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PA Ed Policy Roundup for June 10, 2014: Six
arrested, hundreds protest Corbett, Christie during Phila. stop
"In recent years, movement on other issues, such as
transportation or charter school reform, have gotten linked to the budget
negotiations. But both Senate and House leaders deny that has happened this
year, but House Majority Whip Stan Saylor, R-York added the caveat, "not
at this point," in his denial."
Deadline for completing an
on-time state budget by June 30 is 'dog years' away, Scarnati says
By Jan Murphy |
jmurphy@pennlive.com on June 09, 2014 at 4:12 PM
While the calendar indicates only 21 days remain in June, Senate
President Pro Tempore Joe
Scarnati sees that as leaving plenty of time for state lawmakers to
complete work on an on-time budget and
still meet the end-of-the month deadline.
"It's always painfully slow at the beginning" of June when
budget talks start to get serious, said Scarnati, R-Jefferson County
"With Pennsylvania
Gas Production Booms,
Drillers’ Corporate Tax Payments Plummet
PA Budget and Policy
Center
The market value of natural gas produced in Pennsylvania exceeded $11.8 billion in 2013
yet natural gas producers pay among the lowest effective production tax rates
in the country.[1] Companies
paid $223 million in impact fee for gas produced in 2013,[2] for an
effective tax rate of less than 1.9%. Recent
reports by the Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office[3] and
Headwaters Economics/Oklahoma Policy Institute[4] both
identified Pennsylvania as having the lowest effective production tax rate in
the shale states the groups studied.
Even as gas production boomed, corporate net income tax (CNIT)
payments made by drilling companies have fallen to pre-Marcellus
drilling levels according to Department of Revenue compiled data. In 2013, oil
and gas producers[5] paid
just $10.3 million in corporate net income taxes. A big jump in CNIT in 2011
proved to be an anomaly, as more recent corporate tax payments have fallen to
below 2008 levels. In 2013, oil and gas producers paid just 9% of corporate
income taxes collected from the industry while drilling support companies,
pipeline, distribution and other related companies paid the other 91%.[6]
Charter school supporters
oppose proposal to change special education funding
By Gideon Bradshaw |
gbradshaw@pennlive.com on June 09, 2014 at 6:08 PM, updated June
09, 2014 at 6:10 PM
The children's message that echoed through the halls of the
state Capitol on Monday boiled down to three simple words they chanted at the
top of their lungs: "Save our school."
Students, teachers, parents and administrators from Pennsylvania charter
schools came to the Capitol to urge legislators to oppose two
identical bills in the House and Senate they say would seriously hurt
or close charter schools in the state by cutting the funds they receive for
special education. "We are
second-class citizens of our public education system and that is not right or
fair," said Lorenzo Hough, board president of the Global Leadership Academy in Philadelphia .
The special education funding proposal is designed to
allocate funds for special education more equitably to meet the needs of
individual districts, but advocates for charter schools say it contains a
provision that would unfairly cut the special education funds going to charter
schools.
While the charter students might feel like "second
class citizens", the operators of the state's largest cyber charter, the
state's largest brick and mortar charter and the immediate past CEO of K12,
Inc. certainly do not…..
PA Charter Schools: $4 billion taxpayer dollars with
no real oversight
PA. PENSION TIME BOMB - Pottstown Mercury Series
A look at the public pension
crisis in Pennsylvania ,
causes and effects.
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Editorial: School districts
getting no help with big pension bills
Delco Times Editorial POSTED: 06/09/14, 9:46 PM EDT |
The pension time bomb in
Pennsylvania
is a $50 billion funding liability loaded with politically explosive
issues. Trying to change pension benefit
packages in the Public School Employee Retirement System faces objection from
the teachers’ union, a powerful force in state politics and a strong defender
of public educators’ financial security.
On the other side of the equation are school boards trying to balance
budgets with growing pension costs and mounting pressure to keep down property
taxes and maintain programs in the classroom.
Maintaining the status quo, however, has created a financial time bomb
in a system that pays out more in benefits to public school retirees than it
takes in. The pension shortfall in Pennsylvania
is $50 billion, up from $40 billion a year ago.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The state House of Representatives on
Monday approved a bill to modernize the handling of state reimbursements for
school construction projects amid Democrats' criticism that it won't help
cash-strapped districts. The 109-86 vote
will send the measure to the Senate. The
bill would create an electronic database of construction projects and
streamline what is now a largely paper-driven system administered by the
Department of Education, said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Seth Grove. A moratorium on new reimbursement
applications, proposed by Gov. Tom Corbett and approved by the Legislature, was
imposed in October 2012. The state has limited reimbursements to $296 million a
year since then.
"The idea that the cyber-schooling model, often touted
as the latest and greatest alternative option for education, isn't a good fit
for every student is becoming more apparent.
For the past several months, state legislators and education experts
have been clambering for what they say are much-needed reforms for both cyber-
and brick-and-mortar charter schools, particularly when it comes to funding and
student performance. And in the
veritable Wild West that is cyber education, one thing is clear, thanks to
statistics from the state Department of Education: Something's not
working."
Alternative education model fails students, burdens
taxpayers
By VINNY VELLA For the Pocono Record June
08, 2014
Jonathan Webber spent what would've been his senior year at Pocono Mountain
East High
School
"One reason I didn't like public school is that it's one
size fits all," said Webber, 22. "You have to learn the material at
the same pace as everyone else. You can't move ahead or go into an area that
interests you more." So Webber
traded East's halls for a laptop and Internet connection, and enrolled in 21st
Century Cyber Charter School, headquartered in Chester County
"Hold Harmless has determined how state education funds
are distributed to school districts for nearly 25 years now, since going into
effect in the 1989-90 school year. Each district's enrollment that year became
the base on which funding allocation has been determined for every school year
thereafter. This is a good thing for 90
percent of Pennsylvania
G-A taking mission to change
school funding formula to Harrisburg
By Amber South asouth@publicopinionnews.com @AESouthPO on Twitter
UPDATED:
06/09/2014 05:46:03 PM EDT0
COMMENTS
GREENCASTLE >> Greencastle-Antrim School
District
Superintendent Greg
Hoover, school board President Brian Hissong, board Vice President Eric
Holtzman and Business Manager Jolinda Wilson will take their mission to change
the funding distribution method "Hold Harmless" to the Capitol in Harrisburg , in a meeting
with PDE in the office of Sen. John Eichelberger, R-Hollidaysburg. Acting
Secretary of Education Carolyn Dumaresq is expected to participate.
By Jacqueline Palochko, Of The Morning Call 1:43 p.m.
EDT, June 9, 2014
Leaders of a proposed charter school in the Easton Area
School District Strong
Foundations Charter
School
"During the meeting, the board also heard a resolution
that would approve the issuance of a request for proposals for external
operators to run one, multiple or all district schools in 2015-16. No board
members asked questions after the resolution was read aloud.
David Meckley, the district's chief recovery officer, said
later that it is his recommendation the board proceed with the request for
proposals."
Expanding pre-K, other initiatives might have to be put off
York Daily Record By
Angie Mason amason@ydr.com @angiemason1 on Twitter
UPDATED:
06/09/2014 09:57:40 PM EDT0
COMMENTS
To help close a nearly
$5 million deficit, the York City School Board will consider a 2014-15 budget
later this month that doesn't include some initiatives the district hoped to
take on next year, such as expanding pre-kindergarten. At the same time, the board will decide
whether to issue a request for proposals from charter operators for the 2015-16
school year.
District officials had
previously said they hoped to cover the deficit by negotiating new collective
bargaining agreements with employees that included concessions that are part of
the financial recovery plan. But new contracts have not been worked out. Supt.
Eric Holmes said administrators are looking at other ways to close the gap,
with the least impact to students.
"Unfortunately, we
have to put off, postpone or eliminate some of the things we wanted to do in
order to balance the budget," he said.
By BARBARA ORMSBY, Times
Correspondent
POSTED: 06/09/14,
10:49 PM EDT | UPDATED: 2 SECS AGO
The total millage rate
in the new budget will be 39.25 mills. For a house in the district assessed at
the average of $103,000, the school tax bill will rise by $21. The average tax
bill will come in at about $4,047. When
the school board gave approval to the proposed final budget at its May meeting,
district Superintendent Lee Ann Wentzel told school board members that factors
affecting the new budget included $2,204,746 in additional pension costs
because of the increasing employer share amounting to 27.34 percent, special
education expenditures that continue to climb without corresponding funding
support from state and federal resources resulting in 6.55 percent increase in
costs, and low interest earnings.
3 commonsense solutions to
adequately fund public education in Pennsylvania
WHYY Newsworks COMMENTARY BY JAMES SANDO JUNE 9, 2014 ESSAYWORKS
James Sando is a teacher in the Wissahickon School District
Just three years ago, before nearly $1 billion in cuts to K-12
public education, the investment that Pennsylvania
was making in its public schools was paying off and the state was being
recognized as a national leader in academic achievement. In fact, in 2010 the
Center on Education Policy cited the Commonwealth for recordinggains
in all academic categories from 2002 to 2008.
Today there are 20,000
fewer teachers and support professionals, including nurses to respond to
critical medical emergencies and guidance counselors to help steer a troubled
child or assist with the college admission process. Class sizes have increased
significantly. In some districts, there are not enough funds to purchase new
text books; summer school and tutoring programs have been eliminated or
reduced; and there are fewer language and other elective courses. Gone are many
art and music classes; and extra-curricular activities — including sports —
have vanished or require a participation fee. What's more, some schools are
failing to meet their obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act because they are unable to provide all required services for
students with special needs.
"While most print media companies are under financial
assault, the nonprofit Notebook continues to flourish because of its
grass-roots approach, said editor and publisher Paul Socolar. "We weren't started by a bunch of
venture capitalists," he said. "From the very beginning, we had diverse
revenue streams, including raising money from our readers."
The Notebook: Two decades of
reporting on education
TIRDAD DERAKHSHANI, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER LAST UPDATED: Tuesday, June 10, 2014, 1:08 AM
We Americans may be
passive about politics, even ignorant about history and geography - but we've
always been passionate about our children's education. Witness the continued
success of the scrappy start-up news organization called the Philadelphia
Public School Notebook.
On Tuesday, the Notebook
will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a party at the University of the Arts
featuring music, exhibits, and an awards ceremony. First produced in photocopiers and
distributed by hand in supermarkets and community meetings, the Notebook has
grown into a respected journal providing in-depth coverage of the city's 212
public schools and the system that supposedly holds them together.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20140610_The_Notebook__Two_decades_of_reporting_on_education.html#1po4WV5zdXVaFJ6D.99
Corbett gets silent treatment
at MU graduation
Lancaster Online by P.J.
REILLY Staff Writer
You could hear a pin drop on Chryst Field at Biemesderfer
Stadium when Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett finished his commencement speech
Saturday at Millersville
University
Normally, such speeches elicit rowdy applause from the students
awaiting their diplomas.
Not this time.
Millersville's 2013 graduating class refused to clap.
About a dozen students - and at least three professors -
weren't even facing Corbett.
When he started to speak, they stood up, turned their chairs
around and sat back down.
Chet Klinedinst, of Lancaster ,
was one of the students who turned his back on Corbett.
"I turned my chair around because I felt like I needed to
show my disapproval of the cuts that were going to be taken to the budget for
public education in Pennsylvania ,"
he said.
Corbett hides in the Comcast
castle
Philly Daily News
Attytood Blog by Will Bunch MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2014, 5:12 PM
Note: See two updates at bottom for newer details:
Hey, remember that time
when Gov. Corbett was supposed to speak to students at Central High here in
Philadelphia and when he heard that some of the students and teachers were
going to protest his appearance (if not his very existence) he bravely turned his tail and fled to the safety of his office at the
swank Bellevue Hotel, barring non-journalists from the room?
If you think that was
cowardly, check out what brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Corbett is up today.
Teamed up with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for what was supposed to be a
Republican Governors Association fundraiser at the Union League, the embattled
governor faced a civil war from hundreds of protesters who got wind of the
closed-door event and gathered outside.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/How-far-will-politicians-go-to-deny-health-care-to-their-constituents.html#jHqmPjuJm1yFWLMF.99
"In recent months, Christie has been traveling the
country as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. The group has been
Corbett's biggest contributor in past years - and has given Corbett $1.8
million in his bid for reelection this year, according to records."
Six arrested, hundreds protest Corbett, Christie during Phila. stop
Six arrested, hundreds protest Corbett, Christie during Phila. stop
ALLISON STEELE AND JULIA
TERRUSO, INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
LAST UPDATED: Tuesday, June 10, 2014, 1:08 AM
POSTED: Monday, June 9, 2014,
5:31 PM
As many as 1,000 protesters, many angry about school funding,
blocked traffic and waved signs in Center
City
Six people were arrested for obstructing the highway - a
summary offense - after sitting down on 17th Street . Police did not use handcuffs
as they led them away. The names of
those arrested were not available Monday night, but a statement from the
coalition group Fight for Philly identified them as "parents, activists,
and retired teachers."
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20140610_Hundreds_protest_Corbett__Christie_in_Phila__stop.html#AvPced8pOHsjJf3r.99
Governor Corbett runs from Philadelphia
Parents United Posted on June 10, 2014 by
In a large rally
yesterday, Parents United for Public Education joined with our partners at
PCAPS to greet Governor Tom Corbett who was trolling for campaign
dollars with Gov. Chris Christie at an event hosted by the Republican
Governors Association. Originally intended for the Union League, the campaign
suddenly switched locations the day of the event – surprising members of the
Union League. It moved instead to the headquarters of Comcast Corporation,
which has pledged to back Governor Corbett in the gubernatorial race. It’s not the first time Corbett has run from
his own constituents. In January, the governor refused to face the students and staff at Central High
School, suddenly switching his appearance from his first public
school visit to sequestration inside his offices at the Bellevue
Hotel.
You have to wonder about
the leadership of a governor who runs from the very people who live the
consequences of the policies he imposes.
"Corbett was elected in 2010 after campaigning with a
pledge to enact no new taxes, including one on the fracking industry. His
campaign had received nearly $1.3 million from the oil and natural gas companies,
according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics. That figure
does not include funds from the industry that was filtered through the
Republican Governors Association, which gave Corbett $6 million during his
first campaign, the institute stated."
Natural gas industry money flowing intoPennsylvania
Natural gas industry money flowing into
Governor has so far
refused to tax fracking, but faces a large budget shortfall.
Morning Call By Ben
Finley, Of The Philadelphia
Inquirer 11:48 p.m. EDT, June 9, 2014
In what seems to be a reprise of four years ago, hundreds of
thousands of dollars are pouring into the race for Pennsylvania governor from company
executives with ties to the state's burgeoning natural gas industry. But the donations, almost entirely to
Gov. Tom Corbett, are flowing with one key difference: The
stakes are even higher for both the companies' fracking profits and the
Republican Corbett, one of the country's most vulnerable governors. Corbett is being challenged by Democrat Tom
Wolf, a York County businessman who has
pledged to add a 5 percent tax on fracking.
By on June 09, 2014 at 7:39 PM
The Bethlehem
Area School District wants to
hire Blended Schools Network to help bolster its online learning efforts. Bethlehem
launched a full-time cyber academy in 2012-13 looking to draw back students who
have left the district for cyber charter schools. About 30 students have
enrolled saving about $90,000 to $100,000 in tuition fees the district would
have had to pay for those students to attend the charter schools. Then in the 2013-14 school year, Bethlehem
Area began offering district students the chance to take some or parts of a
course online. Bethlehem worked with VLN
Partners, which handles its cyber academy, to have Bethlehem teachers customize VLN's online
curriculum.
School break poses challenge
for hungry
Sponsors step up to
plate with summer nutrition programs
By Matt Nussbaum / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette June 8, 2014 11:49 PM
The end of school can
mark the beginning of hunger for thousands of local children.
For the nearly 50,000
public school students in Allegheny
County Action Center
A recent report from
FRAC showed that in Pennsylvania
only 18.7 percent of students who received meals during the school year were
reached by summer nutrition programs last summer.
"As public charter schools grow at a rapid pace — in
just over a decade, enrolled students have increased from 300,000 to 2.1
million — they contribute to a cultural shift that views teaching as a
temporary commitment. Teach for America
The greening of the American
teacher
Scarcity of experienced educators is not a
chance development, and it is ruining US schools
Al Jazeera by @theasideblog @GSipley June 9, 2014 12:15AM ET
One year of teaching experience is the new normal in America ’s classrooms. Nationwide,
schools are embracing tenderfoot teachers instead of skilled, veteran educators
— what the industry calls master teachers, an informal moniker that denotes
expertise in content creation, differentiated instruction and student outcomes
in the face of education reform.
According to multiple peer-reviewed
studies, the professional
longevity of a master teacher — someone who has eight or more consecutive years
in the classroom — leads to increased student engagement and academic success.
These hallmarks of an exceptional education have become less than visible in
the United States ’
school system, which has not been deemed exceptional or even satisfactory for
quite some time, according to international rankings by
the Programme for International Student Assessment. Mediocrity in American
education will persist as long as we have a disproportionate number of green
teachers. What’s worse is that this mediocrity is easily avoidable and fully
intentional.
"How could we leave
educational decisions to corporations whose priority is to make a profit and to
politicians who only care about being reelected? What has happened to the
common good? What has happened is that we no longer live in a representative
democracy, but a ‘consumer republic’ where everything is for sale, even our
future, even our children."
HEY TEACH!!! – THE FAMINE OF
OUR TIMES (AND THOSE WHO FEAST UPON IT)
Paradigm Magazine Column Written
by Jason
Finn Published On May 28, 2014 |
Jason Finn, Ed.D., is a former U.S.
Are we a poor country?
Are we a country that requires the help of more developed countries for basic
necessities? No, of course not.
Then, why do we starve
our children? Why do we provide them with anything less than a stellar
education? Why do we leave so many children hungry, their schools left to
nibble on scraps – dull curriculum with scarce resources in antiquated
buildings? Because education of our youth has become a profit machine and,
while our children hunger, quite a few feast upon them.
A healthy democracy
needs an educated citizenry that can think critically, solve complex problems,
and engage positively in an ever-increasingly interconnected world. Our
children are being schooled to fill in a bubble.
No longer is the
question regarding how to educate our children about just effectively
allocating resources, balancing a budget, and fielding a football team. This is
a human rights issue! And in this moment in our history, our children are being
shafted. On purpose, for a profit.
PDK chief shares insight on
nation’s views of public education
NSBA School Board News Today by Joetta Sack-Min June 9, 2014
Bill Bushaw, the Executive Director of Phi Delta Kappa
International, discussed the top issues and key findings from the 2013
PDK/Gallup poll on public schools with the National School Boards Association’s
(NSBA) Board of Directors this week. The
annual poll, one of the most comprehensive surveys of this country’s attitudes
toward public education, consistently has shown strong support for local public
schools. In particular it recently has found that parents of children in public
schools are giving their schools increasingly high grades, with the majority
giving their oldest child’s school a grade of “A” or “B.”
At his presentation to NSBA, Bushaw discussed key topics from
the 2013 data that included Common Core State Standards, school safety, school
choice, and vouchers, among others. For the 2014 report, which will be released
later this summer, Bushaw noted that the analysis will include data on
international comparisons. He noted that
PDK/Gallup’s data show confusion around the Common Core State Standards. More
generally, the public also has expressed a lack of confidence in standardized
testing.
Two of the five biggest
states in the country by K-12 enrollment, California
and Florida ,
are now battlegrounds for either new or evolving lawsuits that focus on the
adequacy and use of resources given to schools and in turn to students. The suit in California
is a new one, filed on behalf of students at seven schools in both the Bay Area
and southern California on May 29 by the ACLU
Foundation of Southern California and others.
And the Florida
suit I'm highlighting is an expanded version of a suit originally filed to
target school choice programs. Let's tackle California first.
Ravitch: Time for Congress to
investigate Bill Gates’ role in Common Core
The critical role that Bill Gates played in the creation and
implementation of the Common Core State Standards initiative is the
subject of
this story by my Post colleague Lyndsey Layton. She explains how
Gates was persuaded in 2008 by Gene Wilhoit, then-director of the
Council for Chief State School Officers, and David Coleman, at the time an
educational consultant and now president of the College Board, to
use his foundation’s vast fortune to fund the creation and marketing of
what became the Common Core. The story also shows how Gates money was spread
around to help the marketing of the initiative to states and other education
constituencies. As a result of
the article, Diane Ravitch, an education historian who has become the
unofficial leader of the movement fighting corporate school reform, called
Gates’ involvement in the Core as something of an education
“coup” by a private philanthropist. In this post, she urges Congress
to hold hearings about the Gates role and the connection between his foundation
and the Education Department.
IS PENNSYLVANIA
Education Voters of Pennsylvania ,
the NAACP and the Keystone State Education Coalition are sponsoring a public
meeting with speakers from the Public Interest Law
Center of Philadelphia
and the Education Law Center
When: Monday June 16th, 6-7 PM
Where: Delaware County Community College Southeast Center
Learn about how a statewide legal strategy could help students
in William Penn, Southeast Delco and
neighboring districts and how you might participate. Legal experts
and attorneys will be present to talk about the law, your children’s rights and
a potential lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania based
on the state Constitutional requirement to provide an education.
More info: http://keystonestateeducationcoalition.blogspot.com/2014/06/is-pennsylvanias-system-of-school.html
PA Business-Education Partnership
Featuring:
Welcome By Governor Tom Corbett (invited)
Remarks Acting Secretary of Education Carolyn Dumaresq
(confirmed)
Perceptions & comments of business leaders, educators,
college presidents, and advocacy groups
Full agenda here: http://www.bipac.net/pbc/2014-PA-Education-Summit-Agenda.pdf
Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/pennsylvania-education-summit-tickets-11529363637?aff=eorgf
Come to Harrisburg
Wednesday, June 18, Monday, June 23, and Monday, June 30
Education Voters PA
Governor Corbett’s “election-year” budget is falling apart.
Revenue projections are down and Corbett and state legislators are looking to
make more than $1.2 billion in cuts to his proposed 2014-2015
budget. Lobbyists will be swarming the
Capitol in the month of June and we need to be there, too. Join Pennsylvanians from throughout the
commonwealth as we send a loud and clear message that after three years of
balancing the state budget on the backs of Pennsylvania’s public school
children, it is time for our state government to do what is right and pass a
fair budget that will provide students with the opportunities they need to meet
state standards and be successful after they graduate.
Details: http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6041/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=7059
Cloaking
Inequity Blog by Julian
Vasquez Heilig May 23, 2014 | | 1
Comment
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Do you believe in public education? Do you
want US policymakers to understand why decision makers in Chile have now
judged vouchers to be problematic after 30 years of universal implementation?
Do you have frequent flier miles you can donate? Sponsor a grad student
today! This summer, I along with eight
UT-Austin graduate students will travel to Santiago, Chile in August 2014 with
Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig to conduct field research that will result in a
policy brief, op-eds and a peer-reviewed academic paper detailing recent changes in
Chile’s market-based education policy proposed this past April by Chile’s
current Education Minister Nicholas Eyzaguirre.
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.
Education
Policy and Leadership Center
Click
here to read more about EPLC’s Education Policy Fellowship Program, including:
2014-15 Schedule 2014-15 Application Past Speakers Program Alumni And More
Information
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. This list will be updated, as more
information becomes available.
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