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PA Ed Policy Roundup for August 16, 2015:
If the district’s 44 Blended School Blended School
Interested in letting our elected leadership know your thoughts on
education funding, a severance tax, property taxes and the budget?
Governor Tom Wolf, (717) 787-2500
Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Turzai, (717) 772-9943
House Majority Leader Rep. Dave Reed, (717) 705-7173
Senate President Pro Tempore Sen. Joe Scarnati, (717) 787-7084
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Jake Corman, (717) 787-1377
House Majority Leader Rep. Dave Reed, (717) 705-7173
Senate President Pro Tempore Sen. Joe Scarnati, (717) 787-7084
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Jake Corman, (717) 787-1377
"Many education
reformers tout school choice as a tool for parent empowerment and school
improvement through competitive pressure. But Hattie says his research shows
that once you account for the economic background of students, private schools
offer no significant advantages on average. As for charter schools? "The
effect of charter schools, for example, across three meta-analyses based on 246
studies is a minuscule .07," he writes."
5 Big Ideas That Don't Work In Education
NPR.org by ANYA KAMENETZ AUGUST 13,
2015 6:03 AM ET
Better measurements
help make learning visible, says John Hattie.
There are few
household names in education research. Maybe that in itself constitutes a
problem. But if there was an Education Researcher Hall Of Fame, one member
would be a silver-haired, plainspoken Kiwi named John Hattie. Hattie directs the Melbourne Education
Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He also directs
something called the Science of Learning
Research Centre, which works with over 7,000 schools worldwide.
Over the past 28
years he has published a dozen books, mostly on a theory he calls Visible
Learning. His life's work boils down to one proposition: To improve schools,
draw on the best evidence available. Obvious?
Maybe, but it's rarely honored in reality, Hattie claims. "Senior
politicians and government officials clearly want to make a difference,"
he says. "But they want to do this, that and the other silly thing which
has failed everywhere else, and I want to know why." In a new paper,
"What Doesn't
Work In Education: The Politics Of Distraction," published by Pearson Education, Hattie
takes on some of the most popular approaches to reform. Small classes. High
standards. More money. These popular and oft-prescribed remedies from both the
right and the left, he argues, haven't been shown to work as well as
alternatives. Hattie doesn't run
his own studies. Nor does he analyze groups of studies on a single variable, a
technique called meta-analysis. He goes one step further and synthesizes the
findings of many meta-analyses, a kind of meta-meta-analysis. Over the years, he has scrutinized — and
ranked — 1,200 different meta-analyses looking at all types of
interventions, ranging from increased parental involvement to ADHD medications
to longer school days to performance pay for teachers, as well as other factors
affecting education, like socioeconomic status. He has examined studies
covering a combined 250 million students around the world.
"Battestelli said
Haverford Middle School and High School’s Blended School programs had School
Performance Profiles of 88.4 and 99 respectively, outperforming popular cyber
charters like 21st Century Cyber School, which had an SPP of 66, and Agora
Cyber School, with 42.4.
Haverford’s Blended School
program also saves taxpayers money, she said. If the district’s 44 Blended School Blended
School
Delco Times By Lois Puglionesi, Times Correspondent 08/15/15, 12:39 AM EDT
.....In other
meeting business, instructor Nicole Battestelli updated the board on the
district’s Blended
School Haverford Middle School ,
Haverford High School
The program serves
students recovering course credit or accelerating, students returning from
cyber charters, homebound students, those seeking alternatives to out of
district placement and more. Blended
School students are eligible for all activities and electives Haverford offers,
and have the ability to earn a Haverford
High School Blended School
Blogger Note: "Pennsylvania
Failing Schools" List
PA Cyber Charter
School
Here are the Pennsylvania Department
of Education Cyber Charter School Performance Profile Scores for 2013 and
2014.. A score of 70 is considered passing. No cyber charter
achieved a score of 70 in either year. Additionally, most cybers never
made AYP under No Child Left Behind during the period 2005 thru 2012.
School
2013
2014
Achievement House
CS 39.7 37.5
Agora Cyber CS
48.3 42.4
ASPIRA Bilingual
CS
29.0 39.0
Commonwealth
Connections Academy CS 54.6
52.2
Esperanza Cyber
CS
32.7 47.7
Solomon Charter
School
Inc. 36.9 Closed
Susq-Cyber
CS
46.4 42.4
While Cyber charters might
not necessarily be great for kids, they have been positively awesome for the
top execs at K12, Inc., which manages the Agora Cyber Charter school.
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
By Evan Brandt,
The Mercury POSTED: 08/16/15,
2:00 AM EDT |
LOWER POTTSGROVE
>> The school board would like Pennsylvania
to back off with the standardized tests.
At its meeting Tuesday, the board unanimously adopted a resolution
making the rounds of other districts which notes that it “continues to oppose
the state mandate that requires Keystone Exams in all Pennsylvania public schools as graduation
requirements.” Further, the
resolution notes that the board is “very concerned with the resources being
diverted to standardized testing in classrooms and in districts across the
state and the overuse of standardized tests.”
That concern extends to the use of those tests to evaluate teachers and
school performance. The resolution also
“calls upon legislators to strive to minimize the amount of mandated testing
and the use of standardized testing for teacher and school evaluation.” The unanimous vote
comes as the district braces itself for the impact of the statewide phenomenon
of lowered scores on the latest round of the Pennsylvania System of School
Assessment, or PSSA, tests.
Wolf floats offer that claims $17B in pension debt
reduction
AP State Wire By
MARK SCOLFORO Published: August 14, 2015
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)
- Gov. Tom Wolf is pushing a set of changes to Pennsylvania's large
public-sector pension plans that he says would reduce the state's pension debt
by more than $17 billion in the coming decades.
Wolf provided legislative leaders this week with a written document,
obtained Friday by The Associated Press, as they work to resolve the state
budget stalemate. The document is titled
"Revised Pension Plan" and incorporates some elements of a
Republican-backed pension bill that he vetoed along with the state budget last
month. The Wolf plan would
restrict salary spiking that helps teachers and state workers boost their
pensions and would expand investment risk sharing to cover existing employees. The governor says
he's willing to consider limiting how much of an employee's salary would count
toward a traditional pension.
Wolf, GOP leaders have a
shot to make progress on state budget this week
Penn Live By Charles Thompson |
cthompson@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on August
16, 2015 at 7:00 AM, updated August 16, 2015 at 7:12 AM
It's been said that
the players on the stage that is Pennsylvania 's
state government can always strike a deal when they want to
strike a deal. This week, we should find
out a lot about who wants to make a deal to reach a state budget before the impacts of
living without onestart to pinch a much broader cross-section of
their voting constituents. State
government has been without a budget since July 1, and talks have made little
progress thus far. Gov. Tom Wolf, a
Democrat, hit a potentially important reset button Wednesday by opening the
door to consideration of a new type of pension benefits plan for future state
and public school employees.
"Apparently the
legislators were the only ones who didn’t see Wolf’s election — and Corbett’s
trouncing— as a public mandate to focus on improving education and
educational outcomes statewide instead of evicerating them.
We’re sure those legislators
would say they are pro-education too ... but Pennsylvania National Center
Who is ready for school? Hint: not the state
Al Dia Editorial August
13, 2015
Pity our kids. While they are dutifully prepping themselves
for a new school year, their elders — i.e., elected officials — are pretending
it is still the middle of summer. There
is no state budget yet, so more than a month into the state’s fiscal year
school districts don’t know what sort of funding they will be getting. The rub is Governor Tom Wolf’s and the
Republican-led legislators’ absolutely inimical view of what deserves increased
funding — and who deserves to be taxed to sustain it. While budgets are complex
things, from a purely educational perspective it’s the governor who seeks to
restore the deep cuts to education made by his predecessor Tom Corbett, and the
state legislators who are balking.
Two issues keep Pa.
Philly Trib by Damon C. Williams Tribune Staff Writer Posted: August 14, 2015 12:00 am
State Sen. Vincent
Hughes said Thursday that Democrats will not budge on two core issues in the
44-day state budget impasse: restoring the cuts to education funding and
exercising a severance tax on the Marcellus Shale sector. Hughes, the Democratic chair of the Senate
Appropriations Committee, had planned to use the city school district
headquarters as a backdrop for his pronouncement Thursday, but then rushed back
to Harrisburg
for ongoing budget talks. Instead, he spoke with reporters by phone and focused
most of his comments on education, natural gas and the state of negotiations on
the whole. “I will also say that,
without a full restoration of education funding — which has not been agreed to,
nor has the Marcellus Shale tax — there is no deal, no arrangement, Hughes
said. “Everything else is sidebar.”
Budget must be bold,
brilliant
Philly.com Opinion by DAN WHITE POSTED: Sunday, August 16, 2015,
1:08 AM
Dan White is a senior economist at Moody's Analytics.
In the past few months there have been a lot of arguments made against Gov. Wolf's budget proposal. Some have been measured and well thought out, while others have been nonsensical diatribes. Most, however, have been political in nature. Allow me to offer my own humble critique through the eyes of an economist. As part of my job, I am lucky enough to travel the country and work closely with various states and local governments to develop their budgets and chart out sustainable fiscal policies. As someone who has spent his career trying to help policymakers make sound fiscal decisions, I am often saddened when I come home and open up the local newspaper.Pennsylvania 's fiscal situation is dire. We
are one of only two states, along with Illinois ,
still without a budget. We have one of the lowest funded pension systems in the
country, and one of the highest structural deficits. Worse, the long-term
forces at work behind each of those concerns are going nowhere fast.
In the past few months there have been a lot of arguments made against Gov. Wolf's budget proposal. Some have been measured and well thought out, while others have been nonsensical diatribes. Most, however, have been political in nature. Allow me to offer my own humble critique through the eyes of an economist. As part of my job, I am lucky enough to travel the country and work closely with various states and local governments to develop their budgets and chart out sustainable fiscal policies. As someone who has spent his career trying to help policymakers make sound fiscal decisions, I am often saddened when I come home and open up the local newspaper.
"The Marcellus Shale
Coalition, the industry’s trade group, is the state’s most active lobbying
concern. It reports spending just under $14.1 million since 2010."
Lobbyist spending in Harrisburg
It totaled $106 million in ’14;
Marcellus shale, health care at top
By Chris Potter / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
August 16, 2015 12:00 AM
Even in a budget
season as contentious as this year’s, Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to raise taxes on
tobacco products would seem like a winner. Pennsylvania is the only state that doesn’t
charge an additional tax on smokeless tobacco, and one of two not to tax
cigars. “In the polls I’ve done, taxing cigars and smokeless tobacco has been
very popular,” said veteran state pollster Terry Madonna. But politicians have at least 8,627,278
reasons to oppose the idea — one for every dollar the nation’s two largest
tobacco companies have spent lobbying Harrisburg
since 2007. RAI Services and
Altria Client Services are far from Harrisburg ’s
biggest spenders. According to a Post-Gazette review of a Pennsylvania ’s
Department of State database, nearly 2,700 interest groups have spent $791
million lobbying in Harrisburg
between 2007 and March 2015. Tobacco is dwarfed by health care concerns and the
Marcellus Shale industry, also the target of a tax proposed by Mr. Wolf.
Schools rely on local funds as they await state budget
What does Pennsylvania ’s budget impasse mean for Manheim Central
School District
About $1.5 million
through the end of August, business manager Bryan Howett estimated.
That’s the amount of
state money that's not flowing in to the district on time because of Pennsylvania ’s lack of a
2015-16 budget. The state’s fiscal year began July 1. By now the district would have received a
special education payment and a reimbursement for Social Security costs, Howett
said. A basic education subsidy payment normally would arrive before the end of
the month. Without a budget, none of
that money has been appropriated, so Manheim Central, like other school
districts across the state, will use revenue collected locally to tide itself
over. “We’re certainly
hoping that this gets resolved,” Howett said Monday. The district has no
immediate cash flow concerns. Between reserves and local revenue, “we could
certainly get through December” operating normally, Howett said — not that he's
eager to go that route. Business
managers at other school districts likewise said they see no near-term issues
arising from the budget stalemate. In
the School District of Lancaster, “schools will be ready for students in August
with no adjustments to programs or services, regardless of the status of the
state budget in August or September,” chief financial and operations officer
Matt Przywara said by email.
Funding for public
schools is one of the key disagreements as Pennsylvania plows through its second month
without a state budget. Democratic Gov.
Tom Wolf and Republican leaders in the Legislature have been
unable to agree on how much of an increase is needed, and how to pay
for it. Wolf wants to increase K-12
funding by $400 million for 2015-16 and pay for it with a new severance tax on
natural gas. The GOP is proposing a $100 million increase with no new taxes. School funding in Pennsylvania involves a
complicated soup of revenue sources but relies heavily on local real estate
taxes. Many say the system is uneven, unfair and unsustainable, and major
changes have been proposed. Let's take a look at how school funding currently
works.
How do Pa's property taxes
stack up nationally? This map will tell you
Penn Live By John L. Micek
| jmicek@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on August 14, 2015 at 8:38 AM,
updated August 14, 2015 at 10:15 AM
If you're a Pennsylvania homeowner,
there's probably one bill you dread more than any other: The annual property
tax bill from your local school district.
The debate over how to lower real estate taxes, which provide the
backbone of public school funding in the Keystone State, is currently front and
center in budget talks this summer. And, for years, lawmakers have been
unsuccessfully searching for a way to hand homeowners a break. But where does Pa. stack up nationally when it comes to
property taxes? In an attempt to
cut through the clutter, the number-crunchers at
The Tax Foundation have compiled a map, ranking states based on
their effective tax rates on owner-occupied housing. The rate is the "average amount of
residential property tax actually paid, expressed as a percentage of home
value." Based on that metric, Pennsylvania , with an
effective tax rate of 1.54 percent, ranks 13th nationwide for property taxes -
which isn't the highest, but is certainly right up there.
By Sara K. Satullo | For
lehighvalleylive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on August 14, 2015 at 11:04 AM,
updated August 14, 2015 at 12:27 PM
Private investor school
plan in Wilkes-Barre
Times Leader By Mark Guydish - mguydish@timesleader.com First Posted: 5:08 pm - August 13th, 2015
-WILKES-BARRE — The proposal that private investors renovate or build schools
for cash-strapped Wilkes-Barre Area is “absolutely blue sky thinking and a very
creative approach,” but is also “likely fraught with many legal and operational
questions,” according to the head of the Pennsylvania Association of School
Business Officials (PASBO). While the
specific transaction proposed to the school board by Bob Sypniewski at best
falls in a gray area of the school code — the state law governing much of
public education — there’s no clear ban against it. A 1994 graduate of
GAR High School, Sypniewski told the school board and the public that investors
are lined up to provide as much as $300 million to either renovate Meyers High
School or replace it, and to replace Coughlin High School either on the same
site or elsewhere.
Kane school directors
taking part in school governance program
The Bradford Era By CHUCK ABRAHAM Era Correspondent cabraham.era@gmail.com | 0 comments Posted: Sunday, July 26, 2015 9:51 pm
KANE — Three
directors from the Kane
Area School
District
According to the
PSBA’s website, the Fellowship in School Governance program is “capstone
program for interested school board members who wish to go ‘above and beyond’
in their commitment and professional preparation.” The program requires an
approximate 35 additional hours in time commitment from the school board
directors. All program members take online courses in conflict resolution, team
building and mentoring.
“We always said that
compliance just means more of the same,” said Jeanette Deutermann, a central figure
in Long Island ’s test-refusal movement. “The
hope was to disrupt it to the point where it cannot be used,” she continued, to
where “there are not enough children taking the test to close a school, or not
enough data to fire a teacher.”
Test-Refusal
Movement’s Success Hampers Analysis of New York State Exam Results
New York Times By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS AUG. 14, 2015
With 20
percent of eligible students sitting out the New York state standardized tests this year,
even some central organizers of the “opt out” movement were surprised at their
own success. But those numbers
are more than just a thumb in the eye of state education officials. They also
are a significant setback for the educational accountability movement in New York , which has
sought to use data to evaluate educational progress on all levels, including
the success of districts, schools and individual teachers. Now, in many
districts with high rates of test refusals, the data has been badly crippled.
NYT Editorial: Opting Out of Standardized Tests Isn’t
the Answer
New York Times By THE EDITORIAL BOARD AUG. 14, 2015
An alarming 200,000,
or 20 percent, of the students in grades three through eight in New York State New York City ,
less than 2 percent opted out.
Controversial teacher evaluation method is on trial —
literally — and the judge is not amused
Here
is a report on what happened this week in a New York court where a judge is
hearing the case brought by Sheri G. Lederman, a fourth-grade teacher in the Great
Neck public school district, against state education officials over their
controversial method of evaluating her — and, by extension, other N.Y.
teachers. The method is known as
“value-added modeling,” or VAM, and it purports to be able to use student
standardized test scores to determine the “value” of a teacher while factoring
out every other influence on a student (including, for example, hunger,
sickness, and stress). One way it works is by predicting, through a complicated
computer model, how students with similar characteristics are supposed to
perform on the exams, and teachers are then evaluated on how well their
students measure up to the theoretical students. New York is just one of the many states
where VAM is a key component of teacher assessment. Evaluation experts have
warned policymakers that this method is not reliable for evaluating
teachers, but VAM became popular among school reformers as a “data-driven”
evaluation solution. Lederman’s suit
against state education officials — including John King, the former state
education commissioner who is now a top adviser to U.S. Education Secretary
Arne Duncan — challenges the rationality of the VAM model, and it alleges that
the New York State Growth Measures “actually punishes excellence in education
through a statistical black box which no rational educator or fact finder could
see as fair, accurate or reliable.”
PCCY: Get on the Bus to Harrisburg
As parents, teachers
and advocates, you know first hand how difficult it is to get the resources
needed to support our students. Harrisburg continues to be mired in political
gridlock and has failed to pass a budget for Pennsylvania’s 500 school
districts.
Teachers, parents
and students have no idea what they will be walking into come September for the
start of school. We say enough is enough.
We are contacting
you because on August 25th the PA House is scheduled to return to the
Capitol—and we want to be there to meet them. Could you give us a few hours of
your day and help make it clear that we demand a budget?
- Join your neighbors and other concerned
citizens who believe that investing in our kids is non-negotiable
- We’ll provide: FREE Transportation to
and from the Capitol and lunch; a brief training on the bus, materials,
and day of schedule
- Scheduled visits with elected
officials
Kids are off from
school so bring them with you – after all, it concerns their future!
Details:
Details:
- Bus will depart from in front of the
United Way Building at 7:45am at 1709 Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
- We will return to Philly by
approximately 4:30pm. (Discounted parking ($8) available at the
Sheraton Hotel at 17th & Race)
- If you plan to drive yourself, we will
meet at the Capitol between 10am and 10:30am.
The John Stoops Lecture
Series: Dr. Pasi Sahlberg "Education Around the World: Past, Present &
Future" Lehigh University October 8, 2015 6:00 p.m.
Baker Hall |Zoellner Arts
Center | 420 E. Packer Avenue | Bethlehem , PA 18015
Baker Hall |
Free and open to the
public!
Ticketing is general
admission - no preseating will be assigned. Arrive early for the best seats.
Please plan to stay
post-lecture for an open reception where you will have an opportunity to meet
with students from all of our programs to learn about the latest innovations in
education and human services.
Register now for the
2015 PASCD 65th Annual Conference, Leading and Achieving in an Interconnected World, to be
held November 15-17, 2015 at Pittsburgh Monroeville Convention
Center.
The Conference
will Feature Keynote Speakers: Meenoo Rami – Teacher and Author
“Thrive: 5 Ways to (Re)Invigorate Your Teaching,” Mr. Pedro Rivera,
Pennsylvania Secretary of Education, Heidi Hayes-Jacobs – Founder and President
of Curriculum Design, Inc. and David Griffith – ASCD Senior Director of Public
Policy. This annual conference features small group sessions focused on:
Curriculum and Supervision, Personalized and Individualized Learning,
Innovation, and Blended and Online Learning. The PASCD Conference is
a great opportunity to stay connected to the latest approaches for innovative
change in your school or district. Join us forPASCD 2015!
Online registration is available by visiting www.pascd.org <http://www.pascd.org/>
Nominations for PSBA's
Allwein Advocacy Award now open
PSBA July 7, 2015
PSBA July 7, 2015
The Timothy M.
Allwein Advocacy Award was established in 2011 by the Pennsylvania School
Boards Association and may be presented annually to the individual school
director or entire school board to recognize outstanding leadership in
legislative advocacy efforts on behalf of public education and students that
are consistent with the positions in PSBA’s Legislative Platform. The
2015 Allwein Award nomination process will close on Aug. 28, 2015. The
2015 Allwein Award Nomination Form is available online. More details on the
award and nominations process can be found online.
Slate of
candidates for PSBA offices now available online
PSBA website July 31, 2015
PSBA website July 31, 2015
The
slate of candidates for 2016 PSBA officer and at-large representatives is now
available online, including bios, photos and videos. According to
recent PSBA Bylaws changes, each member school entity casts one vote per
office. Voting will again take place online through a secure, third-party
website -- Simply Voting. Voting will openAug. 17 and closes Sept. 28. One person from the
school entity (usually the board secretary) is authorized to register the vote
on behalf of the member school entity and each board will need to put on its
agenda discussion and voting at one of its meetings in August or
September. Each person authorized to register the school entity's votes has
received an email on July 16 to verify the email address and confirm they are
the person to register the vote on behalf of their school entity.
Register Now for PASA-PSBA
School Leadership Conference Oct. 14-16, 2015 Hershey Lodge & Convention
Center
Save the date for the
professional development event of the year. Be inspired at more than four
exciting venues and invest in professional development for top administrators
and school board members. Online registration is live at:
Register Now – PAESSP
State Conference – Oct. 18-20 – State College, PA
Registration is now
open for PAESSP's State Conference to be held October 18-20 at The
Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College, PA! This year's
theme is @EVERYLEADER and features three nationally-known keynote
speakers (Dr. James Stronge, Justin Baeder and Dr. Mike Schmoker), professional
breakout sessions, a legal update, exhibits, Tech Learning Labs and many
opportunities to network with your colleagues (Monday evening event with Jay
Paterno). Once again, in conjunction
with its conference, PAESSP will offer two 30-hour Act 45 PIL-approved
programs, Linking Student Learning to Teacher Supervision and Evaluation
(pre-conference offering on 10/17/15); and Improving Student Learning
Through Research-Based Practices: The Power of an Effective Principal (held
during the conference, 10/18/15 -10/20/15). Register for either or both PIL
programs when you register for the Full Conference!
REGISTER TODAY for
the Conference and Act 45 PIL program/s at:
Apply
now for EPLC’s 2015-2016 PA Education Policy Fellowship Program
Applications are
available now for the 2015-2016 Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP). The Education Policy Fellowship Program is sponsored in
Pennsylvania by The Education Policy and Leadership Center (EPLC). With more than 400 graduates in its
first sixteen years, this Program is a premier professional development
opportunity for educators, state and local policymakers, advocates, and
community leaders. State Board of Accountancy (SBA) credits are available
to certified public accountants. Past
participants include state policymakers, district superintendents and
principals, charter school leaders, school business officers, school board
members, education deans/chairs, statewide association leaders, parent leaders,
education advocates, and other education and community leaders. Fellows
are typically sponsored by their employer or another organization. The Fellowship Program begins with a two-day
retreat on September 17-18, 2015 and continues to graduation in June
2016.
Click here to read about
the Education Policy Fellowship Program.
Regarding the post on K12 Exec Compensation - less than 2% of total revenue is targeted for executive salaries. Click the Morningstar link - it shows $16.5 million, and total K12 revenue was almost $950 million. Shareholders would go nuts if 20% of revenue went to executives. More importantly, Agora Cyber Charter School ended their partnership with K12 and is now self-managing the school. Good for them!
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