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State Education Coalition
PA
Ed Policy Roundup October 10, 2016
PA's “successful EITC program” is successful at circumventing the
PA Constitution
The most important thing you need to do
today (and it only takes 3 minutes)
Watch how
easy it is to register to vote in Pennsylvania
Penn Live By Candy Woodall |
cwoodall@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter
on October 08, 2016 at 7:00 AM, updated October 08, 2016 at 7:09 AM
on October 08, 2016 at 7:00 AM, updated October 08, 2016 at 7:09 AM
Pennsylvania's voter-registration
deadline is Tuesday, and registering is easier than ever this year. For
the first time, state residents can register online.
To see how easy it is, we tested it out.
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.”
Keystone State Education Coalition Commentary October 9, 2016
Pennsylvania’s EITC and OSTC programs were carefully crafted to circumvent Article III Section 15 of the PA constitution and divert public tax dollars to private and religious schools with no fiscal or performance accountability.
Every tax dollar diverted to private and religious school under the EITC program is a dollar that is not available to the general fund. For FY 14-15 there were 1096 recipients of EITC funds totaling over $108.3 million.
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 intermediary organizations.”
Here are the top 100 dollar recipients (receiving $67.6 million). In addition to numerous large amounts funding religious schools you will also see several of the Philadelphia Main Line’s most prestigious private schools on this list.
About 70 percent of area Pa. school
spending goes into the classroom
Source: Pennsylvania Department
of Education Evan Brandt — Digital First Media Graphic
Daily
Local By Evan Brandt, ebrandt@21st-centurymedia.com, @PottstownNews on Twitter POSTED: 10/09/16, 6:00 PM
EDT | UPDATED: 8 HRS AGO
We all know school taxes are the
biggest slice of the tax bill pie, but how much of that money actually makes
its way to the classroom in our local districts? The answer — according to a searchable database built by The Morning Call newspaper of
Allentown with data from the Pennsylvania Department of Education — is about 70
percent. Using Department of Education
data from the 2014-2015 school year, the newspaper assembled a statewide map
with statistics for all 500 Pennsylvania school districts. One of the more interesting statistics is an
efficiency measurement called “actual instructional expenses.” “Think of it as the cost of running a school
minus transportation, health, financing, and special, vocational and other
programs,” is how The Morning Call described AIE.
What's
in store for PA students with No Child Left Behind gone?
Jacqueline
Palochko Contact Reporter Of The Morning
Call October 8, 2016
State looking at ways to change
standardized testing and assessments
Every school-age child knows the
standardized test drill. It starts with a good night's sleep, followed by an
especially healthy breakfast with, say, granola or bananas. Next comes the
anxiety and, sometimes, the tears. It
took awhile, but Congress finally came to understand the consequences of that
drill. So, after emphasizing standardized tests for 15 years under the No Child
Left Behind Law, it is putting a new plan in place. Beginning next school year, the Every Student
Succeeds Act, signed by President Barack Obama in December, will replace No Child
Left Behind, shedding the universal yardstick by which student success has been
measured. Under the new law, states and even school districts will have more
control over how and when students are tested as well as how much time those
tests take up in the school year. "I
think the era of standardized testing is over," Allentown School
District's interim Superintendent Gary R. Cooper said. By passing Pennsylvania
System of School Assessment, he said, lawmakers acknowledged that standardized
testing is not a valid way to evaluate schools.
Inquirer Editorial: Philadelphia schools
need more than what toothless SRC can provide
Updated: OCTOBER
10, 2016 — 3:01 AM EDT
The resignations of two valuable
members of the School Reform Commission - Marjorie Neff and Feather Houstoun -
not only raises the question of who could capably fill their shoes, but whether
the toothless SRC has outlived its usefulness in serving Philadelphia's
schoolchildren. Both Houstoun and Neff,
the SRC's chairwoman, announced their resignations Wednesday. Houstoun will
leave the school board Oct. 14 and Neff on Nov. 3. Both women's terms would
expire in January. Mayor Kenney will name Neff's replacement while Gov. Wolf
will choose Houstoun's successor, which must be confirmed by the state Senate. That bifurcated process speaks to the
political climate in which the SRC was created in 2001. In exchange for
millions in additional state funding for Philadelphia schools, Mayor John
Street made a deal with Gov. Mark Schweiker that gave the state majority
control of a new commission to replace the city-appointed school board. It
would be hard to call the result a rousing success.
Green asks judge to stop Wolf from naming
new SRC chair
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham, STAFF WRITER Updated: OCTOBER 7, 2016 — 1:28
PM EDT
School Reform Commission member
Bill Green is asking a judge to grant an injunction to prevent Gov. Wolf from
appointing a new SRC chair. Green, whom
Wolf removed as chair of the SRC in 2015, has filed papers in Commonwealth
Court alleging that Wolf has no right to name a successor to Marjorie
Neff, who abruptly resigned from the SRC Wednesday. Green previously had sued Wolf over his
removal as SRC chair. He says the governor does not have the power to take him
out of the job, and arguments are scheduled to be heard in that case Oct. 19. Court papers were filed on Green's behalf
Thursday by attorneys from the Fairness Center, a nonprofit law firm created to
battle public-sector employee unions.
DN editorial: Why should SRC, PPA stay
under state control?
Philly Daily News Editorial Updated: OCTOBER 7, 2016 — 3:01 AM EDTAt first, the Philadelphia Parking Authority board was working to save Vincent Fenerty Jr.'s job until it was disclosed that Fenerty had been accused of sexually harassing a female employee before - and the board was aware of that case. It's a no-brainer: Local governments should be in control of local institutions, with exceptions to that rule carefully considered and frequently reviewed. That's the thinking behind home rule, which stipulates that the state stay out of the business of local governments as much as possible. In Philadelphia, we have two glaring exceptions to that rule. The Philadelphia School District is run by the state via a five-member board, the School Reform Commission. Three of the board members are appointed by the governor, two by the mayor. The SRC was created by the Legislature in 2001 when the district was undergoing financial and leadership crises.
Guest Column: Pa.’s plan for pension
‘reform’ means workers pay more, get less
Delco Times By Jerry
Oleksiak Times Guest Columnist POSTED: 10/08/16, 10:12 PM EDT
Jerry Oleksiak is a special
education teacher in the Upper Merion Area School District, and president of
the 180,000-member Pennsylvania State Education Association.
What if you were the CEO of a
major company and short on the workers you need to make your product? You
desperately need new people — the best people to get the job done. You would
cut their benefits, right? That would attract the best and brightest workers. Wait. No it wouldn’t. It would drive workers
away. Yet, despite the fact that this makes no economic sense, that’s exactly
what the state Legislature is proposing for new educators. There is a looming teacher shortage in
Pennsylvania. And lawmakers want to slash retirement benefits that offer
educators a secure, middle class retirement.
The plan that some lawmakers are negotiating behind closed doors would
make Pennsylvania’s public pension plans among the worst in the nation. It
would force new school employees into a new system, cut their retirement benefits
by 20 to 50 percent, and cost them 12 percent more out of every paycheck. That’s right. Young people entering the
profession would pay more to get less. To
put this in perspective, under this new pension plan, a typical newly hired
school employee would need to work until he or she is 73 years old to get the
same level of benefits that current school employees receive after working for
more than a decade less.
With the clock winding down, Berks
lawmaker tilts at property tax reform windmill one more time: Friday Morning
Coffee
Penn Live By John L. Micek |
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October 07, 2016 at 8:14 AM, updated October 07, 2016 at 8:15 AM
THE MORNING COFFEE
Good Friday Morning, Fellow
Seekers.
With literally just days to go in this year's legislative session, a Berks County lawmaker has decided now is the best time to take a run at a problem that's defied solution for three decades.
With literally just days to go in this year's legislative session, a Berks County lawmaker has decided now is the best time to take a run at a problem that's defied solution for three decades.
On Wednesday, GOP Rep.
Jim Cox finally rolled out a bill scrapping Pennsylvania's local
property tax in favor of a higher state sales and personal income taxes. Cox's proposal, similar to one that was
narrowly defeated in the state Senate earlier this year, would boost the PIT
from the current 3.07 percent to 4.95 percent; and hike the sales tax from 6
percent from 7 percent in most parts of the state (it's higher in Philly and
Allegheny County). The bill would also expand the sales tax base. That the bill isn't going to go anywhere,
will die in November, and will have to be reintroduced in January with the
start of the next legislative session is no impediment, Cox
said in a statement.
Moody's: Philly schools are fiscally
stable, if not fiscally sound
Philadelphia School
District Superintendent says district officials have “made concerted efforts to
WHYY Newsworks BY AVI WOLFMAN-ARENT OCTOBER 7, 2016
The financial picture for
Philly’s school system isn’t getting any worse — even if it is already
relatively bleak. That was the message
sent Thursday by Moody’s Investment Services, which upgraded the School
District of Philadelphia’s outlook from negative to stable. It is the first
uptick in the school system’s financial position since 2010, according to the
district. In a statement that
rationalized the upgrade, Moody’s cited new
revenues from the city as well as a balanced district budget. Unlike past years
— when the district faced a rolling series of shortages — Philly schools began
the 2016-17 school year with a bit of extra cash on hand.
Bond rating agencies: Philly schools
finances 'stable
Inquirer by Martha Woodall, Staff Writer Updated: OCTOBER 8, 2016 — 1:08
AM EDT
In recognition of the
Philadelphia School District's improved finances, two New York bond rating
agencies Friday boosted its credit outlook for the first time since 2010. Moody's Investor Services and Fitch Ratings
Inc. each changed their view of the district's finances from
"negative" to "stable."
Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said in a statement, "We have
made concerted efforts to achieve and present a stabilized budget and long-term
fiscal plan, and it is important that independent reviewers . . . are
recognizing our efforts.
Pa. Education Secretary visits Technical
College High School Brandwyine in Downingtown
Daily
Local By Staff Report POSTED: 10/09/16,
6:40 PM EDT | UPDATED: 7 HRS AGO
DOWNINGTOWN >> Pennsylvania
Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera visited Technical College High School
(TCHS) Brandywine Campus as part of a “Schools That Teach” tour facilitated by
Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration. A panel of student representatives and TCHS
administrators warmly received Rivera, who began his visit on Sept. 20 with an
open question and answer session. Students asked the secretary about a variety
of topics, including the job market, growing industries and tips for college
success. “College is 90 percent time management and effort,” Rivera said. “And
you can’t follow money. If you pick a track you’re interested in, opportunity
will follow.”
Pottsgrove eyes ‘empowering teachers’ to
address mixed test results
By Evan Brandt,
The Mercury POSTED: 10/09/16,
2:00 AM EDT | UPDATED: 1 HR AGO
LOWER POTTSGROVE >> The
most recent scores on the standardized English PSSA and Keystone tests have
dropped in all but one grade and four out of the seven scores were below the
state average. On the other hand, math
scores in all but one grade went up when compared to the previous year and only
three grades were below the state average.
However, that’s not quite as extreme as it may sound. In the case of the English scores, when
compared to the 2014-2015 school year — the year when the state re-set the
metrics for the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests — all but one of
the more recent scores are within three percentage points of the year before —
not what most experts would call “statistically significant.”
That’s probably why Daniel
Vorhis, the district’s director of education and assessment, described the
English scores as “static” in his presentation to the board at the Oct. 4 meeting.
York
Dispatch by Alyssa
Jackson , 505-5438/@AlyssaJacksonYD7:13 p.m. EDT October 9, 2016
York Suburban schools achieved
the highest scores in the county on the most recent battery of state tests. Individual
schools' Pennsylvania System of School Assessment exam
scores were released recently, and for the second year in a row schools
were subjected to the more rigorous common-core standards that were enacted
during the May 2015 tests. Schools across the county varied on whether their
student's scores improved or declined. The York Suburban School District saw
more students score as advanced on the math PSSA, but English Language
Arts scores declined slightly. The schools' scores did not differ
drastically from the previous year, though, and all of the district's scores
were still among the highest in the county.
Fed-up Philly teachers jumping ship
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham, Staff Writer Updated: OCTOBER 9, 2016 — 5:11
AM EDT
Bryan Steinberg loves his job
teaching social studies in Philadelphia, but he's seriously contemplating
quitting to become a bartender. Katie
Glass just tendered her resignation as a Philadelphia School District speech
therapist. She's moving to Vietnam. And
Megan and Bryan McGlynn, married city teachers with a new baby, wonder how much
longer they can keep going with two incomes tied to a school system that has
kept them without a contract for three years and without a raise for four. With no progress in sight on the contract
front - the district and Philadelphia Federation of Teachers haven't negotiated
since June, and have no bargaining sessions scheduled - some school staffers
are saying they can no longer stay in Philadelphia.
Intelligencer By Gary
Weckselblatt, staff writer October 10, 2016
Preeth Vijay, like most
teenagers, is not a morning person. Meeting
his friends at Holy Ghost Preparatory School in Bensalem for the walk to their
first class, the conversation is always the same. "Everyone is complaining," he said.
"There's a lot of small talk about how tired you feel. It becomes a
pissing contest. Everybody looks pretty dead to me." Preeth's experience is hardly unique. Megan
Lunny, a sophomore at Central Bucks East High School, recalls having more
energy in elementary school. "Classes weren't that taxing," she said.
"You didn't have that much homework."
After troubling early results, Philly to
test all schools for lead in water
Keystone Crossroads/WHYY
Newsworks BY AVI WOLFMAN-ARENT
OCTOBER 7, 2016
After finding elevated lead
levels in nearly 50 school drinking outlets, Philadelphia is expanding its
water-testing program. The School
District of Philadelphia now plans to test the water at each of its 200-plus
schools over the next 18 months. Originally the district said it would test
only at 40 high-risk schools and that the testing program was purely
precautionary. The district announced
its original testing initiative in August. At the
time, officials said they were targeting older schools with younger
students. They also said they had no reason to suspect district students were
at risk, and that the new round of testing was meant to ease concerns raised by
the lead crisis in Flint, Michigan. “With
the new heightened level of concern from Flint, Michigan, our stakeholders —
parents, students — have been really wanting to see more testing,” said
Francine Locke, the district’s environmental director, at the time.
Philly school district to test drinking
water for lead
Inquirer
by Kristen A. Graham Updated: OCTOBER 7, 2016 — 3:52 PM EDT
The Philadelphia School District
is expanding a program to test all city schools' drinking water for lead over
the next 18 months, officials said Friday. The program will cost $1.5 million. Over the summer, the district announced it
was testing water at 40 schools; the results of 22 of those tests have been
received, with 86 percent of the water fountains in a range judged safe to
drink. The fountains that did not meet the standards were shut down and will be
remediated. Water that has 15 parts per
billion of lead is considered unsafe by the district, a stricter standard than
the federal Environmental Protection Agency's 20 parts per billion threshold. Public health concerns about the safety of
drinking water nationally prompted the move, schools officials said. The
district aims to focus "on providing safe, accessible and appealing water
for students in every school," said Fran Burns, the district's chief
operating officer.
Post Gazette By Mary Niederberger / Public Source October 9, 2016 12:27 AM
Dominic Kimmerle dives and slides
across the field. Anything to prevent the other team from scoring against his
Golden Eagles. He stops the soccer ball. He kicks it back to his teammates.
Black pellets spray from the goalie’s cleats.
The pellets stick to his skin and clothes. When he changes from his
Keystone Oaks uniform, they scatter to the floor. Lately, those tiny rubber bits are getting
big attention. A federal inquiry into
the safety of what’s called “crumb rubber” launched in February because of
concerns that the product may be endangering the health of young athletes. What could be wrong with crumb rubber? Crumb rubber
is made up of old tires. It’s been used as infill for artificial turf fields
for decades. It cushions the turf, softening falls. It was seen as an
alternative to burning tires, which emits carcinogens.
Homemade
and homegrown food can be found at BEA
Centre Daily Times BY
BRITNEY MILAZZO bmilazzo@centredaily.com
October 9, 2016
Bald Eagle Area High School
agriculture teacher Todd Biddle tries to make class curriculum reflect the real
world as much as possible. That’s why he
sets up class in a way that allows students to be interactive. He calls it, “educational, but fun.” Last week, students completed the final step
in a multistep process that stemmed from a grant the district received last
year. A $5,000 National Farm to School Network grant was awarded
to BEA — and more specifically Biddle’s ag classes and FFA — which helped fund
a small farm on BEA-owned property near the high school, and helped create a
state-inspected chicken processing facility in Biddle’s classroom. Chicken and produce raised and grown by the
students was used to make chicken corn soup, which was sold last week during
the “Fresh is Better Showcase,” and at the homecoming football game.
Chesco students see firsthand ‘what’s so
cool about manufacturing’
Daily
Local By Nancy March, For Digital First Media POSTED: 10/07/16
What’s so cool about manufacturing? Plenty, according to Chester County school
and business officials teaming up on a student video contest of the same name. The contest pairs teams of students outfitted
with GoPro cameras with local manufacturing business partners to produce videos
about industrial work. The statewide theme for this year’s contest, “What’s so
cool about manufacturing?” relates to today’s observance of Manufacturing Day,
which in turn is a project of the national DreamItDoIt educational
initiative. Eight Chester County districts, including Owen J. Roberts and
Phoenixville Area, are participating in this year’s contest. Last year, Phoenixville’s high school team was among the
winners of the video competition.
“The grant to Roxborough brings PSP's
total contributions to district schools to almost $16 million. It is now the
school system's largest private funder. Citywide, it has given out more than
$50 million to schools of all types.”
City school getting $1M from PSP
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham, Staff Writer Updated: OCTOBER 10, 2016 — 1:08
AM EDT
Roxborough High School will
receive $1.1 million to continue its transformation, a city nonprofit is to
announce Monday. The money is coming from the Philadelphia School Partnership,
which has amassed $75 million to give away to charter, private, and traditional
public schools and aims to raise more. The grant - which will allow Roxborough
to continue its shift to a career and technical education model - represents
PSP's first grant to a Philadelphia School District comprehensive high school,
widely viewed as the toughest type of school to reform, given its mandate to
take all students, regardless of needs.
Philly program teaches kids to code in
hopes of bringing diversity to future of tech
BY NEWSWORKS STAFF OCTOBER 7, 2016 Audio
Runtime 9:02
For the past three years an
organization called Coded By Kids has been helping young Philadelphians learn
to develop software. Sylvester Mobley, started Coded By Kids in 2013 and
the program reaches about 90 kids through rec centers and after-school programs. Mobley, CEO of Coded By Kids, sat down with NewsWorks
Tonight host Brad Linder to discuss his effort to expand the program. Listen to
their conversation below.
Tim Kaine's wife, Ann Holton, talks
education policy
She was Virginia's education
secretary, but as a student she helped desegregate Richmond, Va. schools
The notebook by Dale Mezzacappa October
9, 2016 — 1:15pm
Ann Holton, wife of
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine and a former
Virginia education secretary, campaigned in Philadelphia Saturday to talk up Hillary
Clinton’s agenda for improving the nation’s schools. Holton, 58, an attorney and onetime juvenile
court judge, was Virginia’s education secretary from 2014 until July, when she
resigned to help the campaign after her husband joined the ticket.
In addition to her professional background in education, she and her
family have been on the front lines of a defining issue in American education
today – the persistence of a separate and unequal school system segregated
largely by race and class. As a child, Holton helped desegregate Richmond,
Va. schools, when her father was governor. In her swing through the
area, Holton spoke to a few dozen members of the Philadelphia Federation of
Teachers at a Mount Airy church Saturday morning. Education policy has certainly not gotten
much attention in this election season. While inequality was a big theme in the
Democratic primary between Clinton and Bernie Sanders, educational
inequity got scant mention.Diane Ravitch’s Blog By dianeravitch October 9, 2016 //
FairTest has been fighting the overuse and misuse of standardized testing for more than 40 years. Recognizing that you can’t defeat a failed system by complaining, FairTest has designed a state system for assessment that does not rely on standardized testing. The new system relies on student work and teacher judgment. It takes advantage of a provision in ESSA that allows seven states to create innovative approaches to sssessment. This is a plan that is research-based, reasonable, and feasible.
https://dianeravitch.net/2016/10/09/fairtest-a-model-state-assessment-system-that-avoids-the-destructive-testing-of-nclb/
“State officials said they could verify
the attendance of what amounted to 280 full-time students at Virtual Community,
far fewer than the 835 the school reported, according to the Dispatch. California, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania have
also seen recent controversies related to the reporting of student attendance
at full-time online charters.”
9 Ohio Cybers Could Be Forced to Repay
More than $80M After Attendance Audits
Education Week By Benjamin
Herold on October 6, 2016 2:29 PM
The Ohio education department
could seek repayment of more than $80 million from nine full-time online
charter schools it believes inflated student attendance records, reports the Columbus Dispatch. Among the cyber charters under scrutiny:
Ohio's largest cyber, the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, which state
officials contend was paid for 9,000 students who did not
complete enough work to be considered full-time, as well as two cybers that
state officials said did not have any full-time students. ECOT officials have called the audit a
"sham" and argued the state changed its attendance-reporting rules
midstream, then tried to apply them to schools retroactively. The school had
been seeking a court order blocking the state from using log-in records as a
means of verifying student attendance. An Ohio judge denied that request late
last month. Leaders from several of the
audited Ohio cybers told the Dispatch they believe the state's approach is
"unreasonable."
Diane Ravitch’s Blog By dianeravitch October 7, 2016 //
Mercedes Schneider reports that Bill Gates is throwing millions into Common Core, making up for the fact that the new federal law bans federal support for Common Core. Gates recently awarded $18 million to support Common Core implementation. It’s his baby, and he is not letting go in the face of mass opposition.
Big
Wings, Bigger Dreams: A Sleepover In The Space Shuttle's Shadow
Ariel
Zambelich/NPR October
1, 20166:00 AM ET
Visiting a museum full of
airplanes and rocket ships is a pretty awesome field trip. Now imagine camping
out for a whole night in Smithsonian's huge hangar outside Washington D.C.
You're there with a few other lucky kids, some grownups, and aviation treasures
like the space shuttle Discovery. Sean
Mclaughlin, 10, is one of those kids. He's picking out his pilot code name —
using the aviation alphabet: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot. He
reads each word aloud, sitting just to the side of a F8U Crusader — the first
carrier-based jet fighter to exceed 1,000 miles per hour.
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Coffee and Networking - 9:30 a.m. Program - 10:00 a.m. to Noon
Technical College High School
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RSVP by clicking here. There is no fee, but a RSVP is
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An Overview of the EPLC Report on High School CTE will be presented by:
Ron Cowell, President, The
Education Policy and Leadership Center
Statewide and
Regional Perspectives Will Be Provided By: Dr. Lee Burket, Director, Bureau of Career & Technical Education, PA Department of Education
Jackie Cullen, Executive Director, PA Association of Career & Technical Administrators
Dan Fogarty, Director of Workforce Development & COO, Berks County Workforce Development Board
Kirk Williard, Ed.D., Director of Career, Technical & Customized Education, Chester County Intermediate Unit
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:
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Arts Educators
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School Leaders
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Artists
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Arts and Culture Community Leaders
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Arts-related Business Leaders
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Arts Education Faculty and Administrators in Higher Education
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Advocates
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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
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