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PA
Ed Policy Roundup June 1, 2017:
Only 6% of PA ed budget distributed
via Fair Funding Formula. If you’re a kid in an underfunded district, sorry - you’ll
just have to wait
Public hearing on the Keystone Exams: West Chester June 2nd
12:30 pm
Senate Education
Committee Meeting FRIDAY - 6/2/17 12:30 p.m., West Chester University, Business
and Public Management Center, 50 Sharpless Street, West Chester
Public hearing on graduation requirements as tools for assessments
and accountability June 5th 10 am Capitol
Senate Education Committee Meeting MONDAY -
6/5/17 10:00 a.m., Hearing Room 1, North Office Building
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Pennsylvania is one of three worst
gerrymandered states in the country, report: Thursday Morning Coffee
Penn Live BY JOHN
L. MICEK jmicek@pennlive.com
Updated on June 1, 2017 at 8:08 AM Posted on June 1, 2017 at 8:07 AM
Good Thursday
Morning, Fellow Seekers.Confirming what even the most casual observer of state politics already knows, a new report names Pennsylvania as one of the Top Three Most Gerrymandered states in this great nation. The findings by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School come as politicos gear up for a once-a-decade redrawing of the Keystone State's legislative and congressional maps. Reformers are pushing to take that critical decision out of the hands of politicians and turn it over a non-partisan commission. An effort to create an independent commission to draw Pennsylvania's voting district lines is gaining traction — but will it be enough? You can dive deep into the report over your coffee this morning, but to save you a bit of time, here's a clip-and-save guide to what you need to know.
“In the meantime, the use of the year-old Fair Funding Formula
for only 6 percent of the Commonwealth’s entire education budget makes that attempt at fairness almost
invisible to the 130 school districts identified as being underfunded.
In Pottstown’s case, that under-funding has risen to nearly $14 million out of
a $62.5 million proposed budget.”
Pottstown at the center of fair education funding fight
By Evan Brandt, The Mercury POSTED: 05/31/17, 7:09 PM
EDT | UPDATED: 7 HRS AGO
POTTSTOWN >> Ground Zero in the fight for fair
education funding this week has been 750 N. Washington St. That’s the address of Pottstown High School
and the place where the action has been in the last 24 hours. First there was the special Superintendent’s Forum Tuesday night that featured the
provocative question — “Why Are My Taxes So High?”
The next morning the school was the Montgomery County
location for a series of statewide press conferences calling attention to
Pennsylvania’s rank as the worst in the nation for the gap between funding for
rich and poor schools. For better or
worse, Pottstown is in the thick of it. “We know public education is under attack and we know we
have to fight back,” explained Pottstown School Board member Ron Williams.
Digital Notebook Blog by Evan
Brandt Wednesday, May 31, 2017
If the only thing we can be sure of in life is death and
taxes, almost as assured is kaleidoscope of answers you'll get if you ask a
related question: "Why are my taxes so high?" Nevertheless, out of foolishness, bravado or
a genuine desire to break the status quo log jam that is choking opportunity in
Pottstown Schools, Superintendent Stephen Rodriguez put that question front and
center Tuesday night at a special forum of the same name. To provide the nuanced answer that rejects
the knee-jerk responses of "administrator salaries," "teacher
salaries," "Harrisburg," he assembled several speakers to
provide context.
Bucks, Montgomery school
district officials ask state lawmakers for more money for public education
Bucks County Courier Times By
Chris English, staff writerMay 31, 2017
Area school district superintendents, other administrators
and school board members had a clear message for Harrisburg Wednesday during a
roundtable discussion and news conference at the Centennial School District
administration building in Warminster. "Please
give us more money." In a free-flowing discussion organized by a group called The Campaign For Fair
Education Funding, officials said the lack of state financial support for
education in Pennsylvania compared to most other states forces property taxes
up more than they need to be, jeopardizes programs for students and causes
other problems. According to numbers
provided by the organization, Pennsylvania funds 37 percent of the cost of its
public schools, the 47th lowest amount among the nation's 50 states. And state requirements that it mostly doesn't
help pay for — such as contributions to employee pensions, charter school
tuition and special education mandates — don't help ease the financial burden
either, said Bensalem Township School District Superintendent Samuel Lee. Taking out those three items, school district
expenses in Bensalem have gone up about 1.33 percent per year for the last
eight years, he said. "With
expenses the school district can control, I think it's done remarkably
well," said Lee. "But we are challenged in an incredible way by
things we have no control over."
School superintendents coordinate to plead for state funding help
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette GARY ROTSTEIN grotstein@post-gazette.com
1:45 PM MAY 31, 2017
The ability to educate public school students is
increasingly hampered by spiraling mandated costs for pensions, special
education and charter and cyber schools, which dwarf the size of modest funding
increases anticipated from the state, according to a group of Western Pennsylvania
school superintendents. The heads of 10
diverse districts joined at West Mifflin High School Wednesday to plead their
case that the current system of funding basic education in Pennsylvania is
unsustainable and that they have already cut services and staffing to the bone.
It is up to the state to change subsidy formulas because local taxpayers cannot
shoulder the burden through further millage hikes, the superintendents said. “If immediate systemic action is not taken, I
fear the public school buildings in our local area will soon look exactly like
the dreary, abandoned steel mills that once were symbols of community growth
and hope,” said Dan Castagna, superintendent of the West Mifflin Area School
District.
He was joined by peers from the Baldwin-Whitehall,
Carlynton, Clairton, McKeesport, Norwin, Plum, Quaker Valley, Upper St. Clair
and Yough school districts, and the same type of session for the media was
taking place the same day in four other locations in the state. The collective
effort was arranged by The Campaign for Fair Education Funding, a coalition of
advocacy groups seeking to increase state public school funding.
“They said budget proposals would also include a cut school
funding for transportation by $50 million, while state-mandated increases in
pension obligations for school districts could rise by $140 million. Together,
the effect could be to wipe out the benefit of the basic education funding
increase.”
Western Pennsylvania school
superintendents urge more state education funding
A group of school district superintendents from across
western Pennsylvania is urging state lawmakers to increase state funding for
basic education.
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. — A group of school district
superintendents from across western Pennsylvania is urging state lawmakers to
increase state funding for basic education.
"If immediate systemic action is not taken , I fear
that the public school buildings in our local area will soon look exactly like
the dreary abandoned steel mills that once were symbols of growth and
hope," said Dr. Dan Castagna, superintendent of the West Mifflin Area
School District. The Forum for Western Pennsylvania School Superintendents
and The Campaign for Fair Education Funding sponsored a Wednesday gathering at
West Mifflin Area High School. "Fund our schools. I want my students, I want my
children. Fund us and we'll make it work, I promise you," said Dr. Mark
Holtzman, superintendent of the McKeesport Area School District. "Although Gov. (Tom) Wolf and House Republicans
proposed a $100 million increase in the state's 2017-18 budget for basic
education funding, the proposal cuts other essential school programs," the
groups said in a statement.
School Superintendents Call For More State Funding, Lower Pension
Costs
WESA By MARK
NOOTBAAR • 1 HOUR AGO
Pennsylvania law mandates school districts submit
preliminary budgets by the last day of May, and several Superintendents across
the state used Wednesday’s milestone to call for more financial support from
the state. “Without increased state
funding we will, at some point, loose the ability to provide the same level of
education that we have,” Gary Peiffer, Carlynton School District
Superintendent, said. The 2017-18 state
budget proposed by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and the House Republicans both
increase basic education funding by $100 million. However, districts say that
won’t cover their growing expenses. “All
post-recession increases in state funding to school districts have gone
exclusively to pensions,” said Plum Borough School District Superintendent
Timothy Glasspool. Making the budget
situation worse for schools is the fact that the same budget proposals decrease
funding for student transportation by $50 million. At the same time, districts are also complaining that the
state continues to increase special education mandates. West Mifflin
Schools Superintendent Dan Castagna said the state legislature seems to have
placed targets on the backs of schools in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Photos: Fighting for Fair
School Funding
Pottstown Mercury POSTED BY DHOFFMAN ON 05/31/2017
2:39PM EDT
From a superintendent's forum Tuesday night, to a press
conference Wednesday morning, Pottstown Schools and its officials are in the middle
of the fight for fair school funding in Pennsylvania.
How states choose to invest money in education matters
Education Week Commentary By Pedro A. Rivera May 31, 2017
Pedro A. Rivera is Pennsylvania's secretary of education.
An equity-oriented education agenda starts with the budget. As Pennsylvania's secretary of education, I know that how a state chooses to invest its money matters and that it also serves as an expression of its values. A budget should provide the resources that pave the way for students to meet and exceed high standards. It must also address the disparate conditions that exist for far too many children. Under the leadership of Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, Tom Wolf, we're making important strides. In shaping the budget, state leaders recognize that equitable does not always mean equal; rather, a responsible, equity-oriented budget considers the particular needs of students, communities, and families. Gov. Wolf has worked alongside both Democrats and Republicans in our legislature to increase funding for the state's public schools by nearly $640 million over the last two years, while implementing a fair-funding formula that addresses a range of student needs.
“Some of the harshest
exchanges came when Eichelberger addressed schools, an area he now covers as
head of the Senate Education Committee. Eichelberger touted a plan for
Education Savings Accounts, a taxpayer funding mechanism critics have described
as a new face for school vouchers. The accounts would let families save money
with some state help, to pay for private, parochial or public schools as they
desire.”
Eichelberger discusses health care, education
Eichelberger talks
about state, national issues with Indivisible Blair County members
Altoona Mirror by RYAN BROWN Staff Writer rbrown@altoonamirror.com
JUN 1, 2017
Sharing a few testy exchanges with the audience, state Sen.
John H. Eichelberger Jr., R-Blair, discussed health care, pipelines and school
vouchers Wednesday at a church hall filled with Indivisible Blair County
members. Eichelberger, well known for
his conservative views, met with the nonpartisan, progressive group for a
public back-and-forth covering local issues and his work in Harrisburg. But to
some of the 100 or more people in the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church hall, he
served another role: as a stand-in for the GOP’s policies in Washington.
“While 53 percent of Pittsburgh’s
student enrollment is black, just 10 percent of the 2,100-member teaching staff
is represented by black women and 2.7 percent by black men. The majority of the
teaching staff — 60 percent — is composed of white females.”
Pittsburgh
has a severe shortage of black teachers and that’s hurting black students.
Public
Source By Mary Niederberger June 1, 2017
American historian Henry Adams
wrote in 1907, “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his
influence ends.” More than a century
later those words ring true.
While Adams’ quote did not
address the significance of what a teacher looks like, a study released in March by the
Institute of Labor Economics suggests a teacher’s race can have a lasting
effect on the choices students make. The
study showed that black students who had one black teacher in grades 3, 4 or 5
reduced the likelihood of them dropping out and increased by 19 percent their
intent to graduate from college. Pittsburgh
Public Schools Superintendent Anthony Hamlet is not surprised by those
findings. By the time they came out he
was already working to include the goal of increasing the number of minority teachers
in the district as part of the five-year strategic plan he released in April. “Students of all colors need to see people of
all colors in their workplace and someone who has been through similar
experiences and who look like them and who show up in their space every day.” Right now that’s not the case.
Collegium’s roots get deeper with purchase
of Exton area buildings
By Brian McCullough, Daily Local
News POSTED: 05/30/17,
5:57 PM EDT
WEST WHITELAND >> Collegium
Charter School has purchased two buildings it had been leasing as part of its
long-term planning. The school paid
$16.85 million for the 80,879-square-foot building at 150 Oaklands Boulevard
and $11.15 million for the 60,444-square-foot building at 515 James Hance
Court. The acquisitions were made
possible when the charter school with 2,800 K-12 students secured a $43.3
million bond, said Beth Jones, COO and acting CEO of Collegium. The school also plans to add an arts center
onto 515 James Hance Court. “We hope to get shovels in the
ground in six to eight months, but you know how construction projects can be”
Jones said. The sale is “seamless” for
the students and the school’s 480 employees, Jones added. The school now has
six buildings in the corporate center, its only location. Students are in all
but an administration building at 435 Creamery Way. By purchasing the two buildings,
Collegium said it will save tens of millions of dollars over the 30-year life
of the bonds, as the bond payments will be stable and less than the annually
escalating lease costs. The investment also will give its music and drama
programs “a top-notch facility” for its arts and music programs, the school
said in its announcement.
“The lawsuit alleges that Lysek and Flavell used Lacey's
"race, community ties, reputation and experience in education to establish
EEACS, which depended and relied heavily on support and participation from the
African-American community."
Ex-employee sues Allentown
charter school, alleging racial discrimination
Jacqueline Palochko Contact
Reporter Of The Morning Call May 31, 2017
A former employee of the Executive Education Academy
Charter School is suing the Allentown school, alleging that he was racially
discriminated against. Ronald Lacey, who
is black, filed a lawsuit in Lehigh County Court last week against the charter
school, CEO Robert Lysek and Chief Operating Officer Stephen Flavell. Lysek said Wednesday that he was unaware the
lawsuit had been filed. Lacey, 49, previously filed a complaint with the
state's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which Lysek said was dismissed
in 2016. "This is all news to
me," Lysek said. "I haven't heard his name in a year." According to the lawsuit, Lacey worked with
Lysek and Flavell to establish the Executive Education Academy Charter School,
which opened in fall 2014. Lysek promised Lacey he would be named the
co-founder, along with being director of community relations and admissions,
the lawsuit states. The lawsuit says Lacey drummed up community support and
obtained letters of support and signatures for the charter school, which is
needed for a charter school application.
Springfield OKs school budget with 2.5 percent tax hike
By Susan L. Serbin, Delco Times
Correspondent POSTED: 05/31/17,
9:07 PM EDT | UPDATED: 25 SECS AGO
SPRINGFIELD >> The school board on May 25 approved
the proposed final budget with increases at the allowable index of 2.5 percent.
That is where is stands now, but the district could see some improvement if the
state comes through with its budget by filing date in June. The 2017-18 budget is balanced in expenditures and revenue
at $83.2 million, about $3.3 million more than 2016-17. It will be supported by
the comparable real estate tax increase of 2.5 percent to a total of 32.207
mills. This is less than a 1 mill increase from the current year. The property
with the median value of $146,820 will have taxes of $4,729, an increase of
$126. As has been the case for nearly the last decade, mandatory
pension costs are the main drivers, with a hike of 10.4 percent. Executive Director
Don Mooney, in his presentation, said PSERS (Public School Employee Retirement
System) increases are expected to continue through to the 2020-21 school year.
Compensation and benefits costs excluding PSERS are anticipated to increase by
$1.4 million.
Norwin
to use long-term substitute teachers to fill positions
Trib Live by JAMIE
MARTINES | Wednesday, May 31, 2017, 11:00 p.m.
As districts across Westmoreland
County struggle to balance budgets for the coming school year, most seek to
avoid hiring new teachers they might have to lay off next year. That's why the
Norwin School District is taking a more conservative approach to hiring,
according to Superintendent Bill Kerr. “Why
hire somebody permanently if you're going to lay them off a year from now?”
Kerr said. Norwin plans to hire 12
long-term substitute teachers to fill teaching positions across several grades
and subject areas, including music, technical education, special education and
social studies. The district had three long-term substitutes this school year. The decision to hire long-term
substitutes over permanent teachers occurred as the district once again faced
budget challenges. This month, the
school board adopted a tentative budget of $69.8 million for 2017-18
that raises real estate taxes by 3.3 percent and avoids teacher layoffs or
program cuts. It is the sixth
consecutive year that the board has raised property taxes.
“The truth is, it's not getting
any better for school districts,” Kerr said.
Trib Live by JIM SPEZIALETTI | Thursday, May 25, 2017,
4:42 p.m.
The West Jefferson Hills School
Board has approved a proposed final budget that includes a property tax
increase. School directors plan to
increase the tax rate up to the maximum amount allowable by the state – 0.608
of a mill. The proposed new property tax rate would be 20.236 mills. Increasing
the millage to the state's Act 1 limit, the district will generate an
additional $801,666. Some of that will
go toward future increases in debt service from the new high school project. Even after the increase, the $50 million
budget still has a shortfall of nearly $257,000. Finance director Tracy Harris
said no cuts to staff or school programs are being considered. The
administration said it will delay some building projects to balance the budget.
The
Network for Public Education Issues its Position Statement on Charter Schools
NPE
Statement on Charter Schools May 31, 2017 by Carol Burris
The Network for Public Education
believes that public education is the pillar of our democracy. We believe in
the common school envisioned by Horace Mann. A common school is a public
institution, which nurtures and teaches all who live within its boundaries,
regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, sexual preference or learning ability.
All may enroll–regardless of when they seek to enter the school or where they
were educated before.
We believe that taxpayers bear
the responsibility for funding those schools and that funding should be ample
and equitable to address the needs of the served community. We also believe
that taxpayers have the right to examine how schools use tax dollars to educate
children. Most importantly, we believe that
such schools should be accountable to the community they serve, and that
community residents have the right and responsibility to elect those who govern
the school. Citizens also have the right to insist that schooling be done in a
manner that best serves the needs of all children.
Charter schools may provide a better option for children when traditional public schools fail but are they the answer to systemic problems in US education?
AlJazeera by By Kristen Saloomey Correspondent May 31, 2017
For Ezdehar Abu-harab, the North
Star Charter Academy in Newark, New Jersey was a godsend. She was horrified at
the quality of education her son was receiving in one of Newark's other public
elementary schools. "No
homework!" she said, incredulous. "They never got homework! It was
just about maintaining order in the classroom." Charter schools were first introduced into
this chronically low-performing urban school district in the nineties and
expanded in the last decade with support from both Republican and Democratic
politicians. They are publicly
funded independent schools established by teachers, parents, or community
groups under the terms of a charter with a local or national authority. Now 31 percent of public school children in
Newark, including Abdu-harab's two children, attend charter schools.
District-wide graduation rates and test scores are up; suspension rates are
down. Abdu-harab heard about the schools
when her daughter was entering kindergarten. The college biology teacher put
her daughter's name in the lottery and landed a coveted spot. The difference between her son's and
daughter’s educations, she said, was night and day.
Trump's School Choice Plan Could Quickly
Stall in Washington, Analysts Say
Education Week Politics K12 Blog By Andrew Ujifusa on May
31, 2017 12:26 PM
Washington Plans to expand school choice
from President Donald Trump may be generating a lot of attention—but
they should be taken with a dose of political reality, and not obscure other
key issues. That was one of the main
messages from a panel of K-12 advocates discussing the changing politics of
education at the annual conference of the Education Writers Association here on
Wednesday. Left- and right-leaning advocates sparred about the hypothetical
impact of $9.2 billion in cuts to the U.S. Department of Education proposed by
Trump last week, and whether the Republican-controlled Congress is interested
in the GOP president's pitch for a $1.4 billion school choice initiative. There was a general consensus, however, that
in the age of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, education reporters would
do well to see how—or if—national debates impact things such as school choice
and spending in states and local communities. After all, only about 10 percent
of funding for public schools comes from the federal government.
While states and local
communities should offer as many quality choices to parents through things like
education savings accounts and vouchers, that doesn't mean choice advocates
should welcome federal initiatives to expand choice, said Lindsey Burke, the education
policy director at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that
backs limited government. States are moving at their own pace and should be
left to do so, she added.
"It's hard to reconcile the
creation of a new program with reducing federal intervention in
education," Burke said.
School
vouchers don't just undermine public schools, they undermine our democracy
Los
Angeles Times Op-Ed by Jonah Edelman and Randi Weingarten May 31, 2017
President Trump wants to siphon billions of
dollars from public schools to fund private and religious school vouchers. It’s
an idea that’s bad for kids, public education and our democracy. Today, vouchers are used by less
than 1% of the nation’s students. Trump and his Education secretary, Betsy DeVos, want to change that. Trump’s new budget
proposal would make historic cuts to federal education spending, while
diverting $1 billion into voucher programs — a “down payment” on his
oft-repeated $20-billion voucher pledge. We believe the president’s plan would
deal a terrible blow to public schools and to the 90% of America’s children who
attend them, while doing almost nothing to benefit children who receive
vouchers. Although our organizations have
sparred and disagreed over the years, such is the danger to public schooling
posed by Trump’s embrace of vouchers that we are speaking out together on this
issue. The Trump-DeVos effort to push vouchers, or something equivalent through
tax credits, threatens the promise and purpose of America’s great equalizer,
public education. At a time when low-income
children make up the majority of public school students, we as a country must
do more to support families, teachers, administrators and public schools.
Trump’s plan would do the opposite.
The Absence of Betsy DeVos
Every prior education secretary
has spoken at the Education Writers Association’s annual seminar, but DeVos
declined this year’s invite. Here's what her predecessors used the platform to
say.
The Atlantic
by EMILY RICHMOND MAY 30, 2017
When U.S. Secretary of Education
Betsy DeVos declined the Education Writers Association’s invitation to speak at
its 70th National Seminar, it prompted coverage from The Associated Press, The
Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, among others, in
part because of her already limited press availability during the nearly
four months since she was appointed to the cabinet post. The national seminar takes place this week at
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. DeVos’s eight predecessors have
spoken at EWA’s conference at some point during their tenure. The first
education secretary, the former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Shirley Hufstedler,
was appointed by President Jimmy Carter in the fall of 1979 and addressed EWA
members the following spring.
Nominations for PSBA Allwein
Advocacy Award due by July 16th
The Timothy M. Allwein Advocacy Award was established in
2011 by the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and may be presented
annually to the individual school director or entire school board to recognize
outstanding leadership in legislative advocacy efforts on behalf of public
education and students that are consistent with the positions in PSBA’s
Legislative Platform. In addition to
being a highly respected lobbyist, Timothy Allwein served to help our members
be effective advocates in their own right. Many have said that Tim inspired
them to become active in our Legislative Action Program and to develop personal
working relationships with their legislators.
The 2017 Allwein Award nomination process will begin on Monday,
May 15, 2017. The application due date is July 16, 2017 in
the honor of Tim’s birth date of July 16.
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!
Pennsylvania Education Leadership Summit July 23-25, 2017 Blair
County Convention Center - Altoona
A three-day event providing an excellent opportunity for
school district administrative teams and instructional leaders to learn, share
and plan together
co-sponsored by PASA, the Pennsylvania Principals
Association, PASCD and the PA Association for Middle Level Education
**REGISTRATION IS OPEN**Early Bird Registration Ends
after April 30!
Keynote speakers, high quality breakout sessions, table
talks on hot topics, and district team planning and job-alike sessions will
provide practical ideas that can be immediately reviewed and discussed at the
summit and utilized at the district level.
Keynote Speakers:
Thomas Murray, Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education
Kristen Swanson, Director of Learning at Slack and one of the founding members of the Edcamp movement
Thomas Murray, Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education
Kristen Swanson, Director of Learning at Slack and one of the founding members of the Edcamp movement
Breakout session strands:
*Strategic/Cultural Leadership
*Systems Leadership
*Leadership for Learning
*Professional and Community Leadership
*Strategic/Cultural Leadership
*Systems Leadership
*Leadership for Learning
*Professional and Community Leadership
CLICK HERE to access the Summit website for
program, hotel and registration information.
Save the Date 2017 PA Principals Association State Conference
October 14. 15, 16, 2017
Doubletree Hotel Cranberry Township, PA
Save the Date: PASA-PSBA
School Leadership Conference October 18-20, Hershey PA
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