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PA Ed Policy Roundup for October
16, 2014:
Spending tax
$ on cyber charter tuition: "it’s
a pretty clear choice between (School Performance Profile scores) 97 and
39"
BASIC
EDUCATION FUNDING COMMISSION PUBLIC MEETING
Thursday, October 16, 2014 10:00
AM Perkiomen Valley
(public hearing to consider
other state's funding formulas and weights; and level of local support and
taxing capacity)
Pa. General Assembly extends
the 2013-14 legislative session; goals remain modest
By PennLive.com on October 15, 2014 at 11:01 PM, updated October
15, 2014 at 11:20 PM
This post was updated at 11:20 p.m. Wednesday to correct an
error.
The 2013-14 legislative session isn't over yet.
The state Senate is expected back Thursday to complete it's
work. The House - which broke for the week Wednesday evening - will come back
next Monday to finish debate on bills the Senate is dealt with tonight and
Thursday. Still no major deals in sight,
but a long list of bills have already made their way to Gov. Tom Corbett's desk
this week, and a few more are expected to cross the lawmaking finish line by
Monday. Here's a look at some of the
highlights.
By Wallace McKelvey | PennLive.com on October 15, 2014 at
7:11 PM, updated October 15, 2014 at 10:35 PM
Legislation designed to prevent abusive teachers from
relocating to another school district will go to Gov. Tom Corbett for enactment
after being unanimously approved by the House on Wednesday evening. Corbett is likely to sign it, said the
governor's spokesman Jay Pagni.
The bill would bar schools from entering
into contracts that suppress information about investigations of abuse and
sexual misconduct, as well as prevent schools from transferring problem
teachers from school district to school district, a practice called"pass the trash."
House Bill 1816, which was approved 195-0, was introduced in
the wake of a raft of lawsuits and revelations of widespread abuse in the school
system.
By Kate Giammarise/ Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau October 16, 2014 12:08 AM
Labor unions and their advocates have said they see the measure
as part of a broader, Republican-lead attack on unions and collective
bargaining rights.
Failed school funding reform
to be brought up in the future
By Christian Alexandersen | PennLive.com
on October 15, 2014 at 4:41 PM, updated October 15, 2014 at 5:41 PM
on October 15, 2014 at 4:41 PM, updated October 15, 2014 at 5:41 PM
Legislators plan on bringing back varying approaches to
reform the way Pennsylvania
schools are funded in the future after their bills failed to pass this year.
Two approaches to reform the school property tax reform bills
were introduced in the Pennsylvania General Assembly in the 2013-2014 session,
one by Rep. Seth Grove, R-Dover, and another by Sen. David Argall, R-Schuylkill County.
Listen: 7 minutes with Gov.
Corbett on education spending and competing priorities
WHYY Newsworks BY KEVIN
MCCORRY OCTOBER 15, 2014
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett came to WHYY studios Friday to
answer a wide array of questions from various reporters during an hourlong
visit. Aside from NewsWorks Tonight host
Dave Heller's interview,
the conversations weren't intended to be broadcast in their entirety.
But upon reviewing the tape – considering the importance of
education as an issue in this election – I decided to post my full, unedited
seven-minute conversation with Corbett, who is seeking re-election to a second
term. Some of what the Republican
incumbent says will become content for analysis pieces in the coming weeks, as
well as for our hourlong election special hosted by senior reporter Dave
Davies. That's slated to air at the end of the month.
Democratic challenger Tom Wolf will be here this Friday morning
to face a similar array of questions. I plan to post my unedited interview with
him next week.
Wolf visits Caln, promises
increased school funding
By Kristina Scala, Daily Local News POSTED: 10/14/14,
8:42 PM EDT
Caln >> Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf
toured Coatesville Area School District’s Caln Elementary School before speaking
with local educators and school administrators about his plan to increase
school funding if elected. “You have specific issues here that are
important to the school district,” Wolf said to a group of about 15 school
district staff members standing outside the elementary school. “There’s a lot
of school districts facing the same issue and one of the key reasons I’m
running for office is because I think this is something that we need to take
seriously.”
“….if enough start making noise and
discussing this in public, then maybe legislators will start to pay attention.
It’s ridiculous for us to waste half a million in tax dollars.”
Haverford School Board
decries cyber charter payments
Delco Times By Lois Puglionesi,
Times Correspondent POSTED: 10/15/14, 9:11 AM EDT |
HAVERFORD >> When it came time to approve the school
district’s October check register, school board Vice President Coleen Bennett
voiced concerns regarding payments to cyber charter schools. Pointing to a $43,628 payment to Education
Plus Academy Cyber Charter School, Bennett noted that Education Plus had a
School Performance Profile score of 39 (in 2012-13), while Haverford’s was 97.7
this year.
“Everyone has the right to make a choice, but I hope parents
are making an informed choice,” she said.
Bennett added that Haverford offers a Blended School program that
accommodates home-schoolers and online learning, as well. “I encourage people to look at that because I
think it’s a pretty clear choice between 97 and 39,” she said.
Also included on the register was a $9,573.32 payment for 21st
Century Cyber Charter, which had a 66.5 profile score in 2012-13. A $7,635
payment went to Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, which had a 59.4 profile
score. Another payment of $6,522.30 was for Pennsylvania Leadership Charter
School, with a profile score of 64.7.
Bennett said the district has no real choice regarding the
payments. Although school directors can vote against authorization, the
Pennsylvania Department of Education would eventually “pull the money for it.”
Attytood: 'Dear America, We
Give Our Schools Third-World Level Resources...With Love, Philadelphia XOXO'
Philly Daily News Attytood Blog by Will Bunch POSTED: WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 15, 2014, 3:41 PM
Philadelphia spends millions of dollars to tell the world --
tourists, young entrepreneurs, expansion-minded CEOs -- why they should come
here. And they make a pretty good case -- a bustling Center City and a growing
roster of hip neighborhoods, one of the best restaurant scenes in America, arts
and culture, Fairmount Park and the ever-expanding Schuylkill Trail,
world-class universities, winning sports teams, all at a cheaper cost of
living than New York, D.C. or Boston.
Unfortunately, when you sell Philly to the outside world, you
a) gotta take the bad with the good and b) remember that, especially in this
corner of the globe, no other media outlet has more influence than The
New York Times. And when readers picked up (or clicked on) the Times this
morning, they
saw kids running across cracked asphalt on a faded school yard. In Philadelphia .
Charters lack sufficient
oversight
Philly.com Opinion by KIA HINTON POSTED: Wednesday,
October 15, 2014, 12:16 AM
RECENTLY, CHARTER schools have made headlines nationwide. This
summer, the FBI raided charter schools in Connecticut, Arizona and Ohio. The
Annenberg Institute for School Reform released a report on dramatic
shortcomings of charter schools, saying "the lack of effective oversight
means too many cases of fraud and abuse, too little attention to equity, and no
guarantee of academic innovation or excellence."
Pennsylvania has seen its share of charter headlines as well.
Earlier this month, ACTION United, the statewide organization I serve on the
board of, released a report that uncovered no less than $30 million in fraud by
Pennsylvania charter operators since the passage of the 1997 Charter School
Act. Philadelphia, which now feeds $800 million a year into charter schools,
has simultaneously starved the traditional public school system for years now.
Students lack critical services because of the layoffs of nurses, librarians
and counselors. Teachers are paying for supplies and even toilet paper out of
their own pockets. And after a six year moratorium on charter expansion in
Philadelphia, we learned our school district was required to accept a flood of
new charter applications as part of the cigarette tax deal.
"In a blistering opening statement,
the School District said the charter is among
the lowest-performing schools in the state academically and its test scores are
on the decline. The charter also has failed to pay vendors for services, has
run a $3.6 million deficit, and has not filed required audit reports on time,
said Allison Petersen, the lawyer representing the district. The charter also has failed to pay required
contributions to the state education retirement system, resulting in School District subsidies being withheld by the Education
Department - $291,000 in August."
Palmer charter school to hold
a lottery to slash enrollment
SUSAN SNYDER, INQUIRER
STAFF WRITER LAST UPDATED: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 1:08 AM POSTED: Wednesday,
October 15, 2014, 6:25 PM
The Walter
D. Palmer
Leadership Learning
Partners Charter
School
The action came on the same day that the Philadelphia School
District
"Petersen did not bring up the fact
that the school was under investigation for cheating -- flagged
in 2011 for improbable numbers of wrong-to-right erasures on the PSSA. New
testing security measures put in place for 2012 were followed by a significant
drop in scores. For 11th graders, proficiency rates dropped by 38 points in
reading and 46 points in math. An internal investigation found no explanation
for what state officials called “extensive evidence of testing irregularities.”
The Pennsylvania Department of Education never reported on whether there was
any external investigation of the suspected cheating at the school."
District's hearings to shut
down Palmer Charter School
Founder Walter
Palmer says that a rescue plan has fallen through and that the school will hold
a lottery as it reduces enrollment.
the notebook By Bill Hangley Jr. on Oct 15, 2014 06:02 PM
Hearings began today on the School District’s effort to
deauthorize and shut down Walter
D. Palmer
Leadership Learning
Partners Charter
School
York Daily RecordBy
Angie Mason amason@ydr.com @angiemason1 on Twitter UPDATED:
10/15/2014 11:41:29 PM EDT
After hearing about three hours of discussion and comments, the
York City School Board voted 7-2 against the idea of turning three schools over
to a charter operator next year — a proposal made as an alternative to turning
all schools into charters.
"We're not out of the woods by a long shot," Margie
Orr, school board president, told the crowd. "We're going to fight this.
You all have to show us you deserve to be fought for."
At the meeting, Meckley repeated the presentation he gave to
the Community Education Council last week.
He said that based on data available, he felt turning all schools into
charters under the management of Charter
Schools USA
ERIN
JAMES / The York Dispatch 505-5439 / @ydcity
POSTED: 10/15/2014 03:37:43 PM EDT | UPDATED: ABOUT 7
HOURS AGO
After more than three hours of emphatic speeches and passionate
pleas from the public, a dramatic York
City
David Meckley announced at a meeting last week that he'd
concluded after a two-year planning process that the district's best chance for
financial and academic improvements would be through transition of the
district's eight buildings to management by a for-profit charter company.
However, in the interest of building consensus among skeptical
school board members and other stakeholders, Meckley instead proposed a hybrid
model for the 2015-16 school year.
Some school officials said they are still working to
understand new schools proposal
York Daily Record By
Angie Mason amason@ydr.com @angiemason1 on Twitter 10/13/2014
05:16:02 PM EDT
Some York City school representatives said they have questions
about a proposal to mix district- and charter-run buildings starting next year
in an effort to find the best model to pursue in the future. York City School Board members have a few
days to decide if they like the alternative reform plan, proposed last week,
and then officials would have a month to work out the details.
The board has been considering whether to bring in a charter
operator to run all school buildings starting next year, which is a consequence
in the district's recovery plan if internal reform isn't working. At a
Community Education Council meeting last week, David Meckley, the district's
state-appointed recovery officer, proposed an alternative: having the district
run five schools and Charter Schools USA, a Florida-based company, operate
three starting next year. The two models would be evaluated on the same
measures and after four years, the one working better would be pursued.
DN Editorial: What comes
after SRC?
Philly Daily News Editorial POSTED: Wednesday, October 15,
2014, 3:01 AM
THE IDEA OF abolishing the School Reform Commission and
replacing it with an elected board has recently dominated the conversation
about Philadelphia's schools. Most local politicians, the teachers union and
even Democratic candidate for governor Tom Wolf favor returning the schools to
local control after almost 13 years of state oversight. Whether it happens remains to be seen. The
SRC was created by state law and it will take a change in state law to undo it.
Presumably that debate can begin next year after the new governor and Legislature
are sworn in.
Before we get to that point, it's worth thinking about the idea
and its implications.
There are three important questions about an elected board that
will have to be decided, and they will determine whether it is a step forward
or a step back.
School Boards, Elections, and
Philadelphia’s Utterly Failed Democracy
What does it say when
the resounding objection to an elected school board is the fact that
Philadelphians will be the ones electing it?
Maybe democracy in Philadelphia isn’t working so well.
That’s not a novel observation, I realize, but it takes on new
urgency with the growing campaign to dissolve the School Reform
Commission. What would replace it? Maybe a mayoral-appointed panel — not
too different from the SRC, but with more local accountability — but
maybe, maybe an elected school board. You know: One accountable directly to the
voters and taxpayers of Philadelphia. Funny
thing is, the idea of an elected school board produces a pretty bad reaction
from smart and experienced observers of the city’s political scene.
Letters: Everyone must pitch
in for pupils
Philly Daily News POSTED: Wednesday, October 15, 2014,
3:01 AM
Steven Scott Bradley, Chairman,
African American Chamber of Commerce of Pa, N.J., Del.
Varsovia Fernandez, President
and CEO, Greater Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Narasimha Shenoy, Executive
Director, Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia
Rob Wonderling, President
and CEO, Greater Philadelphia
Yet, there is much more work to do. Now is the time to refocus
our work on the strategic short-, medium- and long-term efforts of reform that
will ensure a safe, fiscally sound and quality outcome for our schools.
Is Commonwealth Foundation
Behind Schools Protest Astroturfing?
And what does the
Pennsylvania free-market think tank plan to do with its new “PFTFails” web
site?
Philly Magazine BY DAN MCQUADE | OCTOBER
15, 2014 AT 11:32 AM
A group calling itself “PFT Fails” has hired a marketing team
to hire counter-protesters for Thursday’s Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
protest, Philly blog The Declaration reported last night. While there is no data at the URL PFTFails.com, the
address is registered to Nathan Benefield of the
Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, a conservative
Pennsylvania free-market think tank. The site was
registered on Monday.
The Commonwealth Foundation did not return a request for
comment about PFTFails.com and whether it has any connection to
the counter-protester job ad.
The ad is searching for "2 team leads, 10 brand
ambassadors and 2 back-ups." You get paid $120 if you're a team leader,
$100 to be a brand ambassador and $40 to be a backup. The protesters will be
given fliers and banners to
counter the "Turn Up for Truth" protest outside School
District headquarters this Thursday.
Billy Penn reports the
offer was first emailed by GoGorilla, a high-profile New York City
advertising agency that specializes in guerrilla marketing.
Confirmed: Conservative
think-tank is behind paid protestors at Philly teachers union event
BillyPenn.com By Anna Orso October 15, 2014
A conservative, free-market think tank in Harrisburg is behind
efforts to pay people to distribute opposing information at a teacher’s union
planned for Thursday, Billy Penn has confirmed.
Cindy Hamill-Dahlgren, spokeswoman for the Commonwealth Foundation,
confirmed Wednesday that the group hired New York guerrilla marketing
firm GoGorilla,
which will pay about 12 people to hand out fliers and hold banners in
opposition to the teachers’ union — however, she said she wouldn’t characterize
this effort as a “counter-protest.”
Hamill wouldn’t specify how much money the foundation is
spending in order to counter the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, but an
email provided to Billy Penn shows some “brand ambassadors”
were being offered $100 to $120 to assist.
Conservative group funds
counter school union protest
Philly Daily News POSTED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2014,
1:16 PM
PFTFails.org, a new web site aimed at informing the public of
the failings of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, is set to be launched
tomorrow by the Commonwealth Foundation, a right wing think tank based in
Harrisburg, a spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday.
The Foundation, through PFT Fails, also hired GoGORILLA Media,
an advertising and marketing firm out of New York City, to counter tomorrow’s
planned PFT protest before the School Reform Commission meeting, said Cindy
Hamill-Dahlgren, director of strategic communications at the Commonwealth
Foundation. The firm’s hiring and the launching of PFT Fails was first reported
by The Declaration, an online news site, leaving PFT officials and public
school advocates wondering who was behind the newly-arrived group.
Students finding success with
'flipped' learning in Carbondale
In the Advanced Placement calculus class on Wednesday, students
questioned their teacher about what they learned the night before. Teacher
Michelle Lewis provided one-on-one and small group instruction, and students
helped their peers understand the concepts.
The “flipped classroom” in Carbondale , one of the first in the region,
inverts the traditional classroom, empowers students and leads to more
independent learning. Nationwide, flipped classrooms are becoming more popular
as student success grows.
K12 Inc Investors Conference
Call: You Are There!
Diane Ravitch's Blog By dianeravitch October
15, 2014
K12 Inc. is a for-profit virtual charter school chain that
trades on the New York Stock Exchange. It was founded by Michael Milken and
Lloyd Milken. It is funded with taxpayer dollars. It advertises and recruits
heavily to keep enrollment up. It has a high attrition rate.
Its cash-cow operation is the Ohio Virtual Academy. Look for
significant lobbying in New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, Kentucky and New
York, according to the investor conference call.
I don’t know about you, but I had a hard time reading this
transcript. They might just as well have been discussing a corporation that
sells tires, toothpaste, bundled mortgages, or manure. These guys are profiting
from taxpayer dollars that are supposed. To pay for public schools, for bands,
for nurses, for guidance counselors, for reduced class sizes, for libraries.
They are taking money away from real instruction, real children, real schools.
Have they no sense of shame? Would any of the investors on this call put their
own children in a K12 virtual charter school? Bet not. Bet their kids are in really
nice suburban schools or elite private schools.Not sitting in front of a
computer and calling it a “school.” It’s not. It’s a business, and the kids it
recruits don’t get an education.
Larry Feinberg: K12 Inc.’s
Agora Cyber Charter Record in Pennsylvania
Diane Ravitch's Blog By dianeravitch October
15, 2014
Larry Feinberg, who runs the Keystone State
Education Coalition of public school advocates, offered the following
summary of K12 Inc.’s Agora charter school in Pennsylvania:
Pennsylvania’s Agora Cyber Charter, managed by K12, Inc. never
made adequate yearly progress under No Child Left Behind
· In 2006 its AYP status was Warning
· In 2007 its AYP status was School Improvement 1
· In 2008 its AYP status was School Improvement 2
· In 2008 its AYP status was Corrective Action 1
· In 2010 its AYP status was Corrective Action 2 (1st Year)
· In 2011 its AYP status was Corrective Action 2 (2nd Year)
· In 2012 its AYP status was Corrective Action 2 (3rd Year)
·
In 2013 (no more AYP) Agora’s Pennsylvania School Performance Profile score was 48.3 on a 100 point scale; Acting Sec’y of Education Carolyn Dumaresq has indicated that a score of 70 is considered passing.
In 2013 (no more AYP) Agora’s Pennsylvania School Performance Profile score was 48.3 on a 100 point scale; Acting Sec’y of Education Carolyn Dumaresq has indicated that a score of 70 is considered passing.
In addition to never making AYP, Agora’s 2012 graduation rate
was 45% while the Philly SD graduation rate was 57%.
School Choices: K12 Inc execs taking $2K per student in salary.
8 execs, 75K students, $21M in salaries. 20% of revenue in 8 pockets.
Morningstar Executive Compensation
Looking for more info on PA cyber charter
performance?
Issue Brief:
An Analysis of Pennsylvania's Cyber Charter Schools
Research for Action by James
Jack, John Sludden and Adam Schott
November 2013
Labor board says Blackhawk
teachers' contract valid
By Eleanor Chute / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette October 15, 2014
1:33 PM
In a proposed decision and order, a state hearing examiner has
determined that the Blackhawk
School District
Baker Mitchell is a politically connected North Carolina
businessman who celebrates the power of the free market. Every year, millions
of public education dollars flow through Mitchell’s chain of four nonprofit
charter schools to for-profit companies he controls.
by Marian Wang
ProPublica, Oct. 15, 2014, 5:45 a.m.
In late February, the
North Carolina chapter of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation — a group
co-founded by the libertarian billionaire Koch brothers — embarked on what it billed as
a statewide tour of charter schools, a cornerstone of the group's education
agenda. The first — and it turns out, only — stop was Douglass Academy, a new
charter school in downtown Wilmington.
Douglass Academy was
an unusual choice. A few weeks before, the school had beenwarned by
the state about low enrollment. It had just 35 students, roughly half the
state's minimum. And a month earlier, a local newspaper had reported that
federal regulators were investigating the school's operations. But the school has other attributes that may
have appealed to the Koch group. The school's founder, a politically active
North Carolina businessman named Baker Mitchell, shares the Koch's free-market
ideals. His model for success embraces decreased government regulation,
increased privatization and, if all goes well, healthy corporate profits.
In that regard,
Mitchell, 74, appears to be thriving. Every year, millions of public education
dollars flow through Mitchell's chain of four nonprofit charter schools to
for-profit companies he controls.
Fairtest: Testing Resistance
& Reform News: October 8 - 14, 2014
Submitted by fairtest on October 14, 2014 - 2:14pm
As the national testing resistance and reform movement rapidly
accelerates, FairTest proposes a moratorium on all high-stakes exams to
allow time to overhaul assessment at the federal, state and local levels.
Check out the plan and incorporate it in your grassroots advocacy!
New website offers closer
look into candidate' views on public education
PSBA NEWS RELEASE 10/6/2014
The Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA) has created a
new website for its members and the general public to get a closer look into
candidates' views on public education leading up to the 2014 election for the
Pennsylvania General Assembly. Following
the primary elections, PSBA sent out a six-question questionnaire to all
Pennsylvania House and Senate candidates competing for seats in the November
election. Candidates are listed by
House, Senate seat and county. Districts can be found by visiting the 'Find My
Legislator' link (http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/).
Features include:
·
Candidate images, if provided
·
Candidates are tagged by political party and
seat for which they are running
·
Candidates who did not respond are indicated by
"Responses not available."
Visit the site by going to
http://psbacandidateforum.wordpress.com/ or by clicking on the link tweeted out
by @PSBAadvocate.
Candidates wishing to complete the questionnaire before
election day may do so by contacting Sean
Crampsie (717-506-2450, x-3321).
- See more at: http://www.psba.org/news-publications/headlines/details.asp?id=8650#sthash.1vGGRff4.dpuf
Register Now – 2014 PASCD Annual
Conference – November 23 – 25, 2014
Please join us for the 2014 PASCD Annual Conference, “Leading
an Innovative Culture for Learning – Powered by Blendedschools Network” to
be held November 23-25 at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center in
Hershey, PA. Featuring Keynote Speakers: David Burgess - - Author
of "Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your
Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator", Dr. Bart Rocco,
Bill Sterrett - ASCD author, "Short on Time: How do I Make
Time to Lead and Learn as a Principal?" and Ron Cowell.
This annual conference features small group sessions (focused
on curriculum, instructional, assessment, blended learning and middle level
education) is a great opportunity to stay connected to the latest approaches
for cultural change in your school or district. Join us for PASCD
2014! Online registration is available by visiting www.pascd.org
Upcoming PA Basic Education
Funding Commission Meetings*
PA Basic Education Funding
Commission website
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at 11
AM, Community College of Allegheny County
West Campus, Pittsburgh
Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 10 AM, Lancaster
Tuesday, November 18 & 19, 2014, Philadelphia
Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 10 AM, East Stroudsburg
Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 10 AM - 12:00 PM, Lancaster
* meeting times and locations subject to changehttp://basiceducationfundingcommission.pasenategop.com/
West Campus, Pittsburgh
Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 10 AM, Lancaster
Tuesday, November 18 & 19, 2014, Philadelphia
Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 10 AM, East Stroudsburg
Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 10 AM - 12:00 PM, Lancaster
* meeting times and locations subject to changehttp://basiceducationfundingcommission.pasenategop.com/
Health Issues in Schools:
"Mom I can't find the Nurse"
October 21, 2014 1:00 -- 4:00 P.M.
United Way Building 1709 Benjamin Franklin Parkway,
Philadelphia, 19103
Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia
Philadelphia has one of the worst childhood asthma rates in the
country. We need more nurses in Philadelphia's schools to aid children
suffering from this and other health issues. Join us to discuss Pennsylvania
laws governing nursing services.
Tickets: Attorneys $200
General Public $100 Webinar $50
"Pay What You Can" tickets are also
available
Click here to purchase tickets
Click here to purchase tickets
Register Now – 2014 PAESSP
State Conference – October 19-21, 2014
Please join us for the 2014 PAESSP State Conference, “PRINCIPAL
EFFECTIVENESS: Leading Schools in a New Age of Accountability,” to be
held October 19-21 at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel, Pittsburgh,
Pa. Featuring Keynote Speakers: Alan
November, Michael Fullan & Dr. Ray Jorgensen. This year’s conference will provided PIL
Act 45 hours, numerous workshops, exhibits, multiple resources and an
opportunity to network with fellow principals from across the state.
PASA-PSBA School Leadership
Conference (Oct. 21-24) registration forms now available online
PSBA Website
PSBA Website
Make plans today to attend the most talked about education
conference of the year. This year's PASA-PSBA
School Leadership Conference promises to be one of the best with new
ideas, innovations, networking opportunities and dynamic speakers. More details
are being added every day. Online registration will be available in the
next few weeks. If you just can't wait, registration
forms are available online now. Other important links are available with
more details on:
·
Hotel
registration (reservation deadline extended to Sept. 26)
·
Educational
Publications Contest (deadline Aug. 6)
·
Student
Celebration Showcase (deadline Sept. 19)
·
Poster
and Essay Contest (deadline Sept. 19)
January 23rd–25th, 2015 at The Science Leadership
Academy , Philadelphia
EduCon is both a conversation and a conference.
It is an innovation conference where we can come together, both
in person and virtually, to discuss the future of schools. Every session will
be an opportunity to discuss and debate ideas — from the very practical to the
big dreams.
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