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Keystone State Education Coalition
PA Ed Policy Roundup October 8, 2015
'We hope they
don't go into their rooms and close their doors'
Blogger's note: depending
upon how the hawks and monarchs are running at the Point, the Ed Policy Roundup
might be late or intermittent for a few days….
Education adrift: A tough audit says Pennsylvania
Post
Gazette By the Editorial Board October 8, 2015 12:00 AM
The
terrible financial hit that Pennsylvania ’s
schools absorbed wasn’t the only form of neglect inflicted by the state during
the four-year term of former Gov. Tom Corbett. Administrators in Harrisburg also fell down
on the job in performing fundamental duties that had little to do with money. State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale’s
comprehensive review of five years of records called out the state Education
Department, and by extension the state Board of Education, for a long list of
failures. The most prominent example of
irresponsibility was the employment of Mr. Corbett’s former Cabinet secretary,
Ron Tomalis, in a do-nothing job with a salary of $139,542.
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.
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.
Fair funding
campaign analyzes Pa.
the
notebook By Cathering Offord on Oct 7, 2015 02:41 PM
The
Campaign for Fair Education Funding (CFEF), a statewide coalition of more than
50 organizations, has released a new report on the implications of the
education proposals being debated in Harrisburg . The report, “Lifting All Students: Why
Pennsylvania Must Act Now to Fairly Fund Public Education and Secure Our
Future,” details the practical outcomes for school districts across the state
under both the $410 million funding increase in Gov. Wolf’s proposed budget and
the $100 million increase proposed by Republican legislators. “This report was an effort to make clear what
is at stake if we get a truly robust education funding formula and an influx of
funding this year,” said Ian Gavigan, policy and communications associate at
the Education Law Center
Lifting All Students: Why Pennsylvania
Campaign
for Fair Education Funding September 2015
Penn
Live By Charles Thompson |
cthompson@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on October
07, 2015 at 3:31 PM, updated October 07, 2015 at 5:25 PM
House
Republicans stamped "rejected" on Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed increase
in the state income tax Wednesday on a 127-73 vote that broke mostly along
party lines.
Republicans
said they hoped the vote would drive the final stake through the heart of Wolf's tax plan. But with the Democratic caucus rallying
around their first-year governor - Dems supported the tax 73 to 9, with two
members absent - it was not at all certain that Wolf will be prepared to move
to a fresh alternative. All 118
Republicans on the floor voted against the plan.
Budget Impasse
Day 99: Sides see revenue plan rejection vote very differently
The PLS
Reporter Author: Jason Gottesman/Wednesday, October
7, 2015
Maybe
there was something in the air Wednesday.
While
the House of Representatives spent nearly seven hours debating Gov. Tom Wolf’s
revenue proposal, a prominent lobbyist and a Hollywood actor got into a heated
verbal tussle. Tensions
that had been running high since last week when Republican leaders said they
would give the governor free reign to try to get as many votes as he could for
a revenue plan he would timely submit came to a head when that plan was
defeated with 127 votes opposing the measure, including nine put up by
Democratic lawmakers. Following the
vote, leaders from both parties responsible for negotiating the budget saw that
final vote in dramatically different ways.
'We hope they
don't go into their rooms and close their doors,' school officials say after
Wolf tax vote flop: Analysis
Penn
Live By John L. Micek | jmicek@pennlive.com Email
the author | Follow on Twitter on
October 07, 2015 at 6:07 PM, updated October 07, 2015 at 6:15 PM
Eric Eshbach and Michael
O'Brien deal with prepubescent temper tantrums all the time.
And that
actually might be easier than dealing with the fall-out from Pennsylvania 's budget impasse, which turns
100 days old on Thursday. "Keep the
conversation going," Eshbach,
the superintendent of the Northern
York Schoolsurged the warring factions Wednesday, just
moments after the
Republican-controlled state House voted 127-73 to shoot down Gov. Tom Wolf's tax package,
throwing an already anarchic budget season into further disarray.
"I
deal with middle school students all the time," Eshbach said. "You don't go
into your room and shut the door. That's not how we'd teach conflict
resolution."
Midstate
lawmakers share next-step ideas for getting a budget done
Penn
Live By Jan Murphy |
jmurphy@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on October 07, 2015 at 5:20 PM,
updated October 07, 2015 at 5:21 PM
Some
midstate lawmakers saw Wednesday's defeat of Gov. Tom Wolf's $3.8 billion tax
plan as a stepping off point to get forward movement in resolving this state
budget impasse now in its 99th day. Some
call for passing a stopgap budget until a final budget is negotiated. Others
urge Republican and Democratic legislative leaders to work toward an agreed-to
budget plan without involving the governor.
Others took Wednesday's 127-73 defeat of Wolf's tax plan as an
indication that there is no support for a broad-based tax increase.
In the
above video, Reps. Mauree Gingrich, R-Palmyra; Steve Bloom, R-North Middleton
Twp.; Patty Kim, D-Harrisburg; Russ Diamond, R-Lebanon; Mike Regan,
R-Dillsburg; Mark Keller, R-New Bloomfield; Kevin Schreiber, D-York; and Sue
Helm, R-Susquehanna Twp., share their thoughts about what they think should
happen next to end this budget impasse.
Pa. House
rejects Wolf budget plan
CHRIS PALMER, INQUIRER HARRISBURG BUREAU LAST UPDATED: Wednesday, October
7, 2015, 3:46 PM POSTED: Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 3:30 PM
HARRISBURG
- In a major blow to Gov. Wolf's agenda, the state House on Wednesday soundly
rejected his proposal to increase funding for Pennsylvania schools through tax
hikes, creating more uncertainty about how or when the state's 99-day budget
impasse would be resolved. The
measure, which sought to raise the personal income tax and impose a new levy on
natural-gas drilling, was defeated 127 to 73. It needed 102 votes to pass. The rejection clouds the future of the budget
for Wolf, the first-term Democrat who for months has said the state's budget
needed a significant infusion of new revenue.
Speaking on the House floor before the vote, Rep. Bill Adolph (R.,
Delaware), said Republicans had sent Wolf a consistent message during budget
negotiations: There was not enough support for hiking broad-based taxes like
the personal income and sales tax.
Pa. House rejects Gov. Wolf's proposal to raise taxes
on personal income, gas drilling
By Karen Langley / Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau October 7,
2015 4:04 PM
HARRISBURG -- The Pennsylvania House this afternoon turned
down Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposal to increase taxes on personal income and natural
gas drilling, as the state continues on in its fourth month without a budget. Nine Democrats joined the Republicans in
opposition, 127-73. The House Republican leader, Dave Reed, said the vote showed
the House does not support the use of broad-based tax increases to close the
budget. "Now we've got to get
around the table as quickly as possible with the governor, our colleagues
across the aisle in the House, Republican and Democrat in the Senate, to try to
negotiate a final spending plan to get money out to the core functions of
government," Mr. Reed said. The
vote came the day after the Wolf administration unveiled a revised tax plan that
would increase the personal income tax from 3.07 percent to 3.57 percent and
enact a natural gas severance tax of 3.5 percent plus 4.7 cents per thousand
cubic feet.
Wolf's tax plan rejected
Steve
Esack Contact Reporter Morning Call
Harrisburg Bureau October 7, 2015
HARRISBURG
— The Republican-controlled House has defeated Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's plan
to raise taxes on workers and gas drillers to close the state's budget deficit,
put more money in classrooms and reduce local property taxes for some
homeowners. The 127-73 vote was issued
at about 3:20 p.m. today, more than six hours after debate began in the
legislative chamber. The plan would have
raised the personal income tax 16 percent. The extra money generated would have
went to close $3.5 billion deficits this fiscal year and next fiscal year. It
also would have been used to reduce or eliminate local property taxes and rent
costs for more seniors, disabled adults, including veterans, starting in
2016-17. The higher tax of 3.5 percent
on extracted natural gas, plus another fee on the fuel, would have put another
$400 million in the state education budget over the next two fiscal years,
according to Wolf's plan. Wolf's plan
stood no chance in the House where Republicans, many deeply conservative, out
number Democrats 119 to 84. Not all members voted; two Democrats were absent
and one Republican was, too.
State House
knocks down Pennsylvania Gov. Wolf's tax plan
Breaking ranks:
W.Pa. Democrats who voted against the governor's tax plan:
• Rep. Joe Petrarca
of Vandergrift
• Rep. Chris
Sainato of Lawrence
County
• Rep. Pam Snyder
of Carmichael
• Rep. Robert
Matzie of Ambridge
• Rep. Tim Mahoney
of Uniontown
• Rep. Nick Kotik
of Coraopolis
• Rep. Ted Harhai
of Westmoreland
• Rep. Jaret
Gibbons of Ellwood
City
• Rep. Frank Burns
of Johnstown
Source:
Tribune-Review
Trib
Live By Brad
Bumsted Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, 10:30 a.m.
HARRISBURG —
Nine Western Pennsylvania Democrats broke ranks with Gov. Tom Wolf and joined
Republicans on Wednesday to defeat his plan to raise the personal income tax
from 3.07 percent to 3.57 percent and levy an extraction tax on natural gas
drillers. House Republican leaders had
invited Wolf to offer his plan to rank-and-file lawmakers to see whether
support exists for a broad-based tax. A stalemate over the budget is in its
100th day. House members defeated the
measure 127 to 73. All Republicans opposed it. Two Democrats and one Republican
were excused. Though GOP leaders said
the vote was a recognition that broad-based state taxes are not viable, Wolf
refused to concede that.
House votes down new Wolf plan for income,
drilling taxes
HARRISBURG,
Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf's hopes of ending Pennsylvania's 99-day-old state
budget impasse were dashed Wednesday when nine of his fellow Democrats joined
all House Republicans to vote against his revised plan to raise billions in
income and gas drilling taxes. The
House voted 127-73 against Wolf's plan to increase the state's personal income
tax rate by a half percentage point and create a new extraction tax on
Marcellus Shale natural gas production. Democrats
needed more than a dozen Republican votes, but were unable to keep on board
some moderate members of their own caucus from western Pennsylvania . Wolf told reporters he was
encouraged that so many Democrats voted yes.
"There is a bipartisan recognition that we have a big problem in Pennsylvania ," Wolf
said.
"This time around, the
district is taking another approach.
Parents will not get to vote
for or against charter conversion. A few will be invited (in a still
to-be-determined way) to join a review committee (of still to-be-determined
size) that will have a say on which charter operator Hite will eventually
propose to the SRC as a match for the school."
Parents at Philly's Cooke elementary push back against
charter conversion
WHYY Newsworks BY KEVIN MCCORRY OCTOBER 7, 2015
It began with a whimper; ended with a bang.
On Tuesday evening, the Philadelphia School District hosted
its first parent engagement meeting on its plan to convert Jay Cooke Elementary
School in Logan into a neighborhood based charter. Last Thursday, the district announced a set of sweeping
proposals that would affect 15 schools and 5,000 students — moves that include
new school openings, closings and district-led and charter conversions. Cooke is one of three district elementary
schools that Superintendent William Hite has tapped to become a neighborhood
based charter starting in 2015-16. The meeting for Cooke was to start at 6 p.m., but with the
room empty save for district officials and journalists, leaders opted to wait a
bit. When new assistant superintendent,
Randi Davila, commenced the district's presentation 15 minutes later, only one
Cooke parent was in attendance. An hour
into the gathering, attendance peaked at a little more than a dozen parents.
The school serves more than 400 students.
Many of the parents in attendance attributed the small showing to the
district's convoluted method for informing the community of the details of the
meeting. It purposely omitted the meeting's address from the letter it mailed
to parents that alerted them of the district's plan. To find out the details, parents were
supposed to call a special hotline, leave a message, and then wait for a call
back from a district staffer.
School district drops faith-based
organization from teen parenting program; Facebook photo drew complaints
The School District of Lancaster Lancaster students; however, the partnership
drew complaints from some city parents and residents over the last month. "To have a religious organization doing
something that critical with students in our public schools just doesn’t seem
appropriate to me," said Marylee Sauder, a Lancaster
Township resident whose daughters
graduated from McCaskey
High School
Employees help
drive the walking school bus in Pottstown
By Michilea Patterson,
The Mercury POSTED: 10/07/15,
6:09 PM EDT | UPDATED: 2 HRS AGO
Blogger note: Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as "gall, brazen
nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts', presumption plus arrogance such as no
other word and no other language can do justice to" See the next few postings for context…..
Gov. Tom Wolf
still trying to cut special ed funds for charters
Watchdog.org
By Evan Grossman / October 7,
2015 / 4
Comments
Gov. Tom
Wolf is still trying to turn around the cash-strapped Chester Upland
School District
"The
owner is a trust linked to Philadelphia lawyer and charter-school entrepreneur
Vahan Gureghian and his lawyer wife, Danielle. Three years ago, she told town
officials the house was the couple’s dream home, but their plans appear to have
changed."
North End
mansion listed at $84.5M
Under-construction
house has bowling alley, 242 feet of beachfront
Priced
at $84.5 million, a direct-oceanfront mansion under construction on the North
End has entered the market as the island’s most expensive property, according
to the local multiple listing service. Sporting its own bowling alley,
the French-style house is rising on the double lot – expansive even by Palm Beach standards
– that measures about 2 acres with 242 feet of beachfront at 1071 N. Ocean Blvd.
With about 35,000 square feet of living space, inside and out, the house should
be ready for occupancy some time next season, according to listing broker
Christian J. Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate. Angle’s sales listing
showed up Friday in the Palm Beach Board of Realtors MLS. The roughly H-shaped
floor plan includes six bedrooms in the main part of the house plus a pair of two-bedroom
guest apartments with ocean views. The house stands a third of a mile north of
the Palm Beach Country Club.
- See
more at: http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/local/north-end-mansion-listed-at-845m/nkhyf/#sthash.WLKvVu4j.dpuf
'Trade
secret' -
"Randi
J. Vladimer, an attorney representing the charter school, said in the appeal,
filed Monday in Delaware County Common Pleas Court, that the management
company's records were not covered by the Right to Know Law because it was a
private business. She also argued that the Office of Open Records made a
technical error in the timing of its decision that invalidated it. Further, she
said the records were a "trade secret or confidential information"
that could hurt the management company's competitive position if
disclosed."
Reprise Inky
June 2009: Charter files to halt release of its records The Delco school and
its management firm said The Inquirer's request for data was invalid.
By
Dan Hardy INQUIRER STAFF WRITER POSTED: June 11, 2009
The Chester Community Charter School Delaware County
From
Judge Chad Kenney's
ruling regarding the Chester Upland School District
"The
Charter Schools serving Chester-Upland Special Education students reported in
2013-2014, the last reporting period available, that they did not have any
Special Education students costing them anything outside the zero (0) to
twenty-five thousand dollar ($25,000.00) range, and yet this is remarkable
considering they receive forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) for each one of
these Special Education students under a legislatively mandated formula
This means the legislative formula permits the Charters to pocket somewhere
between fourteen thousand ($14,000.00) and forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00)
per student over and above what it costs to educate them. While this
discrepancy needs to be seen in most instances as the operators of Charters taking
advantage of legal mandates, it is clear that the Legislature did not mean for
its averages to produce such windfalls to the Charter School industry in a
distressed district."
Is this any
way to run a school district?
Back in 2012, the long-beleaguered Chester Upland School District in Pennsylvania ran
out of money — literally — and the unionized teachers and staff agreed to work
without pay. (When it made national news, first lady Michelle Obama invited a
Chester Upland teacher to sit with her at the State of the Union speech that
year.) Well, it’s happened again — at least the part about the district being
out of cash and all of the teachers, support staff, bus drivers and other
adults in the system agreeing to work for free when the 2015-16 academic year
starts on Wednesday.
“We knew
we had to do it, again,” said John Shelton, who has been an educator in the
district for 23 years and now is dean of students at a district middle school.
“With great pain, we agreed to work as long as our families allow us to.”
Why does
this keep happening?
There Are Way
But that’s partly
because states are better at finding them.
FiveThirtyEight
6:00 AM OCT 7, 2015 By HAYLEY MUNGUIA
The
number of homeless students in the country’s classrooms has more than doubled
since before the recession, according to recently released federal data. That’s
an alarming trend, but a new report offers some hope: At least part of the
increase, the authors say, is not because more students have become homeless,
but because states have gotten better at identifying homeless students. There were about 1.4 million homeless
students nationwide in the 2013-14 school year, according to the Department of
Education, twice as many as there were in the 2006-07 school year, when roughly
680,000 students were homeless.
For Goldman,
Success in Social Impact Bond That Aids Schoolchildren
New York Times By NATHANIEL POPPER OCT. 7, 2015
Financial
results at Goldman Sachs are
going to look a little bit better this quarter because of the educational
success of 100 or so kindergarten pupils in Utah .
The students were part of a relatively new financial experiment in which
Goldman put up money to pay preschool costs for students who had been expected
to need special education services. When
the students were tested this year — after a year in preschool — and found not
to need extra help, the State of Utah
paid Goldman most of the money it would have spent on special education for the
children. The
payment represented the first time a so-called social impact bond paid off for
investors in the United
States . The idea of social impact bonds is still very
new. The first one was started in England
in 2010; Goldman started the first in the United States in 2012. The bonds are already being talked about as
one of the most promising ideas to come out of finance recently — providing a
new way to fund social programs in an era of government budget cuts.
SCHOOL CHOICE: THE ROLE OF THE
CONSTITUTION AND THE COURTS IN IMPROVING EDUCATION
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Does the
Constitution guarantee an “equal education” to every child? What do the U.S.
and Pennsylvania Constitutions say about school choice, teacher tenure,
standardized testing, and more? The Constitution Center hosts two conversations
exploring these questions.
In the
first discussion, education policy experts—Donna Cooper of
Public Citizens for Children and Youth, Mark
Gleason of the Philadelphia School Partnership, Deborah
Gordon Klehr of the Education Law Center, and Ina Lipman of the Children's Scholarship Fund
Philadelphia—examine the state of Philadelphia public education, what an
"equal education" in Philadelphia would look like, and their specific
proposals for getting there. They also explain what, if anything, the
Pennsylvania state constitution says about these questions, and how state
government interacts with local government in setting education policy.
In the
second discussion, James
Finberg of Altshuler Berzon and Joshua Lipshutz of
Gibson Dunn—two attorneys involved in Vergara v. California, a
landmark dispute over the legality of teacher retention policies—present the
best arguments on both sides and discuss what's next in the case. They also
explain what the U.S. Constitution and major Supreme Court cases like Brown
v. Board of Education, San Antonio Independent School District v.
Rodriguez and Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle
School District No. 1 say about education and our national debates.
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.
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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