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Keystone
State Education Coalition
PA
Ed Policy Roundup for November 11, 2016
Crushing
defeat leaves Mass. charter-school movement in limbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q
Regional Basic Education Funding Formula
Workshops
PASA,
PSBA, PAIU, PARSS, the PA Principals Association and PASBO are traveling around
the state to conduct regional workshops for school leaders to provide them with
more information on the new basic education funding formula. Register below to
attend a regional workshop to learn more about the new formula and what it
means for your school district and for the state. Please note that capacity is
limited at each location and registration is required. A webcast option is also
available. These regional workshops are being supported by a grant from the
William Penn Foundation.
Monday, November 14, 2016 @ 6:00
pm: Colonial IU 20
(6 Danforth Drive, Easton, PA 18045)
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 @ 9:00
am: Luzerne IU 18
(368 Tioga Ave, Kingston, PA 18704)
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 @ 6:00
pm: Chester County IU 24
(455 Boot Road, Downingtown, PA 19335)
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 @ 9:30 am: Webcast
Registration: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BEFworkshop
“As we pause to think about the veterans
who served this country, we should also be searching for solutions to maintain
the future strength of the armed forces they so ably served. Today's children
are tomorrow's leaders both in the civilian workforce and the military. One of
the most effective tools for assuring their citizen-readiness is high-quality
early childhood education.”
State
Rep. Dan McNeill and retired Rear Admiral David W. Kunkel: Quality pre-K
programs build essential foundation for children
PA could follow Defense
Department's substantial commitment to early learning
Morning Call Opinion November 10,
2016
On this Veterans Day, we take
time to honor the men and women among us who served in the Armed Forces. From
World War II to present-day engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan — whether they
served in war or peace — our veterans went where their nation needed them and
served with honor and integrity. They are deserving of our gratitude. Of course the Army GIs, the Navy sailors and
aviators, the Marines, the Coast Guardsmen, or the Air Force fliers of World
War II might not recognize the high-tech trappings of today's military, but
they know they can shake hands with men and women who bring the same heart and
dedication to service that they did. Even as the military changes, the
dedicated people needed to carry out their duties remains constant.
Election Day squeakers: Nine races for
General Assembly seats won by a narrow margin
Penn Live by Jan Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com November 10, 2016
Start your engines: State Sen. Scott
Wagner, R-York County, is running for governor
Penn Live By Charles Thompson |
cthompson@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on
November 10, 2016 at 3:29 PM, updated November 10, 2016 at 9:36 PM
This post was updated at 9:35
p.m. to correct an error in the second paragraph. Sen. Wagner intends to
formally announce in early 2017.
Because politics never stops, we
have our first entry in the 2018 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race.
Sen. Scott Wagner, a York County
Republican, told a local television station Thursday that he is planning to run
and expects to make a formal announcement of his candidacy in early 2017.
Wagner, 61, is currently serving
his first full term in the state Senate.
But his impact at the Capitol - both in terms of pushing for leadership
changes in the GOP caucus and helping to replace Democrats with fiscally
conservative Republicans - has already been greater than that of many career
legislators.
“The objectives of the community school
strategy nationwide are to improve student-teacher relationships by allowing
the teachers to focus on students’ educational needs while the community school
partners tend to students’ life needs.”
Erie Community Schools
Erie Reader BY JIM WERTZ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, 2016 AT
4:15 PM Published
in: Vol. 6, No. 23
This fall Erie’s Public Schools
rolled out its pilot of the community schools strategy. More than $1.5 million
in seed funding was provided through the collaborative efforts of the Erie
Community Foundation, the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority, the Susan Hirt
Hagen Fund for Transformational Philanthropy, and the United Way, with
additional funds coming from the district and its corporate partners. The community school strategy is predicated
upon the belief that public education is the foundation of a democratic
society, and this year five schools were selected to be matched with corporate
partners, which will help fund the initiative, and community or “lead” partners
that will implement the community schools strategy in select schools.
Bethlehem Area wants to add this techy
grad requirement
By Sara K.
Satullo | For lehighvalleylive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on
November 08, 2016 at 8:00 AM, updated November 08, 2016 at 8:10 AM
Recognizing today's technology
driven world, the Bethlehem
Area School District is adding computer sciences as a high school
graduation requirement. The
administration proposes adding a half-credit computer sciences course as a grad
requirement for all high school students starting with the incoming freshman
class of 2021. And the district is also
working with Northampton
Community College to create a high school math course aimed at
ensuring district graduates don't need college remedial math courses. The school board will vote on the new plan as
part of the district's 2016-17 high school program of studies later this month.
Tribune Democrat By David Hurst dhurst@tribdem.com
November 11, 2016
A collaboration between the
college, three school districts and local partners is launching a pilot program
aimed at eventually teaching the skill and other computer literacy essentials
to K to 12 students in all corners of the Cambria-Somerset region, he announced
Thursday. It’s the first step in a
long-term initiative. Project partners hope it will teach young minds valuable
critical thinking skills now, while paying even greater dividends decades down
the road, creating a homegrown pipeline of talented programmers and fellow
computer-savvy graduates. “Skills like
coding are not skills you develop late in life. You build them from the
foundation level, laying a very strong base so you can scaffold onto it in
later years,” Spectar said. Countries
like South Korea and Germany have made computer literacy a requirement in their
schools and affluent big city American prep schools are doing the same.
Eyes on the SRC – November 15, 2016
Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools by Karel
Kilimnik November 9, 2016 appsphilly.net
November’s meeting is the first
to be chaired by Joyce Wilkerson, sworn in by Mayor Kenney on November 3 and
appointed as Chair by Governor Wolf. Ms. Wilkerson was Chief of Staff for Mayor
John Street and has extensive experience in government. She stated publicly
that she favors or a return to local control.
The resolutions for November embody recurring themes, fully supported by
the SRC, of Superintendent William Hite’s administration. One is the issue of
the resolutions that have been appearing and disappearing since last April.
Resolutions for renewals of Mastery Clymer, Mastery Shoemaker, and Mastery
Gratz are posted—as they have been every month since April. The SRC has tabled,
postponed or withdrawn these resolutions, without explanation, for seven
months.
Teachers stage informational picket
outside Aspira's Olney Charter
Inquirer by Martha Woodall, Staff Writer Updated: NOVEMBER 11, 2016 —
1:08 AM EST
Unionized teachers at Olney
Charter High School, who have been negotiating with Aspira Inc. of Pennsylvania
for more than a year, held a noontime informational picket Thursday to press
for a salary schedule to stem staff turnover.
"We want a fair and stable salary schedule and a fair
contract," said teacher Elizabeth Cesarini, who was among approximately 50
staffers who demonstrated. Cesarini, who
teaches students who are learning English, said the Alliance for Charter School
Employees has proposed a standard pay structure with wages based on years of
experience. Aspira wants a merit-based salary system. "We're pleased to have reached tentative
agreements in a significant number of contract areas," Aspira said in a
statement. "We are now discussing economics, and we plan to continue
negotiating in good faith."
State rules: no ethics violation for SRC's
Simms
by Kristen Graham,
Inquirer Staff Writer @newskag Updated: NOVEMBER 10, 2016 4:48
PM
The State Ethics Commission has
spoken: School Reform Commission member Sylvia Simms committed no violation
when she advocated for, then voted to give a Philadelphia School District
school to a charter organization. In a
letter dated Oct. 24, the commission said there was "insufficient evidence
to support a finding of probable cause" and so it would not open a full
investigation. The allegation centered
on Simms' actions regarding Wister Elementary, a district school through the
end of the 2015-16 school year. Simms, in an eleventh-hour reversal of
Superintendent William R. Hite Jr.'s recommendations, moved to give Wister to
Mastery Charter Schools. She said she did so because she was moved by parents'
concern and nothing more.
Simms' sister works for a firm
that has contracted with Mastery. School
district attorneys had previously said that Simms had no conflict of interest
and could vote on the Wister charter conversion.
West Shore School Board approves
long-awaited teacher's contract; union to vote Monday
Penn Live By Tricia Kline |
Special to PennLive on November 10, 2016 at 8:47 PM, updated November
10, 2016 at 8:52 PM
LEWISBERRY—After two and a half
years of negotiating and a threat
of a strike by district teachers, the West Shore School Board voted
unanimously today to approve a collective bargaining agreement for a six-year
contract with district educators. The
576-member West Shore Education Association had plans to review the agreement
tonight, and will vote on the contract on Monday. According to a recent press release, it
appears the latest agreement may finally be what everyone has been waiting for. After a lengthy bargaining meeting earlier
this month, the release read, "the negotiating teams were able to
hash out a tentative agreement they believe meets the needs of the students,
professional staff, and the community."
LANCASTERONLINE |
Staff November 10, 2016
In 2007, Sherri Linetty was the
first woman graduate at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology to receive the
Technology Competency Award, which recognizes the highest GPA in each field.
For this week's Women in STEM episode, Linetty speaks with reporter Kara
Newhouse about how she got into this traditionally male-dominated field and
what she loves about working with metals. She also discusses:
-The need to introduce young
people to manufacturing trades earlier.
-Using negative experiences as
motivation to excel.
-Why working with your hands
doesn't mean you can't get French manicures.
In recommendations, Linetty
suggests checking out the book "Atlas
Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.
Trib Live Opinion BY COLIN
MCNICKLE | Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, 7:42 p.m.
“Men are entitled to equal rights
— but to equal rights to unequal things,” said 18th- and early 19th-century
British statesman Charles James Fox. Might
a form of that counterintuitive sentiment be the key to resolving
Pennsylvania's long-running debate over “equitable funding” for the Keystone
State's system of public education? Two researchers at the Allegheny Institute
for Public Policy see it as a possibility.
Richer school districts, because of their more robust tax bases, can
spend more per pupil. Poorer districts, with more anemic tax bases, spend less.
They rely on the state to close the gap. But it is seldom, if ever,
“equalized.” Poorer districts long have
complained that the commonwealth has failed to abide by the state
Constitution's mandate to see to “the maintenance and support of a thorough and
efficient system of public education to serve the needs of the Commonwealth.” That's the crux of the argument made by the
William Penn School District in a case now before the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court. It argues that the state's education funding formula is “arbitrary,
irrational and inequitable.”
Crushing
defeat leaves charter-school movement in limbo
By James Vaznis BOSTON GLOBE STAFF NOVEMBER
10, 2016
A majority of voters in nearly
every Massachusetts community — including all the state’s cities — rejected the
ballot question to expand charter schools, exceeding the worst-case scenario of
supporters who hoped it would at least pass in urban areas. The trouncing puts the future of the
charter-school movement into limbo and raises questions about whether
supporters should have taken the issue directly to voters to get around a
legislative stalemate, resulting in the nation’s most expensive ballot question
campaign ever. “This may have been a
Hail Mary pass that shouldn’t have been made,” said Michael Petrilli, president
of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a policy institute supportive of charter
schools. “I would have a hard time finding any argument that charters came out
ahead on this one.” And supporters may
have lost the chance to go back to the Legislature to pursue another lift in
the state’s cap on charter schools — at least anytime in the near future — as
legislative leaders expressed little appetite to take it up again. “The
public has spoken loud and clear on this one,” Senate President Stanley
Rosenberg, who opposed the ballot question, said Wednesday. “It will be very
difficult for them to get any attention given how strongly the vote was.”
WaPo Editorial: Unions win and students
lose in Massachusetts
Washington Post Editorial By Editorial Board November
10 at 7:28 PMMASSACHUSETTS HAS long enjoyed a reputation as a national leader in education. A pioneer of school reform, it boasts a record of impressive student achievement. It was sad to see that reputation tarnished with the rejection in Tuesday’s election of a measure that would have allowed for an expansion of public charter schools. The state’s existing charter schools have delivered strong academic results, and thousands of parents are on waiting lists in the hope of getting their children into one of these schools. Unfortunately, those facts got lost in a campaign of disinformation waged by the philosophical foes of charters, primarily the public teachers unions that see the issue in terms of threats to unionized jobs.
Massachusetts votes against expanding charter
schools, saying no to Question 2
Mass Live By Shira Schoenberg
| sschoenberg@repub.com Follow on Twitter on
November 08, 2016 at 10:24 PM, updated November 08, 2016 at 10:33 PM
In a devastating loss for
supporters of charter schools, Massachusetts voters on Tuesday voted against a
ballot question that would have allowed the state to approve up to 12 new or
expanded charter schools a year, outside of an existing cap. With 40 percent of precincts reporting, the
No on 2 effort was ahead, 62 percent to 38 percent. The Yes on 2 campaign sent
out a statement conceding at 10:15 p.m. The
vote was deeply personal to voters like Harneen Chernow, the mother of two
Boston public school students, who held a No on 2 sign at a West Roxbury
polling place. "I'm very concerned
about the impact this question, if it passes, will have on the finances of
Boston public schools," Chernow said. "It was designed to add more
schools without adding more resources."
"Librarians have been cut, athletics have been cut, some of the
foreign languages have been cut, some of the guidance counselors and support
that help cement a school community have been cut," Chernow said.
"We're very concerned about what this will mean in terms of continued cuts
in the schools."
“the initiative intends to raise
approximately $157 million a year for public schools by imposing a 3 percent
surcharge on Maine income above $200,000 per year.”
Maine
votes to hike tax on high earners to boost school aid
Bangor Daily News By Christopher
Cousins and Nick Sambides Jr.,
BDN Staff Posted Nov. 09, 2016, at 1 p.m. Last modified Nov. 09,
2016, at 6:59 p.m.
BANGOR, Maine — Question 2, which
sought to tax high-earners for the benefit of Maine’s public schools, has
emerged victorious. Question 2, also
known as the Stand Up For Students campaign, is the result of a
citizen-initiated petition that was certified
as successful by Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap in March of this
year. Backed by the Maine Education
Association, the union that represents the state’s public school teachers, the initiative intends to raise approximately $157
million a year for public schools by imposing a 3 percent surcharge on Maine
income above $200,000 per year. “It’s amazing to think that over 300,000
Mainers are telling us we need to fund our schools better and that we need the
wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes,” said John Kosinski, who led the Yes
on 1 campaign. “That’s going to make public education in Maine stronger. Even
the opposition to Question 2 agreed that we are underfunding our public
schools.” The referendum proposes to
create a dedicated account for the revenues, which
would be targeted to classroom instruction — not infrastructure or
administration — in an effort to bring state government’s contribution to the
total cost of public K-12 education in Maine to 55 percent. Opponents have
dismissed the dedicated account as impossible to maintain because each new
legislature must approve state government’s two-year budgets, which include
state aid to education.
STEVE SNYDER Steve@the74million.org TheSnydes November 10, 2016
Editor’s Note, 2 p.m. Nov. 10:
We knew America was divided by this election. We knew campaign tensions had carried over to America’s classrooms. (Just last week, we canvassed schools across Los Angeles that reported spikes in bullying — harassment that echoed the words and themes of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.) But we had no idea just how bad things would get for minority students. Or how quickly. Yesterday, reporters at The 74 started seeing scattered reports of school bullying, intimidation and violence. We decided today to begin compiling accounts from across the country. The volume and intensity of what we’re now finding, though, has left us astonished.
We’ve compiled more than 50 of these terrifying episodes, and are adding additional incidents every few minutes. You can see them all here (warning: most contain extremely disturbing language and imagery). To get notified when we’ve done a big update, please sign up to receive our newsletter. What we’re seeing: Students are terrified that they will be humiliated. Or attacked. They’re afraid their parents will be deported. Or that their families will be ostracized.
They’re scared their teachers won’t be able to protect them. Meanwhile, superintendents are working to assure minority families that they will keep their schools safe for these children. Students shouldn’t hide at home. Everyone seems aware this free-floating anger and chauvinism could build and spiral out of control. Everyone but our newly elected president.
Presidents set the tone. They establish priorities and expectations in what they choose to address — or to decry. The bully pulpit has the power to both normalize and stigmatize.
Disturbingly, candidate Trump allowed vile outbursts to go unchecked at his rallies. He said he could act presidential when the time came, and it has come. He must speak out for decency and civility by addressing this escalating crisis. He must tell the nation, especially young people, that acts of bullying and intolerance are not what he or this country is about. They will not be tolerated. Classrooms, hallways and playgrounds are safe spaces; they belong to every student equally.
Trump
bucks protocol on press access
AP Top News By KATHLEEN
HENNESSEY November 11, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald
Trump is keeping Americans in the dark about his earliest conversations
and decisions as president-elect, bucking a long-standing practice intended to
ensure the public has a watchful eye on its new leader. Trump on Thursday refused to allow
journalists to travel with him to Washington for his historic first meetings
with President Barack Obama and congressional leaders. The Republican's top
advisers rebuffed news organizations' requests for a small "pool" of
journalists to trail him as he attended the meetings.
The decision was part of an
opaque pattern in Trump's moves since his victory Tuesday. He was entirely out
of sight on Wednesday. His aides said he was huddled with advisers at his
offices in New York. His team has not put out a daily schedule, or offered any
detailed updates on how he has spent his time. They have not acknowledged phone
calls or other contact with world leaders.
When Russian President Vladimir
Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to Trump on Wednesday, Moscow spread the
word. A phone call with British Prime Minster Theresa May was announced in
London. The pattern was repeated for calls with leaders of Israel, Egypt, South
Korea and Australia. The White House
typically releases statements on the president's phone calls with foreign
leaders, providing some details about the conversation. Past presidents-elect
have had early briefings with journalists, even in confusing first hours after
Election Day.
But early signs suggest Trump is
willing to break protocol when it comes to press access and transparency.
Can
A President Trump Get Rid Of Common Core?
NPR by CORY TURNER November
10, 20166:00 AM ET
"Common Core is a total
disaster. We can't let it continue."
So said presidential candidate Donald
Trump in a campaign ad on
his website.
To make sure there's no confusion
about where he stands on the learning standards that are now used by the vast
majority of states, Trump also tweeted earlier this year: "Get rid of Common Core — keep education
local!" The question for President-elect Trump
and for the millions of teachers, parents and students living in Common Core
states is pretty simple:
Can he do it? Can he get rid of
the Core standards?
Trump Might Want to Scrap the Education
Department; How Doable Is That?
Education Week Politics K12 Blog By Alyson Klein on November
9, 2016 7:24 PM
Some Republicans have been trying to get rid of the U.S. Department
of Education since President Ronald Reagan took office, when the
agency was only about a year old.
Now, with Republican Donald
Trump headed to the White House and a GOP-controlled House and Senate,
Republicans have their best chance yet to scrap—or at least seriously scale
back—the agency. Trump talked about eliminating
the Education Department on the campaign trail or cutting it "way way
down," but didn't offer details about how he would do that, or what would
happen to key programs if he did downsize.
For now, it looks like this idea remains on the table. Former Florida
and Virginia state schools superintendent Gerard Robinson, who is now a fellow
at the American Enterprise Institute, said in an interview Wednesday that
he expects that the new president will "streamline, at least" the
Education Department. (Robinson is serving on Trump's transition team but spoke
only on his own behalf.)
Every Student Succeeds Act Under Trump:
Five Things to Watch
Education Week Politics K12 Blog By Alyson Klein on November
10, 2016 12:25 PM
The election of Donald Trump to
the White House could be a major curve ball for implementation of the nearly
year-old Every Student Succeeds Act. ESSA, which was passed in December, won't
be fully in place until the 2017-18 school year. The Obama administration has already proposed
regulations to set the course for the law's implementation, which could look
very different from here on out.
Diane Ravitch’s Blog By dianeravitch November 9, 2016
BURLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 9 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Wednesday after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States:
“Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media. People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids – all while the very rich become much richer. “To the degree that Mr. Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him. To the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him.”
By David Templeton / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette November 11, 2016 12:39 AM
The periodic “supermoon,” as
described in recent years, is larger and brighter than the average full moon
and certainly worth a skyward glance as it rises like a giant spotlight above
the horizon.
But on Monday, the Earth, moon
and sun will conclude an orbital do-si-do that leaves them in almost perfect
alignment, producing a supermoon unlike any other full moon in 68 years.
NASA says we’re about to witness
“an extra-supermoon,” which last occurred in 1948 and won’t recur until Nov.
25, 2034. There’s a crazy scientific
name for it — a perigee-syzygy moon. It occurs when the moon is on the opposite
side of Earth from the sun while also at perigee, which is its closest orbital
point to Earth. The perigee-syzygy
moment officially will occur at 8:52 a.m. Monday. That’s during daylight, so
the best view will be moon rise on Sunday or Monday evening, with similarly
sized nearly full moons occurring this weekend and a few days after.
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PASA, PSBA, PAIU, PARSS, the PA
Principals Association and PASBO are traveling around the state to conduct
regional workshops for school leaders to provide them with more information on
the new basic education funding formula. Register below to attend one of 8
regional workshops to learn more about the new formula and what it means for
your school district and for the state. Please note that capacity is limited at
each location and registration is required. A webcast option is also available.
These regional workshops are being supported by a grant from the William Penn
Foundation.
Monday, November 14, 2016 @ 6:00 pm: Colonial IU 20 (6 Danforth Drive, Easton, PA 18045)
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 @ 9:00 am: Luzerne IU 18
(368 Tioga Ave, Kingston, PA 18704)
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 @ 6:00 pm: Chester County IU 24
(455 Boot Road, Downingtown, PA 19335)
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 @ 9:30 am: Webcast
Registration: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BEFworkshop
Join us for a public forum featuring state, city and civic leaders sponsored by Philadelphia Media Network, the Philadelphia Public School Notebook and Drexel University's School of Education.
Creese Student Center 3210 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104
It's been 15 years since the state took control of Philadelphia's schools and created the School Reform Commission. Since then, the SRC has been a polarizing presence in the city.
With the recent resignation of two members of the commission and the term of a third expiring soon, the future of the SRC and the issue of school governance is once again at the forefront of the civic dialogue. Is the SRC the only model to consider? Should Philadelphia create an elected school board, or should the governing body be controlled by the Mayor? Are there models in other cities that could help us rethink our own school governance? The Philadelphia Public School Notebook, Philadelphia Media Network -- owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and philly.com, and Drexel University's School of Education are hosting a public forum on this critical issue.
RSVP - Admission is free, but you must register in advance. Register now, and find out more about the panelists and other details at our registration page. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/who-should-run-philadelphias-schools-tickets-28926705555
NSBA Advocacy
Institute 2017 -- Jan. 29-31, Washington, D.C.
Join school directors around the country at the conference designed to give you the tools to advocate successfully on behalf of public education.
Join school directors around the country at the conference designed to give you the tools to advocate successfully on behalf of public education.
- NSBA will help you develop a winning
advocacy strategy to help you in Washington, D.C. and at home.
- Attend timely and topical breakout
sessions lead by NSBA’s knowledgeable staff and outside experts.
- Expand your advocacy network by swapping
best practices, challenges, and successes with other school board members
from across the country.
This
event is open to members of the Federal Relations Network. To find out how you can join,
contact Jamie.Zuvich@psba.org.
Learn more about the Advocacy Institute at https://www.nsba.org/events/advocacy-institute.
Register now
for the 2017 NSBA Annual Conference
Plan to join public education leaders for networking and learning at the 2017 NSBA Annual Conference, March 25-27 in Denver, CO. General registration is now open at https://www.nsba.org/conference/registration. A conference schedule, including pre-conference workshops, is available on the NSBA website.
Plan to join public education leaders for networking and learning at the 2017 NSBA Annual Conference, March 25-27 in Denver, CO. General registration is now open at https://www.nsba.org/conference/registration. A conference schedule, including pre-conference workshops, is available on the NSBA website.
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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