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Ed Policy Roundup March 13, 2017:
#OpposeHB250:
Private/religious schools that receive EITC/OSTC funding may discriminate
against & refuse to enroll any student for any reason, including
disability, race, socioeconomic status, religious affiliation & sexual
orientation.
Winter
Storm Warning from 8pm 3/13 until 4pm 3/14. Heavy snow expected. Travel is
strongly discouraged. Great opportunity for you to TAKE ACTION on PA’s HB250
and on the possible loss of over $140 million in Medicaid reimbursement for
special education services. Stay safe and read on….
“Then he gets down to it: The state
Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program “provides voucher-like grants for
students residing within the boundaries of a public school that ranks in the
bottom 15 percent of schools statewide. The reason that virtually no quality
private schools participate in the program is because it requires them to
relinquish control of who’s admitted. If a student qualifies based on living in
a poor-performing district, a private school is compelled to enroll that
student without consideration of the school’s normal admissions requirements.” Bingo. Give us your huddled masses, but not
all; just the good ones. There’s a joke about an apocryphal college professor
who strolls through a deserted campus during spring break and muses, “This
education stuff would be pretty sweet if it weren’t for the students.”
OSTC: The public is being sold a bill of goods about school vouchersPost Gazette Opinion by DANIEL MORROW March 12, 2017 12:00 AM
We should thank Kiski School
headmaster Chris Brueningsen for “Vouching for Vouchers” (Forum, March 5). This nakedly
elitist commentary hauls into the light the reason why vouchers are not
intended to offer struggling students and their families choice. He softens us up with this sleight of hand:
“Vouchers cost taxpayers just over $6,000 per child each year, compared to
public school per-pupil spending, which exceeded $11,000 on average.” The
differential here is this: That $6,000 is not the real cost of educating a
child in a private school, while that $11,000 is the real cost of educating a
child in a public school. Never doubt that the real cost of the former is
comparable to the latter, with the cost of the voucher representing a public
subsidy of a private enterprise. This is known in some conservative circles as
picking winners and losers.
Private/religious schools that receive
EITC/OSTC funding may discriminate against and refuse to enroll any student for
any reason, including disability, race, socioeconomic status, religious
affiliation, and sexual orientation.
Myth
busting the $125 million private and religious school scholarship tax credits
in the EITC/OSTC programs: Lots of $$$ with no fiscal or academic performance
accountability
Education Voters PA website March
12, 2017
The Educational Improvement Tax
Credit (EITC) program allows businesses to receive a 75%-90% credit on their
state income tax for contributions they make to any of the following three
organizations: approved scholarship organizations that provide scholarships to
students to attend private/religious schools, educational improvement
organizations, and pre-k scholarship organizations. The Opportunity Scholarship
Tax Credit (OSTC) program grants a 75%-90% state tax credit to businesses that
make contributions to approved scholarship organizations that provide
scholarships to students who live in the attendance boundaries of a
low-achieving school, as determined by the Pennsylvania Department of
Education, to attend private/religious schools.
EITC/OSTC -Take Action on HB250: Lawmakers
are trying to hijack millions more for private school scholarships--tell them
to fund our PUBLIC SCHOOLS and OPPOSE additional funding for private school
scholarships
Education Voters PA March 12,
2017
On Monday, March 13th the PA
House is scheduled to vote on HB 250, a bill that proposes to increase
funding for private school scholarships to $180 MILLION/year by
providing $55 million in NEW corporate tax breaks for businesses that
contribute to private school scholarship organizations through the Educational
Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC)
programs. The EITC and OSTC
programs already divert $125 million from the PA general fund budget and
funnel this money into private schools. This leaves less money to fund
PUBLIC schools and other important programs that benefit Pennsylvanians. Fill in your information below for your
state lawmakers' contact information. Please call your
state representative and senator NOW and then send a follow-up email
with one click. You will also email House Speaker Mike Turzai, the prime
sponsor of HB 250
Reprise Oct 2016: PA's “successful EITC
program” is successful at circumventing the Pennsylvania Constitution
PA Ed Policy Roundup Sunday, October 9, 2016Pennsylvania public schools are currently at risk of losing millions of dollars in federal funding to help pay for mandated services for students with special needs.
A PSBA Closer Look March 2017
https://www.psba.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ACL_ACCESS-program-jeopardized.pdf
Call
your Congressman’s office today to let them know that Pennsylvania could lose
over $140 million in reimbursement for services that school districts provide
to special education students
Lancaster Online The LNP
Editorial Board March 12, 2017
THE ISSUE - Lancaster County
officials are calling for an overhaul of the state’s charter school law. County
public schools paid nearly $19 million to charter schools last year, up about
$6 million from six years ago. Charter school enrollments in the county have gone
up to 1,570 from 1,265 in 2010. Pennsylvania State Auditor General Eugene
DePasquale has said that the commonwealth has “the worst charter school law in
the country.” U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is a charter school
advocate who has promised to make it easier for parents to choose an
alternative to public school education.
In most cases, “choice” is a
valued, and very American, principle. But the word takes on a radioactive glow
when it appears anywhere in the general vicinity of issues such as abortion and
education. Advocates of school choice
argue that parents should be able to choose their children’s school and that
school choice opens up a vast array of opportunities, especially for low-income
children stuck in underperforming public schools. Critics say an expansion of
school choice will siphon money from traditional public schools and degrade the
quality of education for most American children. Regardless of where you come down
ideologically on the issue, one thing we know is that President Donald
Trump and his new education secretary want to extend school choice to
millions more American children. Trump wants to spend $20 billion to expand
school choice, mostly in the form of tax-credit scholarships. What does that mean for Lancaster County and
Pennsylvania? It means that if choice and charter schools are to become a
reality for more students, Pennsylvania needs to do something about its antiquated charter school law.
Pennsylvania
GOP lawmaker on budget: 'We know we have to come up with some revenue'
Morning
Call by Marc Levy Of
The Associated Press March 13, 2017
With three weeks of budget
hearings behind them, Pennsylvania's big Republican legislative majorities now
have months of budget-making ahead of them, and perhaps more than ever, a
willingness to increase taxes to deal with the state's persistent
post-recession deficit. For now,
top Republicans are saying what
they said last year — a tax increase is a last resort — before they approved a
tax package anchored by an additional $1 per-pack excise tax on cigarettes. But
this year, many rank-and-file Republicans seem more resigned to a reality that
the deficit — nearly $3 billion through next summer, according to the state's
nonpartisan Independent Fiscal Office — cannot be swept away easily. "Our solution is always to cut spending,
but we know we're at a pretty bare point right now," said Rep. Jeff Pyle,
R-Armstrong. "So we know we have to come up with some revenue."
Analysis shows hidden snags in school
property tax elimination bill
Daily
Local By Evan Brandt, ebrandt@21st-centurymedia.com, @PottstownNews on Twitter POSTED: 03/11/17, 6:12 PM
EST | UPDATED: 1 DAY AGO
LOWER POTTSGROVE >> Most
polls show voters in favor of any effort in Harrisburg to enact property tax
reform, or eliminate them completely. With
legislators once again raising the hope it will be adopted this session,
Pottsgrove School District officials putting together another budget took the
time to see what that would look like had last year’s school tax elimination
bill been adopted. And what they found is that there are indeed lots of devils
in those details. “A lot of people hear
‘property tax elimination’ and they think ‘boom,’ their bill goes away, they
save a lot of money and that’s it,” Pottsgrove Business Manager David Nester
told the board Tuesday. “But it’s not
that simple,” he said.
The Bradford Era By AMANDA JONES
Era Correspondent amandajonesera@yahoo.com
March 10, 2017
EMPORIUM — Members of the
Cameron County School Board voted unanimously Thursday to adopt a resolution
which opposes current legislation to eliminate school property taxes. Board member Robert Lininger said
members are not opposed to the elimination of property taxes, but the suggested
funding formula would end up costing local taxpayers more in the long run than
current funding mechanisms. According to
a fact sheet compiled and approved by a number of organizations, including the
Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA), the Pennsylvania School Boards
Association and the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools,
“reducing school property taxes means the state must fill in the funding gaps
for local school districts with $14 billion in higher personal and income
taxes.” In addition, 59 percent of
school districts will send more money to Harrisburg than they get back in
property tax relief. In the 25th Senatorial District, it has been determined
that taxpayers will contribute more than $51 million in additional funding
through the proposed bill.
Our view: Help shape future of Erie
schools
Go Erie By the Editorial
Board March 13, 2017
An anxious question has hung over
the Erie School District since the district's financial crisis first caused
schools Superintendent Jay Badams in May to announce one possible response —
the closure of Erie's four public high schools.
What will the future of public education in Erie be? With the district's $31.8 million
financial recovery plan rejected out of hand by the state Department of
Education, the time to decide is now. The
call is yours to help make. The
district, under Badams' leadership, is to be credited for maintaining
painstaking transparency as it worked the past seven years to overcome budget
shortfalls that were created in part by an ill-timed, lucrative teachers
contract in 2008 that predated Badams and worsened by a state school funding formula
that put cities like Erie — with a shrinking population and high rates of
tax-exempt property, poverty and students with special needs — at an
ever-worsening disadvantage. The district has already
shuttered three elementary schools, cut staff by 21 percent and instituted
other austerity measures. Starting at a
6 p.m. meeting Monday at the Booker T. Washington Center, 1720 Holland St.,
district leaders need your ideas about what to do next.
Gerrymandering: Redistricting reform part
of a two-act play in Pa. | Editorial
Express-Times
opinion staff on March 12, 2017 at 6:30 AM, updated March 12,
2017 at 8:27 AM
An important two-act play is in
dress rehearsal at the moment in Harrisburg. It's important that voters take
their seats -- and prepare to make some government-reform demands of their
elected representatives. Hold off on the
rotten fruit, for now. How this drama plays out will affect how we elect our state
legislators, and it could reshuffle the stacked deck known as gerrymandering. The big surprise that both
Republicans and Democrats are showing signs that they're ready to embrace a
fairer way of redrawing legislative districts.
·
Act one: The Legislature has already approved a
proposal to shrink the size of the House of Representatives, from 203 to
150 members. (The Senate would remain at 50.) Because this requires a
constitutional amendment, the House and Senate must approve the identical
bill again, in the 2017-18 session; then it would go to voters in a statewide
referendum.
·
Act two: The move to defang gerrymandering is picking up steam.
State Sen. Lisa Boscola, a Bethlehem Democrat, and Sen. Mario Scavello, a
Republican who represents Monroe and Northampton counties, are
sponsoring Senate Bill 22, the leading reform measure on this.
SB 22 would take the
process of redrawing legislative districts out of the hands of a five-member
panel dominated by House and Senate leaders and replace it with a group of 11
citizens.
Gerrymandering - Inquirer Editorial:
Politicians shouldn't get to draw their district's lines
Inquirer Editorial Updated: MARCH 13, 2017 — 3:01 AM EDT
Ever wish you had a job where you
didn't have to listen to the boss, where once hired you never have to worry
about evaluations or about being replaced? If you have a job like that you must
be either a state legislator or member of Congress. Pennsylvania legislators so tightly control
the boundaries of their districts that when voters show signs of being
attracted to someone else, the politicians simply change the district lines to
include a more hospitable electorate. Once ensconced, their hand-picked constituents
robotically return them to office year after year, providing little incentive
to ever compromise with opponents across the aisle. Both Democrats and Republicans over the years
have exerted ruthless power over drawing legislative and congressional district
lines when their party was in the majority in the legislature. Republicans currently control the legislature
and get to draw both the legislative and congressional district lines. That
helps explain why the GOP holds 13 House seats in Congress to the Democrats'
five, even though the 4.2 million registered Democrats in the state outnumber
the 3.3 million Republicans. The legislature is lopsided too. Republicans
outnumber Democrats 122-80 in the House and 34-16 in the Senate. History shows Democrats do the same thing to
ensure their political survival when they are in charge in Harrisburg, which is
why neither party should control drawing district boundaries.
10-11 am on 90.9 FM Rebroadcast at 10 PM MONDAY, MARCH 13
Audio for this story will be
available at approximately 1 p.m.
Guests: Carol Kuniholm, Jowei
Chen
Donald Duck kicking Goofy.
That’s how many have described the ridiculous shape of Pennsylvania’s 7thCongressional
District; the most gerrymandered district in one of the country’s most
gerrymandered states. Drawing congressional district lines, known as
redistricting, has been a hotly contested issue for a long time. The
process is opaque and very political with incumbent parties aiming to retain
their seats in the legislature. But reformers are hard at work trying to change
the process to more accurately reflect the demographics of the states. In
Pennsylvania, CAROL KUNIHOLM, founder of Fair Districts PA has been
working with local organizations to end gerrymandering. She joins us on the
show along with JOWEI CHEN, professor of political science at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who studies the process of redistricting and
its effects.
Pennsylvania is one of the most
gerrymandered states in the union. Behind closed doors, despite the conflict of
interest, lawmakers draw the borders of their own voting districts. Politicians
are picking their voters, not the other way around. Many districts are no
longer competitive. A growing number of candidates run unopposed. Voters feel
their votes don’t count, and the gridlock in Harrisburg gets worse.
By Elizabeth Behrman / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette March 13, 2017 12:00 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court last week
decided it wasn’t ready to weigh in on the issue of transgender students’
rights in public schools. But attorneys
said a federal judge in Pittsburgh, who in February granted an injunction
allowing three transgender students in the Pine-Richland School District to use
the restrooms they want, has offered up an opinion that will likely be used as
a reference in similar cases all across the country. Jose Gonzalez-Pagan, staff attorney with
Lambda Legal, the Washington, D.C.-based group representing the Pine-Richland
students, called the Feb. 27 ruling the most detailed legal opinion yet about
the argument that transgender students are protected by the Equal Protection
Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. “We all look to what other courts have said
and precedent,” Mr. Gonzalez-Pagan said. “This is an important precedent to
have been set for schools in Pennsylvania and, more broadly, nationally. It’s a
very extensive ruling, one that I think will be helpful.”
Philadelphia's school district finds
creative ways to ensure kids eat breakfast
WHYY Newsworks BY AVI WOLFMAN-ARENT MARCH 12, 2017
At 6:30 a.m. every school day, a
crew consisting of two cafeteria workers and one community volunteer begin the
process of cooking and sorting breakfast for each of the 525 students at H.A.
Brown School in Philadelphia's Kensington section. About two hours later a crate arrives in each
of the school's home rooms stocked with the meal of the morning. There's no cafeteria line. And no requirement
to arrive early. As soon as students sit
down in the morning they've got a worksheet and a bite in front of them. This "in-class feeding" model, as
Principal Connie Carnivale calls it, has made Brown one of 40 public schools in
Philadelphia where more than 70 percent of students eat the free breakfast
provided by the school district. When Carnivale arrived at Brown five years
ago, breakfast was served before the school day began and only about 30 percent
of students participated, she said.
With soda tax money, pre-K centers see
rapid growth
Inquirer by Julia Terruso, Staff Writer @JuliaTerruso | jterruso@phillynews.com Updated: MARCH 10, 2017 — 5:28 PM EST
Outside of Amazing Kidz Academy
on Erie Avenue, Coca Cola trucks went by, going to and from the bottling plant
across the street. Inside the pre-K center, 3- and 4-year-olds played in a
newly set up classroom, funded through a tax paid by their neighbors. Amazing Kidz doubled the number of children
it served in January thanks to the controversial 1.5 cent-per-ounce sweetened
beverage tax, which is funding expansion of early-childhood education in Philadelphia. The city’s drive to improve pre-K
opportunities started the same week the tax went into effect. The debate over
the tax continues to rage, with Pepsi having announced planned layoffs and retailers steep losses
as a result of the levy. Mayor Kenney, meanwhile, points to the children the
tax is helping. Amazing Kidz Academy is one of 88
child-care providers that benefited from the tax, adding, almost overnight,
staff, space, and in some cases opportunities for the kids and parents they
serve. Despite a slow start, the program is now up to nearly 1,800 children
added to pre-K rolls citywide.
"And pre-K and Head Start and
mentoring, it's about how do we keep kids in school and how do we make them
successful?" Wetzel said half the
state prison population has no high school diploma. "The best indication of someone who is
going to stay out of the prison system is if they are reading on grade
level," he said.”
Pennsylvania secretary of corrections focuses on kids, early
childhood education
Lancaster Online SUSAN BALDRIGE | Staff
Writer March 12, 2017
The state secretary of
corrections has a lot of ideas about keeping people out of prison.
But surprisingly, very few of
them actually have to do with prison. "If
I could fund one single program," John Wetzel said, "it would be
early childhood education." Wetzel
has overseen a decrease in the overall state prison population during his six
years in that office, and is asking for fewer state funds for his budget this
year than last. Wetzel was in Lancaster
this week to speak about children of incarcerated parents. There are more than
81,000 such children in Pennsylvania. He
also was promoting The First Chance Act, which will be proposed as legislation
this year. The proposal centers on funding early childhood education programs
through public charitable trusts. The
lecture at the Ware Center was sponsored by Ambassadors for Hope and was filled
to standing room. Wetzel ticked off elements of the First Chance Act that he
believes are ways that future state prison populations can be reduced. "The Nurse Family Partnership, which
goes into homes to teach parenting from 20 weeks into the pregnancy until the
child is 2 years old, is a great return on investment," said Wetzel.
“Hopewell is one of 26 school districts
across western Pennsylvania -- and four in Beaver County -- that
have bolstered its science, technology, engineering, arts and math, or STEAM,
initiatives through grant funding from the Grable Foundation,
the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and the Chevron Corp.”
Hopewell High School dives deeper into robotics
Beaver County Times By Katherine
Schaeffer kschaeffer@timesonline.com
HOPEWELL TWP. -- Hopewell High
School junior J.J. Yost’s study hall periods aren’t usually spent studying. Yost, whose post-graduate ambitions include
studying robotics at Carnegie Mellon University or the University of
Pittsburgh, typically spends the period in the school’s new Maker Workshop
tinkering with programmable robots. On
Wednesday, Yost used a controller to navigate a small submarine through the
room’s 900-gallon water tank. With a flip of a toggle switch and a push of a
button, he directed the robot to scoop up a cube constructed from PVC pipe and
gently push it onto a plastic pipe. Yost
is one of more than a dozen students who have spent the last several months
building and testing underwater robots in their free time as part of Hopewell’s
SeaPerch team. SeaPerch, sponsored by
the U.S. Office of Naval Research, gives students the opportunity to design,
build and navigate a robotic submarine through a series of underwater tasks.
The program also gives teams the opportunity to face off against other groups
during regional and national competitions.
After five years with no raise, Chester
Upland teachers approve new contract
Inquirer by Kathy Boccella, Staff Writer @Kathy_Boccella | kboccella@phillynews.com Updated: MARCH 10, 2017 — 2:43 PM ESTChester Upland School District teachers have narrowly approved a three-year contract after rejecting an offer in January and working without a pact for more than three years. The 234-member Chester Upland Education Association voted, 78-65, in favor of the agreement. It allows some teachers to move up a salary step -- an incremental, experience-based pay raise built into most teacher contracts -- in each of the three years, with a $472 hike in the overall scale in the second year. Those at the top of the 13-step scale, or 18 percent of the staff, will get a $1,000 bonus in the first year and $500 in the second year of the contract. School district receiver Peter R. Barz said he planned to approve the deal at the next school board meeting, on Thursday. “Every teacher is getting an acceptable increase,” he said. However, union president Michele Paulick said that after working five years without a raise, teachers are not happy. “It’s not what we want, it’s not what we deserve,” she said of the contract, approved March 2. “People are tired and they’re frustrated.” For the first time, teachers will have to pay a portion of their health care premiums: 6 percent the first year, then 7 percent in the following two years. The cost to those with a family plan who are the top of the pay scale would be as high as $1,300 annually, essentially wiping out bonuses, she said. The average salary is about $75,000.
Monroe County schools get grants for
propane buses
By Stacy M. Brown For
the Pocono Record Posted Mar 12, 2017 at 8:30 PMUpdated
Mar 12, 2017 at 8:50 PM
With 168 school buses in its
fleet that travel more than 3.3 million miles combined each year, the Pocono
Mountain School District received welcomed news — and some cash — this week
from the state Department of Environmental Protection. The district has been awarded a $100,000
grant to help purchase 25 Propane Bluebird Vision 78-passenger school buses to
replace its conventional diesel vehicles.
The purchase will require the installation of new infrastructure for
fuel supply. It's estimated that the district will save more than 70,000 gas
gallons equivalent each year. It could
also prolong the life of the bus, which district officials say currently last
an average of seven to 10 years. "We
are thrilled to receive this grant. Pocono Mountain School District purchased its first 25 propane
buses this past summer to begin replacing our aging diesel bus fleet
with the more environmentally-friendly and cost-effective propane buses,"
said District Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Robison. "We are the first school district in
Monroe County to purchase propane buses, so we are trying to lead the way in
the county when it comes to environmentally conscious student transportation
operations," Robison said. The
grant is part of the $1.9 million awarded by DEP to state schools and
businesses for projects using alternative fuels and infrastructure.
Key Democrats Press Betsy DeVos on
Direction of ESSA Implementation
Education Week Politics K12 Blog By Alyson Klein on March
12, 2017 8:50 PM
Two Democrats who played a key
role in crafting the Every Student Succeeds Act—Sen. Patty Murray D-Wash.,
and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va.—sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education
Betsy DeVos Friday asking what her plans are for giving states guidance on
implementing the law, now that Congress has scrapped a key set of
regulations written by the Obama administration. Among a lot of other things, those
regulations, which dealt with the accountability portion
of the law, included a "template" or application form for
states to use in developing their plans. A number of states have already gotten
started using the old template, posting the form on their websites for
feedback. But now that Congress has scrapped the regs, that form doesn't apply. DeVos said earlier this year that she planned
to stick to the Obama administration's timetable for implementing the law. That
means states can begin turning in their applications on April 3. And she said
she'd develop a new template—essentially, a long federal form—for those
applications, releasing it on March 13. (That's Monday). Her new form,
she said, would ask states only for information that was "absolutely
necessary" for implementing the law.
DeVos said under the new federal template states could also opt to use a
template developed with the help of the Council of Chief State School Officers,
instead of the department's. Scott and
Murray clearly aren't wild about the notion of multiple application forms. And
they have other questions, too.
GOP lawmakers refuse to protect LGBT
students and those with disabilities in school voucher bill
Washington Post Answer Sheet
Blog By Valerie
Strauss March 12 at 11:49 AM
There
was something buried in the news that a U.S. House committee had just advanced
a bill renewing federally funded school vouchers in Washington — the only such
program in the country — and it is highly revealing about Republican priorities
when it comes to protecting the civil rights of students. A bill to extend the Scholarships for
Opportunity and Results Reauthorization Act, known as SOAR, through 2022 was
approved Friday by the House Oversight Committee, which is chaired by Jason
Chaffetz (R-Utah), who spends a lot of time trying to tell D.C. residents
what to do, even though he was elected by people in Utah. But the panel’s
Republicans voted down Democratic efforts to add amendments that would protect
the civil rights of students with disabilities and LGBT students.
Briefing:
Public Education Funding in Pennsylvania March 15, from 5:30-7:00 p.m., in
Philly
On March 15, from 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
join attorneys Michael Churchill, Jennifer Clarke and Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg
for a briefing on public education.
Topics include:
·
the basics of education funding
·
the school funding lawsuit
·
the property tax elimination bill and how it would affect school
funding
1.5 CLE credits available to PA
licensed attorneys.
Ron Cowell at
EPLC always does a great job with these policy forums.
RSVP Today for a Forum In
Your Area! EPLC is Holding Five Education Policy Forums on Governor Wolf’s
2017-2018 State Budget Proposal
Forum #4 – Indiana University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, March 14,
2017 – 1011
South Drive (Stouffer Hall), Indiana, PA 15705Forum #5 – Lehigh Valley Tuesday, March 28, 2017 – Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21, 4210 Independence Drive, Schnecksville, PA 18078
Governor Wolf will deliver his
2017-2018 state budget proposal to the General Assembly on February 7. These
policy forums will be early opportunities to get up-to-date
information about what is in the proposed education budget, the budget’s
relative strengths and weaknesses, and key issues. Each of the forums will take following
basic format (please see below for regional presenter details at each of
the three events). Ron Cowell of EPLC will provide an overview of the
Governor’s proposed budget for early education, K-12 and higher
education. A representative of The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center
will provide an overview of the state’s fiscal situation and key issues that
will affect this year’s budget discussion. The overviews will be followed by
remarks from a panel representing statewide and regional perspectives
concerning state funding for education and education related items. These
speakers will discuss the impact of the Governor’s proposals and identify
the key issues that will likely be considered during this year’s budget
debate.
Although there is no
registration fee, seating is limited and an RSVP is required.
Offered
in partnership with PASA and the PA Department of Education March 29-30,
2017 at the Radisson Hotel Harrisburg - Camp Hill, PA .
Approved for 40 PIL/Act 48 (Act 45) hours for school administrators.
Register online at http://www.pasa-net.org/ev_calendar_day.asp?date=3/29/2017&eventid=63
PASBO
62nd Annual Conference, March 21-24, David L. Lawrence Convention Center,
Pittsburgh.
Register now
for the 2017 NSBA Annual Conference March 25-27 Denver
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.
Register
for the 2017 PASA Education
Congress, “Delving Deeper into
the Every Student Succeeds Act.” March 29-30
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!
Save the Date
2017 PA Principals Association State Conference October 14. 15, 16, 2017
Doubletree
Hotel Cranberry Township, PA
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