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In the struggle to fund Pa.
By Patriot-News
Editorial Board on September 23, 2013 at 10:55 AM
Supporters of public education are rallying in Harrisburg
School advocates push for more funding and a more
equitable way of distributing those dollars
By Jan Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com on
September 23,
2013 at 4:17 PM
School directors,
superintendents, parents and community activists from around the state came out
in force to the state Capitol on Monday to press state lawmakers for more
school funding and a fairer, more equitable and predictable way of distributing
it.
They brought
with them a petition signed by representatives from 230 school districts in 55
counties to reinforce that plea, including some from Carlisle, Harrisburg,
Mechanicsburg, Central Dauphin and Cumberland Valley school districts.
"Forty-six
states spend a greater part of their budget on public education than Pennsylvania does," said Miller, who also co-chairs
the Keystone State Pennsylvania
Education advocates
demand equitable school funding formula
Beaver County Times Online (and Bucks County Sept. 23, 2013 10:00 pm
"Some
school districts have closed libraries, some school districts have changed
their transportation pattern, they've cut athletics," said Mark Miller,
vice president of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and Centennial
School District board member. "The sizes of classes are going up,
extracurricular activities are going down."
Miller
joined several dozen advocates who rallied Monday in the state Capitol in hopes
of convincing lawmakers to prioritize revamping the state's education funding
system. The speakers, including parents, advocacy organization leaders and a
couple lawmakers, urged the General Assembly to develop a fair standard formula
for funding Pennsylvania
Rally For Education
WTAJ News 09/23/2013 16:11
PM Video runtime: 47 seconds
"What we don't need right now is our children sitting in schools without counselors or nurses or reading teachers. We don't need more tax cuts we need better schools for our kids and we need money to pay for the services our children deserve," Parent Susan Spicka says.
On Monday,
I went to Harrisburg School District and Jim
Duffey, superintendent from Fannett-Metal. We went together to call on our
state legislators to put public school funding at the top of their priority
list for this year's legislative session.
It's no
secret that school funding in Pennsylvania Harrisburg
Roebuck calls for fair,
adequate funding for all Pa.
Nutter brings school
funding message to Corbett
Delco Times By MARC LEVY, Associated Press POSTED: 09/23/13, 5:41 PM EDT |
Schoolmageddon ’13: Education Advocates Storm Harrisburg
State
legislators are back in office for the fall session today, and they can expect
to be met by what’s become the most feared special interest group in all of
politics: education advocates. As per the picketers: “The Pennsylvania
Legislature is returning to work — and fixing the issue of school funding does
not appear to be on their priority list and yet it’s a top priority for the
people of Pennsylvania,” said Susan Gobreski, head of the advocacy group
Education Voters of Pennsylvania. “So the focus is around making it clear that
we believe they have work to do and that this needs to be a priority.”
Bill would require Pa.
By Jan Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com
on September 23,
2013 at 2:23 PM
A Lancaster County
Success cited in Pittsburgh
By Eleanor
Chute / Pittsburgh September
24, 2013 12:27 am
When
Pittsburgh Promise executive director Saleem Ghubril told a cab driver last
week what he does for a living, the driver said the scholarship program enabled
his niece and nephew to go to college. "
'It's the most important thing happening in the city of Pittsburgh
Zogby: There's talk in Harrisburg
thenotebook by Holly Otterbein for NewsWorks on
Sep 23 2013
Could the
state-controlled Philadelphia School Reform Commission soon decide how much
city residents pay in sales taxes? Gov.
Corbett's budget secretary, Charles Zogby, said there has been talk in
Harrisburg of changing the law to give the SRC that power if City Council does
not quickly extend a 1 percent local sales tax that was due to expire.
The tax
extension, a key part of Corbett's funding package for Philadelphia 's
cash-strapped School District , would raise up
to $120 million for the schools in future years and allow the city to borrow
$50 million for them now. The General Assembly authorized the sales tax
changes this summer. "There's just
so much patience that I think folks are going to be prepared to exercise,"
Zogby said. "If City Council is unwilling to act, I think there'll be
those in Harrisburg
In Phila., Rep. Cantor
touts school choice, charters
JULIE ZAUZMER, INQUIRER
STAFF WRITER September
23, 2013 , 3:57 PM
It was AP
English, not government, but House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was familiar
with the topic of instruction Monday morning in the writing center at Freire Charter
School
"We're
studying point of view," a student told the congressional visitor, and
Cantor chuckled. Through the window of the third-floor classroom, Cantor and
the students could hear about a dozen protesters outside chanting, "Hey,
hey, ho, ho, Eric Cantor's got to go."
"You
look out the window," Cantor told the class. "There's a lot of points
of view."
His own
viewpoint, he said later in an address at the Center City
“Cantor,
who, I remind you, was speaking in Philadelphia, said not a single word
in his speech about the “grim
new normal” in the public school system in Philadelphia
Read Eric Cantor’s
‘major’ education speech
House Majority
Leader Eric Cantor delivered what his office called a major policy speech about
education reform at Freire Charter School
in Philadelphia
He spoke
about what he said was the importance of expanding charter schools (though he
didn’t mention that when judged by standardized test scores — the metric
school reformers love to use — they don’t do any better than traditional
public schools). He also spoke about growing school voucher programs, like
the one
in Louisiana (though he didn’t mention that many students in
that program are using public funds to attend private Christian schools that
teach that dinosaurs co-existed with humans and that there is no accountability
system in place at many voucher schools).
Just in case you thought
that proven best practices had anything to do with federal education policy……
“I won’t
mention the irony in the fact that department spends millions on school reform
that has no proven record of success but ran out of cash for its Doing What
Works website.”
Education Department
suspends ‘Doing What Works’ website
By Valerie Strauss, Published:
September 24 at 5:00 am
The U.S.
Education Department routinely awards millions of dollars in grants to states
and organizations, but it seems that it doesn’t have enough money to
maintain its “Doing What Works” Web site.
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PA Special Education Funding Formula Commission
Public Meeting Sept 26th at Alvernia
College in Reading 9:30 am – 3:00 p.
To consider
charter and cyber special education funding
October 15-18, 2013 | Hershey Lodge & Convention Center
Important change this year: Delegate Assembly (replaces the
Legislative Policy Council) will be Tuesday Oct. 15 from 1 – 4:30 p.m.
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).
PASCD Annual
Conference ~ A Whole Child Education Powered by Blendedschools Network
November 3-4, 2013 | Hershey Lodge & Convention Center
We invite
you to join us for the Annual Conference, held at an earlier date this year, on
Sunday, November 3rd, through Monday, November 4th, 2013
at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center. The Pre-Conference begins on
Saturday with PIL
Academies
Click here for the 2013 Conference Schedule
Click here to register for the conference.
Building
One Pennsylvania
Fourth Annual Fundraiser
and Awards Ceremony
THURSDAY,NOVEMBER 21, 2013
6:00-8:00 PM
THURSDAY,
IBEW Local 380 3900 Ridge Pike Collegeville, PA
19426
Building One Pennsylvania is an emerging
statewide non-partisan organization of leaders from diverse sectors -
municipal, school, faith, business, labor and civic - who are joining together
to stabilize and revitalize their communities, revitalize local economies and
promote regional opportunity and sustainability. BuildingOnePa.org
Join the National School Boards
Action Center
Participate
in a voluntary network to urge your U.S.
Representatives and Senators to support federal legislation on Capitol Hill
that is critical to providing high quality education to America
PSBA members will elect
officers electronically for the first time in 2013
PSBA 7/8/2013
Beginning
in 2013, PSBA members will follow a completely new election process which will
be done electronically during the month of September. The changes will have
several benefits, including greater membership engagement and no more absentee
ballot process.
Below is a
quick Q&A related to the voting process this year, with more details to
come in future issues of School Leader News and at
www.psba.org. More information on the overall governance changes can be found
in the February 2013 issue of the PSBA Bulletin:
Electing PSBA Officers:
2014 PSBA Slate of Candidates
Details on each candidate, including
bios, statements, photos and video are online now
PSBA Website Posted 8/5/2013
The 2014 PSBA Slate of Candidates is being officially published to the
members of the association. Details on each candidate, including bios,
statements, photos and video are online at http://www.psba.org/elections/.
Proposed Amendments to
PSBA Bylaws available online
PSBA website 9/17/2013
A special issue of the School Leader News with the
notice of proposed PSBA Bylaws amendments has been mailed to all school
directors and board secretaries.
This issue also is available online in the Members Only section by clicking here. Voting on PSBA Bylaws changes will take
place at the new Delegate Assembly on Oct. 15, 2013 , at the Hershey Lodge &
Convention Center from 1-4 p.m. All member school entities should have
appointed their voting delegates and submitted names to PSBA. Details on
selecting an entity's voting delegate can be found in previous issues of
the School Leader News.
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