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PA Ed Policy Roundup for June
28, 2014: Statewide Budget Coverage
Education Policy and Leadership Center
Senate Schedule:
tweet from Sen. Dominic Pileggi @SenatorPileggi
June 27
#PASenate session
schedule going forward: Convening on 6/28 at 11 a.m., on 6/29 at 4 p.m. &
on 6/30 at 1 p.m.
House Schedule:
tweet from Rep.
Stephen Bloom @RepBloom June 27
And the PA House
stands adjourned. Non-voting session tomorrow (Saturday), voting session 5:00
p.m. Sunday.
PA Budget and Policy Center
:
·
498 of 500 school districts lose funds under the House plan.
Only Chester-Upland School District in Delaware
County and Bryn Athyn in Montgomery County
·
Poorer school districts and those with growing enrollments
or above average property tax burdens receive among the largest dollar cuts.
·
Lebanon School District in Lebanon County has the
largest per student cut, followed by Reading City School
District, Scranton School District,Steelton-Highspire School
District, Shenandoah Valley School District in Schuylkill
County, Lancaster School District, Panther Valley School
District in Carbon County, and Southeast Delco School District in
Delaware County. For a list of 50 school districts with the largest per-student
reductions, please see Appendix
1.
·
The School
District of Philadelphia
·
Other big losers include the Allentown School District , (-$2.5 million), Erie City
School District , (-$1.8
million), Upper Darby, (- $1.7 million),Lancaster School District , (-$1.6 million), Bethlehem Area, (- $1.4 million), Pocono Mountain ,
(-$1.1 million), and Easton Area, East
Stroudsburg and Altoona
·
Charter Schools will lose a total of $19.2 million in direct
funding from the proposed Ready to Learn Block Grant.
PBPC Analysis: How Do House
Budget Cuts Affect Your School District ?
Posted by PA Budget and Policy Center
The Impact of the
House Budget on Funding for School Districts and Charter Schools
The budget approved by the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives on June 25 made significant changes to the Governor’s proposed
allocations to school districts and charter schools.
The House budget eliminates a $241 increase to school districts
and charter schools offered in the Governor’s Ready to Learn Block Grant,
replacing it with a $70 million basis education increase, which is a 71%
reduction from the Governor’s original proposed increase.
The House kept a 2% increase in special education funding,
allocated through a flat 2% increase to each district – rather than using the
formula devised by the Special Education Funding Commission to focus assistance
where it is most needed, and added $10 million to fund new school construction
projects, although the distribution of those funds is not known.
The education funding cuts from the Governor’s budget are part
of an overall spending plan that is still in flux. The House plan, which relies
on unlikely funding sources, could be amended in the Senate to include new
revenue and a restoration of some of the education funding promised in Governor
Corbett’s budget.
"Unfilled staff positions. Reduced
building budgets. Pay-to-play athletics. New bus schedules. Schools across Lancaster County
Fifteen of 17 school districts approved tax hikes this month.
Tax increases alongside cost-saving measures mirror the decisions of school
officials across Pennsylvania
School cuts and tax hikes are
the norm for county and state
Lancaster Online By
KARA NEWHOUSE | Staff Writer Posted: Friday, June 27, 2014 3:26
pm | Updated: 4:01 pm, Fri Jun 27, 2014.
Unfilled staff positions. Reduced building budgets. Pay-to-play
athletics. New bus schedules.
Schools across Lancaster
County
Fifteen of 17 school districts approved tax hikes this month.
Tax increases alongside cost-saving measures mirror the decisions of school
officials across Pennsylvania .
About 75 percent of school district officials expected to
increase property taxes in 2014-15, according to a survey of
279 of the state's 500 districts, released in early June.
More than half of school districts expected to eliminate or
reduce academic programs in the coming school year.
Delco Times By PETER
JACKSON, Associated Press POSTED: 06/28/14,
5:20 AM EDT |
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) —
Republicans who control the Pennsylvania Legislature pressed ahead Friday with
efforts to put together an all-GOP state budget plan calling for as much as
$29.4 billion in spending without raising taxes. Rank-and-file lawmakers were sent home early
after a day of limited floor activity, while GOP leaders from both chambers
huddled privately and staff members made plans to work into the weekend. The
House and Senate were slated to reconvene Sunday afternoon.
http://www.delcotimes.com/general-news/20140628/pileggi-pa-gop-leaders-shoot-for-no-new-taxes-budget
Progress reported in Pa.
By on
June 27, 2014 at 9:47 PM, updated June 27, 2014 at 10:06 PM
The push for a
"live-within-your-means" budget in Pennsylvania gained momentum Friday, as
Republican House and Senate leaders reported progress after closed-door talks
on a spending plan of slightly more than $29 billion.
office Thursday kicking off multi-day protest for what they
see as full statewide education funding and fair revenue solutions. Sean
Simmers, PennLive.com. June 26, 2014SEAN SIMMERS
"We made very
significant progress with the House Republican leadership. We have details to
iron out and, as you know, many times those details are the most difficult
things to iron out," said Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware County
With no tax hikes, Pa.
ANGELA COULOUMBIS, INQUIRER HARRISBURG BUREAU POSTED: June 27, 2014, 7:44 PM Last updated: Saturday, June 28, 2014,
1:08 AM
HARRISBURG - Republican legislative leaders emerged from closed-door budget talks Friday saying they are considering a state spending plan that would not raise any taxes - and one that they believe they can approve by the Monday deadline. Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R., Delaware) said Republicans who control the Senate and House are looking at a budget blueprint that would spend between $29.1 billion and $29.4 billion.
HARRISBURG - Republican legislative leaders emerged from closed-door budget talks Friday saying they are considering a state spending plan that would not raise any taxes - and one that they believe they can approve by the Monday deadline. Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R., Delaware) said Republicans who control the Senate and House are looking at a budget blueprint that would spend between $29.1 billion and $29.4 billion.
He also said they are no longer discussing ways to raise new
revenue through taxes. What that means, at least for now, is that a proposal to
raise the state's tax on cigarettes, or impose a new tax on natural gas
extraction, appears to be off the negotiating table.
"Across the Pennsylvania
Legislators scramble to beat
budget deadline
By Karen Langley &
Kate Giammarise Post-Gazette Harrisburg
Bureau June
27, 2014 11:54 PM
Corbett stands by his demands
as end-game begins
Governor again calls
for pension reform as state House passes $29.1 billion budget without reform
measure and a Senate panel follows suit.
By Steve Esack, Call Harrisburg Bureau :13 p.m. EDT, June 26,
2014
"In dealing with
the pensions, I think it's very important for the people of Pennsylvania to know this is not partisan.
This is not Republican, this is not Democrat, this is a taxpayer issue,"
Corbett said in a rare impromptu news conference in the Capitol newsroom.
"It's a taxpayer issue because if the rating goes down, borrowing gets
more expensive."
It's also an
election-year issue in the face of a cumulative $1.4 billion deficit.
New taxes ruled out as Pa.
WHYY Newsworks BY MARY WILSON JUNE 28, 2014
GOP Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi said with new taxes
taken off the table, an on-time budget may be within reach. "If the path that we're on would end on
June 30th then we would have the budget work done on Monday -- if we're
successful in our work this weekend," said Pileggi, R-Delaware, after a
meeting among GOP House and Senate leaders Friday afternoon.
State lawmakers to continue
work on budget through weekend
Trib Live By Gideon
Bradshaw Saturday, June 28, 2014,
12:01 a.m.
Pileggi said after a
meeting with House and Senate Republican leaders that the Senate may finalize
next year's budget this weekend. He estimated it would range from $29.1 billion
to $29.4 billion.
Update from Harrisburg
Parents United Posted on June 27, 2014 by
Yesterday, Parents
United joined with sister groups across the state and our partners PCAPs, Fight
for Philly and Action United to begin an as long as it takes sit-in of the
governor’s office until the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passes a responsible
budget for our schools.
The timing couldn’t be
more important. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a budget that
eviscerated Governor Corbett’s proposal for education funding, eliminating 70%
(you read that right) of proposed block grants with consequences
of at least $20 million for Philadelphia public schools. It’s an opening
salvo for sure – changes will come – but it’s a clear reminder of how far apart
our state’s legislative priorities are from the public’s priorities. The
following day, Governor Corbett held a press conference and declared that it
was essentially pension reform or bust. No movement on tax revenue or dollars
for education unless pension reform went through.
Sit-In or Call-In (June 30th)
Yinzercation Blog Guest
post by Kathy Newman June 27,2014
We all know sitting is bad for us, right? But right now there
is a group of Philadelphia parents, teachers and
students sitting-in at Tom Corbett’s Harrisburg office, demanding that the
Governor and the State Legislature pass a decent budget for education this
month. You might not be able to get to Harrisburg to join the
sit-in, but there is something you can do. And you can do it sitting down.
Five-to-ten minutes of phone calling and emailing on Monday, June 30th,
from the comfort of your favorite chair, will make a real difference in this
year’s budget negotiation
Monday, June 30 Statewide
Call to Action for Public Education
Education Voters PA
It is hard to imagine, but the PA House advanced a state budget
in Harrisburg
that is far worse for public schools than the budget Governor Corbett
proposed earlier this year.
The PA House is calling to eliminate the $241 million increase
in state funding for proposed Ready to Learn Block grants and replace this with
a paltry $70 million increase in Basic Education Funding.Under the House
budget, PA school districts would lose about 70% of the increases in state
funding they were expecting to receive this year, funding that they were
relying on to balance their budgets.
The House budget is irresponsible and unacceptable. It
does not call for a shale tax or a cigarette tax. Instead, it relies on
the sale of state liquor stores (which the Senate has so far not supported),
gimmicky sources of one-time funding, and the suspension of selected tax
credits to balance the budget. Budget
negotiations are just beginning. While the budget is still fluid and
negotiations are taking place, advocates must speak out loudly and with one
voice in support of responsible funding for public schools this year. If
we don't speak up, public education will likely receive little more than scraps
in the budget this year.
Mark your calendar for Monday, June 30th – and do
3 things in 10 minutes to make a difference!
SRC likely to vote on budget
without knowing state revenue
the notebook By Dale
Mezzacappa on Jun 27, 2014
05:46 PM
The School Reform
Commission is likely to vote on a budget Monday without knowing how much money
the District will be getting from the state.
Intense budget
maneuvering during the week will continue into the weekend, but it is entirely
possible that the General Assembly will miss its June 30 deadline for approving
a state budget.
Gov. Corbett said he
would hold out past the deadline until he got support for his priorities, which
include pension reform and privatization of state liquor stores.
As of Friday, the House
had passed a budget that includes no new revenue sources and would virtually
wipe out increases for education spending that Corbett had proposed. That
plan would eliminate about $20 million of the funds that the District was
counting on from the state.
And that budget doesn't
include authorization for a city $2-a-pack cigarette tax that would bring in
about $40 million for the schools next year and $80 million a year after that.
The latest reports also
indicated that the Senate wasn't interested in passing any new sources of
revenue -- meaning that it is likely that Philadelphia
schools won't get additional money from the state.
Taxes, taxes and more taxes
Failing in Slow Motion: High
taxes hurting homeowners and economy in Columbia
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series
examining the financial sustainability of the Columbia Borough School District and
the impact of its struggling schools on the students, teachers, residents and
businesses of the proud river town. A six-page special section is being
published in this week’s Sunday News.
Sara Linkous opened the doors of her china cabinet in her Columbia home to show a
delicate green and white tea set that has been handed down from mother to
daughter through three generations. The
family treasure will likely be gone soon, sold to pay property taxes on the
stone home her father built in the 1930s.
Four days before the budget
deadline - putting the 'fun' in dysfunctional, it's a day in the life of the
Capitol
By John L. Micek |
jmicek@pennlive.com on June 27, 2014 at 8:25 AM
It's a little after 7 a.m. on Thursday morning. And four days
before the deadline to pass a new state budget, the state Capitol is quiet and
empty. In the building's gold-trimmed
Rotunda, where frescoes stare down silently, it's cool in the heat of a late
June morning and footfalls echo off the historic Mercer tile floors. A tour guide sits alone at a desk near the
front door. And two state Capitol Police officers man a security checkpoint at
the building's main doors a few feet away.
PENSION UPDATE - TIME TO GO
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
Third and State Blog Posted
by Stephen Herzenberg on June
26, 2014 9:00 am
We're closing in on the end game of the Pennsylvania budget process and lawmakers
are considering two different pension proposals -- both of which would be a
step backward. Here's an update on these options, with links to where you can
find more information.
Most discussion over the past several months has focused on the Corbett-Tobash "hybrid pension plan." This would replace existing pensions with a much smaller guaranteed pension and 401(k)-type savings accounts that cover any salary over $50,000 and service over 25 years. The governor favors combining this pension re-design with reductions in state and school district pension contributions over the next five years.
Most discussion over the past several months has focused on the Corbett-Tobash "hybrid pension plan." This would replace existing pensions with a much smaller guaranteed pension and 401(k)-type savings accounts that cover any salary over $50,000 and service over 25 years. The governor favors combining this pension re-design with reductions in state and school district pension contributions over the next five years.
The bottom line on the Corbett-Tobash plan is that it doesn't
solve PA's pension underfunding problem but it does cut pension benefits deeply
for new employees. It achieves this unsavory combination because savings from
benefit cuts are offset by four cost increases.
Inquirer Editorial:
State needs real budget
POSTED: Friday, June 27, 2014, 1:08 AM
The Pennsylvania House's proposed $29.1 billion budget is so
out of step with the state's actual needs that the document's only possible use
is to serve as scratch paper for notes during the Senate debate. The House budget largely addresses the
state's estimated $1.5 billion funding gap by again shortchanging schools. It
provides an additional $70 million, a 1.3 percent increase, for basic
education. But that doesn't come close to making up for past cuts that have
forced schools to lay off teachers. The
spending plan includes no new taxes even though Pennsylvania is the only state without a tax
on natural-gas drilling. And it makes no mention of a proposed
Philadelphia-only cigarette tax, which city schools need to stay alive.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20140627_Inquirer_Editorial__State_needs_real_budget.html#2u6HADOjrt0XhWf4.99
DN Editorial:
Pennsyltuckered out
Philly Daily News Editorial POSTED: June 26, 2014
THE GENERAL Assembly is now grappling with what could be Gov.
Corbett's last budget. And given some of the obstacles to finishing it, we're
grappling with the best way to characterize the story it tells. Is it
"Back to the Future"? Or "Welcome to Pennsyltucky"?
(We are not disparaging the rest of the state, which is
sometimes referred to as Pennsyltucky, but conveying a general theme of
"backward." If you're an "Orange
Is the New Black" fan, you'll know it refers to the meth-addled hillbilly
character.)
Lawmakers are scrambling to fill a $1.5 billion shortfall in
the budget that came about because revenue projections fell short of what
Corbett had anticipated in his budget address in February.
Legislation makes passing the
Keystone Exams optional as graduation requirement
By on
June 27, 2014 at 2:53 PM
Just when it seemed the
battle over requiring students in the Class of 2017 and beyond to pass
Keystone Exams to graduate was
a part of Pennsylvania
history, Senate Education Committee Chairman Mike Folmer decided to launch
another grenade. The Senate Education
Committee, in a bi-partisan 8-2 vote, approved
his legislation that would leave it up to school
districts to determine how, if at all, a student's Keystone
Exams scores would count toward a course grade or graduation. The legislation does not, however, make
taking these state end-of-course exams optional. Neither does it waive the
requirement on districts to remediate students who earn a failing score on
these state exams. Even though the
committee moved the bill, Folmer's chief of staff said he did not anticipate
this bill being fast-tracked through the General Assembly before the summer
recess.
In Rebuttal / Give ‘insiders’
a chance to reform Pittsburgh Public Schools
Plenty of outsiders
have weighed in; the city must listen to neglected voices on school reform
Post Gazette Opinion By PAMELA HARBIN June 27, 2014 12:00 AM
Last week the editorial board of the Post Gazette called for
more outside voices to contribute to the mayor’s education task force
(“Establishment Panel: The Education Task Force Needs Outside Perspective,”
June 18). As a Pittsburgh parent who has been trying to get
the voices of parents heard since 2009, I must respectfully disagree. The mayor
is right to include on his task force stakeholders who are linked to the
district, especially those parents, teachers and students whose voices are not
always heard.
My boys, Ayden, 11, and Amari, 9, attend Liberty K-5, a Spanish
magnet school in Shadyside. They have been in the Pittsburgh Public Schools
since kindergarten, and for the last six years I have watched as outsiders have
made decisions that have hurt our schools, including the statewide
billion-dollar education cut made by Gov. Tom Corbett in 2011.
Locally, both superintendents who have served the Pittsburgh
Public Schools over the last 10 years came here as outsiders. Mark Roosevelt
and now Linda Lane
both have worked closely with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, also a
group of outsiders. The foundation has made huge investments in our district,
both directly and via contracts with outside consultants who have brought us
the very latest in outsider thinking.
By Frank
Otto, The Mercury
POSTED: 06/26/14, 5:35 PM EDT | UPDATED: 38 SECS AGO
LIMERICK — The Spring-Ford Area School Board quietly approved
the district’s 2014-15 budget, which carries a 1.95 percent tax increase, at
its Monday night meeting. There was no
discussion directly regarding the budget at the meeting prior to the unanimous
approval. It appeared that the $136,988,745
budget was unchanged from what was advertised as the proposed final budget last
month. With a 1.95 percent tax increase,
Spring-Ford’s millage rate will increase from 25.524 mills to 26.016. A
taxpayer in the district with a property assessed at $100,000 will see their
annual taxes increase by $49.24 for 2014-15.
At a recent school board meeting I voted
against authorizing a payment to Agora Cyber Charter School
Agora is run by K12, Inc., a for-profit
company founded by convicted bond felon Michael Milken. K12 paid it's CEO
$13 million from 2009 through 2013 and spent our tax dollars on over 19,000
local TV commercials. I do not believe Agora should receive one cent of
my neighbors' tax dollars.
Statement From K12 Inc.
on Agora Cyber Charter
School
PRESS RELEASE June 26, 2014, 4:30 p.m. EDT
The Wall Street Journal Marketwatch HERNDON, Va. , Jun 26, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via
COMTEX) --
As required by the existing charter agreement, this Fall, the Agora Cyber
Charter School
K12 Inc. has been working with the Board and looks forward to
providing robust submissions for the provision of educational services,
products, and curriculum. We are confident that this process will lead to an
even stronger application to PDE for the renewal of the school's charter. We are
also confident that the value K12 has brought, and can continue to bring, to
the students of Agora will be clear in this process. We are proud that so many
of the parents with students at Agora have expressed overall satisfaction with
the school and especially with K12's curriculum.
We value our long term relationship with Agora and look forward
to building on the positive momentum we have created under the Board's
leadership. The innovations K12 is making in curriculum, instruction and
technology offer Agora students continued learning options to fit their
individual needs.
TO: Journalists Who
Cover Education
FROM: Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director
RE: Testing Resistance & Reform News
DATE: June 24, 2014
FROM: Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director
RE: Testing Resistance & Reform News
DATE: June 24, 2014
What a week!
The impacts of “Testing
Resistance & Reform Spring” protests reverberate across the nation with
more states suspending testing requirements or pulling out of testing
consortia. Bill Gates’ call for a moratorium on some consequences from Common
Core exams, quickly implemented by some political allies, reflects another way
grassroots power is forcing policy elites to backpedal. To take advantage of
this opportunity, parents, educators, students, and community activists need to
step up advocacy campaigns to end standardized testing misuse and press for
implementation of higher quality performance assessments.
Community Schools: Impacting
Academic Achievement Through Student Support
THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG June
24, 2014 by Mary E. Walsh
Fifteen years ago, a
small team of school, university, and community partners began working on
creating the system of student support that is now City
Connects. We were hopeful that we would be able to demonstrate that
addressing students' out-of-school needs would lead to improvements in academic
achievement and student well-being.
Developed at Boston College's Lynch School of
Education in the late 90s, City Connects is a student support
intervention that addresses the non-academic factors like homelessness or
hunger that can limit academic achievement, especially for children living in
poverty. The intervention identifies the strengths and needs of every child
across academic, social/emotional, health, and family domains and connects each
student to a tailored set of prevention, intervention, and enrichment services
available in the community and/or school.
Obama expands use of standardized
tests for special-needs and American Indian students
President Obama recently
told graduates at the University of California , Irvine ,
that people who deny the science behind climate change are just as wrong as
people who say the moon is “made of cheese.” Congress, he said, “is full
of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence” about
climate change and call it a hoax. He’s
right about that. But his administration is doing some denying of its own
— refusing to accept extensive research on the proper use of standardized
tests. The president and his education
secretary, Arne Duncan, have for years been using student standardized test
scores to hold students, teachers and principals “accountable” even though
assessment experts say they aren’t reliable enough to be used for that purpose.
Assessment experts say that tests should be used only for the purpose for which
they were designed and nothing else, yet the administration keeps finding
additional ways to use standardized test results in ways that are questionable.
Charter Schools' E-rate
Requests Much Higher Than Other Schools'
Education Week
Marketplace K12 Blog By Michele Molnar on June
26, 2014 4:25 PM
Public charter schools
are requesting 79 percent more per building from the federal E-rate program
than traditional public schools are, according to an Education Week-requested
analysis from Funds for Learning. The
Oklahoma-based company,
which consults schools on the E-rate, conducted
a review of all requests for funding submitted by schools and districts in
2014—about 21,000 applications in all. The
anaylsis shows that smaller applicants generally have to pay more for their
services, "likely due to their inability to tap into the economies of
scale that bigger applicants benefit from," said John Harrington, CEO
of Funds for Learning. "Usually they're paying higher per-unit
prices," so they are likely to request more funding.
At the same time,
charters are generally better positioned to leverage newer and faster
technologies "simply because it's easier to roll out and successfully
integrate new technology to a single school than an entire school
district," he added.
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EPLC Education Issues
Workshop for Legislative Candidates, Campaign Staff, and Interested Voters - Harrisburg
Register Now! EPLC will again be hosting
an Education Issues Workshop for Legislative Candidates, Campaign Staff,
and Interested Voters. This nonpartisan, one-day program will take place
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PSBA opens nominations for
the Timothy M. Allwein Advocacy Award
The nomination process is now open for the Timothy M. Allwein Advocacy Award. This award may be presented annually to the individual school director or entire school board to recognize outstanding leadership in legislative advocacy efforts on behalf of public education and students that are consistent with the positions in PSBA’s Legislative Platform. Applications will be accepted until July 16, 2014. The July 16 date was picked in honor of Timothy M. Allwein's birthday. The award will be presented during the PASA-PSBA School Leadership Conference in October. More details and application are available on PSBA's website.
The nomination process is now open for the Timothy M. Allwein Advocacy Award. This award may be presented annually to the individual school director or entire school board to recognize outstanding leadership in legislative advocacy efforts on behalf of public education and students that are consistent with the positions in PSBA’s Legislative Platform. Applications will be accepted until July 16, 2014. The July 16 date was picked in honor of Timothy M. Allwein's birthday. The award will be presented during the PASA-PSBA School Leadership Conference in October. More details and application are available on PSBA's website.
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2014 PA Gubernatorial Candidate Plans for Education
and Arts/Culture in PA
Education Policy and Leadership Center
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Gubernatorial Candidates and links to information about their plans, if
elected, for education and arts/culture in Pennsylvania. This list will be updated, as more
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