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Keystone
State Education Coalition
PA
Ed Policy Roundup May 5, 2016:
Looking for revenue? Last year PA tax $ subsidized horse
race purses to the tune of $198M
See
guest PA Sec of Education Pedro Rivera next Sunday May 8 at 3:00 pm on EPLC's
"Focus on Education" on PCN
Blogger note: you can listen to yesterday’s Smart Talk
discussion via a link on their website below.
Smart Talk: Campaigning for equitable education
funding
Written by Scott LaMar, Smart Talk Host/Executive Producer | May 4,
2016 9:00 AM
Funding for
education has been a contentious issue in Pennsylvania for many years.
School districts get
a large portion of their funding from local property taxes. The state
provides money to schools at one of the lowest percentages in the country. In the meantime, educators and advocates have
been complaining for years about how inequitable school funding is in
Pennsylvania. Poorer school districts that don't have big property tax
bases, or have a large segment of their students living in poverty or learning
English have often said they're left behind. A bipartisan
commission has recommended a new funding formula to rectify the situation.
However, the formula didn't go into effect this school year. A coalition of groups calling themselves the
Campaign For Fair Education Funding rallied in Harrisburg this week to not only
press for the new formula but also for more money for schools period. We'll learn more on
Wednesday's Smart Talk from our guests Joan Benso, President and CEO of the
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, Jim Buckheit, Executive Director of the
Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators and Kevin McCorry, a reporter
for the Keystone Crossroads team and Senior Education Writer at WHYY News in
Philadelphia.
Rep. Saylor bill would
require school board training
York Dispatch by Greg Gross,
505-5433/@ggrossyd11:51 p.m. EDT May 3, 2016
Saylor's bill would require new members to
take 8 hours worth of training
Newly elected and
appointed school board members may have to undergo state-mandated training in
order to serve. The bill,
introduced by state
Rep. Stan Saylor, R-Windsor Township, that would require the training would
also force re-elected school board members to complete continuing-education
courses. "I think it's important
for anyone who takes office to know the laws," he said. "I think
it's important to be educated." But
some members of York County school boards, which oversee multi-million dollar
budgets, said members already voluntary take training courses and that the
mandatory training isn't needed.
'In God We
Trust' bill advances in Pennsylvania Legislature
Trib Live BY NATASHA
LINDSTROM | Tuesday, May 3, 2016, 11:25 p.m.
A battle is brewing
over proposed legislation urging all Pennsylvania's public schools to display
the national motto, “In God We Trust.” On
Tuesday, a bill dubbed the National Motto Display Act cleared the state House
on a 179-20 bipartisan vote. Proponents
hail emblazoning the motto in school buildings statewide as a potential
“unifying force” with moral and historical value, the phrase's roots dating to
2-cent coins printed at the height of the Civil War. “Our country is very divided today, and
celebrating the motto can help unite us,” said state Rep. Rick Saccone,
R-Elizabeth, a longtime advocate for promoting public displays of the motto and
its historical ties to Pennsylvania. “Whether you believe in God or not, it's
here to inspire us.” Opponents,
including secular advocacy groups and some school solicitors, blast the attempt
as an inappropriate — and potentially unconstitutional — overreach blending
church and state.
“During floor debate, Rep. Greg Vitali, D-Delaware, sagely
observed that, since the bill requires districts to do ... nothing ... it's
"very Seinfeldesque."
(Though that was no impediment to his voting in favor of it.)
But Vitali missed a key difference: Seinfeld was often funny.
There's nothing remotely amusing about a pointless piece of
legislation that wastes both the General Assembly and taxpayers' time and
resources.
There's a budget to finish and a pension system to fix.
Get to work, people.”
Senate should reject 'In
God We Trust' bill: Editorial
By PennLive Editorial
Board Email the author on May 04, 2016 at 10:27 AM
The last time the
state House sent the Republican-controlled Senate a bill allowing school
districts to post "In God We Trust" in their
buildings, the chamber wisely allowed it to die on the vine. Here's hoping history repeats itself.
With all the
challenges facing Pennsylvania, not least of which is a permanent fix for a
badly broken public employee pension system, the House still managed to find
the time to vote 179-20 on Monday to approve this
election year waste of the taxpayers' time.
As PennLive's Jan Murphy reports, like the bill passed in last
year's legislative session, the proposal sponsored by Rep. Cris Dush, an
Indiana County Republican, doesn't require the motto to be posted in buildings. Rather, the bill is apparently intended to
"expose students to the phrase that carries historical significance,"
even as it allays "concerns that some school officials had about whether
it was permitted to post a slogan that has religious overtones in public school
buildings," Murphy reported. There
is indeed a place for discussing the significance of the phrase, it's called
History Class.
"Kenderton is facing significant financial challenges
due to a number of factors including the school's rising special education
costs. As a result, Scholar Academies has concluded that, next school year, it
is no longer able to manage the school in the best interest of kids," said
CEO Lars Beck in an emailed statement.
Parents livid about
charter company pulling out of North Philly school unexpectedly
WHYY Newsworks BY KEVIN MCCORRY MAY 5, 2016
At an emergency
meeting, Scholar Academies informed parents Wednesday afternoon that it is
planning to cease operations at Kenderton elementary at the end of the school
year due to fiscal constraints. The
charter management organization had assumed control of the North Philadelphia
school in 2013 through the renaissance process, signing a contract that lasts
through 2018. During a 90 minute
meeting with CEO Lars Beck, parents were livid.
"We are so upset. We are angry that our kids are being taken
through this process again," said parent Shereda Cromwell. "Scholar
Academies made a promise to us and now is letting us down." Cromwell, president of the school advisory
council, was one of about ten parents at the meeting. She stormed out after 30
minutes, feeling furious and betrayed. "They
were full of excuses and lies," she said. "The children are going to
be devastated. They went from losing all the teachers they loved in their
public school, and now that they started forming bonds with the new teachers,
they are now leaving too." According
to Cromwell, Beck told parents that the school would either return to district
control or be transferred into the hands of another charter operator.
Scholar Academies is
opening a new
school in Memphis in 2016-17 as part of Tennessee's state-run
"Achievement School District."
"How do you not have funding to run our school, and you can open a
school in Tennessee?" fumed Cromwell, a mother of two Kenderton students
with autistic-support needs.
“Those wondering why the state subsidizes the horse racing
industry obviously didn't pay attention in their high school civics class. Much
like maintaining infrastructure, affording citizens opportunities to have an
entertaining night out at the track is a core government function. Eighty percent of the fund goes to boost
purse winnings. Last year, that amounted to a modest $196.8 million.
Consider the money a safety net for wealthy horse owners.
If you don't think that net is needed, then shame on you and please recall the
words of Pope John Paul II, who once famously said: “A society will be judged
on the basis of how it treats its billionaire sheikhs.” Besides, Pennsylvania clearly can afford to
provide money to people who clearly don't need it.”
Pa. tax
dollars go to worthy cause — cushioning a billionaire's wallet
Trib Live Opinion BY ERIC
HEYL | Sunday, May 1, 2016, 11:00 p.m.
While Pennsylvania's
financial outlook remains bleak, money worries aren't plaguing a certain
sheikh. So of course the United Arab
Emirates billionaire is benefiting from the Keystone State's largess. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the
UAE's vice president and prime minister. He also owns a global thoroughbred
breeding and horse racing stable, apparently because even the ruler of Dubai
needs a hobby, and stamp collecting is boring.
One of the sheikh's horses, Frosted, won the 2015 Pennsylvania Derby, an
annual event at the Parx Casino and Racing complex in Bucks County. The race
isn't as illustrious as the Kentucky Derby, but its $1 million purse probably
soothed any irritation the sheikh felt over the absence of mint juleps. Here's where Pennsylvania's largess comes
into play: The winnings wouldn't have been nearly as significant if not for the
state continuing to generously subsidize race purses with tax dollars.
Last year, $246
million in taxes on casino slot machines across the state went to the
Pennsylvania Race Horse Development Fund, according to a recent state Gaming
Control Board report. The money was used significantly to enhance purses,
provide health and pension benefits for horsemen and assist horse breeding
operations.
More than 100 ‘walk in’
for fair school funding at Pottstown High School
By Evan Brandt, The Mercury POSTED: 05/04/16, 11:24 AM EDT
POTTSTOWN >>
More than 100 students, teachers, parents and administrators gathered in front
of Pottstown High School Wednesday morning to show support for fair
school funding.
One of many rallies
across the country coordinated by the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, the
“walk-in” featured short speeches by two student members of the school board,
the head of the teachers union and the district superintendent. Elisabeth Yoder, president of the Federation
of Pottstown Teachers, said public schools are a force for “racial and economic
justice” and they are undermined by Pennsylvania’s school funding system,
“which has the widest gap between adequately funded public schools and
underfunded public schools in the United States.”
School funding advocate:
Reading schools losing out
Reading Eagle By Dan Kelly Thursday May 5, 2016 12:01 AM
The Reading School
District is underfunded by the state Legislature to the tune of $95 million
over the last 25 years, the most of any district in the state, an activist for
fair school funding said Wednesday. Seven
other Berks County districts also are underfunded, though to a much lesser
degree, according to Kelly Lewis, a former state legislator, business
consultant and founder of Citizens for Fair School Funding. And the Pottstown
School District is underfunded by $11.9 million over the same 25 years, he
said. Lewis was in Reading and Pottstown
on Wednesday on the first leg of a monthlong tour of cities with underfunded
school districts, including Harrisburg ($24 million), Stroudsburg, in Lewis'
home county of Monroe ($6.6 million), Allentown ($66 million), Bethlehem ($21
million), State College ($11 million), Lancaster ($47 million), York ($46.5
million), Wilkes-Barre ($29 million) and Scranton ($20 million). Beginning in 1991-92, Lewis said, student
enrollment was removed from the funding equation for public schools. As a
result, 10 of 18 districts that lost enrollment over the past two decades have
seen their costs reduced but still have been receiving allocations as though
their enrollments had never dropped.
- See more at: http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/school-funding-advocate-reading-schools-losing-out#sthash.OBP4EM1X.dpuf
More than
200 rally against proposed cuts at Baldwin-Whitehall
Trib Live BY STEPHANIE
HACKE | Wednesday, May 4, 2016, 11:20 p.m.
More than 200 teachers,
custodians, kitchen staffers and bus cleaners rallied on the steps of the
Baldwin-Whitehall School District administrative offices Wednesday to save
their jobs and to get the teachers a new contract. Following the hourlong rally, only 56 of the
employees were allowed into board chambers for the start of the
Baldwin-Whitehall School Board meeting. The overflow crowd was sent to the
Whitehall Elementary School library, in a connected building.
A motion by board
member Martin Michael Schmotzer to move the meeting to a larger room failed to
get board support. Administrators said the school's cafeteria was not set up
and would take 45 minutes to prepare. Baldwin-Whitehall
administrators in April proposed cutting 13 professional jobs and reducing 22
full-time operational positions to half time for 2016-17 to balance the
district's $62.4 million budget. The proposed staffing cuts were based on
program changes and fluctuating enrollment, administrators said.
ALEC summit convenes in Pittsburgh, bringing business,
legislators together
By Chris Potter /
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 5, 2016 12:00 AM
Depending on whom
you ask, the American Legislative Exchange Council is either a Model United
Nations or “a kind of dating service for corporations to hook up with
legislators.”
It won’t be easy to
tell who’s right. ALEC’s “Spring Task Force Summit,” to be held Friday at
the Omni William Penn Hotel, will be closed to press and public. And although
the organization touts steps toward increased transparency, as an educational
nonprofit group, it does not disclose its roughly 300 corporate members or the
names of most state legislators who belong.
ALEC bills itself as a forum where “job creators and state legislators
alike … offer important policy perspectives.” Participants help shape model
legislation for state governments on issues including reforming public pensions,
scrapping union-backed “prevailing wage” laws and barring local ordinances that
require restaurants to post nutrition information. “Think of ALEC as a Model United Nations,”
suggested Molly Drenkard, a spokeswoman for the four-decade-old Washington, D.C.,
organization. But Erin Kramer, who heads
the activist group One Pittsburgh and is the person who characterized the group
as a “dating service” for legislators and businesses, said ALEC is nothing more
than a conduit for corporations to get their messages to lawmakers.
“Despite widespread public opposition to the
corporate-driven education privatization agenda, at least 172 measures
reflecting American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model bills were
introduced in 42 states in 2015… ALEC’s education task force has pushed
legislation for decades to privatize public schools, weaken teacher’s unions
and lower teaching standards. ALEC’s agenda would transform public
education from a public and accountable institution that serves the public into
one that serves private, for-profit interests. ALEC model bills divert
taxpayer money from public to private schools through a variety of ‘voucher’
and ‘tuition tax credit’ programs. They promote unaccountable charter
schools and shift power away from democratically elected local school boards.”
How ALEC is Destroying the
Public Sector
Diane Ravitch’s Blog
By dianeravitch March 22, 2016 //
Jan Resseger, who
lives in Ohio, has written s useful summary of
ALEC’s direction of state legislation to privatize schools and eliminate the
teaching profession. She explains succinctly that ALEC is funded by the Koch
brothers, the DeVos family, and other wealthy friends of privatization.
Legislators introduce ALEC model laws in state after state.
ALEC is considered
non-political by the IRS. Strange. It is a force for undermining democracy.
Wikipedia lists the following Pennsylvania legislators
as members, with Rep. Ellis listed as PA State Chairperson:
- Matthew
Baker, R, Pennsylvania House of
Representatives[64]
- Brian
L. Ellis, Pennsylvania House of Representatives[7]
- John
R. Evans, R, Pennsylvania House of Representatives[26]
- Tim
Krieger, R, Pennsylvania House of Representatives[39]
- Ronald Marisco, R,
Pennsylvania House of Representatives[36]
- Bob Mensch, R, Pennsylvania Senate[26]
- Ron Miller, R,
Pennsylvania House of Representatives[26]
Wikipedia: List of members of the
American Legislative Exchange Council
From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia
This is a list of current members. For former members,
see List of former members of the American Legislative
Exchange Council.
The American Legislative Exchange Council, otherwise known by
the acronym ALEC,
is a non-profit 501(c) political
organization established in 1973 in Chicago.[1] The legislative members
are state and federal legislators. It is a forum to allow the members to write
model laws and discuss legislative language with other members. ALEC meetings
are an opportunity for the corporate and non-profit leaders to meet and provide
feedback to legislators. Member legislators can then use these model bills as
templates for their own bills. ALEC's
vision statement is "A nonpartisan membership association for conservative
state lawmakers who shared a common belief in limited government, free markets,
federalism, and individual liberty. Their vision and initiative resulted in the
creation of a voluntary membership association for people who believed that
government closest to the people was fundamentally more effective, more just,
and a better guarantor of freedom than the distant, bloated federal government
in Washington, D.C."[2]
ALEC keeps its membership, activities and communications confidential.[3] This list includes
members whose identity primarily has become known through internal documents
revealed to Common Cause and
by research by members of the press.
Blogger note: here’s a little more ALEC context…..
“Virtual schools are great at making money, but they can’t
seem to educate kids. Everywhere they’ve been tried — Florida, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, and Texas most notably — they’ve failed to meet minimum standards and
done worse than the real-world public schools that most kids — mine included —
attend, according to areport put
out recently by Progress Texas called “Invisible Schools, Invisible Success:
How ALEC Promotes Virtual School Profits Over State Standards & Student
Success.”… When you look at ALEC’s Education
Task Force, you begin to understand how this virtual corner of the public
school system got privatized so quickly. Co-chairing the task force were
executives for K12 Inc. and Connection Academy, two virtual school companies.”
How ALEC Gets Real Tax
Dollars for Fake Schools
Huffington Post by
Jason Stanford 05/29/2012 03:24 pm ET | Updated Aug 09, 2012
A recent question on a standardized test in New York
State seemed to set the bar for stupidity in education reform. Schoolchildren
were asked to imagine a race between a talking pineapple and a rabbit and were
asked why the spectators ate the pineapple and which animal was the wisest. The
question was so indefensibly dumb that they agreed not to grade the answers,
though not before a lot of confused complaints and embarrassed apologies. But if think you the pineapple scandal is the
dumbest thing going on in education these days, then you haven’t been to Texas
recently. We take second place to no one when it comes to stupid. At a time
when we fund public schools by looking under the state’s fiscal cushions for
loose change, our politicians have figured out a way to send money we don’t
have to not educate our children at schools that don’t exist. Top that, New
York! Like most bad ideas in American
politics, this all started with the American Legislative Exchange Council,
or ALEC. ALEC
is like a dating service for corporate America where they set up Republican
lawmakers with nice pro-business bills from good families and send them off to
consummate their laws in legislatures all across the country. It’s not
how Schoolhouse Rock told us how a bill becomes a law, but it
happens all the time.
School counselors take on
at-home trauma in the classroom
WHYY Newsworks BY KEVIN MCCORRY MAY 4, 2016 THE
PULSE
School counselor Pam
Turner-Bunyon had been warned: This new, incoming student had a dark profile
and was prone to very erratic behavior. "When
he first came to us, he ran out of the building, the first day — the very first
day — instead of coming in, he ran," she said.
Turner-Bunyon
learned what happened and immediately took off, dashing out into the
crime-prone streets that surround the school.
"I found out he was running so I went and chased him down, and coaxed
him back in and we worked to develop safety places in the building," she
said.
Turner-Bunyon has 15
years under her belt as counselor at Feltonville Intermediate, a Philadelphia
public school serving grades three, four and five. Most students come from
low-income families. Years ago, in the
same situation, she would have reacted differently — maybe gotten angry and
tried to lecture the student sternly about his misbehavior.
But that was before
she learned about "trauma-informed" education care.
PHILLY POLL: YES TO SODA
TAX
A Citizen co-sponsored survey finds most
Philadelphians favor Mayor Kenney’s proposed soda tax on sugary beverages
Philadelphia Citizen
BY ROXANNE PATEL SHEPELAVY MAY. 05, 2016
A few weeks ago, we
launched a survey to find out what Philadelphians really think—outside of the
politics, the headache-inducing ads, the petitions, the posters—of Mayor
Kenney’s proposed tax on sugary beverages. And almost 1,000 people
responded—which in the world of surveys is as if citizens were coming out to
vote in droves. (We can only dream.) The
results: 58.7 percent of Philadelphians support a tax on sugary beverages to
help pay for universal pre-K, community schools and park renovations, among
other things. Nearly 31 percent oppose it. If the tax passes, almost 35 percent
said it would have a positive effect on their lives; 13 percent said it would
have a negative effect. And more than half think it will have no effect on
their lives at all—many because they simply don’t drink enough sweetened
beverages to feel much impact on their wallets.
Joseph Batory: Time to
Abolish State Control of Philadelphia’s Schools
Diane Ravitch’s Blog
By dianeravitch May
4, 2016 //
Joseph Batory,
former superintendent of public schools in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, says it
is time to abolish the School Reform Commission that has governed
Philadelphia’s public schools since 2001. It has presided over the destruction
of public education. Having failed, it is time to replace it with an elected
board. At least, it will be accountable to the public. It can’t be worse than
the SRC! Batory writes: “It is clearly
time for Philadelphia to rid itself of the State-imposed School Reform
Commission (SRC) overseeing the city’s public schools. This politically
appointed board, with three members appointed by the Governor and two by the
Mayor, has been a colossal failure. The SRC has presided over an educational
disaster in Philadelphia.
Mercedes Schneider Does
Not Feel Grateful to the 1% for Funding Charter Schools
Diane Ravitch’s Blog
By dianeravitch May
4, 2016 //
Over the weekend,
Nina Rees, CEO of the Natuonal Alliance for Public Charter Schools, expressed
her gratitude to the billionaires who fund charter schools and wondered
why anyone could question their kindness and generosity. Mercedes Schneider explains
to Nina Rees why she feels no gratitude to the billionaires. They are
harming public education and hurting millions of children, whose public schools
are losing resources and programs and teachers as the billionaires build their
charter empire to compete with underfunded public schools.
The Blurred Lines of Gerrymandering
Authors: Catherine Green, Greyson Korhonen Video
by The Atlantic May 03,
2016 | 9 videos
Could gerrymandering
change the course of the 2016 election? And what even qualifies as
gerrymandering? What looks like simple redistricting to one person might seem
like an outrageous distortion to another, and what looks like an unfair bending
of lines could be an earnest attempt to conform to the Voting Rights Act. The
Atlantic’s Caty Green sat down with staff writer David Graham to talk about
the ins and outs of moving congressional districts in and out.
We’ve been answering reader-submitted questions as part of our ongoing election coverage, 2016 Distilled. What do you wish you knew more about when it comes to the 2016 election? To share your questions, emailhello@theatlantic.com.
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Public Education Must Be
Our New Frontier
Huffington Post by Thomas J. Gentzel Executive
Director of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) 05/04/2016
03:37 pm ET
Of all the
impassioned debate we’ve witnessed in this presidential campaign, there has
been remarkably little said about a policy issue critical to America’s future:
public education. When the candidates have talked about education, they have
primarily focused on higher education, which is provided through colleges and
universities. Our presidential candidates have largely been silent about their
views on and plans to enhance K-12 public education. This is worrisome. Does
the lack of focus suggest the candidates don’t consider K-12 education as
important as addressing terrorism, immigration, the economy? Do they fail to
recognize that our schools play a powerful role in overcoming these and other
challenges facing our nation? Too much
of the public discourse has focused on the negative, encouraging division and
animosity rather than engendering a spirited but positive dialog about the way
forward for our country.
Recently, I was in
Boston with more than 6,000 school board members from every state in the
country and they shared my desire to hear the candidates talk about K-12 public
education. School board members told me that people in their communities share
the same interest. That doesn’t surprise me. People across the country realize
that public education is critically important. It always has been and always
will be.
NSBA Information: Updated ESSA FAQs 5/4/2016
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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:
“NATIONAL ANTHEM “SING-A-LONG”
When: September 9, 2016, 10:00 am PST/1:00pm EST
Where: Schools across America
Sponsor: American Public Education Foundation (APEF)
The National Anthem “Sing-A-Long” is a movement to teach K-12 students the
words, meaning,
music and history of the Star-Spangled Banner. This annual event is held
each year on the
second week of September to honor 9/11 families, victims and heroes and
celebrate the historic
birthday of the National Anthem on September 14. Those who join the
“Sing-A-Long” are singing in unison at the exact same time at multiple sites
across the U.S. The APEF has also created a robust, companion curriculum
recognized by numerous State Departments of Education, available online
at www.theapef.org (see the “Educate”
tab) for free download.
The Foundation hopes to have the support of the Alabama Department of
Education as we
commemorate the 15th Anniversary of 9/11 this year. Teachers are encouraged
to sign up
before the end of the school year at www.theapef.org.
Also online is a "how-to" guide on
holding an event at your school and sample press release. If you do not
wish to hold a full
ceremony at the school, your students can simply stand up and sing
at 10 am PST/1:00pm EST.
The Star-Spangled Banner Movement is a simple, elegant way to honor 9/11
while also teaching students how the world came together in the days, weeks and
months after the September 2001 terrorist strikes. The APEF also offers a host
of other free educational material on its website, including polls, contests
and grant information.
Pennsylvania
Partnerships for Children (PPC), a statewide children's advocacy organization
located in Harrisburg, PA has an immediate full-time opening for an Early
Learning and K-12 Education Policy Manager.
PPC's vision is to be one of the top ten states in which to be a child
and raise a child. Today, Pennsylvania ranks 17th in the nation for child
well-being. Our early learning and K-12 education policy work is focused on
ensuring all children enter school ready to learn and that all children have
access to high-quality public education. Current initiatives include increasing
the number of children served in publicly funded pre-k and implementing a fair
basic education formula along with sustained, significant investments in
education funding.
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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