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Keystone State Education Coalition
PA Ed Policy Roundup for August 28, 2015:
As budget impasse drags
on, school districts miss $1 billion state subsidy payment
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
As budget impasse drags
on, school districts miss $1 billion state subsidy payment
The PLS Reporter Author: Jason Gottesman/Thursday, August
27, 2015
As Pennsylvania’s
budget impasse nears the two-month mark, a recent report by the Pennsylvania
Association of School Business Officials noted school districts Thursday did
not receive a scheduled $1.18 billion state subsidy payment as a result of the
stalemate. Of the 171 respondents to the
PASBO survey, 83 percent said they are using fund balances to make ends meet in
the absence of state funding while half said they have used or have considered
using borrowing to ensure continued cash flow.
Additionally, 60 percent of respondents said they have or may delay vendor
payments, 53 percent of respondents have delayed or may delay facility
maintenance, and 29 percent may delay filling positions. “With a state subsidy payment expected each
month, more school districts will incur additional borrowing costs for loans if
the budget impasse continues,” said Jay Himes, PASBO executive director.
Gov. Wolf: Changing GOP
pension plan savings numbers throw entire plan into doubt
The PLS Reporter Author: Jason Gottesman/Thursday, August
27, 2015
Gov. Tom Wolf
Thursday said he is likely to have an answer next week for legislative
Republican leadership with regard to their offer of $400 million for basic
education funding in exchange for the governor’s agreement on a defined
contribution pension plan for new employees. However, he said the
changing savings numbers discussed by Republicans at the last negotiating
session earlier this week left him with doubts concerning whether the plan is
the right way to go. “I’m using [the
additional time] to find out what their proposal actually was in that room,” he
told reporters. “The number on the savings of their pension plan changed twice;
there were three different numbers…so I just want to make sure what that real
number is.” He said Republicans kept
revising the number downward, which he said opened up “other questions that we
had fundamental disagreement over.” “There
were differences, changes, as I was watching the numbers come down,” he stated.
“It suggested that maybe the other things that went into the design of this
plan are not as tight as they should be.”
Speaking to the governor's comments, Senate Republican spokesperson Jenn
Kocher said the savings numbers were revised downward in an attempt to
compromise.
Budget talks paused as Wolf mulls offer
WITF Written
by Mary
Wilson, Capitol Bureau Chief | Aug 27, 2015 3:33 PM
State budget
negotiations are on ice as Governor Tom Wolf considers the most significant
offer from Republicans since talks stalled in June. The proposal would let Wolf spend more money
on schools, one of his campaign promises. But it would also scale back future
pension benefits, delivering a kick in the pants to public sector labor unions,
who have panned the deal. Wolf said
Thursday he needs more time - and more information -- to consider the offer. "The number on the savings of their
pension plan for example changed three times or, what, it changed twice,"
said Wolf. "There were three different numbers. So I just want to make
sure that I know what that number is."
Republicans disputed Wolf's version of events. The administration has
received an actuarial analysis of the cost of the proposed pension changes from
the state's two retirement systems. Wolf
has twice postponed making a final decision on the offer, leading to grousing
among Republican legislative leaders. "The
frustration is, just, we need an answer," said GOP House Majority Leader
Dave Reed on Wednesday. "If it's yes, that's great, we'll move on to the
rest of the budget, get this thing done relatively quickly. If it's no, that's
OK, we've got to figure out another direction to take collectively."
Pa. House Democrats ask
Treasury for loan; spending authorization for minority caucus may run out by
mid-September
Penn Live By Charles Thompson |
cthompson@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on August
27, 2015 at 5:50 PM, updated August 27, 2015 at 9:36 PM
Pennsylvania's House
Democratic Caucus is on the cusp of a dubious distinction: it may be the first
of the four legislative caucuses to run out of money due to this year's state
budget stalemate. And caucus
leaders are now scrambling to avoid the prospect of payless paydays for its 652
employees. In a letter dated Aug. 13,
Caucus Leader Frank Dermody, D-Allegheny County, asked the Pennsylvania
Treasury for "a loan, from whatever source you deem appropriate and in
such amount as may be necessary, to be used during the balance of the current
budget impasse to help us fulfill our obligation to pay timely salaries and
related costs." Democratic
spokesman Bill Patton confirmed the letter this week, and said the caucus's
conversations with Treasury are "ongoing.
"House Democrats won't exhaust our reserve funds until
September," Patton wrote in an email to PennLive. "In planning for what to do at that
point... our preferred alternative is to work with Treasury and avoid incurring
substantial unneeded interest costs on a private loan," he continued. The caucus is apparently good to meet its
first payroll in the first week of September, sources familiar with the
situation said, but it may not be able to meet payroll for the 568 non-House
member employees on Sept. 15. (Elected
House members are paid on a monthly cycle, so the first check the 84 Democratic
members would miss would be Oct. 1.)
New poll finds more Pennsylvanians blame Legislature
than governor for budget stalemate
By Kate Giammarise /
Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau August 27, 2015 10:46 PM
Read the Franklin & Marshall Poll here:
http://www.fandm.edu/uploads/files/761140978937429246-franklin-marshall-college-poll-august-2015.pdf
"On Tuesday, the
district lost a bid to severely reduce its payments for special education
students attending charter schools and for cyber schools.
After a two-day hearing,
Judge Chad F. Kenney agreed that reducing certain charter payments would solve
some of the district's problems, but did not approve the reduction request
because it left unresolved how the district would pay its accumulated debt. The ruling was a setback for Gov. Wolf, who
had backed the plan, and for the district, which now pays charter schools $64
million - more than it gets in state aid - to educate about half the students
in the district.
Wolf said Thursday that no
decision had been made on whether to appeal the ruling."
No paychecks? Chester
teachers keep working
KATHY BOCCELLA, INQUIRER
STAFF WRITER LAST UPDATED: Friday, August 28, 2015, 1:08 AM POSTED: Thursday,
August 27, 2015, 7:06 PM
Chester Upland
teachers and support staff voted Thursday to keep working despite learning that
the district might not have money to pay them next month. Two days after a Delaware County judge
rejected a new financial recovery plan submitted by Chester Upland and state
officials, its 223 teachers and support staff were told the district could not
make its Sept. 9 payroll. Michele Paulick,
president of the Chester Upland Education Association, which represents the
teachers, called the announcement from Superintendent Gregory Shannon and
receiver Francis Barnes "horrible news." But she said staffers
decided to keep coming back, to keep schools open for about 3,800 students. "We have no idea when that first
paycheck is coming, but we're going to stay here as long as we're financially
able," she said.
Palmyra School District's
PSSA scores drop, reflecting more rigorous tests
Penn Live By Monica Von Dobeneck | Special to
PennLive on August 27, 2015 at 8:56 PM, updated August
27, 2015 at 9:04 PM
Palmyra Area School
District PSSA math scores in seventh and eighth grades fell by nearly half from
the prior year, but that does not mean students are less smart or teachers less
proficient, according to superintendent Lisa Brown. The scores reflect the drop in scores in most area school
districts because of a new test that is more rigorous, has a
different format and uses the Pennsylvania Core. "This raises the bar," assistant
superintendent Bernie Kepler said at Thursday's board meeting. "We have
our work to do." Brown said it
appears that what used to be fifth grade skills are now tested in fourth grade,
and fourth grade skills tested in third. Kepler said his
colleagues around the state are in the same boat. "From talking to my colleagues, we have
held our own with everyone," he said.
"The shift from a
personal observation-based system to an onerous VAM-structured policy will
ultimately affect how and what our children learn, and it will not have a good
effect."
We're going the wrong way
in trying to get teacher evaluations right: Lloyd E. Sheaffer
PennLive Op-Ed By Lloyd E. Sheaffer on August 27, 2015 at 4:00 PM,
updated August 27, 2015 at 4:02 PM
Lloyd Sheaffer, a retired English teacher,is
a PennLive/Patriot-News community columnist. His work appears monthly on
PennLive.
Imagine yourself as
a premier widget fabricator. You take pride in your work; you serve as an
example for those who work the line with you; you receive laudable evaluations
for your work. Then one Monday morning you come to work and are told by your
supervisor that a new entity, one that has little experience in making widgets,
has taken control of the business and has dictated new policies, one of which
involves how fabricators are assessed. Now
rather than being judged on the merits of your own skills and output, your
personal assessment will also be determined by the effectiveness of other
widget workers, the proficiency of the research and development engineers, and
the number of widgets sold annually by the company. Therefore, if
50 retirees are replaced by a bevy inexperienced first-timers or the
R&D tablet-toters fail to improve the widget design or the widget peddlers
botch too many sales calls, your annual review might plummet from the customary
"distinguished" to "needs improvement" or worse.
Most likely you
would grab the nearest box of the product and tell your bosses to shove those
widgets "where the sun don't shine." Right?
"This is a major victory
for school choice in Philadelphia and for charter schools," said Pennsylvania
Coalition of Public Charter Schools Executive Director Bob Fayfich in a
statement Thursday. "This decision is likely to have a ripple effect
across the state because it means local school boards and districts cannot
override school law for financial reasons."
Commonwealth Court hands
major victory to charter schools
KRISTEN A. GRAHAM, INQUIRER
STAFF WRITER LAST UPDATED: Friday, August 28, 2015, 1:08 AM POSTED: Thursday,
August 27, 2015, 5:58 PM
In a decision that
could prove far-reaching, Commonwealth Court ruled Thursday that the
Philadelphia School District does not have the power to override state law and
limit charter-school enrollment. The
School Reform Commission moved in 2010 to cap enrollment in - and therefore
payments to - some city charters that had previously agreed to limits, but it
declined to do so under new charters. Those
schools, Richard Allen Preparatory and Delaware Valley, were ultimately joined
by Folk-Arts Cultural Treasures Charter School, Walter D. Palmer Leadership
Learning Partners Charter School, and Wakisha Charter School in a suit claiming
the caps were illegal. Two of the
schools that sued, Walter Palmer and Wakisha, have closed. The court, in a
majority decision written by Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt, noted that the
district's central claim was that the School Reform Commission had the
authority to suspend part of the state law "which specifically forbids it
from imposing enrollment caps on any charter school."
Upholding a
lower-court ruling, Commonwealth Court judges ruled that the SRC lacks that
power.
Commonwealth Court rules
District can't force charters to cap enrollment
the notebook By Dale
Mezzacappa on Aug 27, 2015 07:06 PM
Comonwealth
Court ruled
Thursday that the School Reform Commission lacks the power to impose
enrollment caps on charter schools, a decision that hands a big victory to
charters seeking to limit school districts' control of them. The ruling throws another wrinkle into the
School District of Philadelphia's ongoing effort to remain solvent. The
District has maintained that unrestrained charter growth depletes its own
limited funding and doesn't allow it to plan for its own schools.. The case involves five charter schools –
including Richard Allen Preparatory, Delaware Valley, and Folk Arts-Cultural
Treasures charters – that had agreed to caps in 2005 but objected to the caps
when their agreements came up for renewal in 2010 and refused to sign new
charter agreements to abide by the caps. That prompted the School Reform
Commission to pass resolutions suspending the charter school law and allowing
it to limit enrollment at the schools. The case hinges on
whether the law establishing the SRC and giving it broad powers to restore the
District to financial health allows it to ignore another state law prohibiting
enrollment caps on charters. A lower court ruled that it doesn't have that
authority; in a 4-1 decision, the Commonwealth Court agreed with the lower
court that the District cannot cap enrollment at charters. The court's majority ruled that the state
takeover law "does not give the School Reform Commission carte
blanche to rewrite the terms of public school education in
Philadelphia for schools it operates and for charter schools operated by a
board of trustees."
Is trouble brewing between
City Council and the schools?
KRISTEN A. GRAHAM, INQUIRER
STAFF WRITER LAST UPDATED: Friday, August 28, 2015, 1:07 AM POSTED: Thursday,
August 27, 2015, 5:47 PM
City Council is not
happy with the Philadelphia School District - again.
This spring, Council
publicly blasted Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. and other officials for
what it said was a lack of transparency and information, but finally agreed to
parcel out $70 million in new money for the district. But recently, and in private, Council
President Darrell L. Clarke launched another salvo at Hite, ordering more
information on a recent series of administrative hires the superintendent has
made, and reminding him that $25 million of the district's money has strings
attached - with final approval still to come from Council. In asking Council for $100 million this year,
Hite said the money would go "directly to classroom support," Clarke
reminded the superintendent in a letter obtained by The Inquirer. "It is
on the basis of your testimony that Council approved" the money. "Let me be clear about my concern with
this announcement," Clarke wrote: How will hiring several top
administrators "enhance the educational experience of Philadelphia's
children?"
Arbitrator reverses firing
of two Philly principals in cheating probe
KRISTEN A. GRAHAM, INQUIRER
STAFF WRITER LAST UPDATED: Thursday, August 27, 2015, 1:08 AM POSTED: Wednesday,
August 26, 2015, 4:51 PM
Two city principals
fired in connection with a state-test cheating scandal have won arbitration
rulings and may be rehired by the Philadelphia School District. According to the arbitrator, the district
conclusively proved in both cases that cheating happened at Tilden Middle
School and Lamberton Elementary School. But it did not prove that Michelle
Burns and Marla Travis-Curtis participated directly in the improprieties. Burns, who led Tilden in 2009-10 but moved on
to run Kensington Urban Education Academy, won reinstatement as a principal and
is due back pay minus wages from a 60-day suspension, plus reimbursement of any
expenses paid because of lost benefits. Travis-Curtis,
Lamberton's principal, was ordered returned to the district, but demoted to
assistant principal. She would get back pay minus wages from a 30-day
suspension, and also be owed expenses she incurred on benefits.
Blogger's note: While these two Philly principals may be
rehired by the school district, two years on nothing has been done to follow-up
on what appeared to be overwhelming evidence of cheating at the state's largest
charter school, which has been back in the news lately….
"In Chester,
standardized-test scores dropped precipitously at that Chester Community
Charter School after an investigation of possible past cheating brought new
scrutiny to the school’s testing practices. Results for 2012 state tests show
that, schoolwide, scores fell about 30 percentage points in math and reading,
with double-digit drops in every grade. Some fell more than 40 percentage
points. The odds that erasure patterns were random on the reading portion of
Chester Community Charter School seventh-graders’ 2009 PSSAs were one in a
quadrillion but somehow the state left the charter to investigate itself."
2012 - Letters: Charter
school bill: A disaster for education in Pennsylvania
Delco Times By
LAWRENCE A. FEINBERG Times Guest Columnist 12/06/13, 11:51 PM
Lawrence Feinberg is a 14 year school
director in the School District of Haverford Township. He is also the founder
and co-chair of the Keystone State Education Coalition, a statewide,
grassroots, non-partisan public education advocacy group.
Pennsylvania’s
20-year experiment with charter schools has had mixed academic results at best
for our kids but has been a veritable bonanza for some adults and politicians.
Senate Bill 1085,
the latest attempt at “charter school reform,” includes multiple provisions
that would strip local control over tax dollars from school boards elected by
their taxpaying neighbors, and permit colleges, universities and the state to
spend local tax dollars with no authorization or oversight by local officials.
SB 1085 also strips language from the law requiring charter schools to be
models of innovation for public schools. That begs the question: What, then, is
the purpose of charter schools?
Statement From
Vahan Gureghian, Founder and CEO, CSMI
SYS-CON Media Press Release CHESTER , PA--
We're, of course, pleased with
Judge Kenney's decision. The ruling ensures that Chester 's children will be able to return to
their classrooms, next month, at the same time that the rest of the students
across the Commonwealth will. As far as
we were concerned, the hearings and the public debate were never about charter
public schools versus traditional public schools. In fact, we know that about
40 percent of Chester
Community Charter
School Chester 's
students and families. CCCS
looks forward to having opportunities to work together with the Wolf
Administration, on behalf of those students and families, in the months and
years to come.
Presidential Contenders'
Websites Skimpy on K-12 Policy
Education Week
Politics K-12 Blog By Alyson Klein on August
27, 2015 8:47 AM
Want to know where
the major presidential candidates stand on K-12 education? Don't go to their
campaign websites. A quick review of the
websites of every major 2016 contender wasn't very revealing of their K-12
policy platforms when it comes to either their past record or their plans for
the future. In fact, candidates of both parties—especially Democrats—were more
likely to emphasize the other ends of the education spectrum, pre-school and
college readiness, not elementary and secondary policy. Only about half of the Republican contenders
mentioned education on their sites at all, and sometimes it was only a passing
reference. (Like Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's plan to create a system that
"graduates more students from high school ready to work.)
ACT Alarmed by U.S.
Student Test Results
Campus Technology By
Dian Schaffhauser 08/26/15
This year's ACT results show 31 percent of
students still unready for college in English, math, reading or science — every
subject tested by the assessment organization. That's a figure that has not
changed since 2012, when it was slightly higher. Fewer than a fifth of those
students can be expected to go on to earn a college degree within six years. The data comes from the 1.9 million tests
taken by students who use the results either to graduate from high school (in
13 states) or to apply to college. And the results should serve as a
"wake-up call for our nation." Those were the words from ACT CEO Jon
Whitmore in a prepared statement. Whitmore noted that "The needle is
barely moving on college and career readiness, and that means far too many
young people will continue to struggle after they graduate from high
school."
Is Teach for America Flunking Out?
The Daily Beast by
Samantha Allen 08.27.151:00 AM ET
Among a divided
community of alumni, a plethora of blog posts and think pieces, and a
controversial business model, Teach for America has reached its moment of
truth.
As students head
back to school in the coming days, the lowest number of new Teach for America
(TFA) teachers since the start of the decade will go with them—just 4,100 new “corps members,” down from an incoming group
of 6,000 in 2013. For
the past 25 years, the nonprofit organization has been recruiting young college
graduates to spend two years teaching in low-income school districts after
participating in a five-week summer training program. TFA’s growth over that
period of time has been steady, increasing its operating budget straight
through the Great Recession. Key to its
success has been substantial private and public funding. Wells Fargo is one of
the group’s corporate partners and the Wal-Mart founders’ Walton Family
Foundation has donated at least $5 million. TFA has also relied on “tens of millions” of public funds and, in 2010, the U.S.
Department of Education gave the organization a $50 million Investing in Innovation grant. But now, as TFA’s applicant pool shrinks
and recruitment dips, its critics are claiming that alumni
horror stories and ideological critiques of the organization are finally
starting to take their toll. TFA, on the other hand, maintains that ongoing
economic recovery is impacting their recruitment by driving top-tier applicants
away from teaching. Whatever the case may be, this is the first major sign of
faltering the organization has shown in over a decade.
Save the Date: Make your
voice heard at Education Action Day, Sept. 21
School directors and administrators from across the state will be converging at the State Capitol on Monday, Sept. 21 for Education Action Day — your opportunity to push for a state budget and pension reform. Join PSBA in the Main Capitol-East Wing under the escalators at 10 a.m. A news conference will be held from 11 a.m.-noon, and then plan to meet with your elected officials from 1-3 p.m., scheduled by PSBA . There is no charge for participation, but for planning purposes, members are asked to register their attendance online, which will be available in the next few days. We look forward to a big crowd to impress upon legislators and the governor the need for a state budget and pension reform now!
School directors and administrators from across the state will be converging at the State Capitol on Monday, Sept. 21 for Education Action Day — your opportunity to push for a state budget and pension reform. Join PSBA in the Main Capitol-East Wing under the escalators at 10 a.m. A news conference will be held from 11 a.m.-noon, and then plan to meet with your elected officials from 1-3 p.m., scheduled by PSBA . There is no charge for participation, but for planning purposes, members are asked to register their attendance online, which will be available in the next few days. We look forward to a big crowd to impress upon legislators and the governor the need for a state budget and pension reform now!
The John Stoops Lecture
Series: Dr. Pasi Sahlberg "Education Around the World: Past, Present &
Future" Lehigh University October 8, 2015 6:00 p.m.
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Free and open to the
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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/>
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
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Save the date for the
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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
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REGISTER TODAY for
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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
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