the U.S. Education Department to protest
corporate-based school reform.
Among those attending the
four-day event, sponsored by United Opt
Out, an organization dedicated to the elimination of high-stakes
standardized testing in public schools, are Diane Ravitch, Chicago
Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, veteran educator Deborah Meier, early
childhood expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige and language acquisition expert Stephen
Krashen. There is a scheduled march to the White House on Saturday.
In the following post, a new
teacher explains why she is attending. She is Amy Rothschild, who teaches
prekindergarten in a public school in New England .
House Speaker Joe Straus has
made it clear that his chamber won’t be passing any school voucher bills this
session. But just to be sure, Rep. Abel
Herrero figured he’d seal the deal. He attached an amendment to the budget this
afternoon guaranteeing Texas
Charter schools - public funding without public scrutiny
Proposed statewide
authorization and direct payment would further diminish accountability and
oversight for public tax dollars
PBPC Launches New Policy Webinar
Series
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center April 3, 2013
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy
Center is launching a new webinar
series that will connect you — direct from your computer — to the latest policy
debates in Harrisburg
Here’s the first one in the PBPC webinar series:
Webinar: Selling Snake Oil to the
States: ALEC’s State Tax and Budget Agenda at Work in Pennsylvania April 9, 2013 ,
4-5 p.m.
The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC — a leading voice
for state Voter ID and Stand Your Ground laws — is a driving force behind state
budget and tax policies that benefit the wealthy and corporations at the
expense of public investments. ALEC’s hand is evident in legislative proposals
in Pennsylvania
Join Greg Leroy, Director of Good Jobs First, and Dr. Peter Fisher of the
University of Iowa Pennsylvania
Network for Public Education
Webinar: How to Organize a Grassroots
Group; Saturday, April 13 at 2:30 pm
EDT
Many of those who have joined our network want to get involved in
grassroots work to change the direction of education in our communities. We are
now planning a series of web forums to share concrete ways to do just that. The
first will focus on how to organize grassroots groups.
Phyllis Bush and members of the North
East Indiana Friends of Public Education will share their experiences
in getting organized. Formed just two years ago, this group helped elect
teacher Glenda Ritz as state superintendent of education.
The webinar will take place on Saturday, April 13, at 2:30 pm Eastern time, 11:30 am Pacific time. You can register
here. You will be emailed a link to the webinar a day or two before the
event.
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