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PA Ed Policy Roundup for May 11, 2015:
Pa. legislature works on
pension, property tax bills that Gov. Wolf does not support
SAVE The DATE: Northwestern
PA School Funding Forum
May 28, 2015 7:00 PM Jefferson Educational Society 3207 State St. Erie , PA 16508
A one-man sit-in for
pension reform in Harrisburg
WHYY Newsworks BY MARY WILSON MAY 6, 2015
Barry Shutt has a
simple routine when he comes to the Pennsylvania Capitol. He heads for the
cafeteria entrance, opens his folding chair next to a pillar, and sets up his
sign.
“Pension reform,”
the sign begins. “Borrowing money is not a fix. It kicks the can down the road
and steals from our children and grandchildren.” About two days a week, most every week,
Shutt is here, by his pillar, talking to anyone who will listen about the
urgency of paying down the state’s $53 billion debt to its two retirement funds
— and doing so without borrowing more money.
Trib Live By Brad
Bumsted Sunday, May 10, 2015, 10:20 p.m.
HARRISBURG — A Senate vote this week on a bill to eliminate guaranteed pension benefits for state and school employees sets the stage for budget negotiations between Republicans controlling the legislature and Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat. Curbing pension benefits for public employees is the Senate's top issue. The GOP-led House approved its No. 1 issue — selling the state liquor stores — in February. Wolf is pushing a complex, $30 billion-plus budget that would shift taxes and boost education spending. Some taxes would go up. His aides have insisted lawmakers deal with his budget proposal as a whole. Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati,R-Jefferson County ,
said the pension bill's expected passage Wednesday will set up negotiations
among the Senate, House and governor on pensions, liquor and the budget, which
lawmakers must approve by July 1.
HARRISBURG — A Senate vote this week on a bill to eliminate guaranteed pension benefits for state and school employees sets the stage for budget negotiations between Republicans controlling the legislature and Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat. Curbing pension benefits for public employees is the Senate's top issue. The GOP-led House approved its No. 1 issue — selling the state liquor stores — in February. Wolf is pushing a complex, $30 billion-plus budget that would shift taxes and boost education spending. Some taxes would go up. His aides have insisted lawmakers deal with his budget proposal as a whole. Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati,
Read more:http://triblive.com/politics/politicalheadlines/8324773-74/wolf-state-senate#ixzz3ZpEDQjVO
This pension fight has to
produce results, and here's how: Editorial
By PennLive Editorial Board on
May 08, 2015 at 11:30 AM, updated May 08, 2015 at 2:03 PM
Senate Republicans have
released their gameplan. Tom Wolf has said what he wants to do.
And neither side's
strategy, we fear, will resolve the continued financial threat that is Pennsylvania 's pension
crisis. This is a crisis for which
taxpayers pay each time their school board raises property taxes, or state
services are affected because of a lack of funds. It is affecting us all, and
will continue to do so, until our elected officials fix it. We need to hold
them accountable until they do.
Property tax relief to take center stage in PA state
House
By Andrew Staub | PA
Independent May 11, 2015
This is a big week
for homeowners in Pennsylvania
who want something done about their tax bills.
The state House is expected to take up legislation from state Rep. Stan Saylor, R-York, which, he
says, would reduce school property tax bills by 40 percent to 60 percent
in most districts. If it fails, lawmakers are willing to listen to other ideas,
including Gov. Tom Wolf’s package,
which includes another version of relief, said House Majority Leader Dave Reed, R-Indiana. “It will be what it will be,” said Reed, who
expects it will take both Republicans and Democrats to reach the 102-vote
threshold to change the antiquated school funding system. As many as three or
more proposals could be considered, and the debate could have a ripple effect
on a much larger piece of policy. Property
tax relief is considered a cornerstone to budget negotiations between the
Republican-controlled Legislature and Wolf, a Democrat in his first year as
governor.
Pa. legislature works on
pension, property tax bills that Gov. Wolf does not support
ANGELA
COULOUMBIS, INQUIRER HARRISBURG BUREAU POSTED: Sunday,
May 10, 2015, 1:09 AM
Corman's pension bill
would make a bad situation worse: Michael Crossey
PennLive Op-Ed By
Michael Crossey on May 10, 2015 at 10:30 AM
Michael Crossey, a
teacher from the Keystone Oaks School District, is the president of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.
I know a woman who
has been a teacher's aide for more than 15 years. She helps care for students
with special needs. Her salary
isn't very high. In fact, it's not high at all. But she loves her job and loves
the kids she works with. She plans to retire someday. And when she does, she'll
get the pension she's been paying for since her first day in the
classroom. It's about $25,000 a
year. I couldn't help but think of my
friend when I read PennLive's recent story on the pensions the state's top
1,000 earners get. Focusing on 1,000
people is fine. But there are hundreds of thousands of dedicated Pennsylvanians
whose retirement security depends on the modest pension that they've worked their
whole lives to earn and pay for. For the
average teacher, nurse, bus driver, and cafeteria aide, their pension amounts
to $25,000 a year.
By Jacqueline
Palochko Of The Morning Call May 9, 2015
Prescious Correa
gets good grades as a sophomore at Dieruff
High School in Allentown , acing pop quizzes and passing her
courses. But in the Keystone Exams, the
state's standardized tests that Prescious must pass to graduate, she struggles.
She said she gets nervous and overwhelmed and can't fill in the correct answers
with her pencil. The 15-year-old failed
the algebra exam last year and had to retake it. She passed on a second try. But the tests aren't over. This week,
Prescious, who dreams of becoming a fashion designer, will take the biology
exam, which she's nervous about. If she
fails, she'll take the biology test again in the summer. If she fails again,
she'll have to do an alternative project mandated and assessed by the state
before she can get her cap, gown and, most importantly, diploma. Starting with the class of 2017 — Prescious'
graduation year — students must pass the biology, algebra and literature
Keystone Exams to graduate or they must successfully complete an assessment.
"Alongside the finding
that 74% of voters support increased funding, the polls also showed 80%
supported creating a fair funding formula—a crucial requirement if the state
hopes to bring equitable educational resources to all of its students
regardless of their zip code. Without a fair funding formula, schools
that serve higher-needs students (like those from
low-income families or English language learners) won't receive the
resources necessary to support these students and give them high quality educational opportunities."
National Opportunity to Learn Campaign Posted
on: Wednesday May 6th, 2015
It should come
as no surprise that recent polls show Pennsylvania voters care deeply about
funding for their schools. In the most recent gubernatorial election,
Governor Tom Wolf ran and won on a platform largely focused on educational
issues and creating a fair funding formula for Pennsylvania 's schools. Two polls taken
earlier this year make Pennsylvanians' concerns even clearer, finding
that increasing state funding for public education was the top priority for
voters and they supported this funding increase by a ratio of more
than 3 to 1. To learn more, read
The Campaign for Fair Education Funding's summary of the poll results here.
Some of the Pa. Supreme Court
candidates are on the air - are you watching?
Penn Live By John L. Micek | jmicek@pennlive.com Email
the author | Follow on Twitter on
May 08, 2015 at 3:42 PM, updated May 08, 2015 at 3:54 PM
So remember how I
told you not long ago that the race for state
Supreme Court is one of the most important contests you're not paying attention
to? Well, some of the
candidates in this month's Democratic and Republican primaries would like to
change your mind about that. And they've launched new television commercials to
grab your attention.
Here they are --
make up your own mind about them.
Sen. Jake Corman: Wolf
budget hits all with tax increase
Centre Daily Times Opinion BY SEN. JAKE CORMAN May 9, 2015
Jake Corman,
R-Benner Township, is the Senate majority leader.
The state’s
Independent Fiscal Office recently released an analysis of Gov. Tom Wolf’s
proposed budget that showed a “net tax increase for all (income) groups.” The
close examination of the governor’s plan for Pennsylvania just reaffirmed what I’ve been
saying all along — under the Wolf budget everybody pays more. Despite “property tax and relief, the
low-income group realizes increases in tobacco and sales taxes, and modest
increases in personal income and severance tax through higher utility prices,”
the independent office recently wrote in its analysis of the revenue proposals
for Wolf’s proposed budget plan. \The
IFO does not take positions on the topics it analyzes and, unlike the governor,
it discloses all methodologies, data sources and assumptions used in reaching
its conclusions. And for the governor, whose staff has attacked the independent
office for its report, it seems the truth hurts. Calling the IFO numbers “unsophisticated” and
the work “shaky,” the Wolf administration chose to attack the source rather
than produce their own numbers and methodology to defend their significant tax
increase.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2015/05/09/4741733_sen-jake-corman-wolf-budget-hits.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
A breakdown of Gov. Wolf's
plan for new education spending
By Kevin McCorry for NewsWorks on May 8, 2015
11:41 AM
What has Gov.
Wolf proposed?
In the first year of
his plan, the governor wants to increase spending for education, from pre-K
through higher ed, by $1 billion. Of
this figure, $500 million would go to K-12 classrooms ($400 million to basic
education and $100 million to special education). Pre-K
Counts and Head Start would received $120 million in new aid. The
state's higher-ed system, along with community colleges, would get a $143
million boost in exchange for enacting tuition freezes. Over four years, K-12 spending would get an
additional $2 billion. Wolf plans to pay
for the increased spending by implementing a comprehensive tax overhaul.
"But Perkiomen Valley
is hardly unique. School officials are reporting an unprecedented surge in
outsourcing jobs once performed by district employees, and that trend includes
classroom workers such as instructional aides and substitute teachers. The
reason: to save millions of dollars in health insurance required by the
Affordable Care Act and in skyrocketing pension costs.
"Any position that
doesn't require a teaching requirement is pretty much up for grabs," said
Jay Himes, executive director of the Pennsylvania
Association of School Business Officials, which reported that outsourcing
doubled this school year in districts it surveyed."
In budgetary crisis,
school paraprofessionals, families left in want
KATHY
BOCCELLA, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER POSTED: Sunday,
May 10, 2015, 1:09 AM
For the last five
years, Katina Velikaris of Schwenksville has watched Josh Jefferson act not
just as a one-on-one school aide for her now-17-year-old son, Chris, but as his
guardian angel. Jefferson, 31, a
paraprofessional with the Perkiomen Valley School District, rings their
doorbell every school day at 7:10 a.m. to hop on the bus with Chris, helps him
with schoolwork during the day, delivers him home at 2:40, and gives his mother
frequent progress reports. Jefferson even swings by occasionally in the summer to
ride bikes or go to the creek as Chris has coped with behavioral issues.
"He's come such a long way, and I owe a lot of it to [Josh],"
Velikaris said, adding, "He knows him as well as I do." That's why Velikaris said she was devastated
by a district proposal to contract out the work performed by its 110
paraprofessionals - which Jefferson said would likely force him to quit because
he'd lose health-care and pension benefits.
Velikaris called the potential impact on her family
"heartbreaking" and said, "I don't think the school district
gets it."
Editorial: An investment
in Pre-K programs will bring dividends
Debate in Harrisburg will soon
begin in earnest to adopt a state budget for fiscal year 2015-16, and education
funding will be front and center. Among
the proposals being sought by Gov. Tom Wolf is increased funding for
Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts, an initiative that recently attracted outspoken
support from some unusual kindergarten bedfellows: the law enforcement
community. District Attorneys
Tom Hogan, Chester County ; Risa Ferman, Montgomery
County ; Seth Williams, Philadelphia and Jack Whelan, Delaware County ,
held a press conference April 29 to introduce a report, “We’re the Guys You Pay
Later,” by the Fight Crime: Invest in Kids coalition. The report makes the case
that more money is spent on jailing adult defendants than on investing in
education for children. That early investment can be shown, the report argues,
to change the path for at-risk children from potential criminals to productive
members of society.
Stock traders sink $6.65
million into Williams campaign for mayor
Inquirer by Chris
Brennan POSTED: FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2015, 6:58 PM
If Friday's campaign
finance reports were ranked by sheer size, then we have a winner in American
Cities, an independent expenditure political action committee funded by three Main Line stock traders who support state Sen. Anthony
Hardy Williams for mayor.
American Cities
reported raising $6,830,000 from Jan. 1 to Monday, according to a report filed
today. Of that, $6,651,000 -- or 97.4 percent -- came from Joel
Greenberg, Jeff Yass and Arthur Dantchik, the founders of Susquehanna
International Group.
"There are some
disturbing things about three rich donors accounting for more than half of all
the spending the mayor's race, and I'll have more to say about that in another
piece. My point today is that this free-spending PAC doesn't represent the
return of the special interests who used to fund mayoral campaigns in this
town. It's almost a freak of political nature – three guys with money to burn
and a passionate commitment to one issue."
Who didn't fund Philly's
super PACs
WHYY Newsworks DAVE DAVIES OFF MIC A BLOG BY DAVE DAVIES MAY 11, 2015
By now, it's not a
shock to learn that super PAC's spent twice as much as the candidates in the
Philadelphia mayor's race this year, according to campaign finance reports
filed Friday.
And if you follow this stuff you know the U.S. Supreme court has opened the floodgates of spending from independent expenditure committees, which can ignore contribution limits as long as they don't coordinate with candidates they're supporting. But there's something interesting in who did, and didn't fund super PACs in the mayor's race this year.
And if you follow this stuff you know the U.S. Supreme court has opened the floodgates of spending from independent expenditure committees, which can ignore contribution limits as long as they don't coordinate with candidates they're supporting. But there's something interesting in who did, and didn't fund super PACs in the mayor's race this year.
Filings indicate reforms
working
CHRIS HEPP, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER POSTED: Sunday,
May 10, 2015, 1:09 AM
The limits are
working.
Yes, they are
working under a $9 million shadow. But for the third mayoral race in a row, Philadelphia 's attempt at
campaign-finance reform seems to have done much of what it was intended to do:
dampen big money's power to buy the city's next chief executive. Yes, the 2015 Democratic mayoral campaign is
awash in millions of dollars being put up by labor unions and Main
Line financial traders - $9 million in all, according to spending
reports filed Friday. The full impact of
that money, especially on TV ads between now and the May 19 primary, has yet to
be seen. But that type of outside spending is there, thanks to the U.S. Supreme
Court, and is beyond any local control.
Sen. Kim Ward to serve as
interim appropriations committee chair
Penn Live By Jan Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com Email
the author | Follow on Twitter on May 08,
2015 at 4:34 PM, updated May 08, 2015 at 4:50 PM
Sen. Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland County ,
will fill in as the Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman while Sen. Pat
Browne, R-Lehigh County , recovers from injuries sustained
in a DUI-related motorcycle
crash. Senate President Pro
Tempore Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson County , and Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, R-Centre County , indicated this change in the
Senate GOP leadership line-up in a statement issued Friday. The Senate GOP
leaders also voiced confidence that Browne will return to his role as the
Republican-elected appropriations committee chairman as soon as he has
recovered.
PA Sen. Pat Browne charged with DUI for third time,
police say
By Manuel
Gamiz Jr. and Steve
EsackOf The Morning Call May 8, 2015
Police: Pa. Sen. Pat
Browne drunk when he crashed motorcycle on I-78 in Allentown
Pa. Sen. Browne
faces drunken driving charge after motorcycle crash in Allentown
When Pennsylvania
Sen. Pat Browne crashed his Harley-Davidson last weekend as he exited
Interstate 78 at the Lehigh Street
ramp, he told a state trooper he wasn't injured.
Browne, 51, of Allentown , was sitting on
the guardrail on the westbound exit in the southwestern part of the city as he
explained to a trooper how his motorcycle slid on cinders and crashed,
according to court documents. As Browne
explained, the trooper smelled a strong odor of alcohol and noticed Browne's
speech was "slow and slurred," court records show. The trooper had Browne, who was twice nabbed
in the 1990s for drunken driving, perform field-sobriety tests. After an
initial test, the trooper noticed several signs of impairment, the records say.
http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-t-pa-senator-pat-browne-drunk-crash-20150508-story.html#page=1
Sen. Pat Browne's BAC 0.09
less than an hour after motorcycle wreck
By Sara K. Satullo | For
lehighvalleylive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on May 08, 2015 at 4:48 PM,
updated May 08, 2015 at 9:30 PM
Less than an hour
after crashing his motorcycle on I-78 in Allentown ,
state Sen. Pat Browne had a
blood-alcohol content of 0.09, court records indicate. Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Browne, R-Lehigh
(lehighvalleylive.com file photo)
On Friday, Pennsylvania State Police filed charges of
driving under the influence and driving vehicle at a safe speed against
Browne, 51. Penalties begin for most drivers at a BAC of 0.08. The Republican lawmaker has represented parts
of the Lehigh Valley in the state Legislature for
almost two decades. He chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Saucon Valley teachers, board near to arbitration
By Christina
Tatu Of The Morning Call May
8, 2015
Saucon Valley
teachers agree to nonbinding arbitration of contract agreement cant be reached
If the Saucon Valley
School Board doesn't agree to the latest contract proposal submitted by the
teachers union , the two sides will enter nonbinding arbitration, said the
district's labor attorney Jeffrey Sultanik.
While Thursday night's six-hour bargaining session did not result in a
contract agreement, the teachers have agreed to have a single arbitrator hear
the issues in lieu of going on strike this school year. Details of the teachers' latest proposal
submitted Thursday night are confidential, but it is based upon the union's
March 23 offer, which was summarily rejected by the board, Sultanik said. For this reason, he believes it is likely to
be rejected by the school board, which will review it during an executive
session prior to its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday. If the two parties agree to the proposed
schedule, nonbinding arbitration would begin on or around May 26, Sultanik
said.
Delco Times By Susan L. Serbin, Times Correspondent POSTED: 05/10/15, 11:32 PM EDT
CONCORD >>
After a marathon negotiating session May 8, the School Board and the Garnet
Valley Education Association reached, in principle, a tentative agreement. “The board and the teachers’ association will
now finalize the specifics of the agreement and, upon its completion, each will
need to go back to their full groups for a vote. If the agreement is approved,
there will be a settlement,” district Superintendent Marc Bertrando said in a
statement. “Since the parties are in the process of drafting the official
tentative agreement, we are not at liberty to share any of its specifics. We
will be sure to keep everyone informed as new information is available. We are
all very pleased with the progress that was made today, and both parties are
optimistic that we will soon have a finalized agreement.”
Board is determined not to raise taxes
By Lynn Ondrusek Pocono Record Writer Posted May. 7, 2015 at 12:09 PM Updated May 8, 2015 at 10:38 AM
Board members were quiet during budget talks at Wednesday night’s Stroudsburg School Board meeting. What usually becomes a heated conversation was almost silent as school board members listened to Business Manager Donna Tolley give an update on the district’s budget going into the next few weeks. She provided board members with revised spending numbers up to May 6. Tolley confirmed to solicitor Jeffery Sultanik that if the board doesn't raise taxes, and assuming the district isn’t getting anything from the state, there will be between $500,000 and $600,000 left in the reserve fund moving into next year.
Board members were quiet during budget talks at Wednesday night’s Stroudsburg School Board meeting. What usually becomes a heated conversation was almost silent as school board members listened to Business Manager Donna Tolley give an update on the district’s budget going into the next few weeks. She provided board members with revised spending numbers up to May 6. Tolley confirmed to solicitor Jeffery Sultanik that if the board doesn't raise taxes, and assuming the district isn’t getting anything from the state, there will be between $500,000 and $600,000 left in the reserve fund moving into next year.
Kane school board OKs
preliminary budget
Bradford Era By CHUCK ABRAHAM Era Correspondent cabraham.era@gmail.com Posted: Thursday, May 7, 2015 10:00 am
KANE — The Kane Area
School Board approved a preliminary budget for the 2015-16 school year on
Wednesday. The motion passed 9-0. District business manager Stephen Perry
requested the approval of the $17,845,457 budget, saying that nothing has
changed since he first discussed the spending plan at last week’s school board
work session. As it currently
stands, the proposed budget calls for a 0.39-mill increase for the McKean County
portion of the school district, which amounts to an increase of $14 per year on
average for residential homeowners, according to Perry. Meanwhile, the board approved the capital
reserve fund budget of $250,000 for the next fiscal year. Additionally, the
board of directors approved a resolution to transfer $1 million to the capital
reserve fund and an additional $1.37 million to the general fund retirement
rate stabilization fund. School
board vice president and finance and operations committee chairman Maj. Thomas
Kerek (Ret.) said the additional funds came from the $2.3 million PlanCon
reimbursement the district received from the state after building the current
elementary and middle school building in 2010.
By Evan Brandt,
The Mercury POSTED: 05/10/15,
2:00 AM EDT |
POTTSTOWN >>
One of Pottstown School Superintendent Jeff Sparagana’s frequent frustrations
is the way in which Pottstown test scores are used to compare the district to
the largely suburban districts which surround it. Given Pottstown ’s
higher level of poverty, higher population of special education students and
more transient population, it’s not a fair comparison, he has noted. Better, he says, to compare Pottstown’s
schools to others which teach a student body similar to Pottstown
— in other words, an urban population. “It’s
better to compare apples to apples than apples to oranges,” he likes to say. So recently, he did just that, comparing Pottstown High School ’s 2013-2014 School
Performance Profile score of 77.8 with the high school scores of the 34 other
districts that are members of the Pennsylvania League of Urban Schools.
"Therein lies the
difference: The civil rights organizations who made their statement against
opting out see high-stakes, standardized testing as a solution to educational
inequality, while others, like myself, see ample evidence that high-stakes,
standardized testing is exasperating educational inequality and therefore needs
to be rejected as an inherently damaging measure."
Just whose rights do these civil rights groups think
they are protecting?
A
dozen civil rights groups this week issued a statement contending that parents
opting their children out of high-stakes standardized tests are harming at-risk
students. That sparked a response from the Network for Public Education, saying
that high-stakes standardized tests are hurting these young people, not the
opt-out movement. You can
read both statements here. Here’s a different
look at all of this, by Wayne Au, an associate professor in the School of Educational
Studies at the University
of Washington Bothell ,
and an editor for the social justice teaching magazine Rethinking
Schools. Most recently, with Joseph J. Ferarre, he co-edited the
book, Mapping Corporate Education Reform: Power and Policy Networks in
the Neoliberal State. His research interests include critical analyses of
high-stakes testing, critical educational theory and practice, curriculum
studies, and multicultural education.
"The SAT will remain a
weak predictor of undergraduate success. High school grades will continue to
forecast college graduation chances more accurately than any test does. The
exam will still under-predict the performance of young women, students whose
home language is not English and older applicants. Well-to-do families will not
stop buying their children test-prep “steroids.” SAT scores will remain a
better measure of family income than college readiness."
NYT Letters: The New SAT: Will It Be Better?
New York Times
Letters MAY 8, 2015
Re “The
Big Problem With the New SAT,” by Richard C. Atkinson and Saul Geiser
(Op-Ed, May 5): We applaud the writers
for recognizing that the new SAT is a “more straightforward test of material
that students encounter in the classroom.” However, their overall claim is
outdated. It is no longer true that because the SAT provides normative score
comparisons (to the performance of other students), it can’t measure student
learning. The new SAT draws on advancements in assessment design such that
classroom content now comes first, and students perform against that bar.
School directors, superintendents and
administrators are encouraged to register and attend this event.
Bucks / Lehigh / Northampton Legislative
Council
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Quakertown Community School
District , 100
Commerce Drive Quakertown , PA 18951
Welcome by Paul Stepanoff , Board President , QCSD
Introduction of Paul Clymer, State of State Education
Mr. Glenn Grell , PSERS Executive Director
Introduction by Dr. Bill Harner, Superintendent QCSD
Panel of Superintendents and Elected School Directors from Bucks / Lehigh
/ Northampton Counties
Introduction by Mark B. Miller, Board Vice President, Centennial SD
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION:
1) The status of 2015-16 budget in their district (including proposed tax
increase)
2) PSERS impact on their budget
3) Proposed use of any new funding from Commonwealth
Larry Feinberg and Ron Williams
Benefit and need for County Wide Legislative Council in Delaware
and Montgomery Counties respectively
Dr. Tom Seidenberger (Retired Superintendent ) - Circuit Rider Update
SAVE The DATE: Northwestern PA School Funding Forum
May 28, 2015 7:00 PM Jefferson Educational
Society 3207 State St.
Erie , PA 16508
Panelists
Conneaut School
District
Mr. Jarrin
Sperry, Superintendent, Ms. Jody Sperry, Board President
Corry School
District
Mr. William Nichols,
Superintendent
Fort LeBoeuf
School District
Mr. Richard Emerick,
Assistant Superintendent
Girard School
District
Dr. James Tracy, Superintendent
Harbor Creek
School District
Ms. Christine
Mitchell, Board President
Millcreek School
District
Mr. William Hall,
Superintendent Mr. Aaron O'Toole, Director of Finance and Accounting
Keynote Speaker
Mr. Jay Himes,
Executive Director, Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials
CONFERENCE ON THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN PENNSYLVANIA
A CALL FOR ADEQUATE AND EQUITABLE SCHOOL FUNDING
Sponsored by Coatesville and Media Area
NAACPs
9:00 AM – 1:30 PM SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2015
MARCUS FOSTER STUDENT UNION 2ND
FLOOR
CHEYNEY UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DELAWARE
COUNTY CAMPUS, CHEYNEY, PA
Our children have to
pass the state mandated tests in order to move on with life. SO - it is time
for the PA Assembly to provide adequate and equitable funding to the public
schools of Pennsylvania.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE
PUBLIC. SPACE IS LIMITED.
COME AND ASK YOUR
PERSONAL QUESTIONS AND SHARE YOUR OPINIONS WITH PRESENTERS WHO ARE EXPERTS AND
POLICY MAKERS.
Pre-Registration is
required for meals. Deadline for Pre-registration is May 12, 2015
PRE-REGISTER
ON-LINE: HTTPS://www.surveymonkey.com/S/JTZB9F8
PHILLY DISTRICT TO HOLD
COMMUNITY BUDGET MEETINGS
Tuesday,
May 12
Thursday,
May 14
Congreso, 216 West Somerset St .
Wednesday,
May 20
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