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State Education Coalition
PA
Ed Policy Roundup June 22, 2016:
Ahead of budget deadline, Wolf scales back education funding ask
PA
Supreme Court sets Sept 13th argument date for fair education
funding lawsuit in Philly
Use the Education Counts Database to find more detailed state information, ranks, comparisons across states, national statistics and more.
Governor: Tom Wolf
Secretary of Education: Pedro A. Rivera
Quality Counts state grade: B-
Pre-K-12 enrollment: 1,755,236
Number of school districts: 721
Number of public schools: 3,068
Number of public school teachers: 121,330
Unadjusted education spending per student: $13,864
Percent minority students: 30.1%
Percent of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch: 43.4%
Percent of students with disabilities: 16.8%
Percent of English-language learners: 2.8%
NAEP Mathematics 2015 percent proficient
4th grade math: 45.0%
8th grade math: 36.0%
NAEP Reading 2015 percent proficient
4th grade reading: 41.2%
8th grade reading: 39.1%
Guest Post: Aliquippa Principal Michael Allison on Advocacy
Principal Matters Blog June 22,
2016
This is a guest post by Michael
Allison, President of the National Association of Secondary Principals. Michael is also principal of Hopewell High
School, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.
On June 20-22, 2016, NASSP hosted
an advocacy conference for state leaders to discuss current federal education
issues. Michael’s opening remarks were so poignant, I ask him if he would mind
reposting part of it here as a guest blog post:
As the leading organization and voice for middle level and high school
principals, assistant principals, and other school leaders from across the
United States, NASSP connects and engages school leaders through advocacy,
research, education, and student programs.
We are proud to support the important work of principals and to prepare
you to share with others the positive agenda of support and encouragement for
our nation’s schools and children! Legislators
need to hear the voices of their constituents. They value those voices much
more that figureheads or employees from national associations. That is why we
have you all gathered here in our capital!
Our goal at NASSP is always but especially this week to advocate on
behalf of the nation’s 115,000 school leaders to ensure the success of each
student. As such, it becomes our duty to
bring the issues of the principalship to the halls of Congress, the U.S.
Department of Education, the White House, and the national news media.
“The Campaign for Fair Education
Funding, which is a coalition of over 50 advocacy groups, has been calling for
the state to increase basic education funding by $400 million annually for 8
years. Gov. Tom Wolf says that's not
politically possible. After a historically long budget battle last year, the
state boosted total basic, special and block grant education funding by $245
million.
Spokesman Charlie Lyons says his members are not disappointed by Wolf.
"I think people recognize that he's pushing, but that's not to say
that we don't think there needs to be more," he said.”
Ahead of budget deadline, Wolf scales back
education funding ask
WHYY Newsworks BY KEVIN MCCORRY JUNE 22, 2016Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf says he now believes a 2016-17 budget deal can be reached without hiking state sales or income taxes. This comes as Wolf scales back his public education funding proposals. Wolf made this statement Tuesday morning on KDKA, a commercial radio station in Pittsburgh: "We need a balanced budget that is truly balanced. I want $250 million dollars for basic education, an increase, and I want $34 million dollars for the heroin overdose problem, which is really a big problem in Pennsylvania. And I think all this can be done without a broad-based tax increase." Wolf had been seeking $350 million in basic education funding this year — $100 million more than what he's now asking for the state's main pot of public school cash. In his first budget proposal in March 2015, he called for a $2 billion boost to all K-12 budget lines over four years. If this new proposal goes through, Wolf would end year two only about a quarter of the way towards that goal.
“The Democratic governor said he now will seek a spending increase of $250
million in the main K-12 education budget line, a decrease from an earlier
request his office pegs at $350 million, along with $34 million in funding to
help treat people who use heroin or abuse opioid medications.”
Wolf
says he will not ask for tax hikes; GOP leader says 'things are progressing'
Post Gazette By Karen
Langley & Angela Couloumbis Harrisburg Bureau June 21, 2016 1:26 PM
HARRISBURG — Gov. Wolf said today
he will no longer seek a hike in the state’s personal income or sales tax to
fund the state budget. In an interview
on a Pittsburgh radio station barely a week before the July 1 budget deadline,
the governor said he believes he can achieve his priorities without having the
state take more out of people’s paychecks
“I’m not asking for a sales tax increase or a personal income tax
increase,” Mr. Wolf said on KDKA-AM. “I think we can do all this — a balanced
budget, the increase in education and the heroin initiatives — without a
broad-based tax increase.” His remarks
for the first time suggest a shift from a stance he has maintained throughout
his first 18 months in office, one that added to the gridlock with the
Republican-led legislature and a nine-month budget impasse. When he delivered his second budget proposal
in February, Mr. Wolf still included a tax increase in the plan. It called for
raising the personal income tax rate from 3.07 percent to 3.4 percent.
Pennsylvania Gov. Wolf says budget can hit
goals without major tax increase
Delco
Times By Marc Levy, The Associated Press POSTED: 06/21/16, 9:53 AM EDT
HARRISBURG >> Democratic
Gov. Tom Wolf is backing off his proposal for an increase on sales or income
taxes, and now says his budget priorities can be met without it. Wolf said Tuesday that budget negotiations
are going well, even though tight-lipped negotiators are reporting no
agreements with nine days until the fiscal-year deadline. Wolf spoke during a regular appearance on
Pittsburgh radio station KDKA-AM. Wolf
now says his priorities are a balanced budget with a $250 million increase for
public schools and $34 million more for heroin addiction programs. He’s also echoing Senate Democrats’ concerns
about a gambling expansion under consideration in the House to help balance the
budget. He says the proposals carry somewhat questionable revenues that may pose
a threat to collections from casino gambling and lottery sales.
“Pennsylvania now has a new school funding formula, but that will only be
as meaningful as the as the money put into it, Race said. If basic education
funding increases next year, and in subsequent years, that will help ensure
children get a quality education, whether they are coming from poor or wealthy
families, he said.”
PA kids suffer effects of the
economy
York
Daily Record by Angie Mason,
amason@ydr.com9:02 a.m. EDT June 21, 2016
Pennsylvania dropped to 18 in the
annual report, which gives states a rank based on how well children are doing.
The smallest Pennsylvania
residents are feeling the effects of the economy, according to an annual report
that looks at how well children around the nation are doing. The state fell two spots to rank 18th in
the annual Kids Count report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The report
measures child well-being by looking at factors like the rate of
children in poverty, parent employment, health insurance, education
statistics and family characteristics, like the number of
single-parent families. Economic factors are taking a toll in
Pennsylvania, the report shows. In recent years, there are more children in
poverty, more parents without secure jobs and more children living in high
poverty areas. The report shows families
are still facing tough economic times, in part due to the sluggish economy,
said Mike Race, spokesman for Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children. While
there are a lot of factors that children's policies cannot fix, he said, there
are things that can happen to improve the situation for kids.
“The audit, which covered January 2011 through March 2016, noted the
charter's 2013-14 School Performance Profile score, the state's measure of
academic performance. The charter scored 40.9 out of a possible 100 points on
the measure, which takes into account scores on the Pennsylvania System of
School Assessment and Keystone standardized tests. "Clearly this is a severely
underperforming charter school," DePasquale said in part in a news release
announcing the findings.”
Auditor
General criticizes Erie's Charter School of Excellence
By Erica Erwin 814-870-1846 Erie Times-News June 22, 2016 12:26 AM
ERIE, Pa. -- State Auditor
General Eugene DePasquale said Tuesday that the Charter School of Excellence is
failing academically and suffers from poor management, as evidenced by a recent
audit. Charter school officials defended
the academic record of the school, which serves "at risk" students at
three sites in Erie, and said the issues highlighted by the audit have been
addressed. "With the majority of the
findings, we do disagree. If there have been deficiencies, we have already fixed
those deficiencies and are in compliance," said Mark Amendola, CEO of the
Charter School of Excellence and Perseus House Inc., a nonprofit organization
that provides residential and educational services to youth.
Coverage here includes special ed, charter reform, cybers, cost drivers
Notebook Series: Pennsylvania's School
Funding Crisis
Series coverage by the notebook
June 2016
Erie
School Board to reconsider deficit budget
By Erica Erwin 814-870-1846 Erie Times-News June 22, 2016 06:07 AM
ERIE, Pa. -- Program cuts or a
tax increase could be back on the table as the Erie School Board renews its
effort to erase a budget deficit that has grown to $5.5 million. Erie schools Superintendent Jay Badams, who
in May urged the School Board to approve a proposed final budget that was then
$4.3 million in the red instead of making massive cuts and eliminating
programs, said Tuesday that the district cannot afford to enter the 2016-17
school year with an unbalanced budget. The
Pennsylvania School Code requires the district adopt a complete, balanced final
budget by June 30. The state could issue a fine of $300 per day after 30 days
if the district does not comply. "We
intend to comply with state law ... given that the alternative seems to be a
fine that we can ill afford," Badams said.
The School Board will consider how to move forward at a committee of the
whole meeting Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in Conference Room 1 at the district's
administration building, 148 W. 21st St.
“Kenneth Potter Jr., president of the school board, explained that the
Public School Employees' Retirement System, more popularly known as PSERS, was
the reason for the disagreement during the meeting. The 2016-17 budget for
PSERS is $14.5 million, a $2.2 million increase from the district's $12.3
million PSERS payment in the 2015-16 budget.
"Not everyone is happy with this budget," Potter said after
the vote. "PSERS has really taken a bite out of our ability to
do what we really want to do. Not a lot that can be done."
Dallastown school board
narrowly passes budget
York
Dispatch by Alyssa
Jackson, 505-5438/@AlyssaJacksonYD3:35 p.m. EDT June 21, 2016
The Dallastown Area school
board voted Thursday 5-3 to approve a $102.2 million budget for the
2016-17 school year — a spending plan that includes a tax increase for district
residents. According to former meeting
minutes, it is the first time residents have experienced a tax increase since
2011. The boost will put the millage rate at 22.93, a 0.67
increase over the former 22.26 millage rate in the 2015-16 school budget. The $102.2 million expenditure total for this
year's school budget is about a $4.4 million increase from the 2015-16 budget
expenditures, which rested at $97.7 million.
Darcel
Kimble, For the York Daily Record 2:58 p.m. EDT June 21, 2016
The Central York School District
board has approved its 2016-17 budget with a .35-mill -- or 1.9 percent --
increase in local real estate taxes. The
budget passed in a 7-1 vote, with director Karl Peckmann opposing it. Director
Joseph Gothie was not at the meeting. Proposed
expenses stand at $83,222,521, an increase of 3.30 percent or $2,659,331.
Revenue totals are projected to be $82,989,834, an increase of 3.99 percent or
$3,185,194.
Spring-Ford board eyes $152M budget, 1.5%
tax hike
By Eric Devlin,
The Mercury POSTED: 06/21/16,
6:52 PM EDT | UPDATED: 8 HRS AGO
ROYERSFORD >> Just over a
month after he recommended nearly a 2-percent tax hike next year, James Fink
was back before the Spring-Ford Area School Board Monday with slightly better
news. Fink, the district’s finance
director, stood as the board reviewed the updated 2016-17 proposed final budget
in the amount of approximately $152 million, which calls for a tax increase of
1.5 percent. That’s down from the tax increase of 1.9 percent previously
recommended last month. Under the new
millage rate of 26.426 mills, the owner of a home assessed at $100,00 would pay
an additional $39.16 a year in property taxes, if the budget is adopted. A mill
is equal to $1 for each $1,000 of assessed property value. The final budget is
scheduled for adoption June 27, 2016.
School board approves tax hike to fund
Easton Area library
By Rudy Miller
| For lehighvalleylive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on June 21, 2016 at 7:44 PM, updated June
21, 2016 at 7:58 PM
Before a crowd of more than 100
people, the Easton
Area School Board approved a tax
hike to stave off cuts in staff and hours at the Easton Area Public
Library. Library Executive Director
Jennifer Stocker said the 34 percent hike in the library's millage rate equates
to about $14.38 next year for the owner of a home assessed at the district
median. She said the library previously
closed the South Side branch and cut staff to balance its budget. Under the new
budget, employees will give up family health care. The budget was supposed to be addressed May
17, but the crowd was beyond
the capacity of the school district education center, so the
discussion was moved to Tuesday at the middle school.
“Like other area districts, one of the highest budget increases was the
mandated Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System contribution.
At $1.02 million, it represents a 17 percent increase from last year.”
Greater Latrobe School Board adopts budget without anticipated tax
increase
Trib Live BY MARY
PICKELS | Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 11:00 p.m.
The Greater Latrobe School Board
on Tuesday adopted a $54.8 million balanced budget, absent an earlier
anticipated 1-mill increase in real estate taxes for 2016-17. In May, Business Manager Dan Watson presented
the board with a tentative $54.8 million budget. It showed a $340,000 shortfall
and included the proposed 1-mill hike, which would have earned the district
$340,000. The preliminary spending plan
included no additional state dollars, he said.
“The finance committee recommended going with 50 percent of what Gov.
(Tom) Wolf was proposing for increased basic education and special education
subsidies. That totaled to about $416,000 (for the district). ... We included
$208,000 of that in our budget, and then decided to take $132,000 out of our
reserve account, and that equated to the $340,000 deficit,” Watson said.
“Cherpak said the district will likely start the 2016-17 school year with
a $5.5 million fund balance. It will use
roughly $961,000 of that fund balance to offset a deficit related to PlanCon
reimbursements from the state that have not come in yet. “At this late stage in the game I think we
have to look at our budget based on not getting the PlanCon money,” board First
Vice President Karen Brown said. “As hard as the administration has worked, and
we have struggled for the last several weeks and months looking at the budget
trying to get it balanced so that we could start righting the ship, we're
already looking at close to $1 million out of sync for next year that will be a
deficit just because of PlanCon money.”
Baldwin-Whitehall budget balanced but includes 0.83-mill tax hike
Trib Live BY MICHAEL DIVITTORIO | Tuesday,
June 21, 2016, 6:33 p.m.
Property owners in the
Baldwin-Whitehall School District should expect to pay more in real estate
taxes next school year. The district's
final budget, which is posted on its website, lists the tax rate at 19.25
mills, an 0.83-mill tax hike. School
board members were expected to approve the budget Wednesday, after the South
Hills Record's deadline. They discussed the 2016-17 spending plan at a meeting
June 15. District Business Manager Mark
Cherpak said the tax hike translates to $83 more in taxes for those who own a
$100,000 home. The budget is balanced at
$62,363,584 for expenses and revenues. One mill generates about $1.8 million.
“That is to result in a drain of $2,623,481 from the district's fund
balance, which would drop from $21,329,385 to $18,705,904. The fund balance is
down from a high of almost $25 million in 2013-14. “Our decrease in fund balance has been
intentional as part of a long-term financial plan that the district developed,”
board President Eric DiTullio said. One
of the biggest burdens continues to be the district's state-mandated pension
contributions to the Public School Employees' Retirement System, or PSERS. That
contribution will increase by 16.22 percent in 2016-17, resulting in an added
expenditure of $2.75 million.”
Seneca Valley approves budget with tax increase
Trib Live BY VINCE
TOWNLEY | Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 10:57 a.m.
When it comes to passing a budget
each year, Seneca Valley School Board members say they walk a fine line between
providing the best possible education for the district's 7,000 students and
limiting financial burden on district taxpayers. And the line is not getting any easier to
walk. “I just feel like we are dealing
with a entirely new reality when it comes to funding,” board member Jeanette
Lahm said before the board approved a budget on June 13 that included a 2.59
percent tax hike. “And we as a board have to assume that burden.” The board approved a spending plan that
raises the property tax rate by 3.1 mills, from 119.9 to 123.0. Each mill will generate $562,696 for the
district, an increase of 2.6 percent over the current school year. This marks the seventh
consecutive year that the district's tax rate has gone up. The spending plan includes
$121,505,081 in expenditures and $118,881,600 in anticipated revenue.
Trib Live BY LIZ
HAYES | Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 11:00 p.m.
Home and property owners in the
Burrell School District will be paying nearly 3 percent more in real estate
taxes next school year. The school board
on Tuesday night unanimously approved a $29.5 million budget for 2016-17 that
is about $300,000 less than was originally proposed in April. Business Manager Jennifer
Callahan has listed several factors for the decrease including: the teachers
union approving a contract that has employees contributing more toward health
insurance; a decrease in health insurance costs due to changes in employee
enrollment; an additional teacher retirement that is expected to be filled at a
lower salary; and elimination of a proposed teaching position. The district will dip into reserve funds to
balance the budget, using about $750,000.
Trib Live BY GEORGE GUIDO | Tuesday,
June 21, 2016, 11:00 p.m.
Real estate taxes will remain the
same in the Deer Lakes School District for the coming school year. The school board Tuesday night gave final
approval to a $35.3 million budget that keeps the tax rate at 21.953 mills. The budget reflects a $637,000 spending
increase over the school year that ends this month. A $350,000 shortfall will be covered with a
transfer from money that had been set aside for the state retirement fund
contribution.
BY THE
TRIBUNE-REVIEW | Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 3:00 p.m.
Jeannette City School District
directors approved a $19 million budget Monday for 2016-17 that includes a
.75-mill tax increase, bringing the millage rate to 85 mills. The change will cost the average property
owner $10 more annually.
Trib Live BY ERIC EISERT | Tuesday,
June 21, 2016, 6:33 p.m.
Brentwood Borough School Board on
Monday approved a 2016-17 budget, though questions about state funding,
including PlanCon reimbursement, remain unanswered. The property-tax rate in the district was set
at 29.5322 mills, an increase of 1.3415 mills.
The budget also calls for tapping $587,726 from the district's fund
balance, leaving $1.9 million in reserve.
The district is owed $545,000 from the commonwealth in PlanCon
reimbursement for the 2015-16 school year, from renovation projects in the
1990s. Superintendent Amy Burch said
there still is no word from Harrisburg about whether Brentwood, and all other
districts in Pennsylvania owed money, will receive it.
“No one is suggesting that defined benefits be taken away from retirees or
scaled back for those currently on state and school district payrolls. But they
should be dropped entirely from the benefits packages of new employees.
Private-sector employees are being forced to get by with 401(k) plans, so
public workers should make do with the equivalent. It makes little sense for
taxpayers to give state workers and teachers benefits more generous than they
get from their own employers.”
PPG Editorial: State pension pressure: The move to 401(k)-style
will come in stepsPost Gazette By the Editorial Board June 22, 2016 12:00 AM
Defined-benefit pension plans are
long gone at most private-sector employers, yet Pennsylvania lawmakers and Gov.
Tom Wolf want to retain some form of them for future state employees and public
schoolteachers. If a scaled-down version of an old-style benefit is needed to
sign pension reform into law, so be it. Some progress beats none at all. The House last week passed a bill that would
implement a hybrid defined benefit and 401(k)-style plan for future
commonwealth employees and schoolteachers. The Senate passed legislation for a
hybrid plan in December. It is unclear whether the chambers can reconcile their
versions, which differ partly on how the defined benefit portion would operate.
Mr. Wolf supports the House version, providing a defined benefit for the first
$50,000 in salary and a 401(k)-style plan for additional income.
Octorara public school students need
school librarians
Daily
Local By Sari Feldman and Leslie Preddy POSTED: 06/21/16, 3:03 PM EDT
Feldman is president of the
American Library Association. Preddy is president of the American Association
of School Librarians.
In today’s complex information
landscape, students are expected to know how to locate, evaluate, and
synthesize information from multiple sources, and to thoughtfully and ethically
create original content. School librarians are more important than ever in preparing
students to succeed in school, in the workplace, and as citizens. With cuts to
the library program in previous years, children in Octorara Public Schools
(OPS) are already at a disadvantage to their peers in Pennsylvania and across
the country, and now the district proposes additional cuts. As presidents of
the American Library Association (ALA) and American Association of School
Librarians (AASL), we are deeply concerned about how this move will impact
students. We are not alone; OPS parents
have voiced similar concerns. We recognize that the district, like many across
the country, is facing real budget challenges and must examine each of its
programs. As leaders of national library associations who have reviewed the
research and witnessed the impact of library programs across the country, we
can affirm that the data speaks for itself. In a 2012 Pew Research Center
study, 83% of teachers responded that students are overwhelmed by the amount of
information available online, and 60% stated that the increasing array of
technologies makes it more difficult to locate credible information.
Email shows School District
of Lancaster principal dissuaded parents from PSSA opt-outs
Lancaster Online by KARA NEWHOUSE | Staff Writer June 21, 2016
As standardized testing time
approached this spring, a principal in the School District of Lancaster grew
worried about the number of children who would be sitting out of the tests.
Worried enough to try to persuade
parents to have their children do otherwise.
In an email obtained by LNP through an
open-records request, Buchanan Elementary School Principal Stacy Kain informed
the district’s top administrator in charge of testing that she had dissuaded
some parents from "opting out" of the tests. Kain's actions alarmed parents here, who are
among the growing ranks of
critics nationwide
who believe standardized tests play too large of a role in public education. And they raised questions about how
administrators should respond to parents' requests at a time when the state
expects schools to achieve full test participation.
How to Get More Men of Color Teaching in
the Classroom
Only 8 percent of educators are
nonwhite males in New York City, where Asian, black, and Hispanic boys make up
43 percent of public-school students. A new program is trying to change that.
The Atlantic by Patrick Wall JUN
21, 2016
“Start sharing. Don’t be shy,”
the facilitator said at the start a training last week for Asian, black, and
Hispanic men hoping to teach in the New York City school system. He’d asked
them to name a movie or song that spoke to them. “Rocky,” one man said. “The
Star-Spangled Banner,” said another. “Remember the Titans,” Kwang Lee said,
citing the movie about the black coach of a racially mixed high-school football
team. “In our classrooms, we have a lot
of diverse students,” explained Lee, 47, who worked in advertising for two
decades before deciding recently to become a teacher. “We have to find ways to
work together.” In a city where Asian,
black, and Hispanic boys make up 43 percent of the over 1 million public-school
students, just over 8 percent of the city’s 76,000 teachers are nonwhite men.
That leaves thousands of students of color without role models who resemble
them, and without teachers who research shows tend to have higher expectations
of nonwhite students.
Delaware
Online by Matthew
Albright, The News Journal12:42 a.m. EDT June 21, 2016
Sponsor says focus should be on
long-term performance rather than the results of one exam
Delaware would all but eliminate
the role of test scores in teacher evaluations if
a bill in the General Assembly passes. The practice has been part of an
ongoing debate about measuring student achievement. The state requires that annual appraisals of
educators include how well student scores grew on the state standardized
test if they teach a subject included on that exam. But Rep. Earl Jaques,
D-Glasgow, chairman of the House Education Committee, said the system is
too narrowly focused and doesn't accurately reflect the abilities of the
educator.
"In the NFL, when a team
goes to draft a player, they don't look at one game and make a decision based
on that," he said. "They evaluate them over the course of a long
time."
BY JOE HERNANDEZ JUNE 21, 2016
Gov. Chris Christie is proposing
major changes to the way New Jersey doles out education funding to school
districts. Departing from a decades-old
policy in which the state sent more aid to low-performing urban districts,
Christie is recommending a funding formula that gives every district $6,599 per
student. (The state would make exceptions for special-needs students.)
"A funding formula that puts
a higher value on one child over another is morally wrong, and it has been
economically destructive," Christie said Tuesday. "We cannot let it
continue." Christie criticized the
state Supreme Court's decision 30 years ago to create Abbott Districts,
struggling urban school districts that received a larger share of aid, claiming
the state has so overcorrected the inequity that regular districts are now
suffering.
Apply Now! EPLC’s
2016-2017 Pennsylvania Education Policy Fellowship Program
EPLC's 2016 Report: High
School Career and Technical Education: Serving Pennsylvania's Workforce and
Student Needs
PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION POLICY FORUM Thursday, June 23, 2016
PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION POLICY FORUM Thursday, June 23, 2016
Allegheny Intermediate
Unit - 475 East Waterfront Dr., Homestead, PA 15120
Coffee and
Networking - 9:30 a.m. Program - 10:00 a.m. to
Noon
RSVP by
clicking here. There
is no fee, but a RSVP is required. Please feel free to share this invitation
with your staff and network. Similar forums will be held later in the
Philadelphia area and Harrisburg.
SPEAKERS:
An Overview of
the EPLC Report on High School CTE will be presented by:
Ron Cowell,
President, The Education Policy and Leadership Center
Statewide and
Regional Perspectives Will Be Provided By:
Dr. Lee Burket, Director, Bureau of Career & Technical Education, PA Department of Education
Jackie Cullen, Executive Director, PA Association of Career & Technical Administrators
Dr. William Kerr, Superintendent, Norwin School District
Laura Fisher, Senior Vice President - Workforce & Special Projects, Allegheny Conference on Community Development
James Denova, Vice President, Benedum Foundation
Dr. Lee Burket, Director, Bureau of Career & Technical Education, PA Department of Education
Jackie Cullen, Executive Director, PA Association of Career & Technical Administrators
Dr. William Kerr, Superintendent, Norwin School District
Laura Fisher, Senior Vice President - Workforce & Special Projects, Allegheny Conference on Community Development
James Denova, Vice President, Benedum Foundation
Nominations now open for PSBA Allwein Awards (deadline
July 16)
PSBA Website POSTED
ON MAY 16, 2016 IN PSBA NEWS
The Timothy M.
Allwein Advocacy Award was established in 2011 by the Pennsylvania School
Boards Association and may be presented annually to the individual school
director or entire school board to recognize outstanding leadership in
legislative advocacy efforts on behalf of public education and students that
are consistent with the positions in PSBA’s Legislative Platform. The 2016 Allwein Award nominations
will be accepted starting today and all applications are due by July
16, 2016. The nomination form can be downloaded from the website.
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
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