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Let it burn? SB1085 could
take another $150 million from strapped Philly schools
Let it
burn? SB1085 could take another $150
million from strapped Philly schools
Debating
charter school reform in Pennsylvania
WHYY Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane December 23, 2013
(Audio Runtime: 52:01)
Guests: Lawrence
It’s been 16 years since Pennsylvania
See more at: http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2013/12/23/debating-charter-school-reform-in-pennsylvania/
New
leader of Philadelphia
WHYY Newsworks by Kevin McCorry DECEMBER 23, 2013
The incoming chancellor of the Philadelphia
Bar Association plans to make public education a top priority for the city's
legal community. William P. Fedullo will
officially take the post on Jan. 1. In an attempt to increase opportunities for
the city's public school students, he intends to create a task force to
advocate for more education funding and urge local law firms to forge mentoring
relationships with Philadelphia public schools. Through tese mentoring relationships,
he said, the legal community will help students by donating materials and
guiding them toward employment possibilities.
"We care about the livability of our city," Fedullo said.
"We care about everybody having the same equal opportunity and having the
school as the refuge for each child."
What
does Philly schools funder Mark Gleason want?
WILL BUNCH, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER BUNCHW@PHILLYNEWS.COM, 215-854-2957
POSTED: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 , 3:01 AM
JUST 10 years ago, Mark Gleason was a
journalist and publisher working in New
York North Jersey . Now the 48-year-old Gleason - unknown in Philadelphia at the start of the decade - finds himself at
the center of the maelstrom that is school reform in America
Where
did thousands of students from closed schools go? First reports are in
The notebook by Paul
Socolar on Dec
23 2013 Posted in Latest news
Just-released 2013 enrollment numbers from the
School District show that the overwhelming
majority of students displaced from closed schools ended up in other District
schools.
The new reports
on District, charter,
and alternative
school enrollments reveal some significant movement of students
between schools this year and include the first publicly released data
about where the displaced students from 24 closings last spring have
ended up.
The 213 District schools that remain open took
in 5,763 of the students who moved out of closed schools. The closings resulted
in an enrollment increase at the remaining District schools averaging 5
percent. The city's
86 brick-and-mortar charters took in only 511 students from closed
schools, but charters saw their overall enrollment climb by 5,000 students. No
data have been provided yet on cyber charter enrollments. Counting cybers,
about one-third of all Philadelphia
A
look back at the most-read education stories of 2013 - and a request to readers
by thenotebook on
Dec 24 2013
The Notebook is on
hiatus during the holidays. We'll be back in January, but in the
meantime, take a look back at the most-read stories for
each of the twelve months of the past year. In 2013, what stories were
you, our readers, most interested in?
What
to Watch for When Congress Writes Edu-Spending Bills
Education Week Politics K-12 Blog By Alyson Klein on December
24, 2013 8:55 AM
Think education advocates work is all done now
that Congress is all done with the big
budget deal? Think again. Now that lawmakers have decided to largely roll
back sequestration (those automatic across-board cuts to education spending)
for two years, advocates are rolling up their sleeves, making their case to
lawmakers to pretty please shift as much of the freed-up money as possible to
education. After all, schools have been
squeezed by the federal government since last March. And even before that,
appropriations for K-12 were on a downswing, argued the Committee for Education
Funding, a lobbying coalition, in a letter sent
Monday to top lawmakers on the Appropriations Committees, which oversee
spending.
Wal-Mart
to HP Reap Worker Political Donations Through Charities
Bloomberg.com By Renee Dudley Dec
23, 2013 12:00 AM
ET
U.S. companies, forbidden to give money
directly to political action committees, are taking advantage of controversial
federal rules allowing them to ask employees to do it for them in exchange for
matching charitable donations. It’s
legal and gives businesses from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to Coca-Cola (KO) Co.
to Hewlett-Packard Co. a way to fund their PACs, which direct money to
political candidates. The matching contributions provide an incentive for
employees, most of them managers, to contribute to the PAC. The practice was approved by the Federal
Election Commission in the late 1980s and has become commonplace at a
time when companies face increasing scrutiny over their political donations.
The FEC split over the legality of matching PAC contributions with charitable
donations at least seven times between 1994 and 2009.
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.
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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