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NAEP: "If we have a
crisis in American education, it is that it isn't moving fast enough to educate
minorities.”
As the budget process continues please consider
contacting the legislative leadership listed below regarding the education
budget ; here’s part of their job description:
PA Constitution - Public School System Section 14.
“The General Assembly shall provide for the
maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public education
to serve the needs of the Commonwealth.”
PA Legislature Republican Leadership 2013
Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi
717-787-4712
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jake
Corman
717-787-1377
Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati
717-787-7084
House Majority Leader Mike Turzai
717-772-9943
House Appropriation Committee Chairman William Adolph
717-787-1248
House Speaker Sam Smith
717-787-3845
Governor Tom Corbett
717-787-2500, Fax: 717-772-8284
Email: governor@state.pa.us
Lots
of meetings, few details as Pa.
Delco Times by AP Published: Friday, June 28, 2013
House speaker says pension bills may
have to wait
Philly.com by PETER JACKSON, The Associated Press Wednesday, June 26, 2013 , 6:23 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania Harrisburg
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20130626_ap_d2868ed77f784dc38614c446aabde642.html#kJHUxcGs061Ovrpv.99
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20130626_ap_d2868ed77f784dc38614c446aabde642.html#kJHUxcGs061Ovrpv.99
Delaying the phaseout of the capital stock and franchise tax cut could
raise $360 million.
Letter
to the Editor: Time running out to delay Capital Stock and Franchise tax cut
damaging to schools
Delco Times LTE by Lawrence June 26, 2013
Time is running out for students across Pennsylvania
Some
estimates say the Delaware loophole causes Pennsylvania
PA Budget and Policy
Center
In the coming days, the Pennsylvania Legislature will be hammering out a
deal to balance the 2013-14 state budget. One piece of the package will be a
budget-related tax plan that may include a provision designed to close
corporate tax loopholes. Specifically,
lawmakers are discussing the creation of a so-called "addback"
rule. Such rules require corporations to add back interest and
intangible expenses (such as for copyrights and patents) paid to
related companies — often affiliates in Delaware
or Nevada
Philly SRC
recesses again, hopes for miracle in Harrisburg
Notebook by Dale Mezzacappa on Jun 27 2013 Posted in Latest news
Doomsday is getting closer.
The School Reform Commission met again Thursday morning, only to recess
again until Sunday afternoon. The SRC hopes that Harrisburg will come up with
some money so Philadelphia can open schools in September that have more than a
skeleton crew of teachers and a principal.
"I can't predict what will happen, but we’ve made it clear for
the past 20 months what must happen," said a grim SRC chair Pedro Ramos
after the meeting. "Throughout, we kept everyone apprised of our situation
with candor. We've done everything we can within the prerogative of the SRC.
Now it is up to Harrisburg
Legislators
discuss funding for education amid protest
By TIMOTHY LOGUE tlogue@delcotimes.com @timothylogue Wednesday, June 26, 2013
State Sen. Daylin Leach was not as familiar with the faces at Tuesday’s
education funding protest at the state Capitol as he was with their cause. “I think it was mostly people from Philly at
the protest, but I was down there,” said Leach, D-17, of Upper
Merion , whose district includes Radnor and Haverford. “The funding
crisis may be most acute in Philadelphia , but
this is a problem faced by school districts all across the state, including
places like Duquesne, Harrisburg , Erie
“We can’t continue to neglect our public schools.”
While that certainly seems to be the opinion inPhiladelphia ,
where 3,783 employees, including 676 teachers, were laid off earlier this
month, Republicans in Harrisburg
“We can’t continue to neglect our public schools.”
While that certainly seems to be the opinion in
Allentown
schools cut 151 jobs, hike taxes 8.2 percent
Final budget drops 127 teachers, uses $10 million from
district's savings.
By Adam Clark, Of
The Morning Call 11:03 p.m. EDT, June 27, 2013
Allentown School Board approved a final 2013-14 budget Thursday that
spares full-day kindergarten and most elementary school related arts positions
but cuts 151 jobs, sending a ripple effect throughout the district.
School directors voted 5-4 to adopt a spending plan that slashes 127
teachers, 14 administrators and 10 maintenance/custodial workers from the
district's payroll. The cuts are accompanied by an 8.2 percent tax increase and
a $10 million contribution from the district's savings to keep the district afloat
for another school year.
Hunger strikers protest deep cuts to
Philadelphia
Reuters by By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA Jun 26, 2013
6:45pm EDT
(Reuters) - Children wrote letters. Parents staged rallies in Pennsylvania Philadelphia
So the 46-year-old Bly stopped eating.
Big
Business Helps Starve Philly Schools
City Paper by Daniel Denvir Posted: Thu, Jun. 27, 2013 , 12:00 AM
Hostile Witness
What's necessary to save Philly schools, the refrain goes, is
“shared sacrifice.” That, as I’ve noted ad nauseam, translates to an
expectation that educators sacrifice the most to avert devastating cuts,
including the layoffs of 3,859 teachers, aides, administrators and other staff.
But big business, thanks to laissez-faire sentiment stretching from City Hall
to Harrisburg
It was a
Moving Day
Yinzercation Blog June 28, 2013
This is a guest blog by Kathy Newman, who helped lead the
Yinzercation charge to Harrisburg
What do you do when you realize that thousands of teachers and staffers
in the City of Brotherly Love are going to lose
their jobs, and that come this fall Philadelphia
Duquesne's fate: Dissolve the
district for the sake of the students
Children in the Duquesne
City School
District
Those aren't the words that the district's state-appointed receiver used
Tuesday when he said the Duquesne Education Center for kindergarten through
sixth grade will remain in operation for the 2013-14 academic year, but that's
what Paul Long's announcement means.
Budget
shortfall could spell trouble in Chester Upland
By JOHN KOPP jkopp@delcotimes.com @DT_JohnKopp Friday, June 28, 2013
The Chester Upland School District
will have to furlough teachers and possibly close Main Street
Elementary School
Bristol
Twp raises school taxes, enacts cuts, uses savings
PhillyBurbs.com By DANNY ADLER Staff writer Posted on June 28, 2013
Retiring Steel-High superintendent
gives 5 changes lawmakers should make to public education
PennLive By Julianne Mattera |
jmattera@pennlive.com on
June 27, 2013
at 9:04 AM
With years of experience working in education, and in particular,
financially distressed school districts, PennLive.com wanted to pick Audrey
Utley's brain before she retired from her role as superintendent at Steelton-Highspire School District
We asked her to list the top five things the state Legislature should
consider to better public education in Pennsylvania
"When you think about it, these results very clearly
put to rest any notion that our schools are getting worse," Kati Haycock,
president of the Education Trust, an organization that promotes academic
achievement, said in the webinar announcing the results.
"If we have a crisis in American education,"
she said, it is that it isn't moving fast enough to educate minorities.
2012 NAEP Results: Students ages 9,
13 outscore those in '70s
17-year-olds
stay flat, report finds
By Eleanor Chute / Pittsburgh June
28, 2013 12:07 am
The latest Nation's Report Card shows 9- and 13-year-olds on average are
doing significantly better in reading and math than their counterparts of about
40 years ago, but the achievement of 17-year-olds on average is flat. The findings also show a narrowing of some
racial achievement gaps. The report on
long-term trends for the National Assessment of Educational Progress -- known
as NAEP or the Nation's Report Card -- was released Thursday. It compared
results on the 2012 long-term trend exams given in public and nonpublic schools
with those of students who were tested in the early 1970s.
Reuters By Stephanie Simon BOSTON Jun 27, 2013
11:37am EDT
(Reuters) - The achievement gap between white and minority children has
narrowed considerably in recent decades, as black and Hispanic students have
posted strong gains on math and reading tests, according to a new report out
Thursday.
NAEP: Results of the 2012 Long-Term Assessments in Reading
National
Assessment of Educational Progress
New York Times By STEPHANIE STROM Published: June 27, 2013
The Agriculture Department on Thursday effectively banned the sale of
snack foods like candy, cookies and sugary drinks, including sports drinks, in
schools, making it harder for students to avoid the now-healthier school meals
by eating snacks sold in vending machines.
New U.S.
Morning Call by Yasmeen Abutaleb Reuters 6:04 a.m. EDT, June
27, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Snacks sold in U.S.
Save the Date:
Diane Ravitch will be speaking at the Main Branch of the Philadelphia 7:30
pm . Details to come.
Friday June 28th is the
deadline to submit proposals for PSBA’s 2014 Legislative Platform
There is
one week remaining to submit proposals for consideration for PSBA’s 2014
Legislative Platform.The deadline to submit proposals is Friday, June
28. Guidelines for platform submissions and submission forms are
posted on PSBA’s Web site. Boards may submit new proposals as well as revisions
to the current platform and should include a brief statement (about 50 words)
of rationale for each proposal submitted. The rationale should include a
summary of the reasons why your board believes this issue should be addressed
in the platform, any specific problems your district has encountered, and how
your board believes the problem could be resolved. In addition, your
board is encouraged to submit any data related to the issue as it affects your
district, or any draft language that could be crafted into proposed
legislation. This information will be shared with the PSBA Platform Committee.
All submissions should be directed to PSBA’s Office of Governmental and Member
Relations. All items submitted must be verified by the board secretary. The
PSBA Platform Committee under the direction of Chairman Mark B. Miller will
review proposals and rationale submitted for the platform on Aug.
10.
The items
recommended by the Platform Committee will be presented to the new PSBA
Delegate Assembly for final determination by the voting delegates
present. Next week, PSBA will be mailing to all school board
secretaries a memo and response form for the appointment of their voting
delegates to the Delegate Assembly. Selection of voting delegates for
the Delegate Assembly meeting is the same as it was for the Legislative Policy
Council. Each PSBA member entity has the opportunity to participate in
the meeting the debate and vote on all of the agenda items.
October 15-18, 2013 | Hershey Lodge & Convention Center
The
PASA-PSBA School Leadership Conference is the largest gathering of elected
officials in Pennsylvania
Registration:
https://www.psba.org/workshops/?workshop=17
The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, State College , PA
The state conference
is PAESSP’s premier professional development event for principals, assistant
principals and other educational leaders. Attending will enable you to connect
with fellow educators while learning from speakers and presenters who are
respected experts in educational leadership.
Featuring
Keynote Speakers: Charlotte Danielson, Dr. Todd Whitaker, Will Richardson &
David Andrews, Esq. (Legal Update).
EPLC
Education Policy Fellowship Program – Apply Now
Applications are available now for the 2013-2014 Education Policy
Fellowship Program (EPFP). The Education Policy Fellowship Program is
sponsored in Pennsylvania
With more than 350 graduates in its first
fourteen years, this Program is a premier professional development opportunity
for educators, state and local policymakers, advocates, and community
leaders. State Board of Accountancy (SBA) credits are available to
certified public accountants.
Past participants include state policymakers,
district superintendents and principals, school business officers, school board
members, education deans/chairs, statewide association leaders, parent leaders,
education advocates, and other education and community leaders. Fellows
are typically sponsored by their employer or another organization.
The Fellowship Program begins with a two-day
retreat on September 12-13, 2013 and continues to graduation
in June 2014.
Building One
America 2013 National Summit July 18-19, 2013 Washington , DC
Brookings Institution to present findings of
their “Confronting Suburban Poverty” report
Building One America’s Second National Summit
for Inclusive Suburbs and Sustainable Regions will involve local leaders and
federal policy makers to seek bipartisan solutions to the unique but common
challenges around housing, schools and infrastructure facing America America
Lineup of speakers: https://buildingoneamerica.org/summit/speakers
Information and registration: https://buildingoneamerica.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1
PA Charter Schools: $4
billion taxpayer dollars with no real oversight
Charter schools - public funding without public scrutiny
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