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Keystone State Education Coalition
PA Ed Policy Roundup October 7, 2015
“At some point, we’ve got to
vote somebody off the island, and if it’s going to be broad-based tax
increases, so be it,” Reed said.
The state
House State
Government Committee approved legislation to remove future Pennsylvania School
Bill axes
public pensions for school boards' lobbyists
Penn
Live By Jan Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com Email
the author | Follow on Twitter on October
06, 2015 at 10:57 AM, updated October 06, 2015 at 12:06 PM
A small pension reform move is
afoot to remove future employees of an organization that lobbies on behalf of
4,500 school board members from being eligible to participate in a state
pension plan. The House State Government
Committee on Tuesday voted 19-8 following a lengthy debate, to approve a bill
to begin to disqualify Pennsylvania School Boards Association employees from
membership in the Public School Employees' Retirement System. Democratic members expressed concern about
the unfairness of a two-tiered benefit system that this bill would create as
well as concerns about retirement security for future PSBA employees. They also
pointed out that not all PSBA employees engage in lobbying activities. "It is not appropriate for them to be in
the pension system" Rep. Kristin Phillips-Hill. Republican members argued that it was
inappropriate for any lobbying organization to receive government-subsidized
pensions. They also said the school employees' pension system, which one
lawmaker noted is only 61 percent funded, is in dire need of reform and this is
one small step toward that end.
Gov. Tom Wolf's
revised tax increase package: At a glance
Penn
Live By Charles
Thompson | cthompson@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on October
06, 2015 at 5:15 PM, updated October 06, 2015 at 8:45 PM
Here's
the highlights of the tax package Gov. Tom Wolf has introduced for possible
consideration on the state House floor as early as Wednesday. Note that this is not necessarily the full
revenue package the governor would be seeking to conclude a budget deal. Administration officials said Tuesday they
can't make that promise in the absence of a final agreement. But it is evident that, by the
administration's own math, that when the proposed property tax relief piece is
factored into Wolf's proposal, there is not enough income to close what he has
defined as the state's structural deficit and increase education spending to
the level that Wolf wants. So, even if
this measure passes, expect continued discussion about increases in cigarette
taxes, the bank shares tax, etc.
Wednesday's
bill is, however, intended to represent the size and scope of any broad-based
tax that would be needed, and the new severance tax on natural gas production
that Wolf has long championed.
“At some point, we’ve got to
vote somebody off the island, and if it’s going to be broad-based tax
increases, so be it,” Reed said.
THE
WOLF TAX PLAN
A
comparison of Gov. Tom Wolf’s newly revised tax agenda and what he proposed in
his budget address in March:
PERSONAL
INCOME TAX — Original plan: Increased from 3.07 percent to 3.7 percent. Revised
plan: Increase rate from 3.07 percent to 3.57 percent.
NATURAL
GAS — Original: 5 percent tax on value plus 4.7 cents per 1,000 cubic feet.
Revised: 3.5 percent tax on value plus 4.7 cents per 1,000 cubic feet. This
would continue the present impact fee.
SALES
TAX — Original: Increased rate from 6 percent to 6.6 percent in most of the
state and extended tax to services and other transactions. Revised: Not in
Wolf’s proposal.
CIGARETTE
TAXES — Original: Raised per-pack tax to $2.60 from $1.60, extend a 40 percent
wholesale tax to sales of cigars, smokeless tobacco and electronic cigarettes.
Revised: Not in Wolf’s proposal.
CORPORATE
INCOME TAX — Original: Lowered tax rate from 9.99 percent to 4.99 percent over
two years, closed loophole that allowed businesses based in other states to
avoid the tax on their Pennsylvania operations. Revised: Not in Wolf’s
proposal.
CAPITAL
STOCK & FRANCHISE TAX — Original: Eliminated at end of this year. Revised:
Not in Wolf’s proposal.
BANK
SHARES TAX — Original: Raised from 0.80 percent to 1.25 percent. Current: Not
in Wolf’s proposal.
The
state House plans to take up Wolf’s tax proposal Wednesday with an initial vote
that will test support for the first-term Democrat’s proposal. Wolf wants to plug a budget deficit and
increase spending on education and human services by increasing the personal
income tax rate and imposing a new severance tax on natural gas drilling. The governor’s goal is to raise $1.4 billion
for the current fiscal year and $2.4 billion next year. There’s considerable Republican opposition to
imposing new broad-based taxes. The governor has been working to secure the
dozens of GOP votes he’d need for passage.
Wolf still
seeking to raise income tax, impose tax on shale-gas drilling
Trib
Live By Brad
Bumsted Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015, 12:42 p.m.
HARRISBURG —
House Republicans will proceed with a historic vote Wednesday enabling
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf to test support for a tax plan that would increase the
personal income tax from 3.07 to 3.57 percent and impose a tax on natural gas
drilling. The vote could extend, or
bring to a close, a 99-day budget stalemate, said House Majority Leader David
Reed, who doubts Wolf has the votes. Schools are not receiving state funding
and human service providers are not being paid.
Wolf made key concessions by withdrawing his proposal to raise the sales
and cigarette taxes. He stuck by a campaign pledge to levy an extraction tax on
shale-gas drillers. He reduced his two-year revenue plan from $5 billion to
$3.7 billion. Wolf altered his proposed
property tax reduction for homeowners of all ages. He instead would expand
state property tax relief for seniors, people with disabilities and veterans. A tax increase is needed to close a
structural deficit of more than $2 billion and boost education spending, Wolf
said.
Wolf still working to get votes for his
budget proposals
Legislature mulling modified tax
hikes
By Karen
Langley and Kate Giammarise / Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau October 6, 2015 11:26 PM
Gov. Tom Wolf PA budget plan seeks higher
income, drilling taxes
Wolf retools budget
tax plan as lawmakers prep for a vote.
Morning Call by Mark Scolforo Of The Associated Press October
6, 2015
House GOP
leader plays what-if game on Wolf's tax plan
Penn
Live By Jan Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com Email
the author | Follow on Twitter on October
06, 2015 at 5:20 PM, updated October 06, 2015 at 6:04 PM
Wednesday
could prove to be a tell-tale moment for Gov. Tom Wolf and his desire to increase
in the state's personal income tax rate for the first time in 11 years to
address the state's
structural deficit and boost education funding. House Majority Leader Dave Reed, R-Indiana, said
the House expects to vote on Wednesday on Wolf's $3.7
billion tax plan that was shared publicly on Tuesday but
sounded doubtful that it would draw the necessary 102 votes. "I personally believe the votes are not
there although the administration just 30 minutes ago assured us each and every
Democrat is a yes vote and they believe they have the votes for passage,"
Reed told reporters on Tuesday afternoon. "There's only one way to tell
and that will be to vote on it tomorrow."
Revised
revenue plan still a tough decision for moderate Republicans
The PLS
Reporter Author: Jason Gottesman/Tuesday, October
6, 2015
As the
details of Gov. Tom Wolf’s revised revenue plan were made public Tuesday,
Republicans—even some moderates who could potentially be in favor of some
broad-based revenue increases—were still skeptical. The new revenue plan, which is embodied in an
amendment sponsored by House Appropriations Committee Minority Chairman Joe
Markosek (D-Allegheny) to House Bill 283, proposes to raise $3.6 billion over
the next two fiscal years by relying heavily on increasing the personal income
tax to 3.57 percent and placing a 3.5 percent tax on natural gas extraction. The proposal would also increase the property
tax forgiveness provision costing $195 million over two years while also making
a transfer of $5 million to the Property Tax and Rent Rebate Program in FY
2016-2017. According to House Democrats
and the Wolf administration, the expanded Property Tax and Rent Rebate Program
will provide $400 million in new property tax relief to seniors, the disabled,
and veterans beginning in FY 2017-2018, resulting in the elimination of
property taxes for 331,317 households, including over 247,000 new eliminations. In the first year the revenue plan would
generate over $1.3 billion, with another $2.3 billion to be generated in FY
2016-2017. Gov. Wolf on Monday said
without new revenue, Pennsylvania
would be facing around a $2.2 billion deficit heading into the next fiscal
year.
"But the truth is that
no one will really know until lawmakers press that little red or green button
on their desks at some point on Wednesday."
So just *how*
many votes does Gov. Wolf have for his tax plan anyway?: Analysis
Penn
Live By John L. Micek | jmicek@pennlive.com Email
the author | Follow on Twitter on
October 06, 2015 at 4:56 PM, updated October 06, 2015 at 5:11 PM
Okay, so
here's a way to keep yourself amused on a Tuesday afternoon: Walk up to a
Republican or Democratic state House member and ask them how many
votes they think Gov. Tom Wolf has snared for his newest tax plan. And then wait for the hilarity to ensue.
Because no one really knows. And if you
don't like the answer you get, wait a couple of minutes. It'll change. Sixty-five? Seventy-five? And those are just the Democrats - there are
84 of them altogether - and they were meeting behind closed doors on Tuesday
afternoon where they were reviewing the guts of the administration's newest tax
proposal.
Editorial: A
new tax plan from Tom Wolf
Intelligencer
Editorial Posted: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 12:15 am
With the
state budget impasse now in its fourth month. Gov. Wolf has made it clear that
grave consequences will result if Republican lawmakers fail to buy into his
plan to significantly raise taxes. The
governor has said over and over that without more tax revenue, the commonwealth
will only be able to meet its growing pension and human service obligations by
making drastic cuts in education funding. What’s more, according to Wolf,
higher taxes offer the only solution to Pennsylvania ’s
multimillion-dollar deficit. The
governor’s original $31.6 billion budget, released in March, called for higher
sales and personal income taxes, new levies on everything from diapers to day
care and a severance tax on the natural gas industry. That budget went exactly
nowhere. Republican lawmakers countered with a spending plan of their own that
called for modest increases in education spending and no tax hikes. Wolf said
it was chock-full of gimmicks and promptly vetoed it. He likewise gave an official thumbs-down to a
GOP compromise effort tying higher education spending to pension and liquor
privatization reforms. And he nixed a Republican stopgap measure to temporarily
fund schools and social service agencies, which are suffering during the budget
stalemate. Now, Wolf has countered with
a revised tax plan that still calls for tax hikes many Republicans say
Pennsylvanians cannot afford. The real
problem here is that both the governor and the GOP can make a valid case.
Editorial: Second ask: Gov. Wolf’s new
plan still falls short for Pennsylvania
Post
Gazette By the Editorial Board October 7, 2015 12:00 AM
Gov. Tom
Wolf’s scaled-back tax plan to end the political stalemate and balance the
state budget for 2015-16 is more realistic than the plan he announced in March,
which would have raised the income, sales, cigarette and business taxes and
introduced a severance tax for Marcellus Shale drillers. But that’s as good as it gets. The new proposal is a big step from his
overly ambitious, first “ask,” but it leaves Pennsylvanians wondering where the
state would be had Mr. Wolf offered it six months ago, long before school
districts and human service providers had to start borrowing to pay their
bills. The GOP leadership has been
saying for months that it wants major changes to the pension plan for state and
public school employees, but Mr. Wolf’s proposals in that regard have been
minimal. Likewise, while Republicans are finally on board with selling off the
state-owned liquor monopoly, Mr. Wolf vetoed a plan that Pennsylvanians have
been seeking for generations, offering a sop to consumers when a giant leap to
full privatization is necessary.
That’s
why even though his changes to the tax plan are significant and welcome, they
are not sufficient.
Their view |
Make sure all citizens get good education
Centre Daily Times Letter BY MARY A. MCKENNA October 7, 2015
Mary
A. McKenna is a former teacher and principal in Philadelphia
I am one
of those aging “children of the ’60s,” who will soon pass into her 70s. The
words and actions of Pope Francis this past week have stirred the embers of the
fires that burned in the “wilder” days of my youth. We thought that we could
make all sorts of right and just things happen. The words spoken on Saturday
about St. Katharine Drexel prep school struck me: “What are you going to do?” We
still have to take real steps to encounter and include those who are poor and
marginalized. I propose that anyone who has been blessed with a good education
has a valuable resource that needs to be shared. The news that Philadelphia
is the poorest of our nation’s 10 largest cities has been directly linked to
our failure to provide for all our children “a thorough and efficient
education,” as set forth in the Pennsylvania
state constitution. I believe that this is partially caused by our reliance on
local real estate taxes in our funding formula. Where people have the ability
to own their homes in more affluent neighborhoods or in areas where the cost of
living and availability of jobs make good schools possible for all residents
who can pay the higher real estate taxes, students are doing fairly well in
meeting standards of learning. But in rural and urban areas where schools have
been underfunded for decades and where jobs are scarce or non-existent for
those poorly educated as a result, many can only afford to rent or make their
homes in other people’s houses. There are many who don’t even have that. How
can the school districts in those areas raise adequate funds from real estate
taxes?
"The auditor general
said he found scant evidence of work by former special adviser on higher
education Ron Tomalis, who maintained his Cabinet-level status and salary of
$139,542 after he resigned as state secretary of education to become special
adviser on June 1, 2013."
State audit finds special adviser on
higher education 'did little work'
The auditor general said he
found scant evidence of work by former special adviser on higher education Ron
Tomalis.
By Mary
Niederberger and Bill Schackner / Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette October 7, 2015 12:00 AM
A
special adviser on higher education who did no work, a Basic Education Master
Plan that had not been updated in 16 years, and no effort to help the majority
of the state’s struggling schools were the major findings of two audits
performed at the state Department of Education by the office of state Auditor
General Eugene DePasquale. The long-awaited
performance audits were presented by Mr. DePasquale in a news conference
Tuesday during which he blasted the department for its lack of oversight on
advisers and assistants and its inaction in helping what he called 561 “poor
performing” schools. He also took the
state Board of Education to task for failing to update the commonwealth’s Basic
Education Master Plan every five years as mandated by the state School Code and
described the education department as “uncooperative” during the course of much
of the audit. The audit covered July 1,
2010, to Aug. 1, 2015, but the work took place largely during the
administration of former Gov. Tom Corbett. Mr. DePasquale said the lack of
cooperation seemed to stem from department leadership, rather than Mr.
Corbett’s office, and improved when Gov. Tom Wolfe took office in January.
Auditor
General: School districts feel like the Department of Education does not help
them
The PLS
Reporter Author: Jason Gottesman/Tuesday, October
6, 2015
In
releasing a much anticipated performance audit of the Pennsylvania Department
of Education and the state Board of Education Tuesday, Auditor General Eugene
DePasquale said a culture within the department has existed over the last
several years that leaves local school districts feeling as though they have
been forgotten. DePasquale pointed out
his audit revealed—among other things—that PDE has left 561 academically
challenged schools (with around 310,000 students) without adequate support. “It is absolutely stunning…that basically,
the Department of Education is overlooking some Title 1 schools and every poor performing
school that is not Title 1,” he said. “It does worry me that it appears the
department is doing the bare minimum to get by.” Along with the failure to provide adequate
support, the audit found three other major failures, including the lack of an
updated master plan from the State Board, poor hiring practices with regard to
annuitants, and a failure to monitor special advisors and assistants.
Audit finds
fault with Pa.
WHYY
Newsworks BY MARY WILSON
OCTOBER 6, 2015
A
new audit gives
Pennsylvania 's
Department of Education poor marks for the way it deals with academically
struggling schools and special employees.
The report, covering mid-2010 to mid-2015, finds that the agency failed
to provide special help to most poor-performing schools unless it were expressly
required by federal law. The new scores
were adopted in 2012 to assess and compare schools. Auditor General Eugene
DePasquale said during a press conference Tuesday that merely labeling sub-par
schools is of little service. "If
you're going to come up with criteria for what is poor-performing ... you've
got to be prepared to do something to deal with it," said DePasquale.
"There has to be an action, or why else have a Department of
Education?"
Audit slams Pa.
CHRIS PALMER, INQUIRER HARRISBURG
BUREAU LAST UPDATED: Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 1:08 AM POSTED: Tuesday,
October 6, 2015, 5:36 PM
Special Performance Audit Report
Pennsylvania Department of Education
October 2015
PA
Department of Auditor General
Sarah
M. Wojcik Contact Reporter Of The Morning
Call October 6, 2015
The
Nazareth Area School Board on Thursday is expected to vote on a fact-finder's
report aimed at reaching the middle ground in stalled teachers contract
negotiations. The special 9 p.m. public
meeting comes more than a month after the district's contract with the Nazareth
Area Education Association expired. The
fact-finder, an impartial third-party appointed by the Pennsylvania Labor and
Relations Board, was requested by the district, according to Nazareth School
Board solicitor Gary Brienza. Thursday
marks the 10th day since the compilation of the report and the deadline by
which both sides must take a vote, according to Brienza. The board will have
its say Thursday. If accepted by both parties, the report would become the
foundation for a new contract agreement, Brienza said.
A Philly
schools program draws international praise
KRISTEN A. GRAHAM, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER POSTED: October 6, 2015, 5:00 PM
It was a
big day at McKinley Elementary. A delegation of international visitors was
coming to North Philadelphia to learn how
students and teachers are managing to keep their school calm and peaceful. That 13 teachers and education officials from
South Africa trooped to Philadelphia on Tuesday
to learn lessons from a district often better known for financial trouble and
other dysfunction was not lost on Marilyn Carrion-Mejia, McKinley's longtime
principal. "We
are so, so excited," said Carrion-Mejia.
The South African delegation came to McKinley to learn about Positive
Behavior Interventions and Support, a program that sets up a schoolwide system
of rules and consequences, a way to embed good behavior in a school's culture
rather than only punishing troublemakers after the fact. In the Philadelphia School
District
Parents react
to news of Wister's planned charter conversion
the
notebook By Connie Langland on Oct 6, 2015 05:18 PM
Parents
from John Wister
Elementary School have mixed opinions
about the prospect of big changes at the school, but several who were
interviewed agreed on a key point: Wister is a fixture in the Germantown neighborhood and should remain
open. On Thursday, Superintendent
William Hite proposed closing some schools, creating others, and
turning three elementary schools -- Wister, Jay Cooke in Logan
and Samuel Huey in West Philadelphia -- over
to charter management. Decisions about which operators will take over the
schools, the District says, will be made after a lengthy process involving
community meetings and extensive parental input. In
interviews Friday morning, a day after the plan was announced, parents barely
had time to digest the news. Three of six said they had heard nothing about
it.
Touring Play
at State High Brings Education Funding Into the Public Eye
StateCollege.com
by Michael Martin Garrett on
October 07, 2015 6:00 AM
Playwright
and concerned mother Arden Kass thinks we sometimes lose sight of what really
matters when we talk about hot-button issues.
And when it comes to funding for public education – a major topic in the
state budget debates raging in the Pennsylvania legislature – she said it’s
easy to get caught up in Right vs. Left rhetoric, or to shut yourself off from
the conversation altogether. But when we
can’t see the forest through the trees, what happens to the kids? “School
Play” –
a free documentary-style play based off over 100 interviews with students,
teachers, parents and politicians – is coming to the State High auditorium on
Thursday night, and challenges all Pennsylvanians to think about this question.
Test Scores Under Common Core Show That ‘Proficient’ Varies by State
New York Times By MOTOKO RICH OCT. 6, 2015
Testing Resistance & Reform News:
September 30 - October 6, 2015
Submitted
by fairtest on October 6, 2015 - 12:56pm
Though
recent leadership upheavals in the Obama Administration and Congress have
temporarily slowed the overhaul of "No Child Left Behind," there's
substantial assessment reform progress at the state and local levels as well as
in college admissions. Remember that back issues of these weekly
news summaries are archived online at: http://fairtest.org/news/other
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.
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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