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After 16 years, how are Pennsylvania
Based on a scale of 100,
the average SPP score for traditional public schools was 77.1, brick and mortar
charter schools was 66.4 and cyber charters was 46.8.
Did you catch our weekend posting?
PA Ed Policy Roundup
for December 15,
2013 : Only one-third of 166 PA charter schools that were eligible
for a score on new School Performance Profile received a score of 70 or higher,
the Department of Education said.
The
Pennsylvania Charter School
PDE’s website
Cyber student achievement has proved to be dismal
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette December 15, 2013 7:38 PM
The Dec. 4 Perspectives piece “Treat Cyber Schools Fairly” requires a factual response. Cyber schools do offer positives for students who are homebound, are self-motivated and have parental support. They are not a “wave the magic wand and all is well” solution
The Dec. 4 Perspectives piece “Treat Cyber Schools Fairly” requires a factual response. Cyber schools do offer positives for students who are homebound, are self-motivated and have parental support. They are not a “wave the magic wand and all is well” solution
Cyber
schools may be a great fit for some kids.
Do we need
any more of them?
Now if only
PDE could tell us how many tax dollars each of these schools are spending on
advertising…..
Pennsylvania Department of Education School
Based on a
scale of 100, the average SPP score for traditional public schools was 77.1,
brick and mortar charter schools was 66.4 and cyber charters was 46.8.
Here are the SPP scores for Pennsylvania
21st Century Cyber CS 66.5
Achievement House CS 39.7
Agora
Cyber CS 48.3
ASPIRA
Bilingual CS 29.0
Commonwealth
Connections Academy CS 54.6
Esperanza
Cyber CS 32.7
Solomon
Charter School Inc. 36.9
Susq-Cyber
CS 46.4
A
Grand Weekend Out for Pennsylvanians
New York Times By TRIP GABRIEL Published: December 15, 2013
It was 1899 when the Pennsylvania Society
first gathered for oysters and Delmonico steaks at the Waldorf-Astoria, a
gilded era when, the story goes, the industrialists and bankers who owned Pennsylvania lived in New York City
New
Pittsburgh
Sumpter
has been surrounded by a family of educators
By Eleanor Chute / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette December 13, 2013
11:21 PM
His grandmother, mother and wife were teachers in the district, and his mother and wife became principals as well. Mr. Sumpter, 63, of Schenley Heights was elected president Dec……He remembers his mother, Myrna Sumpter, writing lesson plans while seated on the dining room floor.
His grandmother, mother and wife were teachers in the district, and his mother and wife became principals as well. Mr. Sumpter, 63, of Schenley Heights was elected president Dec……He remembers his mother, Myrna Sumpter, writing lesson plans while seated on the dining room floor.
Education
advocates continue to rally for full and fair funding
The notebook by Wendy
Harris on Dec
13 2013 Posted in Latest news
Members of the Philadelphia Coalition
Advocating for Public Schools and Parents United for Public Education joined
students and other education advocates Thursday afternoon at Roosevelt
Mall in Northeast Philadelphia to demand
that the state develop a full and fair funding formula for public schools. Protesters asked that the state not "let
the budget grinch steal our schools," and one PCAPS
member even dressed up as the Grinch. Massive budget cuts in District
schools have reduced the number of counselors, nurses, and support personnel,
as well as other resources and activities that engage students day to
day.
Tweet by @GeorgeTakei
Signs
of the times.
CNN:
Grading the U.S.
CNN Your Money December 13th, 2013 04:24 PM ET
The key to improving American schools could be improving the
quality of teachers. Christine Romans sits down with education historian Diane
Ravitch.
The Hechinger Report By Jake McGraw Rethink
Mississippi December
11, 2013
Here’s a question. If the United States ’s child poverty rate ranks
second-worst among the world’s developed countries, and Mississippi
has the highest child poverty rate in the U.S. ,
then how do Mississippi
Over 35 percent of Mississippi Romania
Did
Shanghai cheat on PISA
Everybody knows (or should) by now that
Shanghai’s 15-year-old students ranked
No. 1 on the most recent Program for International Student Assessment
for the second time, which, if you believe the recently released results, means
that a representative sample of kids got the best scores in the world in
reading, math and science. And 15-year-olds in the United States performed
no better than averageof 65 countries and education systems, which is
pretty much what they always do on these international tests.
There are a
lot of reasons to disbelieve that the results mean what PISA
enthusiasts say they do — that the average performance of U.S. kids means the
future of the U.S. economy and national security is at stake (here’s
a good explanation) — but new questions have been raised about whether the
Shanghai students who took the 2012 PISA really are representative of the
city’s population of 15-year-olds.
How
much teachers get paid — state by state
How much do teachers across the United States
Here is data, state by state, collected from
the National Center
for Education Statistics by Jon Boeckenstedt, associate vice president at DePaul University
in Chicago
Pay
for U.S.
New York Times By TAMAR LEWIN Published: December 15, 2013
Forty-two presidents of private colleges were
paid more than a million dollars in 2011, up from 36 for the previous two
years, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual analysis of the
colleges’ latest available tax forms. The
three top earners were Robert J. Zimmer, University
of Chicago ($3,358,723); Joseph E.
Aoun, Northeastern University ($3,121,864); and Dennis J. Murray, Marist College
High
CEO pay doesn’t mean high performance, report says
BY DIANE STAFFORD The Kansas City August 28, 2013
A select group of the nation’s corporate chief
executives has been paid far more than their performance warranted, according
to a compensation analysis released today.
Twenty years after the Institute for Policy
Studies began taking critical annual looks at CEO pay in the nation’s largest
companies, researchers reviewed the personal and corporate histories of
executives who have appeared on past highest-paid lists.
The title of the 2013 report reveals
disappointment — “Bailed Out. Booted. Busted.”
Nearly 40 percent of the men who appeared on
lists ranking America’s 25 highest-paid corporate leaders between 1993 and 2012
have led companies bailed out by U.S. taxpayers, been fired for poor
performance or led companies charged with fraud-related activities.
“This report should put an end to any
remaining sense that we have ‘pay for performance’ in corporate America
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/08/28/4440246/high-ceo-pay-doesnt-mean-high.html#storylink=cpy
2014
PA Gubernatorial Candidate Plans for Education and Arts/Culture in PA
Education
Policy and Leadership
Center
Below is an alphabetical list of the 2014 Gubernatorial Candidates and
links to information about their plans, if elected, for education and
arts/culture in Pennsylvania
FEBRUARY 1ST, 2014
The DCIU Google Symposium is an opportunity for teachers,
administrators, technology directors, and other school stakeholders to come
together and explore the power of Google Apps for Education. The
Symposium will be held at the Delaware County Intermediate Unit. The
Delaware County Intermediate Unit is one of Pennsylvania
NPE National Conference
2014
The Network for Public Education November 24, 2013
The Network for Public Education is pleased to announce our
first National Conference. The event will take place on March 1 & 2, 2014
(the weekend prior to the world-famous South by Southwest Festival) at The University of Texas
at Austin
In the coming weeks, we
will release more details. In the meantime, make your travel plans and click
this link and submit your email address to receive updates about the NPE
National Conference 2014.
Congratulations! Getting elected to the school
board was the easy part…..
PSBA New Board Member Training: Great Governance, Great Schools
November 2013-April 2014
Register
Online »
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Form »
November 2013-April 2014
Register
Online » Print
Form »
Announcing School
Board Academy ’s
New Board Member Training: Great Governance, Great Schools
You will need a wealth of information quickly as
you jump out of the starting block and hit the ground running as a newly
elected member of the board of school directors. New board members, as well as
veterans who might like a refresher, will want to make the most of the
opportunity to attend PSBA's New Board Member Training Program: Great
Governance, Great
Schools
EPLC is recruiting current undergraduate or graduate students
to serve as part-time interns
EPLC is recruiting current undergraduate
or graduate students to serve as part-time interns beginning January
or May of 2014 in the downtown Harrisburg Pennsylvania School Pennsylvania
The National School Boards Association 74th Annual
Conference & Exposition April 5-7, 2014 New Orleans
The National School Boards Association 74th Annual
Conference & Exposition will be held at the Ernest
N. Morial
Convention Center in New Orleans , LA. New Orleans
General
Session speakers include education advocates
Thomas L. Friedman, Sir Ken Robinson, as well as education innovators Nikhil
Goyal and Angela Maiers.
We have more than 200 sessions planned!
Colleagues from across the country will present workshops on key topics with
strategies and ideas to help your district. View our Conference
Brochure for highlights on sessions and
focus presentations.
·
Register
now! – Register for both the conference and housing using our online
system.
·
Conference
Information– Visit the NSBA conference website for up-to-date information
·
Hotel
List and Map - Official NSBA Housing Block
·
Exposition
Campus – View new products and services and interactive
trade show floor
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
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