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Keystone
State Education Coalition
PA
Ed Policy Roundup March 28, 2017:
Report: Lack of Rural School
District Spending Impacts PSSA Results
Keystone
Crossroads: Education Equity – Video Runtime 26:46
Every child in Pennsylvania is offered an education through their
local school district, but not every district is able to provide the same
opportunities. A lot depends on the where the student lives. http://video.witf.org/video/2365980015/
“The report, along with data for each of
Pennsylvania’s 260 rural school districts, is available at: http://www.papartnerships.org/work/k12/k12-reports.”
Report: Lack of Rural
School District Spending Impacts PSSA Results
Explore Venango by Ron Wilshire | March 23, 2017
HARRISBURG, Pa.
(EYT) – Doing more with
less is a reality for local school districts, but one state organization sys
the lack of adequate state funding for rural school district Pennsylvania is
showing itself in lower scores on standardized tests. State funding for public education impacts
student achievement in rural Pennsylvania, according to a report released
Monday by Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children that looks at how spending
levels in the state’s 260 rural school districts impacts student results on the
Pennsylvania System of School Assessments (PSSAs). Only Forest County and Cranberry Area in
Venango County in exploreClarion’s coverage area of Clarion, Forest, Jefferson,
and Venango counties exceed “adequate” funding. Forest County’s district
spending is 22.5 percent more than the adequacy target and Cranberry Area is 13.7
percent more. The figures also likely represent the total amount of funding,
including local taxes. Clarion Area receives the smallest amount of state
funding in the area. The report,
“Spending Impact on Student Achievement: A Rural Perspective,” shows when rural
school districts spend below the amount needed to educate students – or their
adequacy target – that under spending is a direct result of inadequate state
support and negatively impacts student achievement.
State legislators, education officials gather at Plum
for PlanCon hearing
Trib Live by PATRICK VARINE | Friday, March
24, 2017, 10:21 p.m.
State legislators
and education officials joined Pennsylvania Education Secretary Pedro Rivera in
Plum on Friday for the latest in what will be eight statewide hearings on the
PlanCon program, which aims to reimburse school districts for construction
costs. The committee is tasked with
issuing recommendations for changes to the program by mid-May — in time for
lawmakers to consider as they work on next year's budget. Superintendents from Franklin Regional, Plum,
Pittsburgh, West Greene and Sharon City school districts all told the
committee, which met at O'Block Junior High School, that they would like to see
the process streamlined and urged raising the cap on which projects require
prevailing wages.
'You need 60 votes to get
anything in the Senate - including a bathroom break,' Rep. Charlie Dent says of
healthcare collapse
Penn Live By John L. Micek |
jmicek@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter
on March 27, 2017 at 8:17 AM, updated March 27, 2017 at 8:18 AM
THE MORNING
COFFEE
Good Monday
Morning, Fellow Seekers.
In an appearance on CNN this Monday morning, U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent bemoaned the collapse of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill that partially contributed to the Trump administration's stinging defeat last week on healthcare reform. Dent, R-15th District, and the co-chair of the moderate Tuesday Group, said President Donald Trump surrendered too much to hard-line conservatives as he tried to build support for his doomed healthcare package. "We need a durable, sustainable bill that will pass in a bipartisan manner," Dent told CNNon Monday morning. "And everyone knows that."
In an appearance on CNN this Monday morning, U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent bemoaned the collapse of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill that partially contributed to the Trump administration's stinging defeat last week on healthcare reform. Dent, R-15th District, and the co-chair of the moderate Tuesday Group, said President Donald Trump surrendered too much to hard-line conservatives as he tried to build support for his doomed healthcare package. "We need a durable, sustainable bill that will pass in a bipartisan manner," Dent told CNNon Monday morning. "And everyone knows that."
Meehan: GOP in great
divide after health care fiasco
Delco Times By Rick Kauffman, rkauffman@21st-centurymedia.com, @Kauffee_DT on Twitter
POSTED: 03/27/17,
12:42 PM EDT | UPDATED: 48 SECS AGO
SPRINGFIELD >>
The divide within the Republican Party has never been greater, said U.S. Rep. Pat
Meehan, R-7 of Chadds Ford, in a interview with the Delaware County Daily Times
Monday morning. This comes just days
after the congressman called the proposed bill to repeal the Affordable Care
Act not “satisfactory ... nor an adequate replacement” after President Donald
Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled it prior to a vote. On Monday Meehan said he was a firm “no” vote
on the American Health Care Act, though he earlier voted for it as a member of
the House Ways and Means Committee. “I thought it was a responsibility to
continue to move the discussion along,” Meehan said. The committee OK’d the
AHCA on March 9. “It has fundamental problems and it was important to begin to
look at ways in which it can be fixed.” He
said the bill didn’t do enough and left too many health care recipients in the
lurch — namely the elderly and those recovering from opioid abuse.
“But enough places are
expected to apply to create between 25,000 and 35,000 video game terminals,
Mustio said. If projections hold up, Mustio said he estimates the state would
generate $100 million in the 2017-18 fiscal year that starts July 1 and then up
to $500 million annually. Of the total, all counties would split $50 million.
Another piece of it would go to municipalities and $2.5 million would be set
aside for gambling addiction programs.”
Lawmakers want bars to have legal video gambling
terminals
Morning Call Steve
Esack Contact Reporter Call Harrisburg
Bureau March 27, 2017
Pennsylvania
lawmakers want bars to have legal video gambling terminals
In 2004, federal
authorities raided a small social club in Easton that was the center of an $8.4
million illegal video gambling ring. In
the years before and since that Fleas Club raid, state Sen. Lisa Boscola said Monday, illegal gambling has
been occurring at social clubs, bars and other places across the Lehigh Valley
and rest of Pennsylvania. That's why it's time for government to get in on the
action by legalizing and taxing tens of thousands of video game terminals, she
said. "We need to legitimize this
activity," Boscola, D-Northampton, said at a news conference in the state
Capitol announcing a bill to create up to 35,000 legal video gambling terminals
in the state. "It's been going on for decades in basements." The bill is not yet written. But the
bipartisan group of Democratic and Republican supporters are envisioning a
jackpot of revenue.
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-gambling-expansion-bill-20170327-story.html
Oped: State pension reform
needed now
York Dispatch Opinion by Warren C. Bulette, Spring Garden Township March 27, 2017
Warren C Bulette is a member of the
York County Taxpayers Council and Spring Garden Township resident.
Evidently, too many
legislators don't understand that we must legally stop now, as best we can, the
Pennsylvania Defined Benefit Pension cost bleeding. Legislators should end all
current defined benefit plans on Dec. 31, 2017 with a buyout option
to retire in 2017 under the present calculation. Current pensioners will not be
cut. A hybrid plan the legislators are working on will not stop enough
pension-cost bleeding. All our property taxes (school, county, municipal) will,
under the hybrid plan, continue to rise at an unsustainable rate unless proper
action is taken now. More property taxpayers will be driven from their homes by
a hybrid plan.
Erie School District at
work on new number
Go Erie By Ed Palattella March 28,
2017
The Erie School District has renewed its search for a magic number. Following state Education Secretary Pedro Rivera's visit on Thursday, the district is revising its financial recovery plan to include a request for additional state funding in an amount that Rivera, Gov. Tom Wolf and the General Assembly will find reasonable. The amount must be low enough to gain support in Harrisburg but high enough to allow the district to offset its projected $10 million deficit in 2017-18 and eliminate a structural deficit going forward, Brian Polito, the Erie School District's chief financial officer, said Monday. He said the district would need the most help in fiscal 2017-18, which starts July 1. "This is the big year," he said. Polito said the district is examining potential savings and reviewing the details of the deficit to settle on a final figure. Superintendent Jay Badams, at a public hearing on Wednesday, the day before Rivera's visit, suggested that the district might ask for $15 million.
The Erie School District has renewed its search for a magic number. Following state Education Secretary Pedro Rivera's visit on Thursday, the district is revising its financial recovery plan to include a request for additional state funding in an amount that Rivera, Gov. Tom Wolf and the General Assembly will find reasonable. The amount must be low enough to gain support in Harrisburg but high enough to allow the district to offset its projected $10 million deficit in 2017-18 and eliminate a structural deficit going forward, Brian Polito, the Erie School District's chief financial officer, said Monday. He said the district would need the most help in fiscal 2017-18, which starts July 1. "This is the big year," he said. Polito said the district is examining potential savings and reviewing the details of the deficit to settle on a final figure. Superintendent Jay Badams, at a public hearing on Wednesday, the day before Rivera's visit, suggested that the district might ask for $15 million.
Pulaski Elementary to close
New Castle News By
Mary Grzebieniak New Castle News March 28, 2017
The Wilmington Area
Board of Education voted 6-2 on Monday night to close Pulaski Elementary School
effective June 30. The vote came after
board members heard arguments for and against the closing before about 150
people in the Wilmington High School cafeteria.
Voting for the closing were President Bo DiMuccio, Lynn Foltz, Robert
Curry, Jennifer Hunt, Autumn Miller and Jacob Berlin. Voting against were Joe
Kollar and Kathryn Riley. Member William Taylor was absent due to a trip he
could not reschedule when the board set the meeting date, DiMuccio said after
the meeting. Those attending dispersed
quietly after the vote following a night of impassioned arguments for and
against the closing. Just prior to
voting, Foltz warned that “this will be the first of many difficult decisions
in the next few years,” and said public education itself and the district’s
survival will increasingly be at stake due to financial issues.
School District of Lancaster notches another legal
victory over rejected charter school
Lancaster Online by ALEX GELI | Staff Writer March 28, 2017
School District of
Lancaster has marked another victory in its costly, three-year battle with the
Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship Charter School. The state’s Commonwealth Court last week
upheld a Lancaster County Court ruling that struck petition
signatures that ABECS needed to file an appeal to the Pennsylvania Charter
School Appeals Board. The county court’s
action followed the school district’s rejection of two applications from ABECS, which had sought
to open a business-related charter school with an eventual enrollment of 400
students in kindergarten through ninth grade.
SDL’s current charter tuition rates are around $10,000 per regular
education student and $23,000 per special education student, according to the
district’s chief financial officer, Matt Przywara. That would translate to several million
dollars out of the school district’s budget for a charter school that lacked a
satisfactory curriculum, building safety plans and community support, district
officials said. “This latest court
ruling is further validation of our decisions in 2013 and 2014, and our efforts
since,” School District of Lancaster Superintendent Damaris Rau said in a
statement.
What would an adequate
budget for Philly schools actually look like?
The SRC told District officials
to put one together that would let elected officials know what is actually
needed
The notebook by Dale
Mezzacappa March 27, 2017 — 7:59am
The School Reform
Commission shocked most everyone Thursday night when it passed a $2.9 billion
budget outline for next year, but then declared it inadequate and ordered
District finance officials to craft a document that, in the words of chair
Joyce Wilkerson, “reflects the real needs of the children of Philadelphia.” The unforeseen action was instigated by
Commissioner Bill Green, who extracted an admission from Superintendent William
Hite that the modest increase in the budget from this year to next was due to
fixed costs such as pensions and debt service, not because of significant new
investments in schools. Green was the
only one of the four commissioners to vote against adopting the so-called “lump
sum” budget, so it passed. But the commissioners, Hite, Chief Financial Officer
Uri Monson, and speakers at the meeting all agreed, tacitly or otherwise, that
what they agreed to isn’t adequate for the District to fulfill its mission –
making sure that all its students graduate with the skills and knowledge to
succeed in college or the workforce. "We
are not receiving adequate funding, but I think it makes sense to spend time to
develop what a real budget would look like for the District," Wilkerson
said.
Here's who's benefitting
from Philly's pre-K expansion
WHYY Newsworks BY AVI WOLFMAN-ARENT MARCH 27, 2017
As Philadelphia's
pre-K program approaches its three-month anniversary, new data on the program
shows that families in PHLpreK are, on the whole, poorer than the city average.
That's one of many
inferences that can be drawn from a raft of new figures released Monday by the
mayor's office. The data dump details
the number of children enrolled in the new program; the types of providers
serving them; and demographic information about the families who've taken
advantage of the city's high-profile pre-K expansion.
Impacts of school choice
on segregation
Penn State News by Kristie Auman-Bauer March 27, 2017
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.
— Diversity in schools is important for students’ experiences and outcomes in
schools and beyond, reducing prejudices and ensuring the likelihood of living
and working in integrated environments as adults. Penn State researchers are exploring
how school choice is affecting racial composition and segregation in
Pennsylvania schools. According to lead
researcher Erica Frankenberg, associate professor of education and Population Research Institute associate
at Penn State, this is one of the first studies to explore how charter schools
could be affecting the racial composition of public schools. “It is critical to assess how student
movement from charter schools affects school segregation during this time of
persisting neighborhood segregation, and to see what choices students and
parents make when or if more integrative options exist," said Frankenberg.
Commentary: Pa. lawmakers
should keep expanding school choice
Inquirer Commentary By
James Paul Updated: MARCH
28, 2017 — 3:01 AM EDT
James Paul is a senior policy
analyst with the Commonwealth Foundation.
Thrilling
competition, Cinderella stories, and office bracket pools are the essence of
March Madness. The NCAA basketball tournament's single-elimination format,
where drama is high and outcomes uncertain, has the nation on the edge of its
seat. At the same time, Philadelphia's
students face a different version of March Madness. One full of drama,
heartache, and uncertainty - but with far more at stake. March brings the slim
chance for children to escape a failing school system and enroll in charter
schools. Unlike the NCAA tournament,
skill and preparation are irrelevant in this competition: Instead, random
lottery determines a child's educational fate.
At MaST Community Charter School this year, nearly 9,200 applicants vied
for just 96 seats, meaning one percent of children emerged winners. For
reference, it's easier to get into an Ivy League university: The University of
Pennsylvania accepts 9 percent of applicants.
Keystone Oaks teachers'
union threatens to strike Thursday
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE 10:33
PM MAR 27, 2017
Teachers in the
Keystone Oaks Education Association on Monday announced their intention to go
on strike Thursday morning if a tentative agreement cannot be reached with the
school district.
The teachers’ union,
which has been working without a contract since June 30, issued the 48-hour
strike notice to school board President Matthew Cesario. The strike authorization was overwhelmingly approved by the membership at a Dec. 22
meeting. “The teachers, nurses and
counselors who work so diligently for the education and welfare of our students
deserve a fair and equitable contract,” association President Kevin Gallagher
said in a statement. The two sides are
scheduled to resume negotiations at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Mr. Gallagher said. State law requires teachers’ unions to give
districts 48-hours notice before engaging in a strike.
Apollo-Ridge renews deal for substitute teacher
provider
Trib Live by TOM
YERACE | Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 12:09 a.m.
The Apollo-Ridge
School Board has renewed a contract with a New Jersey company that provides
substitute teachers to school districts.
An agreement with Source4Teachers of Cherry Hill, N.J., was approved in
a 6-0 vote Monday, with board members Dominick Duso, Jim Ferguson and Forrest
Schultz absent. “We've been with
Source4Teachers for the past couple of years,” Superintendent Matt Curci said. The agreement is for four years, and, by
accepting a longer term, Curci said the district was able to get a discounted
rate. The district's typical pay rate
for a short-term substitute, for a full-day's work, is $90, he said.
Source4Teachers has a typical billing rate of $123. “They handle all the calling, all the
placement,” said Curci, adding that using the company has expanded the
district's pool of substitutes and helped ease the shortage of qualified
substitutes.
Trump's proposed budget
cuts alarm Pa. educators
York Dispatch by Junior
Gonzalez , 505-5439/@JuniorG_YD11:29 a.m. ET March 27, 2017
- York City School District among the top
25 schools most at risk of "considerable losses" from cuts.
- Federal funding for teacher staffing and
retention would be completely eliminated under Trump budget.
- Federal budget calls for a a $9 billion
reduction in funding to the Department of Education.
Teacher training,
after-school programs and federal college grants programs may be eliminated
under the President Trump's recently announced budget plan. The proposal calls for a 13 percent reduction
in funding for the U.S. Department of Education and the elimination of several
programs, including a teacher staffing and retention program, the 21st Century
after-school program, and the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity
Grant program, which provides tuition assistance to college students with
severe financial need. Pennsylvania Department
of Education Secretary Pedro A. Rivera called the cuts “devastating.” In a letter sent to Education Secretary Betsy
DeVos last week, Rivera said he and the rest of Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration
are “steadfast in ... opposition” to education cuts under the proposed
federal budget.
Trump signs bills
overturning Obama-era education regulations
Washington Post By Emma Brown March
27 at 4:43 PM
President Trump
signed bills Monday overturning two Obama-era education regulations, continuing
the Republican majority’s effort to undo key pieces of the previous
administration’s legacy. Trump’s move
scraps new requirements for programs that train new K-12 teachers and rolls
back a set of rules outlining how states must carry out the Every Student
Succeeds Act, a bipartisan federal law meant to hold schools accountable for
student performance. In a signing ceremony at the White House Monday, the
president hailed the measures for “removing an additional layer of bureaucracy
to encourage freedom in our schools.” Leaders
of the Republican majority claimed that the accountability rules represented an
executive overreach by former president Barack Obama. Democrats argued that
rescinding the rules opens loopholes that states can use to shield poorly
performing schools from scrutiny, especially when they fail to serve poor
children, minorities, English-language learners and students with disabilities.
“There hasn’t been much
attention paid to closures in the law,” Tillotson said of charter laws
nationwide. “The laws are more forward-looking than backward-looking when
things might blow up.” That lack of
clarity has suddenly started to matter a lot in Memphis, where charter schools
are struggling to attract enough students to stay viable. Both KIPP and Gestalt
blame their impending pullouts on under-enrollment — a challenge faced by more than half of
the 31 Memphis schools operated by the ASD.
But having enough students wasn’t the focus when the ASD began taking
over low-performing schools in 2012 and recruiting charter operators to turn
them around. The assumption was that charter schools would have too many
students and not enough seats, especially if those schools were under new
management.”
Why charter operators exiting Tennessee’s turnaround
district can walk away
Chalkbeat BY LAURA FAITH
KEBEDE - 1 DAY AGO
Each of the state-run
Achievement School District charter operators have an agreement that allows
them to close for any reason.
When two charter
school operators announced plans to leave Tennessee’s turnaround district this
spring, many people were surprised that they could break their 10-year
agreements. “How could any charter
management company come into a community and up and decide we’re not going to
play anymore?” asked Quincey Morris, a lifelong resident of North Memphis, home
to two schools that abruptly lost their charter operator. But in Memphis and across the nation, there’s
nothing to stop charter operators from leaving, even when they promise to be
there for a long time.
Contracts signed by
both Gestalt Community Schools and KIPP contain no penalties for exiting the
Achievement School District before agreements run out, according to documents
obtained by Chalkbeat. And by design,
that’s not unusual in the charter sector. For better or worse, operators are
given that autonomy, according to Dirk Tillotson, a lawyer and founder of a
charter incubation organization in California.
“Early signs indicate that
DeVos will help make it easier for kids to attend similar private, religious
schools. President Donald Trump’s budget proposal sets aside $250 million for a “new private school
choice program” ― something DeVos said in a statement would place “power in the
hands of parents and families to choose schools that are best for their
children.”
Welcome To The Private Evangelical School Of Betsy
DeVos’ Dreams
Teachers sign a statement of
faith and kids learn about creationism and the Bible. It’s also the education
secretary’s inspiration.
Huffington Post By Rebecca Klein 03/28/2017 05:45
am ET
It takes more than
just a solid resume and stellar references to get hired at The Potter’s House,
a school in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The job
application also requires prospective teachers to sign and accept a
statement of faith. “We believe that the
world was perfect at creation, but sin intervened, severing all people’s
perfect relationship with God and bringing consequences on every object and
institution within the creation,” the statement reads, in part. The Potter’s House is a private school that
is “evangelical in nature” and reportedly teaches creationism
alongside evolution. It’s also the type of school that Betsy DeVos, the
education secretary, apparently believes can level the playing field in
educational inequality. The nondenominational Potter’s House makes a special
effort to serve
students of all races and income levels. DeVos has been deeply involved with The
Potter’s House for years ― as a donor, volunteer and board member. She has
mentioned the school by name in speeches and interviews, saying schools like
The Potter’s House have given “kids the
chance to succeed and thrive” and that the institution inspired her to
advocate for education-related causes.
Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter
Public School Laws
National
Alliance for Public Charter Schools March 2017 Report
Trump's Education Cuts
Would Squeeze Charter, Private Schools
Education Week
Politics K12 Blog By Alyson Klein on March
27, 2017 7:17 AM
Private and charter
schools were considered the big winners in President Donald Trump's budget
blueprint, which sought new money to expand student options, while slashing
other K-12 spending. The problem for some schools of choice? Private
and charter schools would be squeezed by the proposed cuts, just like regular
public schools. The Trump
administration's budget blueprint would include $1.4 billion in new money for
school choice, but it would get rid of Title II, the $2.3 billion main federal
program for improving teacher quality, and the 21st Century
Community Learning Center program, a $1.1 billion program which helps finance
afterschool and extended-day programs. Private and charter schools receive
funding, or at least services, from both programs, explained Sheara Krvaric, an
attorney with the Fed Ed Group, a law firm that specializes in K-12 programs. Here's a breakdown of how that works:
Will High Court Ruling
Raise Expectations for Special Ed.?
Education Week By Christina
A. Samuels and Mark Walsh March 24, 2017
Advocates for
children with disabilities are cheering a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme
Court as a clear win that establishes more-ambitious academic standards for
special education students. Representatives
for some educational groups and districts, on the other hand, have a more
measured response. They say that the March 22
decision in Endrew F. v. Douglas County
School District sets forth a standard for the level of benefit
required under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that most school
districts were exceeding already. Both
sides can find support for their views in the text of the unanimous decision,
which was written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. for the eight-member
court. The high court rejected language
in a lower court ruling that special education must provide “merely more than
de minimis”—or trivial—benefit to students.
“When all is said and done, a student offered an educational program
providing ‘merely more than de minimis’ progress from year to year can hardly
be said to have been offered an education at all,” Roberts said.
A Review of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Endrew F.
F.: Thoughts on its Impact on Special Education Law and Practice in
Pennsylvania
Endrew F. v.
Douglas County School District, 2017 WL 1066260 (2017)
SPECIAL EDUCATION; SECTION 504; ADA; GIFTED EDUCATION
To meet IDEA substantive obligation must offer IEP “reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances.”
SPECIAL EDUCATION; SECTION 504; ADA; GIFTED EDUCATION
To meet IDEA substantive obligation must offer IEP “reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances.”
The
2017 PenSPRA Symposium Keeping Current: What’s New in School
Communications April 7th Shippensburg
Join PenSPRA Friday, April 7, 2017 in Shippensburg, PA 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with evening social events on Thursday, April 6th from 5 - 8 p.m. at the Shippensburg University Conference Center
The agenda is as follows: Supporting transgender students in our schools (9 am), Evaluating School Communications to Inform Your Effectiveness (10:30 am), and Cool Graphics Tools Hands-on Workshop (1:15 pm).
Join PenSPRA Friday, April 7, 2017 in Shippensburg, PA 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with evening social events on Thursday, April 6th from 5 - 8 p.m. at the Shippensburg University Conference Center
The agenda is as follows: Supporting transgender students in our schools (9 am), Evaluating School Communications to Inform Your Effectiveness (10:30 am), and Cool Graphics Tools Hands-on Workshop (1:15 pm).
The $150 registration fee also
includes breakfast, lunch and Thursday’s social! You can
find more details on the agenda and register for the Symposium here:
PSBA
Advocacy Forum and Day on the Hill APR
24, 2017 • 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Join PSBA and your fellow school
directors for the fourth annual Advocacy Forum on April 24, 2017, at the
State Capitol in Harrisburg. Hear from legislators on how advocacy makes a
difference in the legislative process and the importance of public education
advocacy. Government Affairs will take a deeper dive into the legislative
priorities and will provide tips on how to be an effective public education
advocate. There will be dedicated time for you and your fellow advocates to hit
the halls to meet with your legislators on public education. This is your
chance to share the importance of policy supporting public education and make
your voice heard on the Hill.
“Nothing has more impact for
legislators than hearing directly from constituents through events like PSBA’s
Advocacy Forum.”
— Sen. Pat Browne (R-Lehigh), Senate Appropriations Committee chair
— Sen. Pat Browne (R-Lehigh), Senate Appropriations Committee chair
Registration:
Visit the Members
Area of PSBA’s website under Store/Registration tab to register.
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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