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Keystone State Education Coalition
PA Ed Policy Roundup for May 12, 2015:
What do you believe the role of the PA Supreme
Court should be in evaluating the adequacy of a thorough and efficient public
education?
Education Voters PA: Join our Call to Action on
Thursday, May 14th
Join others across Pennsylvania and
take 5-10 minutes on May 14th to call our state legislators to tell them
that Harrisburg
Five of twelve candidates
participated in this PCN forum The question on the role of the court in
evaluating the adequacy of a thorough and efficient public education is covered
from minutes 31:55 to 37:58 of this PCN video
What do you believe the role of the
Supreme Court should be in evaluating the adequacy of a thorough and efficient
public education?
PCN: April 8th PA
Supreme Court Candidates Forum
By Rob Krout on
Apr 10, 2015
Philadelphia
Neighborhood Networks election forum with PA Supreme Court candidates David
Wecht (D), Dwayne Woodruff (D), Cheryl Lynn Allen (R), John Forodora (D) and
Anne Lazurus (D). .
A dozen candidates for three
open seats…..
Meet the primary
candidates for Pa. Supreme Court: PennLive's 2015 Voters Guide
Penn Live By Deb Kiner | dkiner@pennlive.com Email
the author | Follow on Twitter on
May 11, 2015 at 8:30 AM, updated May 11, 2015 at 8:32 AM
Candidates seeking
their party's nomination for Supreme Court were invited to submit information
for PennLive's Voters Guide.
The information here is presented as it was submitted by the candidates,
and is unedited. Note:
This is a primary election. Voters will select only candidates running
within the voter's registered party.
Cash flow to candidates for Pennsylvania
Daily Journal By
PETER JACKSON Associated Press Posted:
May 08, 2015 - 9:09 pm
"Fortunately, the
constituency most engaged in these elections - the attorneys who have to appear
before often accidental jurists - have done themselves and the public the
service of thoroughly vetting the candidates. The Pennsylvania Bar Association's
high court choices are particularly useful, with three highly recommended
candidates for three court vacancies in each party: for the Republicans, state
Superior Court Judges Cheryl L. Allen and Judith F. Olson, and appointed
Supreme Court Justice Correale F. Stevens; for the Democrats, Superior Court
Judges Christine L. Donohue, Anne E. Lazarus, and David N. Wecht."
Pennsylvania
INQUIRER EDITORIAL BOARD POSTED: Sunday, May 10, 2015, 1:09 AM
Despite a remarkable
run of scandal that deprived the state's highest court of two justices in as
many years and its lowest (the late Philadelphia Traffic Court) of existence,
Pennsylvania lawmakers have maintained a preternatural serenity about the
condition of the state's judiciary - so much so that its ranks are being
refilled by the same quasi-democratic lottery that got us in this mess. Of course, the low-interest elections that
fill the state's benches do produce some good judges, but only by accident.
With a dozen candidates vying for three state Supreme Court vacancies in next
week's primaries and many more entering the sweepstakes for the lower courts -
more than 40 are running for Philadelphia Common Pleas Court - even the most
conscientious voters will be nonplussed.
"Twelve candidates
are vying for three open seats on the court that will hear our appeal
in our school funding lawsuit. We are
encouraging voters to learn about the judicial candidates for the Pennsylvania
PA Supreme Court Candidates & Public Education
Twelve candidates
are vying for three open seats on the court that will hear our appeal
in our school funding lawsuit. We are
encouraging voters to learn about the judicial candidates for the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court and make their own informed decisions on election
day. To learn more about
the Supreme Court candidates, head to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which published an article
detailing each candidate. To learn about
the candidates’ stances on the court’s role in education funding, go to minute 31:55 of this video–a recent Supreme Court
candidate forum. The Public Interest Law
Center of Philadelphia is a 501(c)3 organization. We do not endorse any candidates. - See more at: http://www.pilcop.org/pa-supreme-court-candidates/#sthash.wsfX2r2r.dpuf
Public hearing on The Educational Opportunity
and Accountability Act
PA Senate Education Committee Mtg Wed. May
13, 2015 9:00 AM Room 8E-B East Wing
The Senate Education
Committee will conduct a public hearing on legislation proposed by Sen. Smucker
(R- Lancaster) called The
Educational Opportunity and Accountability Act. The proposal, which
is expected to be introduced as Senate Bill 6, would require mandatory steps to
be taken for low-performing schools within a district, including being
transferred to a new entity called the Achievement School District (ASD). PSBA
will be testifying at this hearing.
"Who needs vouchers when
you authorize diverting $250 million in tax dollars to private and religious
schools with no fiscal or student performance accountability? Up to 20% of these funds ($50 million) will
go to scholarship organizations for administrative fees, with virtually no
transparency; in Florida
House backs $100M boost
for education tax credit programs
Penn Live By Jan Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com
Email the author | Follow on Twitter
on May 11, 2015 at 7:06 PM, updated May 11, 2015 at 7:07 PM
on May 11, 2015 at 7:06 PM, updated May 11, 2015 at 7:07 PM
Legislation that
would expand popular tax credit programs that incentivize companies to fund
preK through grade 12 scholarships and educational programs passed the state
House on Monday. By a vote of 166-26, the
chamber approved legislation that
would increase the funding for the 14-year-old Educational Improvement
Tax Credit program from $100 million to $170 million and the
three-year-old Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit program,
from $50 million to $80 million. Both
programs offer state tax credits for companies that donate to state-approved
educational organizations.
Morning Call By Marc Levy Of The Associated Press May 12, 2015
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-public-pension-overhaul-20150511-story.html
State pension reform bill
clears Senate committee on party-line vote
Karen Langley, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 12, 2015
"Members of the General
Assembly will be put into the defined contribution plan upon election or
reelection and will have to abide by all new pension requirements."
Senate pension bill’s
advance pits plan change vs. plan reform
The PLS Reporter Author: Jason Gottesman/Monday, May 11,
2015
Senate Bill 1
underwent its first vote Monday, moving out of the Senate Finance Committee
along a party-line vote. The prime
sponsor of the bill, Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman (R-Centre), said the
legislation is needed to ease budgetary pressures and take risk away from
taxpayers into the future by moving new employees to a defined contribution
pension plan and away from the defined benefit plan. The plan will also alter future benefits of
current employees by either increasing their contribution amounts to maintain
Act 9-levels or roll back the pension benefit to pre-Act 9 levels.
Teachers’ retirement
security is destined to get less secure
I sometimes think I
should have been a teacher.
I never even
considered it back in the day. Back in the day I was going to be a lawyer,
don’t you know. Then I wrote a column for my college newspaper, several people
told me they liked it, and that led to this.
And I also didn’t know how much I enjoyed kids until I actually had my
own and started spending more time with an around kids in general. Now, I could
think of few things more satisfying and fun than being, say, a first- or
second-grade teacher (first and second grade teachers, please don’t write to
disabuse me of this notion..). The gratification would comefrom the interaction
with kids, the idea that you could make a difference in their lives. The gratification would also come – crass as
this may sound – from the compensation. The idea of having some real time off
over the summer. And the retirement security.
LETTER: It's time for fair
funding of education
Glenside News LTE by
Nancy Posel, secretary, League of Women Voters Abington-Cheltenham-Jenkintown Tuesday,
May 12, 2015
To the Editor:
The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania has passed a resolution in support of the Fair Funding for Education inPennsylvania
lawsuit. The league has long promoted equal access to quality education for all
of Pennsylvania ’s
children. Pennsylvania
is one of only three states that do not have a formula for a fair distribution
of state education funds even though the constitution requires the legislature
provide for a “thorough and efficient” education.
The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania has passed a resolution in support of the Fair Funding for Education in
Editorial: Education
funding is crime fighting, too
Delco Times
Editorial POSTED: 05/11/15, 10:46 PM EDT |
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
Risa Ferman, Montgomery County ; Seth Williams, Philadelphia ;
Jack Whelan, Delaware County ; and Tom Hogan, Chester County
By M. Diane McCormick | Special to
PennLive on May 11, 2015 at 11:53 PM, updated May 11, 2015
at 11:54 PM
"The largest increase in
next year's budget results from a $1.2 million jump in pension costs."
Derry Township School
Board passes tax increase that could change between now and June
By Monica Von Dobeneck | Special to
PennLive on May 11, 2015 at 8:56 PM, updated May 11, 2015
at 9:01 PM
The Derry Township
School Board passed a preliminary budget Monday that would raise taxes one
percent, but members said that could still change between now and the final
budget June 22. "One percent is
a worst case scenario. We can bring it down," board member Brian Shiflett
said. But member Hank
Donahue added, "it can change either way, up or down." School officials have said they can balance
the $58 million budget for 2015-16 without raising taxes, but that would
deplete the financial reserves within a few years, even if there are subsequent
tax increases of 2 percent a year.
Trib Live By Nicole
Chynoweth Monday, May 11, 2015, 11:09 p.m.
Ligonier Valley Laurel
Valley
By Jacqueline
Palochko Of The Morning Call May 11, 2015
The Bethlehem Area
School Board passed a proposed budget that calls for a 2.9 percent tax hike. At a meeting Monday night, the board voted
8-1 to pass a 2015-16 budget that also calls for universal full-day kindergarten
at all 16 elementary schools and construction of the new Nitschmann Middle School Northampton County ,
the increase for a home assessed at $55,637 would be $90, and in Lehigh County
3 Lancaster County
Six school districts
in Lancaster County Conestoga Valley , Elanco, Elizabethtown ,
Hempfield, Lancaster
and Solanco school districts last month.
Three of those districts are planning to use the exceptions, though none
plan to tax to the limit.
Candidates, pledge support
for Philly children
By Donna Cooper and
Marcus Allen POSTED: Tuesday, May
12, 2015, 1:08 AM
Donna Cooper is
executive director of Public Citizens for Children and Youth.
Marcus Allen is CEO
of Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania
Famed American
historian Henry Adams once said, "During a campaign, the air is full of
speeches - and vice versa." More than 100 years later, not much has
changed. Candidates love to make
speeches about the state of Philadelphia 's
children and youth, and how it would be so much better if they were in charge.
In fact, we tend to hear the same refrain every election. The sad truth is
that this election is happening against the backdrop of 120,000 children living
in poverty, and 60,000 of them are in families so poor that they live on less
than $10,000 a year.
Money and the Philly Mayor’s race
WHYY Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane MONDAY, MAY 11
Guests: Dave
Davies, Patrick Kerkstra Audio Runtime: 48:55
Campaign finance
reports filed last Friday revealed that mayoral politics are not immune to
the effects of the landmark Citizens United ruling, with
independent expenditure groups spending millions of dollars in support of their
candidate of choice. That said, Philadelphia ’s
own finance rules had some mitigating effects on the influence of PACs and
other outside organizations. For this hour of Radio Times, Marty will
discuss the contributions, the candidates, and their implications with WHYY’s
senior reporter DAVE DAVIES, and Philadelphia
Magazine’s PATRICK KERKSTRA.
- See more at: http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/#sthash.y6HPs8Uy.dpuf
Education and the 2015 Philadelphia
BillyPenn.com By Anna Orso May 11, 2015 at 11:43 am
Education is
pretty much THE issue here in Philadelphia as the school district
grapples with inadequate funding from Harrisburg and a budget deficit locally
that spells layoffs and program cuts. We’re reviewing each of the candidates’
highlights of their education plans. See their websites and policy papers for
more details.
Who should choose the next
mayor — Philadelphia
WHYY Newsworks
Opinion by Marc Stier MAY 12, 2015 ESSAYWORKS
Marc Stier is a
writer and political activist from Mt.
Airy
Some think our
mayoral election is a little dull, but nothing could be further from the truth.
What we haven't fully grasped yet about this election is that Philadelphia
is ground zero in the fight to save democracy in the United States . It is where we can
and must take a stand against extremely wealthy individuals who seek to convert
their wealth into political power and, in doing so, override the wishes and
interests of working people and the middle class. Because of the Citizens United decision,
there are now no limits on how much money wealthy individuals can contribute to
super PACs or that these PACs can spend to influence voters. So Jeff
Yass, Joel Greenberg and Arthur Dantchik, who made billions trading options
at the Susquehanna International Group,
are now overwhelming all other spending in support of Anthony Williams'
campaign for Mayor.
The Three
Billionaires would have you believe that their only concern is to improve
public education. I have no issue with that aim. I personally support charter
schools, especially when they are created by groups of parents and teachers
looking for creative ways of engaging kids in learning. The Three Billionaires, however, want our public
schools to be privatized. And that goal is part
of the right-wing ideological agenda they have long supported.
'We needed a turnaround in
a turnaround': SRC votes not to renew first Renaissance charter
WHYY Newsworks BY LAURA BENSHOFF MAY 12, 2015
The Philadelphia
School Reform Commission voted not to renew two charter schools, including for
the first time, one of its own hand-picked Renaissance charters Monday night. Delaware Valley Charter High School (DVCHS)
and Universal Bluford both received notices of nonrenewal. DVCHS' CEO Ernest
Holiday pushed back on the numbers gathered as a part of the charter school
office's evaluation process, including math proficiency of less than 30 percent
for the past three years. "The
recommendation does not adequately reflect our 2013-2014 graduation rate,"
said Holiday , who put the graduation rate for
that year higher than 98 percent. Holiday and commissioner Bill Green also debated
that school's $190,000 debt to the district which, according to the district's
charter school office, DVCHS accrued by continually overbilling.
SRC moves to close
Universal-Bluford, Delaware
Valley
MARTHA WOODALL AND
KRISTEN A. GRAHAM, INQUIRER STAFF
WRITERS
POSTED: Monday, May 11, 2015, 8:51 PM
During a special
meeting devoted to charter schools, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission
voted Monday to begin the process of closing two for academic and management
shortcomings. One of the schools -
Universal-Bluford, an elementary with nearly 600 students - is run by Universal
Companies Inc., the nonprofit founded by music mogul Kenny Gamble. In a 4-1 vote, the
SRC voted not to renew Bluford's charter for another five years. It was the
first time a school run by Universal has been targeted for closure. Commission
member Sylvia Simms cast the dissenting vote.
The K-6 school is in the Carroll
Park section of West
Philadelphia .
SRC renews 12 charters,
votes down Delaware Valley, Universal Bluford
SOLOMON
LEACH, DAILY NEWS STAFF
WRITER LEACHS@PHILLYNEWS.COM,
215-854-5903 POSTED: Tuesday, May 12, 2015, 12:16 AM
THE SCHOOL REFORM
Commission voted yesterday to renew the charters of 12 schools and not to renew
two others. Delaware
Valley Charter
High School and Universal Bluford
Charter School
Best High Schools in Pennsylvania
US News and World
Report
We reviewed 29,070 U.S. public high schools; 216 Pennsylvania schools made our rankings. Pennsylvania students must show proficiency in English,
math, social studies and science subjects to graduate high school, according to
the Pennsylvania
Department of Education. Pennsylvania
students who show financial need may be eligible for the Pennsylvania
State Grant Program, which provides funding to attend many colleges and
universities in the region. There are many Pennsylvania
schools in the 2015 rankings of U.S.
News Best High Schools. The highly ranked Julia
R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School, which is located in The
School District of Philadelphia, is roughly 100 miles from the state
capital of Harrisburg.
"Gates is the leader of
education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars
over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including
the Common Core, a small-schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned
after deciding it wasn’t working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation
systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student
standardized test scores to determine the “effectiveness” of educators. Such philanthropy has sparked a debate about
whether American democracy is well-served by wealthy people who pour part of
their fortunes into their pet projects — regardless of whether they are
grounded in research — to such a degree that public policy and funding follow."
Gates Foundation pours millions more into Common Core
Bill
Gates famously spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop, implement and
promote the now controversial Common Core State Standards. He hasn’t stopped
giving.
In the last seven
months, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has poured more than $10
million into implementation and parent support for the Core, according to grant
details on the foundation website (see below). That includes $3.7 million to
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to support the Core at a time when it has come
under increasing attack across the country, for both educational and political
reasons.
Counting Poor Students Is Getting Harder
NPR.org by ANYA KAMENETZ MAY 10,
2015 6:53 AM ET
Researchers,
grant-makers and policymakers have long relied on enrollment numbers for the
federally subsidized Free and Reduced-Price Lunch program. They use those numbers
as a handy proxy for measuring how many students are struggling economically.
The paperwork that families submit to show their income becomes the basis of
billions in federal funds. To be
eligible for these programs, a family must earn no more than 85 percent above
the poverty line. Just over half of public school students fit that
description. At least, that's today's
figure. As Jill Barshay reports
for the Hechinger Report, things are about to get more vague. That's because of a
new federal program called "community eligibility." Under that
provision, a school or even an entire district can provide free lunch to all
its students, as long as at least 40 percent of them qualify for a means-tested
program. That means a school could, in
theory, go from 40 percent to 100 percent "free lunch" overnight.
New York Times By MOTOKO RICH MAY 11, 2015
MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. — In this small suburb outside Milwaukee ,
no one in the Menomonee Falls
School District
New Documents Show How Taxpayer Money Is Wasted by
Charter Schools —Stringent Controls Urgently Needed as Charter Funding Faces
Huge Increase
A Center for Media and Democracy Reporters’ Guide By Jonas
Persson (May 8, 2015)*
“The waste of taxpayer money—none of us can feel good
about,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan told the Appropriations Subcommittee on
Labor, Health & Human Services and Education just last month. Yet, he is
calling for a 48% increase in the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED)
quarter-billion-dollar-a-year ($253.2 million) program designed to create, expand,
and replicate charter schools—an initiative repeatedly criticized by the Office
of the Inspector General (OIG) for suspected waste and inadequate financial
controls. CMD’s review of appropriations reveals that the federal government
has spent a staggering sum, $3.3 billion, of taxpayer money creating and
expanding the charter school industry over the past two decades, but it has
done so without requiring the most basic transparency in who ultimately
receives the funds and what those tax dollars are being used for, especially in
contrast to the public information about truly public schools. Although some
charters have a veneer of being alternative “public schools,” many of them are
run by for-profit companies or outsource key operations to for-profit firms,
and are exempt from any local democratic control.
"Across the country,
school districts in rural areas like New Cuyama and other pockets with low
bandwidth are confronting a difficult task: Administering the new standardized
tests to students online, laying bare a tech divide in the nation's
classrooms. Overall, 63 percent of
public schools don't have access to broadband speeds needed for digital
learning. The problem is particularly acute in rural and low-income districts:
Only 14 percent in those areas meet high-speed internet targets."
Online Common Core testing
lays bare tech divide in schools
Philly.com by CHRISTINE
ARMARIO AND SALLY HO, THE
ASSOCIATED PRESS POSTED: Monday, May 11, 2015, 11:57 AM
NEW CUYAMA, Calif.
(AP) - Nestled between mountains 60 miles from the nearest city, students at
rural California's Cuyama Valley High School use Internet connections about
one-tenth the minimum speed recommended for the modern U.S. classroom. So when it came time to administer the new
Common Core-aligned tests online, the district of 240 students in a valley of
oil fields and sugar beet farms faced a challenge. New Cuyama has no access to fiber optic
cables. Some residents live entirely off the grid, relying on solar power and
generators. The local telephone company provided a few extra lines, but that
only bumped speeds a few megabits.
Pros And Cons Of Standardized Testing
The Onion INFOGRAPHIC May 11,
2015
As the American education system continues to
place more emphasis on standardized testing to measure academic achievement,
critics have argued that it can be more harmful than helpful to students’
development in the long run. Here are some of the pros and cons of standardized
testing:
N.F.L. Sentences Brady to
a Year with the Jets
The Borowitz Report BY ANDY
BOROWITZ MAY 6, 2015
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (The Borowitz Report)
– In what football insiders are calling an unexpectedly severe punishment, the
National Football League has sentenced the New England Patriots’ quarterback
Tom Brady to a year with the New York Jets for his role in the so-called
Deflategate scandal. The punishment drew
howls of protest from Patriots fans and management, with many calling it the
harshest in league history, but N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell defended the
decision as “a necessary deterrent.” “We
need to send the message that this league has zero tolerance for cheating,”
Goodell said. “We believe that a year of playing quarterback for the Jets sends
that message loud and clear.”
Education Voters PA: Join our Call to Action on
Thursday, May 14th
Join others across Pennsylvania and take 5-10 minutes on May 14th to call
our state legislators to tell them that Harrisburg
Our
legislators must take politics out of school funding and
distribute state funding to school districts using a formula that is based on
real factors and the real costs of delivering services.
• Support sufficient
funding for public schools that provides every student with the opportunity to
learn, to meet state standards, and to be self-sufficient adults, ready for
college and the workforce. Money
matters when it comes to providing programs and services.
• Drive out state
funding to districts using a formula that is based on real factors and the real
costs of delivering services, including student factors such as the number of
students who live in poverty, who are English language learners, and who are
homeless. It should also take into account district factors such as the
sparsity/size of the district, local tax effort, local wealth, and the number
of students attending charter schools.
• Please support a
long-term, student-driven, and equitable funding formula that provides adequate
resources for every student to be able to meet academic standards.
Want to share this
info? Here is our flyer:May_14_Call_to_Action_Flyer_2015.pdfMay_14_Call_to_Action_Flyer_2015.pdf
School directors, superintendents and
administrators are encouraged to register and attend this event.
Bucks / Lehigh / Northampton
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
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
Additional Info: http://www.naacpmediabranch.org/cse.html
Spanish Version: http://www.naacpmediabranch.org/cse-spanish.html
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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