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Keystone
State Education Coalition
PA
Ed Policy Roundup September 19, 2016
In
27 other states, state supreme courts have overturned school-financing systems
Southeastern
PA Regional 2016 Legislative Roundtable: William Tennent High School (Bucks
Co.) SEP 22, 2016 • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Auditor
General DePasquale slated to be Keynote Speaker
School Leaders from Northampton,
Lehigh, Bucks, Montco, Chesco, Delco and Philadelphia Counties encouraged to
attend.
More info & Registration: https://www.psba.org/event/2016-legislative-roundtable/
“The Morning Call's parent company,
Tronc, has refused to divulge who paid for the ads or the mailer, which was
distributed by Tronc-owned Tribune Direct.
That has opened the newspaper to public
criticism while highlighting the proverbial wall that is supposed to exist
between a newspaper's editorial and business operations.”
Should The Morning Call reveal who bought
mystery mailer, ads?
By Sara K.
Satullo | For lehighvalleylive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on
September 18, 2016 at 7:01 AM, updated September 18, 2016 at 7:10 AM
When a mysterious mailer blasting
a local public school landed in mailboxes this summer, The Morning Call
newspaper found itself in a tough position.This fledgling Catasauqua charter
school denies authorizing, paying for or sending out this mailer. It was covering a controversial riddle that
it could, theoretically, solve. The Innovative
Arts Academy Charter School never authorized or paid for the mailer
that promoted the charter school and cast Liberty High School students as drug
users. And it also didn't sanction tamer promotional ads that ran in the
Allentown newspaper, school leaders said.
The fledgling charter school's own board of trustees demanded
answers on who was responsible for the materials, as did state Auditor
General Eugene DePasquale and the Bethlehem Area School District. The
school's CEO
resigned, teachers quit, students withdrew and the start of school was
delayed.
WITF Written by Katie Meyer, Capitol Bureau Chief | Sep 15, 2016 3:51 PM
(Harrisburg) - Several public education advocacy groups are trying to shift the negative press around Pennsylvania's public school system. The project, dubbed Success Starts Here, will consist mainly of an advertising campaign. The commonwealth's public schools have had a rough year or so, publicity-wise. Many were hit hard in the 2015/16 budget impasse, and have struggled financially. Some cut back on services, staff and class offerings. Just this week, the state Supreme Court heard a case on uneven distribution of school funding across the commonwealth. But Nathan Mains, executive director of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, said Success Starts Here wants to sway that narrative. "We have a responsibility to share with everybody across the state the positives that are going on," he said. "People are more apt to read about the negatives that occur occasionally."
Times Tribune SARAH HOFIUS HALL, STAFF WRITER / PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Doctors at Scranton Primary
Health Care Center soon will ask their young patients if they can read in
addition to how they feel. The center
joined a literacy initiative led by community members who believe reading is
not only key to achievement and accomplishments, but also to health. “We want to give them a better comfort level
with books and reading,” said Joseph Hollander, executive director of the
center. “Literacy is a health issue. ... It definitely has a correlation with
future success.” Last year, a group of
area educators, including several from the University of Scranton, started the
National Reading Crisis Project — a multiyear effort to target health care
professionals, educators, families and community agencies. Since then, the
group held seminars, received support and became part of the Scranton Education
Improvement Organization, a nonprofit group that is part of the state’s
educational improvement tax credit program.
Giving young children a
foundation for success
Reach Out and Read is a nonprofit
organization that gives young children a foundation for success by
incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud
together. The Reach Out and Read
evidence-based program builds on the unique relationship between parents and
medical providers to develop critical early reading skills in children,
beginning in infancy. As recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics,
Reach Out and Read incorporates early literacy into pediatric practice,
equipping parents with tools and knowledge to ensure that their children are
prepared to learn when they start school.
“In 27 other states, state supreme
courts have overturned school-financing systems, largely without cataclysm. The advocates for judicial intervention in
school funding should get their full trial. Pennsylvania’s funding disparities
have grown profound. The legislative and executive branches have failed too
long in addressing the disparity, and the education landscape in the state has
changed more than enough to warrant it. As
area resident Tracey Hughes, who joined the lawsuit as a parent, said, the
state’s argument is essentially that there are only two branches of government. This protracted debate is exactly the reason
we have a third.”
Our Opinion: Give school districts their day in (Commonwealth)
court
Times
Leader Editorial SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2016 - 12:45 PM
Attorneys representing parents
and Pennsylvania school districts – including Wilkes-Barre Area – appeared
before the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to argue for judicial intervention in
the school-funding debate. In Luzerne
County – where public school districts have cut programs, halved kindergarten,
and attempted to switch to four-day school weeks – this case matters. The problem: Because school
district budgets are so reliant on local property taxes, how much a district
spends for each student depends on where that student lives. Among
Pennsylvania’s 500 districts, per-pupil spending ranges from $9,800 to $28,400. The lawsuit contends that the state is not
fulfilling its constitutional duty to “provide for the maintenance and support
of a thorough and efficient system of public education,” and that the
disparities violate “equal rights protections.”
Attorneys for the state didn’t
deny the disparity. How could they? Rather, they argued that judges have no
place in resolving it. “No individual
child has any specific right to an education at all” under the constitution,
argued John Knorr, of the state Attorney General’s office. The constitution
requires the state only to set up a system, “and there it remains until the
people of Pennsylvania tell us otherwise.”
That has been the position of state courts for decades. Similar lawsuits
were dismissed as matters beyond judicial review.
Editorial: A
tale of two school districts
Delco
Times POSTED: 09/18/16, 5:12 AM EDT | UPDATED: 2 HRS AGO
Call
them the “haves” and “have-nots” of Pennsylvania education. You want to know about what’s wrong with the
way public education is funded in this state? It was on full display this week
right here in the Philadelphia suburbs. On
one hand you have the William Penn District here in Delaware County. For years
they have struggled with a system that enforces a lesser education opportunity
on students simply because of their zip code.
It’s simple math really. The towns in William Penn – Aldan, Colwyn,
Darby Borough. East Lansdowne, Lansdowne and Yeadon – are all facing struggling
economies. Their tax base has eroded over the years. Since Pennsylvania insists
on sticking with the property tax as the basic building block of funding public
education, the field is already stacked against these kids and families. That’s
because the tax rates in these towns don’t raise nearly as much revenue as
similar tax rates do in towns just a few miles away with robust economies. Towns like Lower Merion, for instance. We’ll
get to them in a minute.
“School superintendents and state legislators
from the region met Sept. 8 to discuss the situation and its implications. They
plan to reconvene at least once a month to track the situation and work on
solutions. On Badams’ agenda are calls
for the Legislature to make the state’s school funding system more equitable
for poor urban districts, and to address charter school funding, which will
cost the Erie district about $23 million in 2016-17.”
Our view: Erie schools still face funding
crisis
GoErie
Editorial September 19, 2016 02:01 AM
ERIE,
Pa. -- The $4 million emergency legislative allocation that closed the Erie
School District’s yawning budget gap at the last minute earlier this summer
defused a crisis but didn’t solve the underlying problems. If was a relief, but not a resolution. The leaders of the Erie region’s biggest
public school system already know that crisis will repeat itself in the next
budget cycle absent some larger solution. The structural problems in how that
system is funded are unresolved, and they’ve created predictable financial
shortfalls on a scale that overwhelms local options for dealing with them. It’s welcome that Erie schools Superintendent
Jay Badams is not waiting until budget time to raise that alarm. It’s welcome
also that what the Erie district is up against has become a regional
discussion.
EDITORIAL:
Fairness of Pa. school funding deserves a hearing
Pottstown
Mercury Editorial POSTED: 09/18/16, 5:51 PM EDT | UPDATED: 9 HRS
AGO
First
the good news. It has not exactly been a
secret for some time now that the system Pennsylvania uses to fund public
education has been a mess. It’s pretty
simple. The state was shortchanging education by failing to adequately fund
public schools, and the money it did pony up was being unfairly doled out. To the surprise of absolutely no one, those
most in need were the ones getting the short end of the stick. The state had
created an uneven playing field, where students were accorded a lesser
education for no other reason than their zip code. It was Pennsylvania’s very
own version of the haves and have-nots. Districts in areas with struggling
economies, unable to raise revenue through tax hikes as their more well-to-do
neighbors did, lagged. To the surprise
of just about everyone, the Legislature finally got around to doing something
about it.
http://www.pottsmerc.com/opinion/20160918/editorial-fairness-of-pa-school-funding-deserves-a-hearing
Pensions, gambling among issues as PA lawmakers
return
AP State
Wire By MARK SCOLFORO September 18, 2016
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania lawmakers are heading back to work after a summer break from the Capitol of more than two months, and they're facing decisions on expanding gambling, the budget deficit, the state's opioid addiction crisis and changes to large pension plans for teachers and state government employees. What's on tap in the General Assembly this fall:
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania lawmakers are heading back to work after a summer break from the Capitol of more than two months, and they're facing decisions on expanding gambling, the budget deficit, the state's opioid addiction crisis and changes to large pension plans for teachers and state government employees. What's on tap in the General Assembly this fall:
“Both chambers scheduled a
limited number of session days until the Nov. 8 election. The House lists 12
voting days; the Senate, which returns Sept. 26, lists nine days. Days can be
added or subtracted from the schedule.”
State lawmakers return for fall session
Times
Tribune BY ROBERT SWIFT, HARRISBURG BUREAU CHIEF SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
HARRISBURG
— House lawmakers start the fall legislative session today with action to
tackle the opioid abuse epidemic topping the agenda. Gov. Tom Wolf and lawmakers have been calling
attention in recent months to the need for new laws and initiatives to prevent
a steady rise in drug-related overdose deaths in Pennsylvania. However, the clock is ticking to enact new
legislation.
Gerrymandering
reform needs a boost in Pa. | Editorial
By Express-Times
opinion staff on September 18, 2016 at 6:00 AM, updated September
18, 2016 at 9:27 AM
As we
inch closer to the presidential election, some good-government critics will
single out the Electoral College as a flaw in the process, neutralizing the
cumulative voting weight of millions of voters on the losing sides in both red
states and blue states. In most cases, all of a
state's electoral votes are cast in favor of the presidential
candidate who wins the statewide popular vote.
Unfair? It's debatable. But if
Americans want to do something about the distortion of their collective voice,
they'd do better to focus on gerrymandering, the process by which government
insiders redraw congressional and state legislative districts to favor one
party or the other. Pennsylvania
is one of the worst offenders in assigning voters to strangely shaped,
distorted districts to get a predictable outcome at the polls.
ACLU files
emergency motion to allow all refugees into Lancaster high school
Penn
Live By Wesley
Robinson | wrobinson@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on
September 16, 2016 at 4:45 PM, updated September 16, 2016 at 4:52 PM
The ACLU
of Pennsylvania has filed an emergency motion against the School District of
Lancaster (SDOL) that seeks to force the district to enroll all refugee
students ages 17 to 21 in traditional high school rather than an alternative
school. If the ACLU's motion is granted,
the School District of Lancaster would have to admit more than 90 refugees into
the district from privately-run
Phoenix Academy. In a news release, the ACLU pointed to the Aug. 26 ruling ordering the school to admit the original
six students who filed suit against the district into McCaskey High School,
adding that the ruling from District Judge Edward Smith encouraged the district
to apply the court's ruling to all refugee students of similar circumstances. Noting email exchanges involving a local
refugee resettlement agency and district officials illustrating a lack of
desire for widespread change, the ACLU also said the district's actions show it
has no intention of honoring the court's legal reasoning. Without intervention
from the law, the the students continue to suffer irreparable harm from the
enrollment delays and exclusion from the high school, the ACLU contends. The emergency motion comes two days after the
SDOL filed its own motion for a stay on the August ruling as well as a motion
to expedite the appeal it formally filed Sept 2.
Lancaster maintaining "status
quo" for refugee enrollment, despite court's advice
WITF Written
by Emily
Previti, epreviti | Sep 16, 2016 6:01 PM
The
School District of Lancaster isn't waiting to resume enrollment practices for
student refugees at the center of an ongoing legal battle. "We are proceeding status quo until our
appeal is heard," one administrator told a refugee resettlement caseworker
questioning a student's placement in light of a
recent court order. Their email
exchange was part of a 91-page court filing Friday by attorneys who sued the
district on behalf of six student refugees earlier this summer and now say the
district is violating the partial ruling on the case handed down three weeks
ago. The district denies that. A federal
orderd the district had to transfer students named in the lawsuit to a
program perceived as better for students with limited English proficiency and
offer the option to other refugees already enrolled. In his Aug. 26 decision, the judge encouraged
the district to apply the same reasoning to new students. But he deferred a
formal ruling on that and other broader questions to proceedings expected to
start next week.
Pine-Richland eyed as target of federal
lawsuit for transgender bathroom protocol
By Karen
Kane / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette September 16, 2016 12:00 AM
A
national law firm that advocates for the LGBT community said a federal suit
will be filed against Pine-Richland School District for putting into place this
week a "sex-specific" protocol that requires transgender students to
use bathrooms that match their biological gender or, as an alternative, to use
a unisex bathroom. "We'll see them
in court," said Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, an attorney with Lambda
Legal, based in New York City. He
said the school district distinguished itself Monday by becoming the only
district in Pennsylvania to have adopted such a "discriminatory"
resolution — one that was passed on a 5-4 vote. "They created a problem where none
existed before," Mr. Gonzalez-Pagan said. The new resolution overturns a longtime
practice that allowed transgender students to use the bathroom of the gender
with which the student identifies.
SRC stalls
again on four contested Philly charter schools
Newsworks by Avi Wolfman-Arent and Darryl Murphy September 15,
2016 — 10:39pm
Philadelphia’s
School Reform Commission has again delayed action on four turnaround charter
schools that the District has recommended for non-renewal. This is the second
time Philadelphia’s top education officials have tabled decisions on the
schools, which are all part of the city’s Renaissance schools
initiative. Renaissance schools are District schools converted into
charter schools, with the expectation of a quick academic turnaround. In May, Olney Charter High School and John B.
Stetson Charter School of the ASPIRA network, and Audenried Promise
Neighborhood Partnership Charter School and Vare Promise Neighborhood
Partnership Charter School of the Universal Network were recommended for
non-renewal by the District’s charter school office. The District cited poor
academic performance, as well as financial and organizational instability in
its calls for non-renewal. The four
schools have been in limbo since then, with the SRC’s five members unable to
reach consensus on their fate. The schools were listed on the commission’s
resolution agenda for Thursday's SRC meeting, and it appeared initially that
there might be some definitive action.
Instead, after a brief public discussion, SRC Chair Marjorie Neff
withdrew all four resolutions.
“More than 407,500
Philadelphians live in poverty, about 26 percent of the population — the
highest poverty rate among the nation’s 10 biggest cities. The sheer enormity
of need strains the city in innumerable ways, from massive social spending to
stunted tax revenue to schools. City teachers educate kids suffering from
traumas that teachers in suburban districts rarely encounter. The poverty rate
among Philadelphia children is a terrifying 36 percent. Many of those children
are heirs to a lineage of destitution that stretches back generations.”
Generational Poverty: Trying to Solve
Philly’s Most Enduring Problem
Mattie McQueen is desperately
poor. So were her parents, her grandparents and her great-grandparents. So are
her children and her young grandchildren. Is there a way out?
PhillyMag BY STEVE VOLK | SEPTEMBER
17, 2016 AT 9:00 PM
Mattie
McQueen was about five years old when her mother offered a surprise: “Let’s all
go for ice cream.” McQueen and three of
her siblings scrambled out to Mom’s old blue station wagon. They talked, on the
way, about what flavor of ice cream they’d get, till Mattie noticed they
weren’t traveling the usual route to Dairy Queen. “Don’t worry,” her mom replied. “We’re going
for ice cream.” Minutes later, she
parked and led them into an office waiting room. “I’ll be right back,” she
said. She didn’t come back. That night,
the children were placed in foster care.
Mattie McQueen is 52 years old now, but this story still brings on the
tears. McQueen is a big woman, round all over, with straight black hair cropped
just above her shoulders, and when she cries, all of her shakes. Throughout her
life, she’s been on the move, from Bridgeton, New Jersey, to North, South and
West Philly, and through a series of relationships that left her with five kids
of her own. “I wanted to do right by them,” she says, “but early on, I was in
and out of taking care of them.”
Wil Del Pilar: Pa. working to increase
number of substitute teachers
Wil Del Pilar is
deputy secretary for the Office of Postsecondary and Higher Education in the
Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Morning
Call Opinion by Wil Del Pilar September 16, 2016
What is
PA doing to increase substitute teachers?
In a recent article on the substitute teacher shortage in
Pennsylvania, The Morning Call explained the current predicament of many
schools: the need to keep classrooms staffed and learning consistent for
students, while the pool of available educators continues to decrease. The Pennsylvania Department of Education has
been closely monitoring the decline in the number of college students enrolling
in education majors and those applying for and earning teaching certificates at
both the state and national levels. Sadly,
the challenges around school staffing are not exclusive to Pennsylvania, but
the department has taken steps to try to address the supply of the teachers and
substitute teachers in the commonwealth.
A bill to ease the substitute teaching shortage was signed into law and
incorporated into the school code this summer. SB 1312, introduced by Sen.
Lloyd Smucker from Lancaster County, allows college students who have completed
60 credit hours and who are enrolled in a teacher preparation program at a
four-year college in Pennsylvania to substitute for up to 20 days in any school
district in the commonwealth.
‘School of choice’ programs help students
find best fit
Some school
districts that serve residents of Centre County offer a school of choice
program that allows students who attend district schools to go to a
non-assigned school within the district. These requests are OK’d, pending
eligibility and classroom space.
Centre
Daily Times BY BRITNEY MILAZZO bmilazzo@centredaily.com SEPT
17, 2016 11:29 PM
State
College Area School District administrators know two general reasons why
families of students in the district use the Optional Assignment Program. They include housing situations and child
care needs, district spokesman Chris Rosenblum said. The district’s Optional Assignment Program is
a similar program to what some other local districts offer, colloquially called
“school of choice.” It’s an option for
families of students to request the placement of a school other than where
they’re assigned within the district where they reside. But it
comes with pros and cons.
http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/article102566452.html
PA Constitution Article III, Section
15: Public School Money Not
Available to Sectarian Schools
No money raised for the support of the public schools of the Commonwealth shall be appropriated to or used for the support of any sectarian school.
No money raised for the support of the public schools of the Commonwealth shall be appropriated to or used for the support of any sectarian school.
“Blogger comment:
Pennsylvania’s EITC and OSTC programs were carefully crafted to circumvent
Article III Section 14 of the PA constitution and divert public tax dollars to
private and religious schools with no fiscal or performance accountability.
Furthermore, the scholarship organizations that distribute the funds get to
keep 20% of the money. Comparable
programs in Florida only direct 3% of the funds to those organizations.”
Programs help kids leave poorly ranked
schools to go elsewhere
Centre
Daily Times BY BRITNEY MILAZZO bmilazzo@centredaily.com SEPTEMBER
17, 2016 11:35 PM
There’s
an initiative through the commonwealth that gives businesses a tax break for
helping fund school tuition for students.
Through the Education Improvement Tax Credit and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Creditprograms managed by the
state Department of Economic Development, the School Choice program allows
businesses to obtain tax credits in exchange for donating money to students who
leave low-achieving schools in the commonwealth to get educated elsewhere. Those scholarship funds are given to
qualified students to attend a school of their choice outside of the school
district where they reside. It’s
different than a term many educators call “school of choice,” which allows
eligible students at a public school district to attend a different school
within the district than the school originally assigned to them in their
geographical area.
West Shore
teachers authorize strike
Staff, York Daily Record 9:34
p.m. EDT September 16, 2016
Teachers
in the West Shore School District could go on strike after voting to authorize
a walkout, according to a news release from the Pennsylvania State
Education Association and the West Shore Education Association. The teachers have rejected the school
board's latest contract offer, the news release states. "They also voted overwhelmingly to
authorize a strike," it states. A strike
could be called at any time. The association would have to provide
48 hours notice, the news release states.
ESSA Guidance
Issued on 'Evidence Based' School Improvement
Education
Week Politics K12 Blog By Alyson Klein on September
16, 2016 10:00 AM
The
Every Student Succeeds Act represents a whole new ball game when it comes to
school improvement: States and districts will get to come up with interventions
and turnaround strategies, as long as they have evidence to back up their
approaches. That's a big departure from the law's predecessor, the No Child Left Behind Act. But fixing-up long-foundering schools, and
even helping struggling groups of students in otherwise good schools, is
notoriously difficult work. So what's
the best way for states and districts to approach school improvement in the
ESSA era? And what does it mean for an intervention to be
"evidence-based" anyway? The
U.S. Department of Education has developed guidance to help states, districts,
and schools grapple with those questions. (Importantly, guidance is nonbinding,
so local officials should consider this what the feds see as best practices,
not a list of musts.)
A Peek at the
Senate Bill to Reauthorize Career and Technical Education Law
Education
Week Politics K12 Blog By Andrew Ujifusa on September
16, 2016 2:50 PM
Following
the House of Representatives' lead, there's a new bill in the Senate to reauthorize the
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. But what's in it? And will it get the same
smooth ride next week (when there's a hearing scheduled for the
bill) that the bipartisan
House rewrite received this week? It's early, but the answer to the
last question appears to be no. Here are
a few highlights of the Senate version of the Perkins reauthorization:
“In New York City,
although the charter-school student population represents just under 7 percent
of the district’s total enrollment, charter schools accounted for nearly 42
percent of all suspensions, according to the latest available state data,
from 2014.”
Where
Charter-School Suspensions Are Concentrated
Many cities are
rethinking how they discipline students, but old practices remain in some
neighborhoods.
The Atlantic
by GEORGE JOSEPH SEP
16, 2016
Shanice
Givens’s son, Cyrus, was 6 years old when administrators at his charter school,
Success Academy in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, put
him on a list of students they wanted to push out. “They’d suspend him
for not having on shoes, for not having his shirt tucked, for going to the
bathroom,” says Givens. “So he lost courage and a will to want to do better.” According to Givens, Cyrus was suspended 30
times that school year. Success Academy spokesperson Ann Powell says the
kindergartner was suspended only seven times. Either way, that’s a lot of
suspensions for a 6 year old. Today, city leaders are increasingly pushing to
reform school-discipline practices to minimize suspensions for students like
Cyrus, heeding
calls from activists and researchers who say excessive discipline can
fuel rises in student
dropout rates and push young people into the criminal-justice
system.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/09/the-racism-of-charter-school-discipline/500240/
Here is
Trump’s Education Ad for TV
Diane
Ravitch’s Blog By dianeravitch September 17, 2016 //
Donald
Trump’s campaign released an ad to show how unlimited choice would “make
America great again.” If every parent could choose to send their child to a
religious school, a charter school, a storefront school, or whatever, then
everyone would get a great education! Here
is the ad. Our students do not need
certified teachers or principals. They do not need smaller classes. They do not
need anything but choice. Forget the fact
that the research on charters shows they do not produce better results than
public schools (unless they exclude low-performing students), and that voucher
schools perform worse than public schools.
Education
Law Center: Join us September 19: UC-Berkeley economist Rucker Johnson in Philadelphia
September 19: Please join us at 4:30 PM in
the Mayor’s Reception Room in Philadelphia City Hall where economist and
UC-Berkeley professor Dr. Rucker Johnson will discuss his recent national research which finds that sustained
investment in education produces long-term economic benefits for communities.
Mayor Kenney and Dr. Hite will also make brief remarks. This event is sponsored
by the Education Law Center, The Mayor’s Office of Education, and Council
President Darrell Clarke. Please spread the word and join us on the 19th! RSVP
to Caitlyn Boyle: Caitlyn.Boyle@Phila.gov
To download the full invitation
to the event, please click here.
Southeastern
PA Regional 2016 Legislative Roundtable: William Tennent High School (Bucks
Co.) SEP 22, 2016 • 7:00
PM - 9:00 PM
PSBA website August 25, 2016
Take a more active role in public
education advocacy by joining our Legislative Roundtable
This is your opportunity for a
seat at the table (literally) with fellow public education advocates to take an
active role in educating each other and policymakers. Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, along with
regional legislators, will be in attendance to work with you to support public
education in Pennsylvania. Use the
form below to send your registration information!
Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 5:30 PM
The Crystal Tea Room, The Wanamaker Building
100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia, PA
Honoring: Pepper Hamilton LLP, Signe Wilkinson, Dr. Monique W. Morris
And presenting the ELC PRO BONO AWARD to Paul Saint-Antoine & Chanda Miller
of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Registration
for the PASA-PSBA School Leadership Conference Oct. 13-15 is now open
The conference
is your opportunity to learn, network and be inspired by peers and
experts.
TO REGISTER: See https://www.psba.org/members-area/store-registration/ (you must be logged in to
the Members Area to register). You can read more on How to Register for
a PSBA Event here. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: For
all other program details, schedules, exhibits, etc., see the conference
website:www.paschoolleaders.org.
The 2016 Arts and Education Symposium will be held on October 27 at the Radisson Hotel Harrisburg Convention Center. Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Arts Education network and EPLC, the Symposium is a Unique Networking and Learning Opportunity for:
·
Arts Educators
·
School Leaders
·
Artists
·
Arts and Culture Community Leaders
·
Arts-related Business Leaders
·
Arts Education Faculty and Administrators in Higher Education
·
Advocates
·
State and Local Policy Leaders
Act 48 Credit is
available.Program and registration information are available here.
PA Principals Association website Tuesday, August 2, 2016 10:43 AM
To receive the Early Bird Discount, you must be registered by August 31, 2016:
Members: $300 Non-Members: $400
Featuring Three National Keynote Speakers: Eric Sheninger, Jill Jackson & Salome Thomas-EL
SAVE THE DATE LWVPA Convention 2017 June
1-4, 2017
Join the
League of Women Voters of PA for our 2017 Biennial Convention at the beautiful
Inn at Pocono Manor!
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