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Pre-K for PA: All Children
Ready to Succeed
The Pre-K for PA issue campaign is working to ensure that all Pennsylvania
About that “Head Start fadeout”…plus continuing reaction to budget
address
“What makes you think the money spent is ineffective?” I asked him.
He referenced a study, released last spring, suggesting that
educational gains made by a group of Head Start students faded almost entirely
by the third grade. This study is often cited by critics of early childhood
education as proof that government-funded early childhood education doesn't
work.
I had read the same study. I asked if he knew that the study also
included information showing that students enrolled in early childhood
education graduate from high school more, go to college more, get pregnant as
teenagers less and get arrested for felonies less than their peers. He said he wasn't aware of those parts of the
report. Nor was he aware of the mountain of other research showing steady,
long-term gains for students enrolled in early childhood education.”
Hansen: The jury is in — and study after study backs early childhood
education
By Matthew Hansen / World-Herald
columnist February
4, 2014
State Sen. Bill Kintner
of Papillion recently held a town hall meeting and mounted what appeared to be
a one-man assault on early childhood education.
Kintner told the assembled crowd in Nebraska City that universal
preschool is a scary idea, a federal government plot, and in fact “a dream of
social engineers to get their hands on our kids,” according to news accounts of
the meeting.
He reportedly twice
promised that he wouldn't vote for any more state money to fund any more
education for 2- and 3- and 4-year-old Nebraska Nebraska
“The jury is still out on
if early education even works,” he said, and he added that he needs proof.
This teed up a
tantalizing question, as least for a nerd like myself. I have long assumed that
early childhood education is, like most any sort of education, a good thing.
But I had no real proof, for or against.
Does early childhood
education really work? Or is the jury still out?
So I spent a week reading
studies, including studies that summarize more than a half-century of research
into the effectiveness of early childhood education.
Show Us The Money For Pre-K
Campaign for America FEBRUARY
5, 2014
If our nation’s leaders
made policy decisions on actual evidence, this matter would have been addressed
a long time ago. This “matter” is the
increasingly desperate state of the nation’s youngest children and the
callousness in the way they’re being treated in our austerity-loving, market
competitive culture. There’s also
evidence there is something we could actually do about it right now, if only
there were the political will – and yes, the heart – to take the necessary
actions.
House Lawmakers Weigh Federal Role in Early-Childhood Education
Education Week Campaign
K-12 Blog By Alyson Klein on February
5, 2014 1:49 PM
President Barack Obama's
marquee, multibillion-dollar proposal to entice states to expand their
prekindergarten offerings—which already was a political long shot—hit
yet another roadblock Wednesday during a House Education and the Workforce
Committee hearing. But, in what may be a
sort of consolation prize to early-childhood advocates, the long-stalled
reauthorization of another program for the youngest children—the Child Care and
Development Block Grant program—may see fresh momentum. Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., the chairman of the
panel, said that Congress first needs to get a handle on the myriad
of early-childhood education programs—45 across the federal government,
according to a report released Wednesday by
the Government Accountability Office—before creating a brand-new,
multibillion-dollar program.
"Many federal
early-care and education programs are in need of serious review," Kline
said at the hearing. "This should be our first priority, not
rubber-stamping a 46th federal program."
Pre-K Remains Hot State-Policy Topic
Governors, legislators press early
education
Education Week By Christina
A. Samuels February
4, 2014
element of President
Barack Obama's education agenda highlighted in last week's State of the Union
address—appears to be maintaining legislative momentum at the state level this
year, where lawmakers around the country will deal with healthier budgets. In California
On a much smaller scale, Hawaii
And even states that
appeared to be philosophically opposed to state-funded early-childhood
education are considering a move in that direction: Idaho Rep. Hy Kloc, a
Democrat, has proposed a three-year voluntary pilot program in five schools in Idaho
Giving Children an Early Boost
New York Times Letters to
the Editor FEB. 4,
2014
Three LTEs in response to
recent opinion pieces on early childhood education.
EPLC EDUCATION NOTEBOOK - SPECIAL EDITION Summary of Governor Corbett’s
Proposed Education Budget FY 2014-15
Education Policy and Leadership Center February 5, 2014
http://www.eplc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Education-Notebook-14-04-Special-Budget-Edition-02-05-14.pdf
PBPC: Governor's Proposed 2014-15 PA Budget in Charts
Posted by PA Budget and Policy Center February 4,
2014
Something
New In the Proposed PA Budget This Year
Prior funding for charters has flowed through school districts and
was allocated based upon individual school district tuition formulas. The proposed 2014-2015
Proposed Ready to Learn Block Grant (Excel) allocates funding directly
to charter schools (see XL starting at line 502).
Ready to Learn Block Grant 2014-2015 Fiscal Year
PDE’s website February 4, 2014
The Governor’s Budget
provides $341 million in total funding, including $241 million in new Ready to
Learn funding for public schools that focus on student achievement and academic
success, and funding for the successful Accountability Block Grant that
supports pre-kindergarten, full-day kindergarten and other proven educational
programs at the current level of $100 million. As part of this
budget, schools will be authorized to use their Accountability Block Grant for
purposes allowed in the Ready to Learn Block Grant, ultimately increasing
flexibility for schools and improving learning outcomes for students. A total of $240 million of the Ready to Learn
Block Grant funds will be allocated through a student-focused funding formula
to enhance learning opportunities for students and provide resources for
schools to innovate at the local level. Schools will be able to use
their Ready to Learn Block Grant allocation for programs such as:
“Today in Pennsylvania
PP4C: An Overview of Gov. Corbett's Proposed 2014-15 Budget
Gov. Tom Corbett has
proposed a $29.4 billion state spending plan for fiscal 2014-15 that includes
some positive investments for Pennsylvania
PSBA: School funding increases promising, need initiative details to
assess impact on struggling districts
PSBA website 2/4/2014
It is a promising sign
that Gov. Corbett's proposed 2014-15 budget includes increased funding for
public education, said officials at the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.
"It is good news
that this year the conversation starts with discussing additional funding, but
there is much work that needs to be done to ensure spending increases for
public education come to fruition in the budget that is adopted by June,"
said Nathan Mains, PSBA executive director. "While we are encouraged, we
need to see the details of the various programs and block grants to determine
how they may impact school entities across the state."
School districts need
flexibility in how they use state funding. If the initiatives outlined today by
the governor are too restrictive, districts' hands will be tied when working on
improving education for their students. Putting more money in the Basic
Education Funding (BEF) line gives our districts the greatest flexibility.
Currently, the BEF is flat-funded from last year.
- See more at: http://www.psba.org/news-publications/headlines/details.asp?id=7007#sthash.mcQWQPBJ.dpuf
“The governor's budget makes no increase in basic education funding
but does add $241 million to a new program, the Ready to Learn Block Grant. The
program is welcome, but strings attached to those funds may prevent schools
from restoring the basics that have been cut over the past three years — small
classes, summer school, nurses and counselors, art, music and advanced courses.
Common sense demands that we restore the basics and build from there.”
Sharon Ward: Gov. Corbett's budget won't movePennsylvania
Sharon Ward: Gov. Corbett's budget won't move
Morning Call Opinion 6:15
a.m. EST, February 5, 2014
Sharon Ward is director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center
Punxsutawney Phil is predicting more chilly weather ahead, but a winter-weary Gov. Tom Corbett must have spring on his mind. His budget address Tuesday painted a bright and rosy picture ofPennsylvania
Punxsutawney Phil is predicting more chilly weather ahead, but a winter-weary Gov. Tom Corbett must have spring on his mind. His budget address Tuesday painted a bright and rosy picture of
Instead, corporate
profits continue to rise, but those profitable corporations are paying less in
taxes, if anything at all. And Pennsylvania
GOP, Democrats differ on Gov. Corbett's fiscal proposal
By John
Kopp, Delaware County Daily 9:07 PM
EST
Gov. Tom Corbett lauded Pennsylvania
Corbett cited a growing
work force and diminishing unemployment as evidence that Pennsylvania
The Republican proposed a
$29.4 billion budget that increases education funding, lowers business tax
rates and relies on reforming the state’s Medicaid program. He again lobbied
for two unfilled goals from his 2013 address — pension reform and liquor
control privatization.
Without raising state
income or sales taxes, the budget proposal boosts spending by 3.6 percent from
the current budget — the largest increase of Corbett’s tenure.
A Pa.
JOHN BAER, DAILY
NEWS POLITICAL COLUMNIST Wednesday, February 5, 2014 , 3:01 AM
WHAT TO DO when facing a
re-election fight that (at this stage) makes challenges faced by Gen. George
Armstrong Custer seem small? Well, if
you're Gov. Corbett, you offer a peace pipe.
He did that yesterday by
proposing to put his money (actually yours) where his political problems are. Under fire for education cuts? How about a
few hundred million in new funding, including $29 million more for Philly
schools?
WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane: Reaction to Governor
Corbett’s 2014-2015 budget speech
Guests: John Baer and John Micek February 5, 2014
audio runtime 51:02
Last night Governor Tom
Corbett unveiled his 2014-2015 budget plan for Pennsylvania
PPG Editorial - Irresponsible: Corbett’s budget plan is risky for Pennsylvania
Gov. Tom Corbett’s $29.4
billion budget for 2014-15 would increase state spending by 3 percent and send
more dollars toward education, but it relies on too many questionable maneuvers
in order to be balanced. Mr. Corbett,
who this year will ask voters to give him a second term in office, has been
vilified over his education funding in the past. This time, he would offer $241
million more for school districts, money that would have to be used primarily
for curriculum development and training for educators, and $10 million so 1,670
more children can attend pre-kindergarten programs. He also proposed the first
increase for special education in six years, a $20 million hike in a $1 billion
line item.
Even with these
improvements, though, the education budget is far from generous. It keeps
allocations for basic education — the backbone of school district spending and
the first line of defense against local property tax increases — level for
another year, and it does the same thing for the state’s public universities.
Area districts applaud school grant proposal
Tribune-Review
By Kari
Andren Published: Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 , 12:01 a.m.
A proposed block grant that would infuse more money into K-12 education drew praise from school officials who have grown weary of little or no increases in state funding even as costs continue to rise. Gov. Tom Corbett proposed $240 million in Ready to Learn Block Grants during his annual budget address inHarrisburg
A proposed block grant that would infuse more money into K-12 education drew praise from school officials who have grown weary of little or no increases in state funding even as costs continue to rise. Gov. Tom Corbett proposed $240 million in Ready to Learn Block Grants during his annual budget address in
“This block grant is
designed to ensure that every child is reading and doing math at grade level by
the third grade, that students are getting the grounding they need in science
and technology, and that a school is flexible enough to give tailored
instruction to students who need it,” Corbett said.
More Bad than Good
Governor Corbett doesn’t
want to hear what the public thinks about his proposed budget. He leaked
details to the press Monday in advance of his Tuesday announcement “under the
condition of a late-night embargo, precluding the gauging of reaction before
publication.” [Post-Gazette,
2-4-14] So we’ll keep our analysis nice and simple for him:
- More $ for special ed = GOOD
- More scholarships for higher ed = GOOD
- More $ for early childhood = GOOD
- Flat funding for K-12 basic ed = VERY BAD
- More $ for richer schools = BAD
- Flat funding for higher ed = BAD
- Making schools compete for $ = BAD
- Grant $ only for training but not teachers =
BAD
Now, for those who would
like a few more details, let’s start with the positive. Governor Corbett
proposed a $20 million increase to special education funding.
“Decades of research show income stratification is one of the strongest
predictors of student outcomes. Since
SPP scores are heavily weighted based on standardized test scores, schools that
enroll high numbers of traditionally-disadvantaged students face particular
challenges in meeting the eligibility requirements for the initiative.”
RFA Releases Policy Note on Gov’s Expanding Excellence Program
Research for Action Posted
by Alison Murawski on Feb 4, 2014
Earlier today, Governor
Corbett outlined his 2014-15 budget priorities. According to a Pennsylvania
Department of Education (PDE) press release, the Governor’s plan includes the
Expanding Excellence Program. If enacted and funded, this initiative would
“provide competitive funding to schools that have attained a 90 or higher on
the School Performance Profile and are willing to analyze and share best
practices that have proven to raise student achievement. Grant recipients will
be responsible for supporting schools across the state that strive to replicate
these strategies and techniques.” What
does this mean for the schools and students this program may affect? Click
here to find out.
Sort of. Student tech teams created
trading cards bearing each director's photo.
By Margie Peterson,
Special to The Morning Call 9:44 p.m. EST, February 5, 2014
School boards may get a
song from students or a speech or two during School Director Recognition Month,
but the Parkland School Board might be the first to receive its own set of
trading cards. Parkland 's
Trojan Tech Teams of students created trading cards with each school director's
picture and some information about them and gave them to the directors —
including the recently sworn-in David Hein — at last week's meeting.
“Schools are required to get in 180 days of instruction by June 30.
And “there’s no provision in the School Code for schools to get a waiver of the
180-day requirement,” said Tim Eller, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department
of Education. “The only way changes
could occur is by action of the General Assembly,” Eller said, noting that the
last time the General Assembly so acted was during the 1995-96 school year,
when snowstorms closed schools for two weeks.”
Snow days push county schools to brink
On Wednesday, students —
and their parents — woke up to the reality of yet another day without school. For many Lancaster County
PPS panel recommends denial of three charter schools
From 2008 to 2013, only
two charter school applications have been approved by the Pittsburgh Public
School District out of 15 proposed. On Feb. 2 at a PPS education committee
meeting, the district’s charter school review teams recommended the denial of
an additional three charter applications.
If the PPS board of directors follows these recommendations, which they
have historically done, the district would have an 11 percent approval rate for
charter schools over the past five years. The board will vote on the charter
schools at a legislative meeting on Feb. 26.
According to a release
from the district, the three applications for Homewood Children’s Village Collegiate
Charter School ,
Provident Charter
School for Children with Dyslexia, and
Robert L. Vann Charter School
How The Debate Over Charter Schools Makes Us Dumber
TPM CAFE Opinion by CONOR
P. WILLIAMS – FEBRUARY 5, 2014, 6:00
AM EST3208
Almost nothing gets
education arguments roiling from reasonable to rancorous like charter
schools. Through
one lens, charters are “aggressive and entrepreneurial…[and] loosely
regulated” institutions that are ultimately a “colossal mistake” undermining
traditional public education. Through
another, they’re transformational places “generating extraordinary academic
success with the most disadvantaged children,” in sharp contrast to moribund
traditional public schools. Easy as it is to fall into one or the other of
these positions, each contributes to paralyze discussions of charters’ flaws
and merits. It would be nice if we could
answer the question empirically. That’s a perfectly intuitive starting point:
how do charters perform vis-à-vis traditional public schools? Unfortunately,
national data on charter school performance is mixed at best.
“The Walton Family Foundation will be investing $25 million in
start-up investments to 112 new charter schools, bringing the total number of
charter schools it has helped open to 1,500—or about a quarter of all charter
schools over the past 17 years.”
Walton Family Foundation Invests $25 Million in New Charters
Education Week Charters
& Choice Blog By Katie Ash on February
5, 2014 11:06 AM
The Walton Family
Foundation will be investing $25 million in start-up investments to 112 new
charter schools, bringing the total number of charter schools it has helped
open to 1,500—or about a quarter of all charter schools over the past 17 years.
"We're both very
proud of our investments in the charter space and enthusiastic about supporting
choice in cities across the country as a mechanism to providing families with
high-quality options," said Marc Sternberg, the director of the
foundation's K-12 education reform division, in an interview with Education
Week.
Here’s Milton Friedman's "Public Schools: Make Them
Private" paper from 1995.
Public Schools: Make Them Private
by Milton Friedman Washington February 19, 1995
Milton Friedman, a senior
research fellow at the Hoover Institution, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in
1976.
Executive Summary
Our elementary and
secondary educational system needs to be radically restructured. Such a
reconstruction can be achieved only by privatizing a major segment of the
educational system--i.e., by enabling a private, for-profit industry to develop
that will provide a wide variety of learning opportunities and offer effective
competition to public schools. The most feasible way to bring about such a
transfer from government to private enterprise is to enact in each state a
voucher system that enables parents to choose freely the schools their children
attend. The voucher must be universal, available to all parents, and large
enough to cover the costs of a high-quality education. No conditions should be
attached to vouchers that interfere with the freedom of private enterprises to
experiment, to explore, and to innovate.
This article appeared in
the Washington Post on February 19, 1995 . Reprinted by permission of the author
and the Washington Post.
High cost of Common Core has states rethinking the national education
standards
Education Views Feb 5, 2014 by Staff
States are learning the
cost of Common Core is uncommonly high.
The federally-backed
standards initiative, first proposed by the nation’s governors and an
educators’ association, seeks to impose a national standard for achievement
among K-12 students. So far, 45 states plus the District of Columbia
States will spend up to
an estimated $10 billion up front, then as much as $800 million per year for
the first seven years that the controversial program is up and running. Much of
the cost is on new, Common Core-aligned textbooks and curriculum, but the added
expenses also include teacher training, technology upgrades,
testing and assessment. The figures are taking states by surprise.
Common Core: The Gates Foundation's Imaginary World of School Reform
Collides with Reality
Education Week Living In
Dialogue Blog By Anthony Cody on February
5, 2014 12:19 PM
Guest post by John
Thompson.
The Gates Foundation's
Director of Education, College Ready, Vicki
Phillips, describes what she admits is the ideal implementation of Common
Core and test-driven evaluations. In the "vast majority of cases,"
these changes would be implemented carefully. The key principle would be that
teachers and students would be given "time to adjust to new expectations
before they face serious consequences for not meeting them."
If implemented properly,
Common Core "test scores shouldn't be used to make consequential
decisions, such as whether students should graduate, until we are sure we
understand how to interpret the results." Neither would schools or
teachers be punished "until teachers have had a few years to get used to
the new ways of working."
Such a distinction
between idealized implementation and reality would seem to be progress. Just
when it seemed like the Gates Foundation was conceding that it is important to
acknowledge the facts about their theories, however, Phillips showed she was
just spouting rhetoric. Phillips claimed that the ideal state she described
"with the exception of a few outliers," is what is "actually
happening across the country."
Georgia Congressman to Introduce Anti-Common Core Bill
Education Week Campaign
K-12 Blog By Alyson Klein on February
5, 2014 4:40 PM
Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga.,
a former school board member and candidate for Senate, is preparing legislation
that would restrict the U.S. Secretary of Education, or any other federal
employee, from dangling grant money to entice a state to adopt a particular set
of standards.
The bill is a reaction
to—you guessed it—the Common Core
State Standards, which
have been adopted by 46 states and the District
of Columbia
This isn't the first time
that someone in Congress has sought to limit the Secretary's authority when it
comes to standards. A bill to renew the Elementary and Secondary Education Act,
which was approved by the House of Representatives last summer, would also
prohibit the secretary from tying grant money—or ESEA waivers—to a state's
adoption of academic standards. That provision largely mirrored
language introduced by Rep. Martha Roby, R-Ala.
Text of report detailing $100 million-plus needed for Common Core tests
in Maryland
I recently wrote
about a Maryland
Education Department report that said the vast majority of schools in
many of the state’s counties are not technologically prepared to give new
online Common Core-aligned standardized tests, and at least $100 million
will have to be spent by 2015 to get ready.
Here's the truth about Shanghai
By Saga Ringmar theguardian.com, Saturday 28
December 2013 07.00 EST
The western world
watches China's rise as a formidable
world-power with a mixture of awe and apprehension. Sci-fi films depict a
futuristic world where Baidu.com is
the new Google and Mcdonalds has been replaced by Grandma Wang's Dumpling
Emporium. And yet again Shanghai is number one
on the Programme for International Student Assessment's (Pisa ) 2012
ranking list of international education, and the US US
The biggest problem with
Chinese education? It's medieval.
Public advocacy is a must, NSBA panelists tell school boards
NSBA School Board News
Today by Lawrence
School board members must
speak up and speak out about the successes and challenges of their local public
schools, panelists told 750 school board members at the National School Boards
Association’s (NSBA) first annual Advocacy Institute. Competing
interests — including those who want to privatize the system — are already
defining the message and potentially putting school boards and public schools
out of business, some media experts warned.
http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/2014/02/public-advocacy-is-a-must-nsba-panelists-tell-school-boards/
NSBA honors House members for work on ESEA, federal overreach
NSBA School Board News
Today by Joetta Sack-Min February 5th, 2014
U.S. House of
Representatives members, Aaron Schock of Illinois ,
Patrick Meehan of Pennsylvania
NSBA Legal Clips February 5, 2014
According to the News
& Record, the Guilford County Board of Education (GCBOE) has voted
to refuse to implement a new North
Carolina U.S.
Have you considered signing this petition yet?
Petition by Denise
Kurnas
To be delivered to The
Pennsylvania State House, The Pennsylvania
This petition is designed
to keep charter school oversight in local district control instead of allowing
other entities or the Pennsylvania Department of Education to spend our
property tax dollars without input from our locally elected school board
officials.
The Pennsylvania Budget
and Policy Center will host its Annual Budget Summit on Thursday, February 20th
to provide an in-depth look at the Governor's spending plan and an update on
the federal budget — and what it all means for communities and families across
Pennsylvania.
As in previous years, the
Budget Summit will be at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Harrisburg
Additional information,
agendas, and workshops will be posted in the new year.
Register Now! EPLC’s Education Policy Forums on Governor Corbett’s
2014-2015 State Budget Proposal for Education
The next EPLC education
policy forums will be held on the following days and in the following
locations. These forums will take place shortly after Governor Corbett’s
February 4th presentation of his proposed 2014-15 state budget and will focus
on his plans for education.
Thursday, February 13, 2014 – Pittsburgh , PA
Monday, February 24, 2014 – Philadelphia , PA
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
– State College, PA
Thursday, February 27, 2014 – Harrisburg , PA
Space is limited for each event and an
RSVP is required. Anyone wishing to receive an invitation should inquire by
contacting The Education Policy and Leadership
Center
PSBA White Paper: The costs of charter and cyber charter schools
Updated January 2014
Research and policy implications for Pennsylvania
White Paper by PSBA’s
Education research & Policy
Center
This week PSBA’s Education Research and Policy Center
“Senate Bill 1085 represents a substantial rewrite of the state’s
charter school law; a key facet is a higher education authorizer system that
would allow proposed charter schools to seek approval from approximately 100
institutions without the input or approval of local school districts. The
legislation does not require that the higher education institutions possess
educational or management expertise or capacity related to charter schools or
public K-12 education more generally. In this way, the proposed structure
differs from the framework in other states; for instance, New York’s higher
education authorizer is a dedicated center— the State University of New York
Charter Schools Institute—within a single public university system.
A review of relevant,
rigorous research finds no evidence that higher education authorizers, in
particular, correlate with student achievement gains. A comprehensive study of
charter school performance in 16 states found lower student achievement in
states with multiple authorizers, including non-profit organizations and higher
education authorizers.”
Research For Action Releases Brief on Higher Eds as Charter Authorizers
Research For Action Posted
by Alison Murawski on Jan 28, 2014
Debates on charter school
reform are annual occurrences in Harrisburg Pennsylvania
The attached brief
provides a review of existing research, an overview of higher education charter
authorizers nationwide and in neighboring states, and answers to
frequently-asked-questions.
To read the full
brief, click here. Research for Action was also featured on WHYY and KYW Newsradio for our analysis of this topic.
http://www.researchforaction.org/2014/01/28/rfa-releases-brief-on-higher-eds-as-charter-authorizers/
Register
Now! EPLC’s 2014 Education Issues Workshops for Legislative Candidates,
Campaign Staff, and Interested Voters
EPLC’s Education Issue
Workshops Register
Now! – Space is Limited!
A Non-Partisan One-Day Program forPennsylvania
A Non-Partisan One-Day Program for
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 in Harrisburg, PA
Wednesday,March
19, 2014 in Monroeville, PA
Thursday,March
27, 2014 in Philadelphia,PA
Wednesday,
Thursday,
RESCHEDULED:
PDE chief Dumaresq LIVE budget presentation, PSBA Conference
Center
PSBA website Feb 4, 2014
Acting Secretary of Education Carolyn
Dumaresq will be at the PSBA
Conference Center Pennsylvania
To register for the LIVE
event, Thu., Feb. 13, 2:30 p.m., at the PSBA Conference
Center
To register for the WEB event: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7884287076736574210
- See more at: http://www.psba.org/news-publications/headlines/details.asp?id=6842#sthash.EhFhjsIb.dpuf
Auditor
General DePasquale to Hold Public Meetings on Ways to Improve Charter Schools
Seeks
to find ways to improve accountability, effectiveness, transparency
The public meetings will be held:
- Northampton
County: 1 to 3 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 27, City Council Chambers, 6th Floor,
City Hall, One South Third St., Easton
- NEW:
Time is limited to two hours for each meeting.
Comments can be submitted in writing by Wednesday, Feb. 19, via email to Susan
Woods at: swoods@auditorgen.state.pa.us.
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
The Alliance
Thursday, February 6 -
6:00 p.m.Ritz East - 125 S. 2nd St. Philadelphia, PA
- There will be a discussion
after the film. Special Guests: - Mark Naison Professor of History and
Chair of African and African-American Studies,
- Tickets are $9.00 and can be
purchased at Rockfish Productions.
- https://sites.google.com/site/rockfishproductions/Films/standardized-lies-money-civil-rights/screenings-for-standardizedOnline
is recommended because if it sells out there may not be tickets available
at the door.
- The trailer for the
film https://sites.google.com/site/rockfishproductions/standardized-background-info
NPE National Conference
2014
The Network for Public Education
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
Details and
registration here: http://www.networkforpubliceducation.com/conference/
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.
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Register
now! – Register for both the conference and housing using our online
system.
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Conference
Information– Visit the NSBA conference website for up-to-date information
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Hotel
List and Map - Official NSBA Housing Block
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Exposition
Campus – View new products and services and interactive
trade show floor
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