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Ed Policy Roundup August 1, 2016:
@NAACP calls for national moratorium on charters
Pa. Legislature's summer to-do list? The
next wave of pension reform is the first priority
Penn Live By Charles Thompson |
cthompson@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on
July 28, 2016 at 6:45 AM, updated July 28, 2016 at 5:21 PM
Pennsylvania's Senate Republican
leaders made state pension reform their top policy priority for
this legislative session. It's also, at times, been a marker laid down as a must have for any caucus support for tax increases. Well, one $750 million tax package later, the Republicans
still haven't gotten their must have. But,
they insist, the issue is still alive and poised for a potential vote this
fall. In the latter stages of the
just-wrapped budget talks, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman
Pat Browne said, leaders of all four caucuses and Gov. Tom Wolf committed to
work toward a pension reform plan that can be voted by the Legislature upon its
return in September.
“The state government will make $2.8
billion in pension payments this fiscal year, about 9 percent of the entire
state budget. And the costs are behind local property tax increases projected
by 400 of the state’s 500 school districts.”
Editorial: State pension system is a
ticking time bomb
Delco Times from Wilkes-Barre
Citizens Voice POSTED: 08/01/16, 5:17 AM EDT
The state Legislature not only
has failed, but has refused to reform state pension systems that have become a
festering rip-off of Pennsylvania taxpayers.
State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale announced Monday that his office
will conduct a performance audit of the plans covering public school and state
employees, largely to determine if the plans — and, therefore, taxpayers — are
getting value from the hundreds of millions of dollars paid each year to the
plans’ contracted investment managers. According
to their annual reports, the plans have a combined unfunded liability of $56.8
billion — total assets are that much short of their total obligations. Legislators created this fiasco. In 2001 they
authorized massive benefit increases, declaring that the plans’ investment
earnings would cover them, which quickly proved farcical. They compounded the
problem by not making required employer contributions to mask the cost of the
giveaway and advised school districts to do likewise. Thus, they created the
unfunded liability. Worse, they have refused to roll back the benefit increases
to the 2001 levels for benefits not yet earned, passing on the costs to taxpayers.
Trib Live BY ELIZABETH
BEHRMAN | Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 8:21 p.m.
The Pittsburgh Public Schools
board on Wednesday approved a policy that will serve as a broad guideline for
establishing community schools. A
community school serves as a central location for various community resources
and social services for students and families who need them. Per the policy, schools
interested in establishing such partnerships will apply for the community
schools designation under the supervision of a district committee. Groups including Great Public Schools
Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers have long called for a
community schools policy. The school board has been discussing the issue for
nearly two years.
Delaware expands wellness centers to all
state high schools
WHYY Newsworks BY ANNE HOFFMAN AUGUST 1, 2016
A wellness center isn't your
typical school nurse's office. It can feel like a quiet little clinic or
therapy practice inside a busy high school. Teens visit wellness centers for
counseling, nutrition services and health screenings. Then they can follow up
with their primary care doctor. Delaware
Gov. Jack Markell recently signed legislation mandating that every high school
in the state have such a resource. The
centers are meant to offer behavioral health care to kids who might normally have
a hard time accessing those services. "I
think adolescence is particularly the most difficult time for human
beings," said state Secretary of Health and Social Services Rita Landgraf.
"And this provides additional support, on site, confidential, without the
barriers outside of the setting," The
wellness center model, with its holistic approach, makes good sense from a
medical and budget perspective, she said.
Pennsylvania’s budget passed through
compromise, but questions remain
Delco
Times By Lucas Rodgers, lrodgers@21st-centurymedia.com, @LucasMRodgers on Twitter POSTED: 08/01/16, 5:02 AM
EDT
Pennsylvania broke its budget
impasse record last year by going nine months without a state budget in place,
but the bitter stalemate surrounding the 2015-16 budget will not be repeated
this year, since Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and the Republican-led General
Assembly have agreed upon on a state budget for 2016-17 as well as a tax and
revenue package to finance the budget. At the end of June, the state
House voted 132-68 and the state Senate voted 47-3 in favor of the budget bill,
Senate Bill 1073; Wolf allowed SB 1073 to become law without his signature July
12, completing the first half of the budget deal. On the following day, the
state Senate voted 28-22 and the state House voted 116-75 to pass the tax and
revenue package, House Bill 1198. Wolf
signed HB 1198 into law the evening it was passed by the General Assembly.
Technically the new budget was still about a week-and-a-half late, after the
deadline of July 1 when the new fiscal year began, but it’s a far cry from last
year’s prolonged standoff. Wolf made
some concessions on the $31.5 billion budget, and as with last year’s budget,
it still does not contain some of the major goals he had campaigned on in 2014.
The new budget does include a $200 million increase for basic education
funding, but it’s short of the $350 million increase Wolf had originally sought
for the 2016-17 budget.
Cigarette smokers, Netflix subscribers see
new tax hikes Monday, with vape products close behind
Penn Live By Wallace McKelvey
| WMckelvey@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on
July 31, 2016 at 8:30 AM, updated July 31, 2016 at 8:59 PM
Cigarette smokers and Netflix
subscribers will pay more money for their habits starting Monday as
Pennsylvania begins to roll out a series of new taxes. Those measures were part of a revenue package
passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Tom Wolf to fill a $1.3 billion
hole in the state's new $31.5 billion budget.
On Monday, smokers will pay $1 more per pack — to $2.60 — in
state taxes on cigarettes. The existing 6 percent sales tax will also be
extended to digital downloads and subscription services like Netflix and Hulu. The cigarette tax is expected to raise an
estimated $431.1 million in revenue while the sales tax on digital downloads
could bring the state nearly $47 million.
Magazine and newspaper subscriptions, as well as digital versions of the
Bible, will be exempt from the digital downloads tax. It will be triggered when
a customer uses an account with a Pennsylvania billing address. A tax of 55 cents per ounce on smokeless
tobacco and roll-your-own cigarette materials, as well as a 40 percent tax on
the wholesale price of e-cigarette supplies, will roll out starting Oct.
1.
Career in teaching? College students
turning away in droves
Inquirer by Kathy Boccella, Staff Writer Updated: JULY 24, 2016 — 5:29 AM
EDT
Danielle Arnold-Schwartz, a
teacher in the Lower Merion School District, considers education her calling.
Yet, when her 16-year-old daughter began mulling the same career path, she
advised her to choose a second major, just in case. The profession, Arnold-Schwartz warned, has
been undermined by skin-and-bones school budgets, testing overkill,
increasingly rigorous teacher evaluations, and dimming public respect, among a
raft of relatively recent negatives. "I
don't think you'll find this as satisfying as you think," she told her
daughter. That message appears to be
resonating among young people who, as never before, are turning away from
teaching. The number of U.S. college students graduating with education degrees
slipped from 106,300 in 2004 to 98,900 in 2014, according to the National
Center for Education Statistics.
DNC opens against backdrop of education
inequality
Welcome to Pennsylvania, a
battleground state that has the biggest gaps in the nation in per-pupil
spending among its rich and poor school districts.
The notebook by Dale Mezzacappa
July 25, 2016 — 8:50am
In the United States, inequality
and segregation by race and class are embedded in policy.
Shauneille Taylor, the principal
of Gideon Elementary School in North Philadelphia, doesn’t think of the two
weeks off for winter break as a well-earned respite from the trials
of running a needy urban school. Instead,
she worries: Will her students have enough food? “I go home and think, 'Are they
receiving the proper nourishment?'" Taylor said. "I lose sleep
over it.” She knows that for many of her
students, the free breakfast and lunch available at school are the only
meals they regularly eat. This is daily
life for students in a school less than four miles from Independence Hall. Economic inequality was a major theme in the
Democratic primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie
Sanders. But there was very little discussion of education, a key area where
inequality and segregation by race and class are embedded in policy.
The results affect the futures of millions of children, and the
situation is not getting any better.
York
Dispatch by Alyssa
Jackson, 505-5438/@AlyssaJacksonYD3:19
p.m. EDT July 26, 2016
The
York City school board approved Superintendent Eric Holmes' proposal to use
additional funds from the Pennsylvania state budget to enhance the
district's recovery plan goals. Holmes
recommended at Wednesday's meeting that the board approve hiring six
licensed social workers who would work with students and families to connect
them to services in the community, offer counseling and make home visits.
Holmes also suggested hiring five behavioral specialists through the district's
contract with Martin Library, allowing one dedicated specialist to each school
building. Finally, Holmes asked that an
additional attendance officer be hired for William Penn Senior High School to
assist the other two attendance officers with truancy education, support
services and law enforcement throughout York City, including in the charter
schools.
“The
U.S. Department of Agriculture says that nationwide, 22.1 million
children receive that service during the school year, but only 3.8 million
participate in summer meal programs. In
York City, where the poverty rate is so high that all children
receive free lunchduring the school year, there are more than a
dozen places where children can receive free lunch or breakfast. Outside of the
city, there are only a few.”
When school's out, hungry
students still need help
York
Daily Record by Angie Mason,
amason@ydr.com10:28 a.m. EDT July 25,
2016
If
Chris Blackford, pastor at Wrightsville Presbyterian Church, sees kids at the
nearby convenience store buying food, she tells them about the lunches the
church offers for free each day. If she sees kids outside playing nearby, she
invites them in. A sign outside directs
visitors to lunch in a room off the church, where a handful of kids sat one
recent day, munching on ham and cheese sandwiches. Volunteers
waited nearby, ready to serve more.
Lunch might be a simple sandwich, or something hot, like sloppy joes,
with a vegetable, fruit and milk. But the key is that all children, 18 or
younger, are welcome to the meal, which the church provides free through a
partnership with a Columbia church. "We
are right in the middle of an area of need," Blackford said. In recent years, more and more students
around York County have received free and reduced lunches, a marker that
usually signifies community need. When summer rolls around, those meals stop
and organizations like churches and nonprofits work to try to fill that gap
— even if just for a handful of students at a time.
LERTA: Pottstown School Board OKs tax
break
By Evan Brandt,
The Mercury POSTED: 07/30/16,
2:00 AM EDT | UPDATED: 1 DAY AGO
POTTSTOWN >> The long road
toward agreement on a tax break meant to encourage economic development passed
an important milestone Thursday when the school board unanimously approved a
resolution outlining its provisions. The
school board vote was the first of the three taxing bodies which must approve
the measure for it to become law. It is
also perhaps the most important vote given that the lion’s share of a property
tax bill in Pottstown is levied for school taxes. Pottstown Borough Council has already held
the required public hearing and is likely to approve the measure at its Aug. 8
meeting. The Montgomery County
Commissioners, the third taxing entity involved, have indicated they will
follow the lead of the two local governments. The tax break is called LERTA,
which stands for Local Economic Recovery Tax Assistance and it does not reduce
any tax revenues. Rather it delays the increase in tax revenues resulting from
the improvement of property.
Lessons in transparency
learned from Manheim Township school board
Lancaster Online Editorial by The
LNP Editorial Board Jul 31, 2016
THE ISSUE: The Manheim Township
school board’s violation of the so-called Sunshine Law, exposed initially by
LNP, has drawn the attention of government agencies, law enforcement and now
other school boards. The scrutiny has forced elected officials and school
boards to take transparency seriously. Most important, it is changing the way
they do business. Finally, something good appears
to have come from the secret, sausage-making process that had been the Manheim Township school board’s modus operandi. LNP has reported extensively on the board’s
violation of the Sunshine Law — the state’s open meetings law — its secret
deliberations and its contentious relationships with the media and public.
Conduct draws scrutiny and LNP exposed a pattern of secrecy that outraged
taxpayers, and rightfully so. While the Manheim Township board admitted
violating the Sunshine Law, it maintained it did so unintentionally. The board promised change but none was
forthcoming. In fact, it doubled down on secrecy and deliberated privately during its search for a new
superintendent. The board’s conspicuous
lack of transparency drew not only LNP’s attention but the attention of the
Lancaster County district attorney, and now the state attorney general’s
office. But something good has come from the scrutiny. Others have noticed.
Cloaking Inequity Blog Posted on July 29, 2016 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
I don’t believe that this has
been reported anywhere else. Last week at the NAACP National
Convention in Cincinnati, the delegates voted in a new resolution on charter
schools. It’s approval as policy will not be official until the National Board
meeting in the Fall of 2016. However, this is a big news story that (I suspect
because of the political conventions) has not yet entered the traditional
media. Yesterday in the post How
will history remember the @NAACP on charters? I discussed the
2010 and 2014 NAACP charter school resolutions. The 2016 NAACP convention
voted and approved the following resolution. I am honored it originated
from the California Hawaii NAACP, where I serve as Education Chair. The 2016 NAACP delegates at the national
convention called for a moratorium on the proliferation of privately managed
charters. So for those of you who emailed
me yesterday saying that NAACP chapters in various places have gone rogue
supporting charters— know that the force of the national organization is NOT on
their side. In sum, I believe the NAACP,
the nation’s vanguard of civil rights, has AGAIN demonstrated and articulated
critical leadership sorely lacking from many other civil rights organizations
on the issue of school choice.
League of Women Voters Website Posted on July 29, 2016 by Sue Legg
If this resolution passed at the NAACP convention last week in Cincinnati is approved by the National Board in the fall of 2016, it will be a major event. In this repost of the Cloaking Inequity blog, you can read the resolution. It deals with racial resegregation, funding inequity, charter school mismanagement, lack of charter oversight, and the resolution calls for greater transparency in charter school management. The NAACP views charter school policies and practices as a civil rights issue. It is.
League of Women Voters Website Posted on July 25, 2016 by Sue Legg
What makes a public school ‘public’? It is more than how schools are governed and funded. It is also a matter of the ethical and legal obligation to serve all students. In Valerie Strauss’ latest Washington Post article, she reports on former New York principal, Carol Burris’ study of the sort and select enrollment practices in New York charter schools. These are charters that are so often held up as success stories, so to speak. Are they?
No New Charter Schools – NAACP Draws Line
in the Sand
Gadfly on the Wall Blog July
30, 2016 by stevenmsinger
In the education market, charter
schools are often sold
as a way to help black and brown children.
But The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) isn’t buying it. In fact, the organization
is calling for a halt on any new charter schools across the nation. Delegates from across the country passed a
resolution at the NAACP’s national convention in Cincinnati last week calling
for a moratorium on new charters schools. Approval of the new resolution will
not be official until the national board meeting later this year. This resolution isn’t a change in
policy. But it
strengthens the organization’s stance from 2010 and 2014 against charters. Specifically, the resolution states:
WSJ: Texas Opens Probe Into Gulen
Connection to Charter Schools
State Education Agency was
prompted by a series of complaints filed on behalf of the Turkish government
Wall Street Journal by Douglas
Belkin and Tawnell D. Hobbs Updated July 30, 2016 7:29 a.m. ET (paywall)
DALLAS—The state of Texas has
launched an investigation into alleged fiscal improprieties at the state’s
largest chain of charter schools. Behind
the probe: charges by the president of Turkey that the schools are part of a
$500 million a year front to fund the revolutionary aspirations of a Turkish
cleric he claims backed a recent failed coup.
Early Literacy Push in Philadelphia Seeks
to Put Down Deep, Diverse Roots
Education Week Politics K12 Blog By Andrew Ujifusa on July 28, 2016 10:54 AM
Philadelphia - On a
sweltering, 100-degree afternoon, several miles north of the Democratic National
Convention here, Nassem Hudson asks a reading mentor if he can read Grace
for President aloud to other kids.
The book is about a little girl who hears there's never been a woman as
U.S. president and decides that needs to change. Naseem's peers are seated on
the floor of Tree House Books, a North Philadelphia organization that began as
a neighborhood book store and now uses reading, books, and literacy to improve
the lives of children, adults, and the surrounding community. The Monday afternoon reading session, which
links younger children with high school and college students who help them with
their literacy skills, is part of a summer Life with Books program run by Tree
House Books.
Where Clinton and Trump Stand on Education
The convention dust has settled,
and it’s back to the chalkboard.
The Atlantic by EMILY
RICHMOND JUL 30, 2016
When compared to Donald
Trump’s single education policy-related sentence in his acceptance speech at
the Republican convention, Hillary Clinton’s remarks on the subject
Thursday night were certainly more extensive, as she sought to emphasize a
track record of making schools, teachers, families, and students her
political—and personal—priorities. In
accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, Clinton touched
repeatedly on education, from her work years ago supporting legislation on
educating students with disabilities to her recently announced plans to make
college “tuition-free” for low- and middle-income families at public
universities. She also vowed to work toward a future where “you can get a good
job and send your kids to a good school no matter what zip code you live in.” Trump said much less much about education in
his Cleveland address, although he did manage to fit a handful of buzzwords into one sentence: “We will rescue kids from failing
schools by helping their parents send them to a safe school of their choice,”
he said. How the Republican presidential
nominee will accomplish this, or what he would use as the barometer for a
failing school, isn’t clear. His campaign, so far, has been very short on
policy details.
By LOUIS LLOVIO Richmond
Times-Dispatch | Posted 1 week ago
When Hillary
Clinton picked Tim Kaine as her running mate, she also got
another partner who’s a power in her own right.
Anne Holton, Virginia’s secretary of education, is a lawyer, former
judge and mother of three who is the only person to have lived in the Executive
Mansion as a child and adult. A
well-known figure across the state since her father, Linwood Holton, was
governor from 1970 to 1974, she stepped into the national spotlight Saturday, a
central figure in what’s shaping up to be one of the most contentious
presidential campaigns in decades. On
Saturday, she joined her husband and Clinton on stage at the rally in Miami.
She was teary-eyed during her husband’s speech, and afterward they hugged
lovingly. She now will spend the next
few months going across the country giving speeches, making appearances and
shaking hands. She’ll likely show up on TV commercials, and her words could
appear in news accounts the world over.
What if America Spent Per Student What
Clinton, Trump Paid for Private Schools?
Education Week Politics K12 Blog By Andrew Ujifusa on July 27, 2016 7:22 AM
Philadelphia In his speech last week at the
Republican National Convention, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's
son Donald Trump Jr. noted that he and his siblings were fortunate to have
options for their schooling: "We want all Americans to have
those same opportunities." Fair enough. But Donald
Trump Jr., along with his siblings and Hillary Clinton's daughter
Chelsea, went to private schools that
weren't cheap. And so have several other presidential hopefuls' children, for
that matter. So we thought about
the educational opportunity in monetary terms: How much would it cost to spend
the same amount per public school student what it costs to send children to the
same private schools attended by the offspring of GOP presidential
nomineeDonald Trump and his Democratic counterpart Hillary Clinton?
And what if we tried to match the basic outlines of their children's private
school experience when it comes to teachers? Fortunately, Michael Griffith, an
independent school finance consultant, did his own analysis to try to answer
those questions.
“The emphasis on multiple perspectives
is a hint pointing to the Temple’s true foe. The group at first intends to roll
out the clubs in a limited number of schools in districts that also host an
evangelical Christian after-school program known as the Good News Club. Good News Clubs, which are sponsored by an
organization founded in 1937 called the Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF), aim
to reach children as young as 5 with a fundamentalist form of evangelical
Christianity. For most of their history, Good News Clubs were largely excluded
from public schools out of concern that their presence would violate the
Constitution.
In 2001, in a case that commanded the
resources of powerful legal advocacy groups on the religious right, including
the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Liberty Counsel, the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled that to exclude an after-school program on account of the religious views
of its sponsors amounted to a violation of free-speech rights. The CEF then
went on a tear, and by 2011, it reported 3,560 Good News Clubs, putting them in
more than 5 percent of the nation’s public elementary schools.”
An After School Satan Club could be coming
to your kid’s elementary school
Washington Post By Katherine
Stewart July 30 at 4:21 PM
SALEM, Mass. —It’s a hot summer
night, and leaders of the Satanic Temple have gathered in the crimson-walled
living room of a Victorian manse in this city renowned for its witch trials in
the 17th century. They’re watching a sepia-toned video, in which children dance
around a maypole, a spider crawls across a clown’s face and eerie, ambient
chanting gives way to a backwards, demonic voice-over. The group chuckles with
approval. They’re here plotting to bring
their wisdom to the nation’s public elementary school children. They point out
that Christian evangelical groups already have infiltrated the lives of
America’s children through after-school religious programming in public
schools, and they appear determined to give young students a choice: Jesus or
Satan.
Education Bloggers Daily Highlights
7/30/2016
Philly
Councilwoman Gym’s Office Seeking Student Interns
Councilwoman Gym's
Office July 19, 2016We are excited to offer a few young students the opportunity to work closely within City Council of Philadelphia throughout the 2016-17 school year. This internship will expose interns to Council office operations, policy, communications, and research. As an office, we are passionate about equity, education, child welfare, juvenile justice reform and many other issues involving children and youth in Philadelphia. Applications should display a strong interest in equity and justice and a strong familiarity with Councilwoman Gym's story and platform. Applicants should be eager to work and receptive to constructive criticism as you learn the workings of the office. As this is a paid internship, it is expected that interns be punctual and dependable.
Here is the link to sign up and
for instructions:
“EdPAC empowers education advocates
to strengthen public education in the commonwealth through its dedication to
supporting the election of pro-public education leaders to the Pennsylvania
General Assembly.”
EdPAC: Imagine the impact of a pro-public
education legislature!
EdPAC is a newly formed
political action committee whose membership is comprised of school directors,
school administrators, parents and public education advocates who want to
support state- level candidates that do what’s right for our students and
schools. Pennsylvania school districts
are directly impacted by the actions of our elected officials. Every year, the
state legislature spends months considering proposed legislation that affects
how public schools in the commonwealth are funded and the rules by which they
must operate. EdPAC supports those elected officials who promote local control
in education, oppose mandates, and support the work of our school
districts. EdPAC is organizing the efforts of individual and school
district advocates across Pennsylvania, to raise funds for more effective
political action, and to make contributions from those funds for the benefit of
the candidates that help our students the most.
Education Policy and Leadership Center
Applications are available now for the 2016-2017 Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP). The Education Policy Fellowship Program is sponsored in Pennsylvania by The Education Policy and Leadership Center (EPLC). Click here for the program calendar of sessions. With nearly 500 graduates in its first seventeen years, this Program is a premier professional development opportunity for educators, state and local policymakers, advocates, and community leaders. State Board of Accountancy (SBA) credits are available to certified public accountants. Past participants include state policymakers, district superintendents and principals, school business officers, school board members, education deans/chairs, statewide association leaders, parent leaders, education advocates, and other education and community leaders. Fellows are typically sponsored by their employer or another organization.
The Fellowship Program begins with a two-day retreat on September 15-16, 2016 and continues to graduation in June 2017. Click here to read more about the Education Policy Fellowship Program, or here to see the 2016-2017 program calendar.
Applications are being accepted now.
PSBA
Officer Elections Aug. 15-Oct. 3, 2016: Slate of Candidates
PSBA members seeking election to
office for the association were required to submit a nomination form no later
than April 30, 2016, to be considered. All candidates who properly completed
applications by the deadline are included on the slate of candidates below. In
addition, the Leadership Development Committee met on June 24 at PSBA
headquarters in Mechanicsburg to interview candidates. According to bylaws, the
Leadership Development Committee may determine candidates highly qualified for
the office they seek. This is noted next to each person’s name with an asterisk
(*). Each school entity will have one
vote for each officer. This will require boards of the various school entities
to come to a consensus on each candidate and cast their vote electronically
during the open voting period (Aug. 15-Oct. 3, 2016). Voting will be
accomplished through a secure third-party, web-based voting site that will
require a password login. One person from each member school entity will be
authorized as the official person to cast the vote on behalf of his or her
school entity. In the case of school districts, it will be the board secretary
who will cast votes on behalf of the school board.
Special note: Boards
should be sure to include discussion and voting on candidates to its agenda
during one of its meetings in September.
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.
PA Supreme Court sets Sept. 13 argument
date for fair education funding lawsuit in Philly
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