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PA
Ed Policy Roundup April 19, 2016:
Who’s Supporting PA School Funding
Lawsuit?
Rally in Harrisburg with the Campaign for Fair Education Funding
on May 2nd 12:30 Main Rotunda!
Public schools in Pennsylvania are a far cry from the
“thorough and efficient” system of education promised guaranteed under our
state constitution. That’s why we want YOU to join Education Law Center and
members of the Campaign for Fair Education Funding in Harrisburg on May 2nd!
Buses of supporters are leaving from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia - please
register below so we can help you arrive on time for the 12:30 press conference
in the Main Rotunda! Questions? Email smalloy@elc-pa.org
for more details.
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EdVotersPA: Look
who supports the school funding lawsuit & learn how you can support it,
too!
Blog/Commentary
Posted on April 18, 2016 by EDVOPA
The PA
Supreme Court will hear argument for the school funding lawsuit this year,
perhaps as early as in May. Throughout
Pennsylvania, our schools have not received adequate and equitable funding to
meet our children’s educational needs. But our Constitution says, “The
General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough
and efficient system of public education to serve the needs of the
Commonwealth. The state government is breaking its own law and our kids are suffering. Public
education advocates have a very important role to play in demanding action and
then holding state lawmakers accountable for ensuring that all schools receive
adequate and equitable funding to meet our children’s educational needs.
Debate over
school funding goes on in Harrisburg
Bucks County Courier Times By Gary Weckselblatt,
staff writer Monday,
April 18, 2016 5:30 am
Let's
call it the battle of the spreadsheets, with two sides seeking the political
advantage in the fight over school subsidies.
First, Republicans pushed their numbers with the Basic Education Funding
Commission's popular fair funding formula, which showed about 350 of the
state's 500 districts making monetary gains.
That was countered last week by Gov. Tom Wolf's chart, which illustrated
what twice the amount of additional school funding — from $200 million to
$400 million — would have meant to district budgets. Then came Wednesday's House and Senate votes,
where veto-proof majorities passed a fiscal code bill that requires new school
monies to be allocated using the BEFC formula. If the governor signs it into
law, all of the players can then begin talking about the 2016-2017 state
budget, with 10 weeks to get the job done.
"This continued political situation is counterproductive," said
Curtis Dietrich, superintendent of North Penn School District. "The Basic
Education Funding Commission engaged in a very worthy process and came out of
it with a formula we'd like to see implemented posthaste.
End
Harrisburg’s school-funding Hunger Games
The notebook
Commentary by Susan Spicka April 18, 2016 — 1:30pm
Susan Spicka is the
interim executive director of Education Voters Pennsylvania.
Over the
last five years, Harrisburg has mastered the art of pitting school districts,
parents, and students against each other in order to draw attention away from
the damage that state policies and the lack of adequate education funding
have inflicted on children, schools, and communities throughout the
commonwealth. In the 2015-16 budget,
lawmakers tossed out a handful of crumbs in new state dollars to school
districts desperate for funding. They then encouraged school districts and
parents to fight over these crumbs by telling Pennsylvanians that there would
be winners and losers in the budget, depending on how this new money was
distributed. Creating
a Hunger Games for school funding and manipulating school districts and
parents to fight for crumbs have been critical parts of a brilliant
political strategy for lawmakers who don’t support funding education. So
many school districts and parents have been focused on who gets more and who
gets less that most have failed to notice that every single school
district in Pennsylvania is a loser with this budget, no matter how the
funding is distributed.
GOP presses
Wolf on education funding priorities
Delco Times By Kevin Tustin, ktustin@21st-centurymedia.com, @KevinTustin on Twitter
POSTED: 04/18/16,
9:19 PM EDT | UPDATED: 2 MINS AGO
State
Republican lawmakers Monday morning called for Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf to sign
the recently passed fiscal code from both chambers of the Legislature that
would boost funding for Delaware County school districts, and hundreds of other
school districts in the state. State
Sen. Tom McGarrigle, R-26, of Springfield, Rep. Bill Adolph, R-165, of
Springfield, and Rep. Jamie Santora, R-163, of Upper Darby, held a press
conference at Westbrook Park Elementary School in Upper Darby emphasizing the
need for Wolf to approve the distribution of $10.47 billion in education and
other human services spending as mandated in House Bill 1589, the fiscal code. Delco’s
15 public school districts are looking at a bump of $6.3 million in basic
education subsidies alone for 2015-16.
Democrats
stand up for their school districts in opposing Wolf funding plan
WHYY
Newsworks BY KEVIN MCCORRY
APRIL 18, 2016
Pennsylvania's
protracted budget negotiation ended nearly a month ago, but the fight continues
over how $150 million in new education spending will be divided amongst the
state's 500 school districts. Gov. Tom
Wolf's plan to restore funding to districts hurt most by past cuts suffered a
major blow last week. And now he faces another critical veto decision. Wolf's "restoration" funding plan prioritizes districts still suffering from
disproportionate funding cuts under his predecessor, Gov. Tom Corbett. Philadelphia, Chester-Upland and Pittsburgh
fare especially well in that plan, and all districts would see an increase, but
the overwhelming majority of districts would get a
bigger boost under the new student-weighted funding formula plan as passed by
the legislature. Wolf vetoed that last
month. Last week, however, lawmakers passed it again within a larger fiscal
code bill — this time with veto-proof majorities in both the House andSenate.
In
interviews with several Democratic state senators, one reason stood out. "At the end of the day, it would have
been difficult for any legislator to vote against their own best interests as
it relates to their school districts," said John Blake, D-Lackawanna.
“Let us pause to actually reflect on what actually happened
here, in this place, because it doesn’t happen often enough,” Leach said. The senator then offered a path to the way
things can be – but too often are not. “We
stopped being Democrats and started being caregivers,” Leach said. “We stopped
being Republicans and started being patients. We stopped being liberals and
started being problem solvers. We stopped being conservatives and started being
compromisers. We stopped being politicians and started being human beings.”
Editorial: The
way government is supposed to work
Delco
Times Editorial POSTED: 04/18/16, 9:14 PM EDT | UPDATED: 57 SECS
AGO
“This is what government is supposed to look
like.”
Just let
that notion sink in for awhile. We’ve
gotten accustomed to the opposite when it comes to politics. It doesn’t matter if it’s Washington, D.C.,
or Harrisburg. Somewhere along the line, we lost sight of the purpose of
government – serving the public. Instead what we all too often have amounts to
little more than political bloodsport. It’s as if Vince Lombardi had hijacked
the nation’s political agenda. “Winning is not everything, it’s the only
thing.” Compromise? That magic elixir in
which the public’s business is conducted and things actually are accomplished?
A quaint notion we used when talking about Republican President Ronald Reagan
and Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill.
Editorial: Here
we go again?
Intelligencer
Editorial Posted: Monday, April 18, 2016 12:15 am
Maybe
public school superintendents are worth all that money they get paid after all.
Essentially,
they’re like CEOs at big private companies with lots of financial
responsibilities, from huge payroll obligations to equally huge capital
expenditures, not to mention debt payments. Unlike
CEOs at big private companies, however, where budgets are completed on time and
incoming revenue is relatively stable and reliable, public school
superintendents are reliant on a state Legislature that rarely completes a
budget on time and almost never allots funding in a stable or reliable way. This year, the state budget was nine months
late. It was due to be completed June 30, 2015, but was not resolved until just
a few weeks ago. Meanwhile, school districts and every other government entity
that relies on state funding was forced to borrow money or cut services ... or
both. But the past is past, right?
Better days are ahead.
Not so
much.
Support fair
education funding
Pocono
Record Letter by Janet K. Weidensaul
Posted Apr. 18, 2016 at 1:37 PM
In response to your April 10 Opinion, “Gov. Wolf right to fight discrimination,” I agree. Now it's time for Gov. Wolf to focus on discrimination against 180 severely underfunded school districts. School funding is one of the toughest and most important issues facing Pennsylvania. Frankly, there is no reason four school districts should get $102.5 million of new education funding against 496 school districts splitting the remaining $97.5 million. By any definition, that's discrimination in the highest order. So many facets of our commonwealth — jobs, culture, community, quality of life — are dependent upon and shaped by the education we provide our children. In Monroe County, we see the devastating negative impacts of severe underfunding of our schools every day. I believe every citizen in this county and across this state should be knocking on the door of every state senator, representative and the governor asking them to take action now, adopt the bipartisan “Basic Education Commission Report.” First, to the 180 school districts that are underfunded; then, to all districts under the new Basic Education Funding formula.
In response to your April 10 Opinion, “Gov. Wolf right to fight discrimination,” I agree. Now it's time for Gov. Wolf to focus on discrimination against 180 severely underfunded school districts. School funding is one of the toughest and most important issues facing Pennsylvania. Frankly, there is no reason four school districts should get $102.5 million of new education funding against 496 school districts splitting the remaining $97.5 million. By any definition, that's discrimination in the highest order. So many facets of our commonwealth — jobs, culture, community, quality of life — are dependent upon and shaped by the education we provide our children. In Monroe County, we see the devastating negative impacts of severe underfunding of our schools every day. I believe every citizen in this county and across this state should be knocking on the door of every state senator, representative and the governor asking them to take action now, adopt the bipartisan “Basic Education Commission Report.” First, to the 180 school districts that are underfunded; then, to all districts under the new Basic Education Funding formula.
Mike Stack: A
man with a plan?
by John Baer, Daily News Political
Columnist Updated: APRIL
18, 2016 — 3:01 AM EDT
HERE'S
SOMETHING I never thought I'd write. Mike Stack has a good idea.
Not that
it's new or original. But give him credit, he's publicly pushing it.
The
Northeast Philly ward leader from an old-school political family, former
14-year state senator and current second-ranking state official as lieutenant
governor, is advocating a fix for Pennsylvania's horrible, no-good budget
process. Wait, what? Pennsylvania has a
lieutenant governor? And he's from Philly?
Oh yeah. More than that, Stack's a card-carrying member of the Screen
Actors Guild. If you have a high-tolerance for bad theater, you can watch him
emote as he presides over the Senate, a duty of his office - the presiding
part, not the emoting part. Just
don't bother bringing popcorn. You won't want to watch too long.
But back
to his good idea, the focus and timing of which is more than slightly suspect
(more on that in a bit). Last week,
outside his Harrisburg office overlooking the Capitol Rotunda, Stack stood with
a few senators from both parties to call for a two-year budget. Under Gov. Wolf and the current (ugh)
Legislature that's effectively what we've got. But Stack's talking about
switching the process from budgeting for one year to budgeting for two.
Editorial: Much
to gain in two-year budget cycle
Times Tribune BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD Published:
April 19, 2016
Pennsylvania
legislators know that the commonwealth doesn’t need all 253 of them. They often
go out of their way to prove it by failing to accomplish the only thing that
the state constitution requires them to do — adopt a budget on time. Even though the state constitution doesn’t
require much of them, the legislators often can’t get it done. Yet they have constructed a fiction under
which they claim that Pennsylvanians must fund the nation’s largest full-time
and second-most expensive Legislature because of the depth and complexity of
public business. Fortunately, a
constitutional change not only would end the annual budget circus but even
further illustrate the feasibility of switching to a smaller, part-time
Legislature. Along with several state
senators of both parties, Lt. Gov. Mike Stack, a Philadelphia Democrat and
former state senator, recently endorsed converting to a two-year budget cycle. Doing so greatly would benefit school
districts, local governments and hundreds of social service agencies, which
actually would be able to adopt their own budgets with certainty about state
appropriations.
Columbia and Elanco school board consider
a joint superintendent for next year
Lancaster
Online by KARA NEWHOUSE | Staff Writer April 19, 2016
The
superintendent offices of Columbia Borough and Eastern Lancaster County school
districts are about 30 miles apart. But
they could share a nameplate next year.
Columbia’s
Acting Superintendent Kenneth Klawitter on Monday night proposed that the board
share a district leader with Elanco in the 2016-17 school year. Columbia’s former superintendent, Carol
Powell, left in December, 18 months into a three-year contract.
Klawitter will serve through the end of the school year. He previously was
Columbia superintendent from 1999 to 2006 and acting superintendent for the
2013-14 school year. Klawitter raised
the idea of sharing a leader with Elanco during a joint meeting of the school
board and Columbia Borough Council. Elanco Superintendent Robert Hollister also
floated the concept with his school board Monday night.
If the
school boards decide to act on the idea, it could have financial and program
benefits for both districts, the district leaders said. The shared position
would be unique in Lancaster County and one of only two such structures in
Pennsylvania.
House bill
allows property tax break for senior citizens who volunteer in schools
The bill passed the house on
Monday and is waiting for vote in the senate.
By Lynn Ondrusek Pocono Record Writer Posted Apr. 16, 2016 at 7:36 PM
A state House of Representatives bill will allow districts to give senior citizens a tax break if they volunteer for the district. House Bill 791 will allow public school districts to establish a program to allow older residents, over the age of 60, to volunteer in the school district and receive a real estate tax credit in exchange for their service, according to the bill. “It has been shown that senior tax reduction volunteer exchange programs provide much needed relief to senior citizens, who often struggle to meet the rising cost of property taxes, and helps schools meet an increasing demand for a variety of human skills and services,” the bill says.
A state House of Representatives bill will allow districts to give senior citizens a tax break if they volunteer for the district. House Bill 791 will allow public school districts to establish a program to allow older residents, over the age of 60, to volunteer in the school district and receive a real estate tax credit in exchange for their service, according to the bill. “It has been shown that senior tax reduction volunteer exchange programs provide much needed relief to senior citizens, who often struggle to meet the rising cost of property taxes, and helps schools meet an increasing demand for a variety of human skills and services,” the bill says.
Millersburg Area School District listens
to parents express concerns about proposed cuts
Abc27 By Mark Hall Published: April 19, 2016, 3:20 am
MILLERSBURG
(WHTM) – The Millersburg Area High School Auditorium was nearly filled to
capacity on Monday night, after last week’s announcement of proposed budget
cuts.
Many
residents said they were blindsided last week by a plan that would cut programs
and staff for next year. Public comment
lasted more than three hours. During which, many expressed concern that the
district says cuts are needed because of lower enrollment, less revenue and
increasing expenses including salaries, health insurance, and pensions.
Letters: It's
a soda tax, not a grocery tax
Inquirer
Letter by Dr. Barbara W. Gold, board vice chair, Food Trust, Philadelphia APRIL
18, 2016 — 3:01 AM EDT
Soda is
not, nor should it be, a staple of the family grocery budget. As I have been
telling my pediatric patients and their parents for years, a soda is a candy
bar in a can. It is a treat to be enjoyed on special occasions. The beverage industry lobbyists are wrong
when they say the proposed 3-cents-an-ounce tax on sugary drinks will drastically
impact families and shoppers, claiming there would be a large spike in grocery
prices. It's just not true. Under this proposal, the cost of a loaf of bread
would not change. Nor would the cost of meat, fish, dairy items, household
supplies, fruits and vegetables, baked goods, frozen foods, or any of a
thousand other items that families recognize as real groceries. Instead, the proposal seeks to direct a
fraction of the beverage industry's multibillion-dollar annual profits to pay
for expanded pre-K programs and community schools for Philadelphia's children
and to revitalize parks, libraries, and recreation centers. Scare tactics are dishonest. It's a tax on
sugary drinks, not a grocery tax.
Teachers' union, 'WithinReach' back
Kenney's universal pre-K proposal
As the presidential primary approaches, Mayor Jim Kenney garners
support from his friends in the education field for the soda tax, which he
hopes will fund universal pre-K, citywide.
Metro US
by Jenny Dehuff April 18, 2016
As Mayor
Jim Kenney continues to build his coalition of backers for his universal pre-K
campaign, he’s making strides with his friends in the teacher's union. Folks from the WithinReach Campaign and the
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) joined Kenney Monday at LaSalle
University to discuss how cities and states can lead the way in implementing
pre-K for all working families. Currently,
more than 17,000 children in the city do not have access to pre-K, and
statistics show 68 percent of Pennsylvania children younger than age
6 have both parents in the workforce.
If the
mayor is successful in getting his three-cents-per-ounce soda tax passed, he
plans to put those revenues towards universal pre-K.
“Green is being represented by the Fairness Center in
Harrisburg, which describes itself as a "nonprofit public interest law
firm offering free legal services to those facing unjust treatment from public
employee union leaders." The center has ties to the conservative
Commonwealth Foundation.”
Green goes to court to regain post as Philly SRC chair
Green goes to court to regain post as Philly SRC chair
Inquirer
by Martha Woodall, Staff
Writer Updated: APRIL 19,
2016 — 1:08 AM EDT
Bill
Green, a member of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission, is going to court
to try to regain his position as chairman after all. He said he was filing a Commonwealth Court
suit that would challenge Gov. Wolf's legal authority to remove him as chair of
the five-member SRC in March 2015. Green
said he was taking the action "to contribute more effectively to our
collective work" and protect "the independence and mission" of
the SRC. "Last spring, I indicated
that I would fight my illegal removal in court," Green says in an opinion
piece published in Tuesday's issue of the Inquirer. "People I respect, including teachers,
colleagues, and citizens, urged me to give the new governor a chance, fearing a
lawsuit at that time might exacerbate tensions in Harrisburg and risk the
funding that Philadelphia's public school students urgently need. I agreed not
to go to court at that time. "In
the year since, it has become painfully clear that the governor's strategies,
tactics, and unwillingness to compromise have not been successful. "I
now ask the courts to rule on a simple matter of law with no facts in dispute:
Namely, does the governor have the power to remove the chair of the SRC without
following the law?"
Commentary:
Wolf was wrong on SRC firing
Inquirer
Opinion By Bill Green Updated: APRIL
19, 2016 — 3:01 AM EDT
Bill Green is a
member of Philadelphia's School Reform Commission.
In an effort to contribute more effectively to our collective work, I am taking action to return to my appointed position as chair of the School Reform Commission. I expect and understand that this will elicit a chorus of boos from some, and want to explain both the legal basis and the reason for taking action now. First, some background.
In an effort to contribute more effectively to our collective work, I am taking action to return to my appointed position as chair of the School Reform Commission. I expect and understand that this will elicit a chorus of boos from some, and want to explain both the legal basis and the reason for taking action now. First, some background.
Gov.
Wolf opposes all new charters, as do the powerful teachers' unions that
lavished $1.6 million to elect him. Wolf
purported to remove me as chair in March 2015, shortly after the SRC had voted
to approve five new charter schools - and voted down 34 others. Under the state
legislation that authorized a cigarette tax to provide funding for
Philadelphia's schools, the SRC was required to accept new charter
applications, something it had not done in seven years. In
advance of the vote on 39 applications, the governor instructed me to vote down
any new charters. Some leaders of the General Assembly directed us to approve
at least 16 new charters. Rather
than bowing to political pressure, the SRC performed its umpire-like role as
charter authorizer, calling balls and strikes based on the quality of
applications and on state law. (State law does not permit funding availability
to serve as a basis for denying a charter application.)
Principals
announced for four city turnaround schools
Inquirer
by Martha Woodall, Staff Writer Updated: APRIL 19, 2016 — 1:08
AM EDT
The
principals of two city elementary schools slated for academic overhauls will
remain to lead the efforts, the School District of Philadelphia announced
Monday. Two other elementary schools
targeted for district-run turnarounds will get new leaders. "We are excited to welcome two new
school leaders and retain two veteran principals in support of our new
turnaround model," Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said in the
announcement. "Effective school
leadership is key to this work," he said. "We could not be more
pleased to have found administrators who share our vision for student progress,
staff collaboration, parent engagement, and community involvement."
PSSA opt-outs: School administrators,
parents struggle to understand impact
Lancaster
Online by KARA NEWHOUSE | Staff Writer April 18, 2016
When
Marianne Smith decided to opt out her son from the state's standardized tests
last year, she found the process easy. So
she was surprised to get a phone call from a school district administrator
about her plan to do the same thing this year.
Jennifer Reinhart, chief accountability officer for the School District
of Lancaster, said she called 11 parents from Buchanan Elementary School in
early April to discuss what a spike in opt-outs could mean for the school. The calls were intended to inform, "not
to persuade them to switch," Reinhart said. But
Smith said it felt like an "intimidation tactic." The calls are one way Lancaster County
schools are reacting as opt-outs rise across Pennsylvania, instilling fear
among administrators about its potential impact.
Going for the
goal: Two students tell stories of making a path to college
The notebook
by Dale Mezzacappa April 18, 2016 — 1:32pm
Quaymir
Cephas knows he hasn’t lived up to his potential.
Without
knowing that it matches the research findings on what student characteristics
deter college completion, he rattles off his own story: mediocre grades, spotty
class attendance, a tendency to get in trouble, failure to take full advantage
of available supports. Those included his counselor and a College Success
Center at University City High School that provided tutoring, mentoring,
college trips, and a community of students with college aspirations. Cephas, a reflective person, blames himself,
not the school, which was going through a chaotic period and closed down
entirely the year after he left. “They
did all the teaching that they could do,” he said. “The child has to decide
what kind of person he grows up to be.” Cephas
never thought seriously about going to college until he had a conversation with
a classmate who was going to Clark Atlanta University in Georgia. “He was saying, ‘You’re crazy. Us both having
the same grades, I know you can do just as good as I’m doing.’”
Map: How Per-Pupil Spending Compares
Across U.S. School Districts
Education
Week Published Online: April 18, 2016
An
Education Week Research Center analysis of federal data shows spending levels
per student in most U.S. school districts for fiscal year 2013. The school
finance analysis comes from Education Week's Quality Counts 2016, which
provides details on how states allocate funding to public schools and grades
them, taking into account overall spending and the equity with which that
funding is distributed among districts. This
map, using Research Center data, was produced by NPR for
a series on public school spending across the states.
Educators at Raleigh conference condemn
HB2
Group says it won’t return until
law is repealed
NAACP leader says HB2 is anti-children,
anti-family and anti-women
Transgender students say they’re
more worried about safety
News
& Observer BY T. KEUNG HUI khui@newsobserver.com
April 16, 2016
RALEIGH
- The controversy over the passage of House Bill 2 spread to a public education
conference Saturday, where event organizers and speakers called the new law
hateful and said it discriminates against the gay community. About 500 activists from around the country
are attending the Network for Public Education’s (NPE)
National Conference this weekend at the Raleigh Convention Center. Some groups
have canceled events in North Carolina to protest HB2, but NPE printed labels
for attendees to hand out saying they won’t return to the state until the law
is repealed. “It’s very late in the day
to be making a decision about canceling because all of you would have lost
money that you put down for plane fare,” said NPE President Diane Ravitch, an
author and education historian. “We thought, you know it takes more courage to
be there and to fight against them than to stay home.” Under HB2, people can use only restrooms and
locker room facilities at schools and public agencies that match the gender on
their birth certificate. Some schools have been allowing transgender students
to use multi-occupancy restrooms and locker rooms of the gender they identify
with as opposed to the one on their birth certificate.
Brown Bag Discussion Series on Community
Schools with the Mayor's Office of Education
Want to
learn more about #CommunitySchools?
Join us for a Brown Bag Discussion with @sgobreski.
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one (or more!) *
Tuesday,
April 19 at 4pm
Thursday,
May 5 at 12pm
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Rally in Harrisburg with the Campaign for
Fair Education Funding on May 2nd 12:30 Main Rotunda!
Public
schools in Pennsylvania are a far cry from the “thorough and efficient” system
of education promised guaranteed under our state constitution. That’s why we
want YOU to join Education Law Center and members of the Campaign for Fair
Education Funding in Harrisburg on May 2nd! Buses of supporters are leaving from
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia - please register below so we can help you arrive
on time for the 12:30 press conference in the Main Rotunda! Questions? Email smalloy@elc-pa.org for more details.
Electing PSBA Officers – Applications Due
by April 30th
All
persons seeking nomination for elected positions of the Association shall send
applications to the attention of the chair of the Leadership Development
Committee during the month of April, an Application
for Nomination to be provided by the Association expressing interest
in the office sought. “The Application for nomination shall be marked received
at PSBA Headquarters or mailed first class and postmarked by April 30 to be
considered and timely filed. If said date falls on a Saturday, Sunday or
holiday, then the Application for Nomination shall be considered timely filed
if marked received at PSBA headquarters or mailed and postmarked on the next
business day.” (PSBA
Bylaws, Article IV, Section 5.E.).
Open
positions are:
- 2017 President
Elect (one-year term)
- 2017 Vice
President (one-year term)
- 2017-19 Central Section at
Large Representative – includes Regions 4, 5, 6, 9 and
12 (three-year term)
In
addition to the application form, PSBA Governing
Board Policy 302 asks that all candidates furnish with their
application a recent, print quality photograph and letters of application. The
application form specifies no less than two and no more than four letters of
recommendation, some or all of which preferably should be from school districts
in different PSBA regions as well as from community groups and other sources
that can provide a description of the candidate’s involvement with and
effectiveness in leadership positions. PSBA Governing
Board Policy 108 also outlines the campaign procedures of candidates.
All
terms of office commence January 1 following election.
Join the Pennsylvania Principals Association at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, at The
Capitol in Harrisburg, PA, for its second annual Principals' Lobby Day.
Pennsylvania
Principals Association Monday, March 21, 2016 9:31 AM
To register, contact Dr. Joseph Clapper at clapper@paprincipals.org by
Tuesday, June 14, 2016. If you need assistance, we will provide
information about how to contact your legislators to schedule meetings.
Click here for the informational flyer, which includes
important issues to discuss with your legislators.
2016 PA Educational
Leadership Summit July 24-26 State College
Summit Sponsors:
PA Principals Association - PA Association of School Administrators
- PA Association of Middle Level Educators - PA Association of
Supervision and Curriculum Development
The 2016
Educational Leadership Summit, co-sponsored by four leading Pennsylvania education associations,
provides an excellent opportunity for school district administrative teams and
instructional leaders to learn, share and plan together at a quality venue in
"Happy Valley."
Featuring Grant
Lichtman, author of EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education,
Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera (invited), and Dana
Lightman, author of POWER Optimism: Enjoy the Life You Have...
Create the Success You Want, keynote speakers, high quality breakout
sessions, table talks on hot topics and district team planning and job alike
sessions provides practical ideas that can be immediately reviewed and
discussed at the summit before returning back to your district. Register and pay by April 30, 2016 for the
discounted "early bird" registration rate:
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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