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Keystone State Education Coalition
PA Ed Policy Roundup October 2, 2015:
Join me to rally for state money for Erie
schools: Jay Badams
"I have
said since I took this job that "as the schools go, so goes the
city." I'm no clairvoyant. I have simply seen what has happened in other
cities, small and large, when schools are allowed to deteriorate, programs are
cut and people decide to move to neighborhoods with "better schools."
People should expect decent facilities, manageable class sizes and
opportunities to participate in the arts, music and athletics when they choose
their children's schools."
Join me to rally for state money for Erie
schools: Jay Badams
Erie
Times News By JAY BADAMS Contributing writer October 2, 2015 01:01 AM
I'm
tired. As a taxpayer in the city of Erie ,
I'm tired of the state paying a decreasing share of public education funding
and relying on a declining residential tax base to pick up the slack. As a
parent of students in Erie 's
public schools, I'm tired of sending my children to a school district that is
on the wrong end of a state funding system that ranks 50th, dead last, in the
disparity between the funding of our wealthiest and poorest school districts.
As an administrator serving Erie 's
public schools, I am tired of laying off employees, closing schools, reducing
programming and cutting our way to a balanced budget year after year after year. Erie now
spends less per pupil than 80 percent of the districts in Pennsylvania . If our per pupil funding were
to match the Erie
County average, we would
need $7 million in additional revenue per year.
Rep. Roebuck:
Reform Pa. 's
charter school 'Wild West'
ALEX WIGGLESWORTH, PHILLY.COM LAST UPDATED: Thursday, October 1, 2015, 7:08 PM
Here's a related prior KEYSEC posting;
still relevant….
Reprise: $4
billion taxpayer dollars with no real oversight
Charter schools - public funding without
public scrutiny
Moderate
Republicans wait for Wolf's call
WHYY
Newsworks BY MARY WILSON
OCTOBER 2, 2015
With
Republican legislative leaders daring Gov. Tom Wolf to find support for his tax
plans before a Pennsylvania House vote next week, middle-of-the-road
Republicans are bracing themselves for the hard sell. "My guess is that the phone lines are
going to be burning up starting today," said Rep. Gene DiGirolamo,
R-Bucks. But DiGirolamo, who has a
reputation for breaking with party leaders, was among several moderate
Republicans reached this week who are still a "no" on what they've
heard is the governor's latest tax package.
The governor's office hasn't confirmed the details of a revised
proposal. GOP legislative leaders have said a new plan floated last month
includes a higher personal income tax, an expanded sales tax, and a tax on
natural gas drillers, but no property tax relief. It is unclear how the
proposed revenues would be spent. With all
the uncertainty, the tax vote planned for next week scarcely looks different
from a tax vote in June. At that time, GOP House leaders brought up a measure
combining all the governor's proposed tax increases, with no accompanying spending
plan. Democrats unanimously voted against the legislation, calling it a stunt. The Wolf administration isn't treating this
vote as a gimmick. "We're taking it
seriously," said Mary Isenhour, the governor's chief of staff.
IFO: Revenue
trends continue to beat estimates
The PLS
Reporter Author: Jason Gottesman/Thursday, October
1, 2015
Despite
the state not having a spending plan to authorize the expenditure of revenue
dollars, the Independent Fiscal Office said Thursday that revenue collections
for September and the first quarter of the 2015-2016 fiscal year remained
strong. According to the revenue trends
report for the first quarter of the fiscal year, General Fund revenue has
exceeded IFO estimates by $74 million. The
higher-than-estimated revenues were driven largely by personal income tax
quarterly payments, higher than expected realty transfer tax payments, and
other tax revenue.
School Play Production about Education
Funding Going on Tour
Schools,
Theaters across the State Hosting Free One-Night Showings
HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The
documentary-based live theatre production School Play, which
explores public perception about Pennsylvania's school funding crisis
using the voices of Pennsylvanians, is going on tour in schools and theaters
across the state, including: Erie, St.
Marys, Johnstown, State College, Schuylkill Haven, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading, Allentown,Elkins
Park, Blue Bell and Bryn Mawr.
The
timing of School Play could not be more relevant as the
three-month-old budget standoff continues in Harrisburg , with new funding for education at
the top of the agenda. The production, from playwrights Arden
Kass and Seth Bauer and commissioned by Public Citizens for
Children and Youth (PCCY), uses the real voices of more than 100 Pennsylvanians
to dramatize funding inequities among school districts across the state.
'You're asking
new guys to cast votes that may end their careers,' W.Pa lawmaker says of
looming Wolf tax vote, report: Thursday Morning Coffee
Penn
Live By John L. Micek | jmicek@pennlive.com Email
the author | Follow on Twitter on
October 01, 2015 at 8:30 AM, updated October 01, 2015 at 8:32 AM
Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers.
In case you were wondering how tough it's going to be for House and Senate Democrats to lasso the support they need to get a tax bill onto Gov. Tom Wolf's desk, we give youRep. Nick Kotik, D-Allegheny. Speaking to The Tribune-Review on Wednesday, the de facto chair of the House's Blue Dog Caucus puts it in stark terms: "Politically, [the tax vote] is a real death knell for younger members," Kotik tells theTrib's Brad Bumsted. "You're asking new guys to cast votes that may end their careers." As we noted yesterday, GOP House leaders are giving Wolf until next week to try to sell Republican lawmakers on a two-year, roughly $5 billion tax hike that the Democrat wants to fund his budgetary priorities.
In case you were wondering how tough it's going to be for House and Senate Democrats to lasso the support they need to get a tax bill onto Gov. Tom Wolf's desk, we give youRep. Nick Kotik, D-Allegheny. Speaking to The Tribune-Review on Wednesday, the de facto chair of the House's Blue Dog Caucus puts it in stark terms: "Politically, [the tax vote] is a real death knell for younger members," Kotik tells theTrib's Brad Bumsted. "You're asking new guys to cast votes that may end their careers." As we noted yesterday, GOP House leaders are giving Wolf until next week to try to sell Republican lawmakers on a two-year, roughly $5 billion tax hike that the Democrat wants to fund his budgetary priorities.
Are you
smarter than a fifth-grader? Test yourself on these PSSA language arts
questions
Penn
Live By Jan Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com Email
the author | Follow on Twitter on October
01, 2015 at 12:07 PM, updated October 01, 2015 at 12:39 PM
Learning
expectations for Pennsylvania
students have been raised and that is the reason the state Department of
Education officials say that is the reason for the drop in scores on
this year's Pennsylvania System of School Assessments in math and English
language arts. The following are
examples of the types of questions that a fifth-grader encounters on the
English language arts portion of the state exams. Test yourself and see
how you do.Then try your hand at some PSSA math
questions.
Don't evaluate
Pennsylvania
teachers with standardized test scores: PennLive letters
Penn
Live Letters to the Editor by SCOTT
BONNER on October 01,
2015 at 9:15 AM, updated October 01, 2015 at 3:20 PM
Are
doctors who agree to treat those patients with the most barriers to good health
penalized when the health of those patients ends up lagging behind patients
with fewer barriers to good health? No, and we may even honor these doctors for
placing professional commitment before careerism. Yet this is exactly the unjust and
counterproductive scenario that Ashley DeMauro advocates by
supporting basing teacher evaluations in part on standardized test results.
This student performance component of teacher evaluation, she asserts, is
necessary because classroom observations by school administrators are
inadequate, consequently "one type of evaluation only tells one part of a
story with many chapters."
Middle schools bear brunt of abrupt change
to PSSA tests
It
would've been nice if new state tests were phased over several years after new
curriculum standards, said Elizabethtown Area School District Superintendent
Michele Balliet. But that's not what
happened. Pennsylvania Core Standards
took full effect in 2014, and state tests aligned to the standards were rolled
out for grades 3 to 8 last spring. "It
just got dumped on the system and the system had to react," said Balliet. And middle school students in her district
and elsewhere may bear the brunt of that dumping. Results of the Pennsylvania System of
Standardized Assessment were released by the state this week. Proficiency rates
on the exams in math and reading dropped sharply statewide this year. The steepest declines
were in eighth grade math, according to a state Department of Education
official, who spoke in a press call Tuesday.
Hite plan for
Philly district: More charter conversions, closings, turnarounds and new
schools
School district plan would affect
5,000 students
WHYY
Newsworks BY DALE MEZZACAPPA and
KEVIN MCCORRY OCTOBER 2, 2015
Philadelphia
Schools Superintendent William Hite announced a package of recommendations
Thursday that will turn over three additional elementary schools to outside
charter providers, while closing two middle schools, Beeber in Wynnefield and Leeds in East Mt. Airy.
The plans, which officials said will impact 15 schools, also include the
creation of two non-selective, inquiry-based schools: a high school in North Philadelphia and a middle school in Powelton. In addition, three schools will be subject to
"in-district" turnaround, although neither the schools nor the
specifics of the turnaround blueprint have been finalized. Hite deemed the proposal, which he said comes
with an estimated price tag of $15 to $20 million, a step toward his goal of
improving equity in the district by "providing the opportunity for as many
as 5,000 students to get in better schools close to where they live."
Drexel has a
role in a new Philadelphia
public middle school
Inquirer by Susan Snyder POSTED: THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 1, 2015, 3:51 PM
My
colleague, Kristen Graham reported Thursday that the Philadelphia
School District was planning a middle
school based on the successful Science
Leadership Academy
model. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/school_files/Philly-schools-closures-new-schools-charter-conversions-.html Its partner for the new school is Drexel University .
Drexel has been working with Samuel Powel, a K-4 school in its West Philadelphia neighborhood, for years and wanted to find a way to support a middle school that Powel students could attend, said Lucy Kerman, vice provost for university and community partnerships. When the university learned that theScience Leadership
Academy , a high school, wanted to do a
middle school, it seemed like a perfect fit for Drexel, which encompasses the Academy of Natural Sciences , she said. The university is helping the school secure a
temporary location for a fifth grade next fall and ultimately hopes to find
partners to build a school on the University City High School site, which
Drexel owns, she said. The hope, she said, is that the new site would house
both a larger Powel and the new middle school.
Drexel has been working with Samuel Powel, a K-4 school in its West Philadelphia neighborhood, for years and wanted to find a way to support a middle school that Powel students could attend, said Lucy Kerman, vice provost for university and community partnerships. When the university learned that the
Running out of
money: Northern Potter
School District expects to
borrow $5 million as state budget impasse continues
By ALEX DAVIS Bradford Era Reporter a.davis@bradfordera.com Posted: Wednesday, September
30, 2015 10:00 am
Officials
with the Northern
Potter School
District in Ulysses are poised to borrow $5
million to fund school district operations as the state budget impasse drags
on. On Tuesday, that school district
appeared on a list released by Auditor General Eugene DePasquale of school
districts that already borrowed funding — but Superintendent Scott Graham
told The Era the school board is slated to approve a resolution to take out a
loan during a meeting set for Oct. 12.
On that same day, Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed a spending measure and
accompanying bills approved by state lawmakers that called for $11 in funding
to schools and social service organizations across the state. At this point, Northern Potter’s solicitor is
discussing options with the First Citizen Community Bank of Ulysses for a loan,
Graham said. The $5 million would ideally carry the district through the year,
if needed, he said. “We’re getting
everything ready to go,” said Graham who is not surprised with having to take
out a loan. But if the school district
has a good October with local tax dollars coming in, then school officials
would dip into the borrowed funds after Thanksgiving, he predicts. As the money
is used, though, he wonders if the school district would be reimbursed for the
loan’s interest.
Trib
Live By Greg
Reinbold Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, 11:30 p.m.
The Derry Area school board is growing impatient with the state budget impasse, but the district has sufficient funds in reserve to conduct business as usual until the end of the year. School directors voted during Thursday's meeting to adopt a resolution urging Gov. Tom Wolf and the Pennsylvania General Assembly to approve a state spending plan for the 2015-16 school year.
The Derry Area school board is growing impatient with the state budget impasse, but the district has sufficient funds in reserve to conduct business as usual until the end of the year. School directors voted during Thursday's meeting to adopt a resolution urging Gov. Tom Wolf and the Pennsylvania General Assembly to approve a state spending plan for the 2015-16 school year.
District
administrative assistant for business affairs Joseph Koluder said the district
receives roughly 54 percent of its revenue from the state, and the longer the
budget impasse continues, the harder it will be for the district to avoid
taking out a tax anticipation loan.
Push for
budget, Southmoreland board president urges residents
Trib
Live By Paul
Paterra Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, 1:36 a.m.
The continuing impasse with the state budget has caused many Pennsylvania school districts to take action — such as taking out a revenue anticipation loan — to offset the funding not being received. WhileSouthmoreland School
District is not yet in such a situation, action is
expected Oct. 8 that, if approved, would allow Business Manager James Marnell
to take initial steps to that end, if necessary. “I thought, rather than wait until the last
minute, if and when things become dire ... I thought we should lay a little
groundwork,” Superintendent John Molnar said at the board meeting Thursday. “We're keeping our fingers crossed that we
get this budget straightened (out) before we would need such a thing.”
The continuing impasse with the state budget has caused many Pennsylvania school districts to take action — such as taking out a revenue anticipation loan — to offset the funding not being received. While
Jim Crow Segregation Lives On: An
Examination of Pennsylvania ’s
Race-Based System of Public School Funding
Atlanta
Black Star October 1, 2015 | Posted by David
Love
Over a half century has passed since Brown v. Board of Education but educational segregation is still a reality, andPennsylvania is a prime example of the
problem. In the Keystone State, a Jim Crow policy assures that school districts
with children of color are underfunded—not simply because they are poor and
poorer communities have a lower tax base to adequately fund their schools, but
because they are Black and Brown. Pennsylvania
is a cautionary tale for the rest of the nation. David Mosenkis, a data scientist, conducted
research and delved into the root of the problem, as was reported in The
Atlantic . Assessing the funding data
or the 500 school districts in Pennsylvania ,
Mosenkis found that superficially, poor schools receive more funding than more
wealthy districts, as one would expect, since more well-to-do communities
require less state funding and can raise more revenue through local taxes. But
digging deeper, Mosenkis learned that ultimately, school funding was based not
on class or economics, but on race. The racial composition of the schools
determine how much money they receive.
Over a half century has passed since Brown v. Board of Education but educational segregation is still a reality, and
Feds didn’t carefully monitor $3 billion
it gave for charters — and it just awarded $157 million
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has been called the most
powerful education secretary for a reason.
He has led a department that has been criticized for being “a national
school board” because of its micromanaging states on some key education issues.
Duncan talks a
lot about “accountability” and the importance of making sure that schools are
doing right by kids. When the department began its $4.3 billion Race to the Top
funding competition among states, it made clear what its priorities for
applications were, and when it offered waivers to states from the most onerous
parts of No Child Left Behind, there were detailed strings attached. (And
when Washington
did not evaluate teachers by standardized test scores as the department wanted,
it yanked the state’s No Child Left Behind waiver). But when it comes to its support of charter
schools, the department hasn’t been doing all that much to manage the more than
$3 billion it has given to charter networks and state education departments for
the purposes of creating and expanding existing charters. And it just this week
announced that it was awarding $157 million in new grants for charters.
Shift $15
Billion in Prison Spending to Teacher Raises in High Poverty Schools , Arne
Duncan Urges
Education
Week Politics K-12 Blog By Andrew Ujifusa on September 30, 2015
6:11 AM
UPDATED Instead of a school-to-prison
pipeline, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is proposing that public
funds to flow through a sort of prison-to-school pipeline.
In a
speech set for delivery at the National Press Club in Washington
Sept. 30, Duncan
was to push a plan to repurpose $15 billion that states and localities
currently spend on correctional facilities. The idea is that they could save
that much by by redirecting half of their non-violent criminal offenders away
from prison, and instead spend that money on pay hikes of over 50 percent for
teachers working in their highest-poverty schools. According to calculations released by the U.S. Department
of Education, using data from the 2011-12 school year and other
federal sources, teachers in 17,640 schools would qualify for this pay
raise. The redirected $15 billion would be a 21 percent reduction in state
and local spending on correctional facilities, according to the department, and
a 56 percent increase for the $26.9 billion in salaries in those high-poverty
schools.
The Joyful,
Illiterate Kindergartners of Finland
Forget the Common Core , Finland ’s
youngsters are in charge of determining what happens in the classroom.
The Atlantic by TIM
WALKER OCT 1, 2015
“The
changes to kindergarten make me sick,” a veteran teacher in Arkansas recently admitted to me. “Think
about what you did in first grade—that’s what my 5-year-old babies are expected
to do.” The difference between first
grade and kindergarten may not seem like much, but what I remember about my first-grade
experience in the mid-90s doesn’t match the kindergarten she described in her
email: three and a half hours of daily literacy instruction, an hour and a half
of daily math instruction, 20 minutes of daily “physical activity time”
(officially banned from being called “recess”) and two 56-question standardized
tests in literacy and math—on the fourth week of school. That American friend—who teaches 20 students
without an aide—has fought to integrate 30 minutes of “station time” into the
literacy block, which includes “blocks, science, magnetic letters, play
dough with letter stamps to practice words, books, and storytelling.” But the
most controversial area of her classroom isn’t the blocks nor the stamps:
Rather, it’s the “house station with dolls and toy food”—items her district
tried to remove last year. The implication was clear: There’s no time for play
in kindergarten anymore.
This high school makes every student take
AP classes
There’s
a lot of talk right now about how to get more students into Advanced Placement
classes. Easier
said than done. Even when schools make
it easier for students to enroll by removing requirements such as grade
cut-offs and referrals from teachers, AP classes continue to maintain a reputation
of being elite. As a result, low-income, black and Latino students are still
underrepresented. Some schools and
magnet programs have settled on a simple solution: Just make them a
requirement. That’s what the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES) did.
At the mid-city magnet school, every 10th grade student takes AP World History.
"You get to call
yourself a public institution when you are answerable to the public (say, by
having your governing board members stand for election). You get to call
yourself a public institution when any taxpayer who's paying for your shop to
stay open can have full and transparent access to your financial information. Some
charters, particularly the traditional ones, do this, and they deserve the
"public" label."
Curmuducation Blog
by Peter Greene Monday, October 13, 2014
Bruce Dixon at Black
Agenda Report way back in February of 2013 a must-read article about privatization under
the current administration. Diane Ravitch quoted it earlier today, but I
need to set it down, too, because this quote deserves to be handily located in
everyone's mental file of Responses To The Same Old Reformster Arguments. So
the next time somebody tries to tell you that the new wave of charter school
chains are public schools, just tell them this:
On every level, the advocates of educational privatization strive to avoid using the p-word. They deliberately mislabel charter schools, just as unaccountable as every other private business in the land as “public charter schools,” because after all, they use public money. So do Boeing, Lockheed, General Dynamics, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, but nobody calls these “public aerospace companies,” “public military contractors,” or “public banks.”
http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/10/super-quote-re-public-vs-private.html?spref=tw
On every level, the advocates of educational privatization strive to avoid using the p-word. They deliberately mislabel charter schools, just as unaccountable as every other private business in the land as “public charter schools,” because after all, they use public money. So do Boeing, Lockheed, General Dynamics, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, but nobody calls these “public aerospace companies,” “public military contractors,” or “public banks.”
http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/10/super-quote-re-public-vs-private.html?spref=tw
PSBA launches an alumni
network
Are you a former school director or in your final term? Stay connected through the PSBA Alumni Network. Your interest in public education continues beyond your term of service as a school director. And as a PSBA alumnus, you have years of experience and insight into the workings of public education and school boards. Legislators value your opinions as a former elected official. Take that knowledge and put it to work as a member of the PSBA Alumni Network.
For a nominal yearly fee of $25 a year or $100 for a lifetime membership, you will receive:
Are you a former school director or in your final term? Stay connected through the PSBA Alumni Network. Your interest in public education continues beyond your term of service as a school director. And as a PSBA alumnus, you have years of experience and insight into the workings of public education and school boards. Legislators value your opinions as a former elected official. Take that knowledge and put it to work as a member of the PSBA Alumni Network.
For a nominal yearly fee of $25 a year or $100 for a lifetime membership, you will receive:
- Electronic access to the PSBA
Bulletin, the leading public education magazine in Pennsylvania
- Access to legislative information
pertaining to public education and periodic updates via email.
To join, complete
the registration below. For more details or questions, contact Member
Engagement Director Karen Devine at Karen.devine@psba.org or (800)
932-0588, ext. 3322.
SPECIAL
ANNOUNCEMENT: School Play is going on tour! Click below for more
information about tour dates in your county. All performances are FREE!
School
Play, a documentary-based live theatre piece, is here to put school funding
center stage. Compiled from a series of interviews, the play premiered in
Philadelphia in April, 2015 and is now available for free for
performances around the Commonwealth.
"This will be an opportunity for the
community to discuss its collective aspirations for our next
superintendent. We hope you'll join us for an evening of learning and
discussion about how we as a community can support our Board in its search for
our schools next leader."
Getting a Great Superintendent
Pittsburgh, PA Wednesday, October 7, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
A+ Schools and its partners are hosting a community discussion
about innovative talent search models that have attracted high quality
leadership to key roles in the City of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Public
Schools. Come hear from Valerie Dixon, Executive Director and Founder of
the PACT Initiative, Leigh Halverson, Strategic Project Advisor to the
President, Heinz Endowments, Patrick Dowd, former school board member and Executive
Director of Allies for Children, Robert Cavalier, Director, Program for
Deliberative Democracy at Carnegie Mellon University, and Alex Matthews, former
school board member discuss the key lessons they've learned from being part of
selection processes for key leaders in our City.
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.
School Leadership Conference
online registration closes Sept. 25
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:
Registration is open for the 19th Annual
Eastern Pennsylvania Special Education Administrators’ Conference
on October 21-23rd in Hershey.
Educators in the
field of special education from public, charter and nonpublic schools are
invited to attend. The conference offers rich professional development
sessions and exceptional networking opportunities. Keynote speakers are
Shane Burcaw and Jodee Blanco. Register at https://www.paiu.org/epaseac/conf_registration.php
Register Now for the Fifth
Annual Arts and Education Symposium Oct. 29th Harrisburg
Thursday, October
29, 2015 Radisson Hotel Harrisburg Convention Center 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Act
48 Credit is available. The event will be a daylong convening of arts education
policy leaders and practitioners for lively discussions about important policy
issues and the latest news from the field. The symposium is hosted by EPLC and
the Pennsylvania Arts Education Network, and supported by a generous grant from
The Heinz Endowments.
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/>
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
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