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PA
Ed Policy Roundup June 29, 2016:
Pa
House OKs $31.5 billion budget and moves it to Senate
Winnowing applicants to become Philly's
first class of community schools
The notebook/WHYY
Newsworks BY AVI WOLFMAN-ARENT
JUNE 27, 2016
The mayor has lobbied hard for
community schools, even pledging a chunk of the revenue from his hard-fought
sweetened drinks tax to seed the initiative. That fight played out in public,
defined by the fierce debate that so often attaches itself to big policy
showdowns. The community school
selection process has been less public, partly by design. The mayor’s office
doesn’t want the process to turn into a political frenzy. It’s also indicative of the fact that the
mayor’s office doesn’t have a set of rigid criteria for picking community
schools. There’s no formula or set of weights city officials are using to
narrow the pool of candidates. And that’s not unique to Philadelphia. Across the
country, there’s no real consensus on how cities should select community
schools “There really aren’t existing
best practices out there,” said Della Jenkins, an analyst at Research for
Action who recently co-authored a report on community
schools in practice.
Pa. House OKs budget; battle looms on how
to pay for it
Inquirer by Angela Couloumbis and Karen Langley,
HARRISBURG BUREAU Updated: JUNE
28, 2016 — 6:35 PM EDT
HARRISBURG - The House of
Reprsentatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a $31.5 billion budget, with
support from both Republicans and Democrats -- but a stubborn behind-the-scenes
fight remains over how to pay for it. The
spending plan passed by the GOP-dominated House in a 132-to-68 vote would spend
about 5 percent more than this year's $30 billion budget, and send an
additional $200 million for public school education. Both parties hailed it as an example of the
bipartisan spirit that has permeated budget talks this year, unlike last, when
the budget impasse dragged on for nine months. But they have yet to move
legislation that details a key tax they are seeking to increase -- or even
whether the money-generating proposals they have already approved would raise
enough new dollars to support it. For
his part, Gov. Wolf, a Democrat, said Tuesday that he does not believe the
House's plan, which would rely on new money from online gambling, among other
proposals, raises enough money.
Pa
House OKs $31.5 billion budget and moves it to Senate
Morning
Call by Steve Esack Contact Reporte r
Call Harrisburg Bureau June 28
HARRISBURG — In a bipartisan
vote, the House on Tuesday evening passed a $31.5 billion budget that
increases spending by 5 percent by expanding gambling options, putting higher
taxes on tobacco products, counting on more alcohol sales and allowing tax
cheats to pay up. The 132-68 vote moves
the 2016-17 spending bill to the Senate, which would begin its debates
and votes Wednesday with the goal of moving a final spending and tax
package to Gov. Tom Wolf by Thursday. The
current fiscal year closes Thursday and the new one begins Friday. But it's not clear if the
timelines will be met. The House's
spending bill did not include a tax package and the Senate is not happy. Wolf
also has voiced concern that the House's package is not balanced. Still, on Tuesday night, the
House's Republican and Democratic leadership praised each other for passing a
budget without the partisan warfare that led to a nine-month delay in approving
this year's budget to the financial detriment of school districts, counties and
nonprofits.
Budget
bill clears House committee, but obstacles abound
Post Gazette By Angela
Couloumbis & Karen Langley Harrisburg Bureau June 28, 2016 12:25 AM
HARRISBURG — There may soon be a
budget bill, but there is no budget deal.
The proposal that cleared the
House Appropriations Committee on Monday night calls for the state to
spend about 5 percent more next year than it did under this year's $30 billion
budget. The boost in spending would be
propped up by legalizing online gambling, loosening the state’s monopoly over
the sale of wine, imposing new taxes on tobacco and instituting a tax amnesty
program. But neither the
Republican-dominated Senate nor the administration of the Democratic governor
has committed to support it. Jeff
Sheridan, Gov. Tom Wolf’s spokesman, said Monday that the governor has not
agreed to the plan. It doesn’t fully
fund one of Mr. Wolf’s spending priorities: new dollars for opioid abuse treatment and prevention. Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, R-Centre,
expressed skepticism about aspects of the House plan: “We haven’t finalized
anything,” he said, later noting, “There is no sense sending the governor
something he doesn’t want, or at least won’t agree to sign.”
House passes $31.6 billion spending plan,
putting Pa. on track for an on-time budget
Penn Live By Jan Murphy |
jmurphy@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on
June 28, 2016 at 6:20 PM, updated June 28, 2016 at 6:42 PM
The House on Tuesday passed a $31.6 billion spending plan for 2016-17 that sets
the table for a final round of negotiations with the Senate and Gov. Tom Wolf. The plan, which still awaits a finalized
revenue plan to raise the money needed to balance spending at that level, now
goes to the Senate with two days left until the fiscal year ends. By voting 132-68 to approve the budget bill
that represents a 4.8 percent increase in spending, several House members noted
it could put Pennsylvania on track to pass an on-time budget. Considering Pennsylvania endured a nine-month
delay in getting a state budget finalized, "that in itself is a very good
reason to vote for this budget," said House Democratic Appropriations
Committee Chairman Joe Markosek of Allegheny County. The revenue package to cover the $1.4 billion
increase in spending over this year is still being finetuned in the House but
it won't require an increase in sales or income tax rates. Rather, it looks to
higher tobacco taxes, a tax amnesty program, gambling expansion, and liquor
modernization to cover most of the new money that is needed.
PoliticsPA Written by Jason Addy, Contributing Writer June 28, 2016
The PA State Senate will begin considering a $31.55 billion budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year after the House of Representatives voted Tuesday evening to pass a 4.8% spending increase. The budget vehicle legislation, Senate Bill 1073, passed by a132-68 vote just 20 hours after an omnibus amendment was adopted by the House Appropriations Committee. A motion was approved to bypass the rule requiring 24 hours for consideration. The budget plan increases total spending for pre-K to 12th grade education by $250 million, and the state will meet its burgeoning pension obligations without raising income or sales taxes. The deal still relies on an increased tax on tobacco products and new revenue from liquor privatization and expanded gaming in PA.
Trib Live BY CARLEY MOSSBROOK | Tuesday,
June 28, 2016, 7:21 p.m.
HARRISBURG — A proposed state
budget cleared its first hurdle Tuesday night, but still has a ways to go
before the cash begins to flow. The full
House approved a $31.5 billion budget proposal by a vote of 132-68. The
proposal would boost spending by $1.4 billion, almost 5 percent, though it is
significantly less than the $33.3 billion sought by Gov. Tom Wolf. The proposal relies on taxes raised on
cigarettes and smokeless tobacco and new revenue from an online gaming proposal
that also passed the House on Tuesday. Wolf,
a Democrat, and Senate Republicans, who will receive the budget in the next few
days, have not agreed to it, but Rep. William Adolph, R-Delaware County, the
House appropriations chairman, said it is a “middle of the road” proposal. Wolf spokesman Jeff Sheridan said the
governor is hopeful that all sides can reach an agreement.
Wolf won't endorse House budget plan, says it's not balanced
Marc Levy, Associated Press and
Joshua Vaughn, The Sentinel June 28, 2016
Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday that
he is concerned about budget legislation that passed the House of
Representatives Tuesday, but said there is still time to fix it before the
state embarks on a new fiscal year. Wolf
said that he could not endorse a plan that he said is out of balance, and hoped
the Senate will fix its flaws. The
House's vote, 132-68, came Tuesday, two days before the state's 2016-17
fiscal-year deadline. The plan won support from House Democratic leaders,
putting Wolf in a position of criticizing a plan his close allies are backing. In the Senate, leaders are cool to the
House's plans. "I haven't agreed to
this and as far as I can tell there's still some things that need to be worked
out," Wolf said during a regularly scheduled appearance on KQV-AM radio in
Pittsburgh. The state's 2016-17 fiscal
year starts Friday. The nearly $31.6
billion spending plan would increase overall spending by 5 percent and K-12
public school spending by $200 million, or about 3 percent. Wolf had sought
$250 million more for schools and $34 million more to bolster heroin addiction
treatment programs. Every public school
district in Cumberland County would see an increase in basic education funding
under the current plan, according to numbers released by the Pennsylvania House
Republicans.
http://cumberlink.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_b9d58e16-e68a-56c7-bdd9-5e7479c58790.html
“The
bill now goes to the Senate for consideration and is considered as a key source
of revenue to help fund the proposed $31.5 billion 2016-17 state budget. A fiscal note attached to the bill estimates
it will generate a total of $266.5 million in additional revenues from the
payment of licenses and fees and collections of tax revenues in 2016-17.”
House approves sweeping gambling expansion
bill, sending it to Senate
Penn Live By Jan Murphy |
jmurphy@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter
n June 28, 2016 at 4:47 PM, updated June 28, 2016 at 4:58 PM
Without any debate, the House
voted on Tuesday 114-85 to approve a bill that would represent Pennsylvania's third expansion of
gambling in six years. It would
create an online gaming industry, regulate fantasy sports betting and allows gambling in
airports. This bill will be up for final
consideration in the House Thursday, and then must pass muster with the state
Senate.
Rep. Jim Christiana's bill
requires local boards to post meeting agendas 24 hours in advance
Beaver County Times By J.D. Prose
jprose@calkins.com Jun 28, 2016
Two years after he first
introduced it, state Rep. Jim Christiana’s bill to reform the Sunshine Act and
demand more transparency from local government passed the House State
Government Committee on Tuesday. Under
House Bill 1155, which passed out of committee in a 17-8 vote, school boards,
local governments and county commissioners would be required to post their
agendas on their websites, if they have one, at least 24 hours before a
meeting. “All government officials have
a responsibility to conduct the taxpayers’ business openly and transparently,”
Christiana, R-15, Brighton Township, said in a statement. “Our school
districts, along with state and local governments, are spending billions of
taxpayer dollars every year. It’s unacceptable to not have a public agenda in
place at least 24 hours in advance.” Boards
must make detailed agendas available at meetings and post a copy at the meeting
place. Additionally, boards would not be allowed to act on an issue that is not
included on the posted agenda.
“After
the vote, DiBello explained that his rejection of the budget was not meant as a
slight against the hard work done by the business office, but more of an
objection to Harrisburg’s failure to reform the current property tax and
pension systems. Property taxes have increased in Spring-Ford every year since
2001, according to the district. In addition, for the next seven years the
district is mandated to pad its budget with at least a 0.6 percent tax increase
to pay for the rising Public School Employees’ Retirement System costs. At some
point the pension system contribution is going to peak and the district wants
to be in alignment financially when that happens, DiBello explained. “We’re not going to drop a bomb on the
community and hit them with a 6, 7 (percent increase) whatever it may be to try
to cover that peak,” DiBello explained. “So we’re slowly building this into the
budget.”
Spring-Ford board OKs $151M budget, tax
hike; top administrators get raises
By Eric Devlin,
The Mercury POSTED: 06/28/16,
5:11 PM EDT | UPDATED: 8 HRS AGO
OYERSFORD >> The
Spring-Ford Area School Board just approved its lowest tax hike in 15 years and
gave two top administrators a raise. Now
board members are blaming Harrisburg for forcing the tax increase, while
praising the efforts of the administration, including its chief financial
officer. In an 8-1 decision Monday, the
board approved the 2016-17 budget of approximately $151 million, which calls
for a 0.7 percent tax increase. Board President Tom DiBello dissented.
"The
driver that hurts the education of the students is the pension fund," he
said. The district's payments to the Public School Employees Retirement System
shot up in the last couple of years, which Long called "a crisis."
"It's
an unfunded mandate," he said.
Parkland
School District passes budget with 3.48 percent property tax increase
Margie
Peterson Special to
The Morning Call June 28, 2016
Parkland school directors might
argue about issues in committee meetings but by the time they vote on an item
at their regular board meetings, the vote is usually unanimous. So when Director Barry Long broke ranks Tuesday to
vote against the final 2016-17 budget with its 3.48 percent property tax hike,
it wasn't surprising that he spoke up to defend his position. The district's
$166 million spending plan and tax increase was approved 8-1. Long said senior citizens on fixed incomes
are hurting and the 3.48 percent hike is too much. He said he wanted to see the
tax hike remain within the state's Act I Index of 2.4 percent.
Erie
schools work to close budget gap on deadline
By Erica Erwin
814-870-1846 Erie
Times-News June 29, 2016 12:10 AM
ERIE, Pa. -- The Erie School
Board could once again put its hope in Harrisburg.
The Erie School District's chief
financial officer said Tuesday that, barring any new state budget
developments, he will recommend that the Erie School Board pass a final 2016-17
budget that relies on anticipated additional state dollars and anticipated
emergency funding to erase a $5.5 million deficit. "We've been talking to our legislators
almost daily, and they are working very hard to do something for us,"
Brian Polito said. The School Board is
scheduled to vote on the $185.8 million budgetWednesday at East High
School, 1001 Atkins St., immediately following an unrelated public hearing
scheduled for 6 p.m. The proposed
final budget approved by the School Board in May included an additional $1.6
million in anticipated state funding for the district, based on a projected
increase of $100 million in education funding statewide.
By KATE DAY SAGER Era Reporter kdsager@bradfordera.com | 0 comments Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 10:00 am
The 2016-17 Bradford Area School District general fund balance of $38.6 million, which includes no tax increase, was approved at Monday’s board meeting by a 6 to 1 measure. Judy Bodamer, director of finance, said the final budget was lower than the originally preliminary $39.4 million budget thanks in part to an increase in revenue. “We were able to increase the revenues $269,098 and reduce expenditures by $95,446,” Bodamer explained. “(Increases in) revenues were largely due to grant changes.” She said the final budget also represents a deficit of $822,099, down from $ 1.2 million. In addition, teachers’ salaries, due to changes in personnel that stem from retirements, will decrease by $28,029. In addition, grant funds were used to purchase text books. The millage rate will remain at 22.12 mills, therefore the average taxpayer with a home valued at $46,000 can expect to pay approximately $1,013 in school taxes next year. A taxpayer with a house valued at $100,000 can expect to pay approximately $2,212 in school taxes.
Post Gazette By Deana Carpenter June 28, 2016 11:35 PM
The Chartiers Valley School Board on
Tuesday voted 6-2 on the district’s $62 million 2016-17 budget which
includes a 0.3892 mill tax increase. Board members Tony Mazzarini, Robert
Kearney, Eric Kraemer, Mark Kuczinski, Alka Patel and Sandy Zeleznik voted in
favor of the budget. Jeff Choura and Julie Murphy dissented and Jamie Stevenson
was absent. With the increase, the
millage rate in the Chartiers Valley district is 16.6067 mills. Homeowners with
property valued at $100,000 will pay about $1,660 in school taxes per year. The district used about $500,000 from its
fund balance to balance the 2016-17 budget. Chartiers Valley has $2.8 million
remaining in its fund balance. This year
is the first year since 2010 that taxes have gone up in the Chartiers Valley
District. Chartiers Valley has the lowest millage rate of any district in
Allegheny County. The McKeesport Area School District had been the lowest, but
it raised millage to 16.74 for the 2016-17 school year.
Trib Live BY EMILY
BALSER | Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 10:48 p.m.
The Plum School Board on Tuesday
approved its $65.2 million budget and a 3 percent property tax increase. The
board voted 6-3 with board members Vicky Roessler, Sue Caldwell and Steve
Schlauch dissenting. The tax increase is the first in 10 years and raises the
millage rate to 19.337. That's up from 18.758. With the current property-tax
rate, the owner of a home assessed at $111,000 pays $2,082 a year in property
taxes to the district. That will go to $2,146 a year with the tax increase.
Officials have said the increase will generate an extra $850,000 for the
district. The district worked to create a “bare bones” budget after a $4
million deficit was found this year. Officials have said it was due to
overestimating the local tax revenue since 2013. The district also attributed
rising salaries, health care and retirement costs to the deficit.The district
is taking a $4 million loan to balance the budget as well as a $1 million loan
to buy required new buses.
Trib Live BY STEPHANIE
HACKE | Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 9:00 p.m.
Two years after Baldwin-Whitehall
school board members lowered taxes by 2 mills, a new board majority says it's
working to “right the ship,” raising taxes and making staffing cuts to balance
the 2016-17 budget without draining the district's reserve. “Don't think anybody is taking this lightly,”
Karen Brown, board vice president and chair of the finance committee, said. Board members voted 7-2 on June 22 to adopt
the district's $62.4 million 2016-17 budget that included a 0.83-mill tax
increase, raising the tax rate to 19.25 mills. The budget also included cuts of
more than 12 professional and eight service employee positions through
attrition or furloughs. Board members Martin Michael Schmotzer and Elliot Rambo
dissented on votes for the budget, possible furloughs and curtailment of programs.
Easton
Area's equity plan aims to put all students on equal footing
Michelle Merlin Contact Reporter
Of The Morning Call June 28, 2016
About 13 percent of Easton Area
School District's 1,200 staff members are minorities, an amount that doesn't
come close to mirroring the student population, about half of whom are
non-white. A new five-year plan aims to
shift that dynamic and make progress toward putting students of any color or
socio-economic status on a more equal footing.
The district released its equity plan, formally named Diversity Alliance
Plan, at a school board meeting June 21 and the board approved it at a meeting Tuesday night. The plan outlines short-term and long-term
goals for the district to help create equity for students, including hiring
minority teachers, building diversity programming, increasing parent outreach
and creating a new equity-focused position.
The plan aims to recognize and celebrate diversity "as an essential
ingredient to the success of a democratic society and to the fulfillment of the
school district's mission …" the plan's statement of purpose reads.
McGuffey buzzing about bees as students
keep hives
Inquirer by KAREN MANSFIELD, The Associated Press Updated: JUNE 28, 2016 10:40 AM
EDT
CLAYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - The
decline of the honeybee - the insect responsible for pollinating more than 100
crops, from apples and almonds to plums and zucchini - worries former McGuffey
High School student Emily Brownlee. Three
years ago, Brownlee put together a presentation about colony collapse disorder
and the plight of honeybees, which have been dying by the tens of millions
since 2006. Brownlee's passion and
enthusiasm struck a chord with Superintendent Erica Kolat and Assistant
Superintendent Laura Jacob, who were in the audience. They attended a bee
convention to gather information about integrating bees into the school
curriculum and pursued grants and funding to purchase and raise beehives on a
secluded section of the campus. The goal is twofold: to educate
students about honeybees and to help play a role in the bees' preservation.
Walton Family Foundation commits $250
million for new charter school facilities
Washington Post By Emma Brown June
28 at 4:40 PM
The
Walton Family Foundation on Tuesday announced that it would commit $250 million
to help urban charter schools deal with a problem that has sometimes slowed
their growth: access to facilities. The
money will go to nonprofit lenders and charter school developers, who will use
it to help finance buildings for new charter schools in 17 cities, including
the District. Approximately 3 million
children now attend charter schools across the country. The new effort from the
Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, is expected to create space for an
additional 250,000 students by 2027, according to the foundation, which has
played a key role in driving the expansion of charters during the past two
decades.
After
25 Years, What's Next For Charter Schools?
NPR by CLAUDIO SANCHEZ June
28, 20165:30 AM ET
The major advocacy group for
charter schools is meeting this week in Nashville, Tenn., and there's lots to
celebrate. What began with a single
state law in Minnesota has spread to a national movement of nearly 6,800
schools, serving just under 3 million students.
But at its annual meeting,
the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is also using the moment to
call for a fresh look at how these innovative public schools are managed and
how they're held accountable. Among the
concerns is whether the failure rate of online charter schools is hurting the
credibility of the movement in general. Others
inside the movement say charters "have hit a wall" — that too many
are operating like traditional public schools, with unimpressive results
because they've done little or nothing to innovate and adopt the most promising
classroom practices.
For Detroit’s
Children, More School Choice but Not Better Schools
New
York Times By KATE ZERNIKE JUNE 28, 2016
DETROIT — On the face of it, Ana
Rivera could have had almost any choice when it came to educating her two sons.
For all the abandoned buildings and burned-down houses in her neighborhood in
the southwest part of this city, national charter school companies
had seen a market and were setting up shop within blocks of each other, making
it easier to find a charter school than to buy a carton of milk. But hers became the story of public education
in a city grasping for its comeback: lots of choice, with no good choice. She enrolled her older son, Damian, at the
charter school across from her house, where she could watch him walk into the
building. He got all A’s and said he wanted to be an engineer. But the summer
before seventh grade, he found himself in the back of a classroom at a science
program at theUniversity of Michigan,
struggling to keep up with students from Detroit Public Schools, known as the
worst urban district in the nation. They knew the human body is made up of many
cells; he had never learned that. When
his school stopped assigning homework, Ms. Rivera tried enrolling Damian at
other charters, but the deadlines were past, the applications onerous. Finally,
she found him a scholarship at a Catholic school, where he struggled to rise
above D’s all year. “He doesn’t want to hear the word engineering,” she said. Michigan leapt at the promise of charter
schools 23 years ago, betting big that choice and competition would improve
public schools. It got competition, and chaos.
House Members Introduce Bill to Overhaul
Career and Technical Education
Education Week Politics K12 Blog By Andrew Ujifusa on June 28, 2016 3:43 PM
A bipartisan bill to overhaul the
law governing career and technical education was formally introduced by
congressional lawmakers Tuesday, and aims to grant states more flexibility over
federal funds and allow them to better align programs with current economic
needs.
Strengthening Career
and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act was introduced
by Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and Rep. Glenn
Thompson, R-Pa. It's the proposed rewrite of the Carl D. Perkins Career and
Technical Education Act, which was last reauthorized in 2006.
Much of the bill's substance
focuses on reducing bureaucracy, increasing flexibility, and trying to ensure
that the programs governed by the law at the middle school, high school, and
postsecondary levels are better aligned with workforce demands and produce
results. According to a press release sent out by House Democrats on the
committee, the bill includes provisions to, among other things:
·
Ensure that more traditionally disadvantaged and vulnerable
students are served by career and technical education programs;
·
Increase a focus on skills that translate more directly into
employable skills;
·
Make it easier for states to apply for federal funds under the
Perkins Act;
·
Allow for unique needs of states' local areas to be factors when
states are deciding how to spend Perkins money;
·
Measure the performance of the programs in terms of how the money
is spent, and outcomes for various subgroups of students, as defined by the
Every Student Succeeds Act, which requries data disaggregation for a
larger number of student subgroups than in the past. (See page 47 of the CTE bill
from Clark and Thompson for this language);
·
Replicate promising practices by directing an increasing slice of
federal resources to programs proving to work.
Appointment
of Voting Delegates for the October 15th PSBA Delegate Assembly
Meeting
PSBA Website June 27, 2016
The governing body boards of all
member school entities are entitled to appoint voting delegates to participate
in the PSBA Delegate Assembly to be held on Saturday,
Oct. 15, 2016. It is important that school boards act soon to appoint
its delegate or delegates, and to notify PSBA of the appointment.
Voting members of the Delegate
Assembly will:
1. Consider and act upon proposed
changes to the PSBA Bylaws.
2. Receive reports from the PSBA
president, executive director and treasurer.
3. Receive the results of the
election for officers and at-large representatives. (Voting upon
candidates by school boards and electronic submission of each board’s votes
will occur during the month of September 2016.)
4. Consider proposals recommended by
the PSBA Platform Committee and adopt the legislative platform for the coming
year.
5. Conduct other Association
business as required or permitted in the Bylaws, policies or a duly adopted
order of business.
The 2016 Delegate Assembly will meet on Saturday,
Oct. 15, at the conclusion of the regularly scheduled events of the
main PASA-PSBA School Leadership Conference.
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EPLC’s 2016-2017 Pennsylvania Education Policy Fellowship Program
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
discussed at the summit before returning back to your district. Register and pay by April 30, 2016 for the
discounted "early bird" registration rate:
PA Supreme Court sets Sept. 13 argument
date for fair education funding lawsuit in Philly
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