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Follow the 2014 charter
operator money: $75K from Gureghian; $50K from Karp
Blogger's note: According to
Pennsylvania's Campaign Finance website, on March 18th, 2014 Vahan Gureghian,
CEO of Charter School Management, Inc. contributed $75,000 to the PA House
Republican Campaign Committee. On May
5th, 2014 Michael Karp, founder of Belmont
Academy Charter
School , contributed
$50,000 to the PA House Republican Campaign Committee. BTW, both were members of Governor Corbett's
initial education transition team. IMHO,
it would be great to see real old-school investigative journalism and reporting
following the charter school money and the misuse of taxpayer dollars under the
Inky's new Lenfest/Katz regime…..
"Both New Jersey and Pennsylvania are
considering updates to their charter laws that would dilute local control. A Pennsylvania bill would
bypass local boards by allowing universities to authorize and regulate
charters. A New Jersey
bill would vest authority over charters in a new state commission and give
local boards a minority role in approving new schools. Each state's circumstances are different, but
their goals should be the same: Make sure students seeking a better education
in a charter actually get it, and that taxpayers footing the bill get their
money's worth."
Inquirer Editorial: No
turning back on charters
POSTED: Sunday, June 1, 2014, 1:10 AM
Much of the emotional
national debate over school vouchers has subsided in the wake of arguments that
have been just as animated concerning the insidious proliferation of charter
schools. The rapid growth of charters in
the past 10 years indicates America 's
consumer society is beginning to accept the notion that a good education,
rather than being a right, is a commodity to be bought and sold. As a result, the shoppers' motto - "Let
the buyer beware" - has become the slogan for parents trying to choose a
charter school that will deliver what it advertised. Too often, as test scores
attest, they are disappointed.
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20140601_Inquirer_Editorial__No_turning_back_on_charters.html#biy8CL6BBShfMzJI.99
Blogger commentary: As we head into the
thick of budget season, here's a useful historical perspective and context for
the education policy and funding decisions that have played out over the past
three and a half years in Pennsylvania: significant expansion of tax credit
programs that divert tax dollars to unaccountable private and religious
schools, elimination of the entire charter school reimbursement budget line,
expansion of cyber charter schools…..
Corbett transition committees
Post-Gazette December
19, 2010 12:00 AM
A look at the composition of key Corbett transition committee
membership indicates a tilt toward insiders -- lobbyists, lawyers and industry
types. Transition team members were told
not to talk to the media, so their take on the direction of the committees was
not available. But in response to questions
about lobbyists and other government or industry insiders on the transition
committees, Kevin Harley, spokesman for Gov.-elect Tom Corbett, said team
members signed ethics contracts requiring them to steer clear of conflicts of
interest and prohibiting them from using their influence to obtain advantages
for themselves, their families or their companies……..
EDUCATION
Tom Corbett for the most part bypassed the traditional K-12
education community and turned to charter school and voucher supporters, attorneys,
former Ridge administration workers and others for his education transition
committee.
The panel is co-chaired by University of Pittsburgh
Chancellor Mark Nordenberg and Joel Greenberg of
Susquehanna International Group.
The committee includes three top postsecondary executives and
several college trustees, as well as one member of the library community,
Cynthia Richey, director of the Mt. Lebanon Public Library.
The list of 34 members does not include a single active
teacher, district school board member, district administrator or staff member
of the state's two major teacher unions and Pennsylvania School Boards
Association.
The list does, however, includes two who are former school
district superintendents -- one of whom had a top post at the Pennsylvania
State Education Association -- and another who has past K-12 teaching
experience out-of-state.
Charter school advocates dominate the committee. Charter
schools, including cyber charter schools, are public schools. Students do not
pay tuition, but school districts pay a fee set by the state for each resident
who attends.
The REACH Foundation, which advocates for school vouchers, tax
credits, charter schools and home schooling. has a strong presence -- of the 12
members of the REACH executive committee and board, five are on the committee.
The panel has four other charter school advocates, including
three charter school operators and a prominent national figure in the charter
school movement, Jeanne Allen, who founded the Center for Education Reform in Washington , D.C.
The charter school operators include Vahan Gureghian, a wealthy campaign
contributor who started the Chester
County Charter
School and is also a
co-chair on the transportation committee.
The list, counting some of the members of various boards,
includes at least six attorneys as well as several employees of lobbying firms.
Two legislators were named to the committee, state Rep. Paul
Clymer, R-Bucks, Republican chair of the House Education Committee; and state
Sen. Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin, Republican chair of the Senate Education
Committee.
Mr. Corbett has taken some criticism for naming Ana Puig,
co-chair of the Kitchen Table Patriots, to the committee. The Pennsylvania
Democratic Party accused her of hate speech.
Wythe Keever, spokesman for the Pennsylvania State Education
Association, declined to comment on the selections.
"The new governor elect has the right to talk to whomever
he wants to talk to in transitioning to his new administration," Mr.
Keever said.
Tim Allwein, assistant executive director of governmental
relations for the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, said, "I don't
think it was a surprise that the composition of that team leans heavily toward
cyber charter school operators and those who undoubtedly support the voucher
issue." But, he said, "just under 90 percent of school-age children
in Pennsylvania
attend a public school. To totally ignore them, I thought was not the best
decision."
STATEMENTS FROM
SUPERINTENDENT HITE AND SRC CHAIRMAN GREEN ON DELAYED ADOPTION OF FY2015 BUDGET
PHILADELPHIA—Dr. William R. Hite, Superintendent, and
William J. Green, School Reform Commission (SRC) chairman, gave the statements
below at the May 29 SRC meeting.
Pa. budget secretary to
Philly schools: Hey, we've got money problems, too
WHYY Newsworks BY KEVIN
MCCORRY MAY 30, 2014
By refusing
to adopt a budget that would gut schools to the point of "empty
shells," the School Reform Commission clearly intended Thursday evening to
send an urgent message to the people in City Hall and Harrisburg who provide its funding. One of those is Charles Zogby, the state's
budget secretary. In a local appearance Friday, Zogby acknowledged the
district's dire financial straits, but said the district's woes are but one of
many issues that the governor has to weigh this budget season. Gov. Corbett and the state legislature have
to approve a budget before the end of June. In the meantime, Zogby said that
"there's a lot of fluidity," and that "all options are on the
table." He said finding more money for schools is going to be extremely
difficult given the state's own budget gap, which hovers between $1.3 and $1.5
billion dollars
"The governor has proposed, and we have supported, the
concept of increasing education spending," Mr. Pileggi said last week.
"That's a very sensitive topic for our members. That's an area that I
think will receive added scrutiny and added attention. ... There is very broad
support for increased education spending. And it is hard to get to increased
education spending when you have a gap to fill. That's part of the discussion
-- what do we do with the education spending items? [That's] probably the most
sensitive part of the whole discussion."
Deadline looms forPennsylvania 's state
budget
Deadline looms for
By Kate Giammarise /
Post-Gazette Harrisburg
Bureau June
1, 2014 11:52 PM
"That no-revenue-increase scenario would likely mean
erasing the boosts in spending for education, college grants for middle-income
students, and people
with intellectual disabilities, along with other budget lines, that Gov. Tom
Corbett proposed in his $29.4 billion general fund budget in
February. Given that this is a
legislative and gubernatorial election year and the priority that a
recent Franklin & Marshall College poll shows the public has
placed on increasing funding for schools, undoubtedly lawmakers will reject
that notion and look to options to avoid those cuts."
Big decisions await Pa.
lawmakers when they return to Harrisburg on Monday
By Jan Murphy |
jmurphy@pennlive.com on May 30, 2014 at 4:48 PM
June's arrival for many Pennsylvanians signifies the start of
summer fun – beaches, sun and outdoor activities. But at the state Capitol,
it's crunch time. It's more like final
exam week times four (and possibly longer) for state lawmakers and key
legislative staffers. Their days ahead
promise to be filled with information overload, tension, fatigue, badgering by
lobbyists and special interests, and many difficult decisions related mostly to
finalizing a 2014-15 budget plan by or close to June 30, when the fiscal year
ends.
Jazz buff Sen. Vince Hughes
riffs his way through the state budget: John L. Micek
By John L. Micek |
jmicek@pennlive.com on May 09, 2014 at 8:43 AM
On one wall in state Sen. Vince Hughes’ state Capitol
office, jazz legends stare down from framed, black-and-white prints. Miles. Bird. Lady Day. Duke. They cast their
shadow over a conference table in the Philadelphia Democrat’s suite on the
building’s “E” floor (for “entropy” maybe?). And they’re as an apt a metaphor as any
to describe the experience of talking with Hughes, whose jazz solo rhetorical
style is marked by digressions and explorations that eventually return him to
the original theme of the conversation.
And on a rainy Wednesday this week, a looming $1.2 billion budget gap —
and how to fill it — was topic No. 1. It’s something that Hughes, the
ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, has spent a great deal
of time thinking about.
Budget talks begin as revenue
shortfall gets wider
Written by Mary
Wilson, Capitol Bureau Chief | May 29, 2014 7:19 PM
State lawmakers return to Harrisburg next week for the
relatively action-packed month of June. It's a time reserved for finalizing a
state budget before the July 1 deadline, and all signs point to a tough road
ahead. A projected $1.2 billion deficit
is likely to grow, as May tax collections have been lackluster. "May's collection numbers, to date, have
been below what we would've hoped," said GOP Senate Majority Leader
Dominic Pileggi. "So we're very closely watching how the month of May will
close." Republicans, who control
both legislative chambers, are considering what a budget would look like
without any new revenue -- that is, what a budget would look like with
significant spending cuts. "We
haven't really discussed raising revenues yet," said Sen. Jake Corman
(R-Centre), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
May bringing more bad
budget news
By Andrew Staub | PA Independent May 30, 2014
State Sen. Jake
Corman and state
Rep. William Adolph, the Republican chairmen of the state House and Senate
appropriations committees, said Thursday that Pennsylvania’s May revenue
numbers will be as much as $100 million below expectations. That harrowing news comes after revenue from
April — one of the biggest collection months of the year — were short by
$328.3 million. Adjusting for an early $80 million transfer from the state
liquor store profits, a $100 million revenue shortfall in May would leave the
state more than $600 million below expectations for the year. The
Independent Fiscal Office estimated earlier this month that 2013-14 revenue
could end up $608 million below estimates. The hole could still deepen
in June. The shortfall has already
thrown Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget
proposal for next year off-kilter, Adolph said.
'Hybrid' pension reform idea
is worth pursuing: Editorial
By on June 01, 2014 at
5:53 AM
As a new report makes
clear, the pension proposal from Rep. Mike Tobash (R-Schuylkill/Berks) would be
a promising step toward much-needed long-term reform. The Public Employees
Retirement Commission, an independent advisory group to state pension funds, found
Tobash's plan would save roughly $11 billion over the next 30 years. However, his plan is only part of the wider
changes needed to protect both taxpayers and public workers from the drastic underfunding
of state pension systems. Tobash
suggests a new hybrid that combines a smaller guaranteed traditional pension
with the more flexible, but less secure 401k-style retirement savings plans. Because his plan applies only to new hires,
most of the benefit comes in the latter years covered by the analysis. There's
no immediate relief for school districts and state agencies that face painful,
steady increases in pension contributions.
State pension beat: of debt
and design changes
WITF Written by Mary
Wilson, Capitol Bureau Chief | May 29, 2014 7:10 PM
Democratic and Republican state lawmakers differ as to whether
it matters that a plan to change pension benefits doesn't take a big bite out
of the massive debt the state has already accrued.
The Republican plan to change pension benefits for future state
and school employees would bring savings -- just not the kind that would help
the state pay off pension debt much faster than existing law requires. "You won't see big number changes until
you're 25 or 30 changes in the future," said Jim McAneny, executive
director of the Pennsylvania Employee Retirement Commission (PERC).
"Actually, you don't totally see the changes until everybody has joined
the choir invisible -- passed on." Does
it matter that a plan to change pension benefits wouldn't do much to pay off
existing pension debt?
http://www.witf.org/state-house-sound-bites/2014/05/state-pension-beat-of-debt-and-design-changes.php
Architects’ house of
cards
Scranton Times Tribune
BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD Published: May 30, 2014
Soon after the 59-story Citibank tower in New York opened in
1978, its architects and engineers discovered that they hadn’t accounted for
the prospect of high winds in a particular direction that could cause catastrophic
damage. They devised a fix.
Those architects are not Pennsylvania legislators.
In 2001 greedy lawmakers gave themselves a 50 percent pension
increase, cut in state and public school employees for 25 percent, made all of
it retroactive and, a year later, gave retirees a cost of living increase in
their pensions. Then, they announced that the plans’ investment earnings would
cover all of it because, after all, the markets only rise. So, they failed to
make required employer contributions to the plan and advised school boards to
follow suit.
Unfortunately, the markets hadn’t heard about gravity’s repeal.
The “dot-com bubble” burst, markets plummeted and taxpayers were placed on the
hook — all the more so when the markets tumbled even farther six years later
during the Great Recession. Lawmakers responded by protecting themselves,
deferring the issue for more than a decade — until now.
The plans are underfunded by about $50 billion, and the
taxpayers’ cost is projected to increase exponentially for the next two decades
— hundreds of millions of dollars a year, a rate that also diminishes the
government’s ability to deliver needed services.
So it’s hardly surprising that the latest plan to fix the state
pension systems, a “hybrid” covering only new state employees, won’t do much to
help taxpayers while enabling the current generation of politicians to lob the
problem farther down the road to their successors.
Did SRC's refusal to pass
budget help district?
KRISTEN A. GRAHAM, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER POSTED: Sunday,
June 1, 2014, 1:09 AM
As the deadline for the
Philadelphia School District to adopt a budget approached, its leaders gathered
in a room to brainstorm: What could they do to make the numbers work? What
solutions were open to them to avoid 1,000 layoffs, jamming 41 children into
each classroom, and further cutting supports for needy students? "Frankly, there weren't any,"
School Reform Commission Chairman Bill Green said, recalling a conversation he
and other top officials had recently.
Superintendent William
R. Hite Jr. was the first to make the suggestion - what if the SRC didn't pass
a $2.4 billion budget by May 31, the date the city's charter says a spending
plan must be adopted? What if it blew the deadline on purpose? "Dr. Hite said, 'Basically, I can't
support any budget that has this little revenue,' " Green said.
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20140601_Did_SRC_s_refusal_to_pass_budget_help_district_.html#GB82MjyZiDoWqPfJ.99
Philly: One surefire way to
wreck a public school system
How do you wreck a public school system?
There are plenty of ways, but right now let’s just focus on one
district, the state-run Philadelphia School District, which has been starved
for funding by the administration of Republican Gov. Tom Corbett and has been a
guinea pig for corporate school reform, with widespread school closures and
rapid charter expansion in the past decade.
Things are so bad on the financial front that district officials created
a $2.4 billion budget for the next school year with available resources and
then urged the state-created School Reform Commission on Thursday night not to
pass it. The
Notebook, an independent Web site that covers Philadelphia education, said
Superintendent William Hite warned that the budget was not “educationally
sound or economically prudent for the city or the state.” The Notebook
said:
According to Pennsylvania 's Campaign Finance website, on
May 5th, 2014 the Students First PAC contributed $50,000 to the Williams for
Senate campaign. They spent millions on
his failed gubernatorial bid a few years back.
Tony Williams building
support for a 2015 mayoral run
Inquirer by Claudia
Vargas @InqCVargas POSTED: FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2014, 5:05 PM
State Sen. Anthony
Williams held a meeting Friday afternoon with various city, labor and business
leaders to sell them on the idea of why he would be a good mayoral candidate in
2015.
Williams hired
Washington D.C.-based 270 Strategies — made up largely of people who worked on
both Obama campaigns — to run his senate reelection campaign but also to
prepare for a likely 2015 run. “Today
was the first gathering of significant folks who have surrounded me in the last
few years to say we would be interested in you running for mayor and reveal to
them what I’ve been working on the last few years,” Williams said after the
meeting and presentation.
The gathering, held at
the Hilton on City Avenue, was closed off to the press.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/heardinthehall/Tony-Williams-building-support-for-a-2015-mayoral-run.html#O3T2ZA5lHPbILV5m.99
Here's some background from July 2012…..
Will a PAC Pick Philly’s Next
Mayor?
Students First is very interested in City
Council.
The pro-privatization Students First PAC has been a huge player in state
politics from the moment it emerged in 2010 flush with cash, much of it from
three local businessmen who together founded Susquehanna
International Group, a global investment company. Students First gave State Sen. Anthony Williams—a
leading Democratic proponent of school vouchers—a staggering $3.65 million for
his failed gubernatorial run. And ever since, the PAC has showered smaller sums
on state representatives and senators receptive to the organization’s goal of
sweeping education reform.
“We’re still licking our wounds from the spending cuts in
2011,” Cave said. ….“We’re not looking
to build a multimillion-dollar gym. We’re looking at very very basic needs.
By NICK TRICOME, Delco Times Correspondent POSTED: 06/01/14,
10:00 PM
William Penn Board Member Rafi Cave put it simply at the school
district’s monthly business meeting.
“We’re still licking our wounds from the spending cuts in 2011,” Cave
said.
Although the school district itself is struggling financially,
it isn’t the only one feeling the effects from governor Tom Corbett’s $900
million cut to the education budget from three years ago. The impact is being
felt statewide. “Schools are making
base-level, necessity type decisions for basic survival,” Cave said. “We’re not
looking to build a multimillion-dollar gym. We’re looking at very very basic needs.
Wilkinsburg budget cuts
teachers, expands courses
By Mary Niederberger / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 30, 2014
11:54 PM
The Wilkinsburg school board
is considering a $28 million 2014-15 budget that calls for a staff reduction of
at least nine teachers but will offer more courses for students by merging the
faculties of the middle and high schools.
The number of furloughs could increase if the teachers union accepts a
tentative contract approved unanimously by the board Friday. The current high school schedule offers no
math beyond pre-calculus, no upper level science, English or foreign language
courses, no advanced placement or computer courses and just a handful of
electives.
Charter operators are letting their
legislators know their thoughts on pending legislation ($75K from Gureghian;
$50K from Karp); are you?
Our Missing $200 Million
We’d like our $200
million back, please. That’s how much money charter schools in Pennsylvania
collected last year for special education in excess of what they actually spent
on special education for students. Charter schools took in over $350 million,
but spent only $150 million. (Or $350,562,878 vs. $156,003,034 to be
exact.) So where’s our extra $200 million? (OK, $193,559,844 to be exact.) Our colleague, Mark Spengler, who is a public
education advocate in the Lehigh Valley and tracked down this data, points out
that, “charter schools are not obligated to spend special education funding for
special education purposes. That money can be spent for numerous
miscellaneous reasons including billboards and mailer advertisements.” [Lower Macungie Patch, 5-26-14] Last year, the Pennsylvania legislature
created a Special Education Funding Commission to devise a new funding formula.
Deplorably, the old formula did not reimburse schools for the actual cost of
educating students with special needs, which resulted in great inequities (and
under-funding for some of the state’s most vulnerable children). The
bi-partisan commission’s recommendations formed the basis for House Bill 2138
and Senate Bill 1316 now under consideration. These bills would create a fair
and rational system of funding special education in Pennsylvania based on
actual costs. However, Harrisburg lobbyists are threatening to kill the two
bills.
Our partner, Education
Voters PA, is making it easy for us to help fight back:
Shameless Lobbying by Charter
Schools Jeopardizes Solid Special Education Reform
Lower Macungie Patch Posted by Mark Spengler , May
26, 2014 at 02:25 PM
Pennsylvania charter schools collected $350,562,878 last
year for special education funding and spent $156,003,034 for
special education! Where did the other $200 million go? The fact of
the matter is that charter schools are not obligated to spend special
education funding for special education purposes. That money can be
spent for numerous miscellaneous reasons including billboards and mailer
advertisements.
Act 3 of 2013 created a Special Education Funding Commission
given the task of examining special education funding and recommending a new
formula for distributing funding to PA schools. The old formula was not
based on actual special education costs. The commission, which included
local Senator Patrick Browne, held 7 hearings, including 2 that focused totally
on charter school funding of special education. The commission's
efforts resulted in House bill 2138 and Senate Bill 1316 which base
special education funding on costs.
"Last December, Pearson paid $7.7
million Iin New York State
to settle accusations that it used its charitable foundation to help its
for-profit parent company develop course materials and software for Common
Core. If you thought that would
disqualify them from the Common Core bonanza, you filled in the wrong little
oval. In May, Pearson won the
testing contract for Common Core states. We don’t know how much money this is,
but at $24 per student we could be looking at the largest testing contract in
history."
Common Core opposition is no
joke
Behind Frenemy Lines Blog June 1, 2014 by Jason Stanford
It’s hard to tell what’s a bigger joke: Common Core or Common
Core critics. Rightwing hysteria that Common Core will turn our children into
gay socialists—not kidding about that one—is overshadowing legitimate reasons
to oppose it. The problem with Common Core isn’t that Barack Obama is
brainwashing our children. It’s that the brand new curriculum is being ruined
by the same old tests. The Common Core
State Standards Initiative began innocently enough under George W. Bush.
Governors and state education officials convened to determine what to teach our
children in math and English to get them ready for college. Then Barack Obama
got elected and offered competitive grants to states through Race to the Top,
whereupon Common Core became an insidious plot to destroy America . It’s gotten a little out of hand. In March, a
Florida state
representative said the
purpose of Common Core was to “attract every one of your children to become as
homosexual as they possibly can.” The Oklahoma
legislature just voted to repeal Common Core standards because, as one state
representative said,
it was “indoctrinating” children into socialism. An Alabama Tea Party
leader warned legislators
that voting to adopt Common Core would damn them to Hell because it promoted
“acceptance of homosexuality, alternate lifestyles, radical feminism, abortion,
illegal immigration and the redistribution of wealth.”
"Between 1971 and 2010, the authors write, supreme
courts in 28 states responded to large gaps between richer and poorer school
districts by reforming
school finance systems. Although the changes had limited consequences for
children from higher-income families, the paper says, they had large effects on
the life chances of low-income children who were exposed to sizable and
sustained spending increases."
School Spending Increases
Linked to Better Outcomes for Poor Students
Education Week By Holly Yettick Published Online: May 29, 2014
In districts that substantially increased their spending as the
result of court-ordered changes in school finance, low-income children were
significantly more likely to graduate from high school, earn livable wages, and
avoid poverty in adulthood. So concludes
a working paper published
this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research, or NBER, a private,
nonpartisan research organization with headquarters in Cambridge , Mass. The provocative results provide new fodder
for long-running debates over whether more education spending translates into
improved outcomes for children. They also delve into thorny methodological
questions over how to best estimate the way in which state-level school finance
reforms have affected district-level spending.
Winning School Board
Candidates in New York
Area Backed by Opt-Out Group
Education Week K12
Parents and the Public Blog By on May 28, 2014
In New
York 's Nassau and Suffolk counties, 21 school board candidates
endorsed by a grassroots group that advocates for students' rights to refuse
state standardized testing won seats in the May 20 election. Long Island Opt Out backed a total of 42
candidates across 26 districts, according to Newsday,
giving the group a 50 percent success rate. The winning school board candidates
even managed to unseat six incumbents. A
recent Newsday survey of
more than half of Long Island's school districts found that 10,765 children, or
about 1 of 8 students, opted out of the latest round of state math tests this
month. A growing number of New York parents have protested against standardized
testing after the state realigned its assessment system to meet the more
challenging Common Core State Standards.(Read
more about the opt-out movement nationally here.)
Education
Policy and Leadership Center
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Information
PCCY invites you to get on
the School Spirit Bus to Harrisburg on Tuesday June 10th for Fair and Full
School Funding!
Public Citizens for Children and Youth
On Tuesday June 10th, Public Citizens for Children
and Youth (PCCY) will be going to Harrisburg. Join committed parents,
leaders, and community members from around state to make it clear to Harrisburg
that PA students need fair and full funding now! We are providing free
transportation to and from Harrisburg as well as lunch. Please
arrive at the United
Way Building
located at 1709 Benjamin Franklin
Parkway no later than8:15am. The bus will
depart at 8:30am sharp! Reserve your seat today by emailing us
at info@pccy.org or
calling us at 215-563-5848
x11. You can download and share our flyer by clicking here. We hope to see you there!
Pennsylvania Education Summit
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM (EDT) Camp Hill, PA
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
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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