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PA
Ed Policy Roundup July 21, 2017:
95% graduate; but every year, Boys Latin
loses at least 1/3 of its students
The PA Ed Policy Roundup will
be on vacation next week.
We’ll be back online July 31sth.
House to hold session amid swirling budget
disagreements
AP News By MARC LEVY July 20,
2017
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania House of Representatives
prepared to return to Harrisburg for an unusual weekend session amid a
three-week stalemate with the Senate and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf over how to
resolve a gaping hole in state government’s $32 billion budget plan. Amid wider disagreements over taxes, gambling
and liquor policy, House Republican aides worked Thursday to prepare a
no-new-taxes package that would borrow roughly $1.5 billion and raid hundreds
of millions of dollars more from off-budget programs. The forthcoming legislation ordered up by House Speaker Mike
Turzai, R-Allegheny, could leave Wolf to decide which off-budget programs to
tap, and how much cash to divert from each, up to a certain limit. Talks with the Senate and Wolf’s office were
effectively on ice Thursday. House Republicans acknowledged that it was unclear
whether their huge, albeit fractured majority can pass any sort of revenue
package without help from Democratic lawmakers, who are backing Wolf’s bid to
secure a $700 million to $800 million tax package. Wolf has maintained that some sort of tax
increase is necessary to avoid another downgrade to a credit rating battered by
the state’s entrenched post-recession deficit. Another downgrade would make it
more expensive for the state to borrow money.
“Every
year, Boys Latin loses at least one-third of its students, and never replaces them.”
- It's a lot easier to have high college acceptance and
persistence rates when you don't have to educate everyone who shows up on your
front steps.- It's a lot easier to have high college acceptance and persistence rates when kids who can't cut it in your program decide it's a "beautiful thing" to leave.
- Why does a school like Boys Latin, which skims the cream, get all sorts of extra funding while the Philadelphia public schools, which must educate everyone, remain chronically underfunded?
I have no doubt the staff of Boys Latin is full of dedicated, caring professionals who are working hard every day to give their students a great education. But I see very little in their model that could be scaled up.”
Jersey Jazzman Blog Thursday, July 20, 2017
As I noted, NBC's Sunday Night with Megan Kelly broadcast
a story earlier this month about Boys Latin Charter School, a
"successful" charter school in Philadelphia which claims to
have ten
times the college completion rate of its neighboring high schools. To his credit, reporter Craig Melvin didn't
swallow the claims of the school whole, and pushed back on the idea that Boys
Latin serves an equivalent student population to those surrounding high
schools. But he did miss two important points: First, and as I documented in the last
post, Boys Latin raises funds outside of the monies it collects from public
sources. The amounts add up to thousands of dollars per pupil per year. As Bruce Baker notes in this (somewhat
snarky) post, you really can't make a comparison between two schools and call
one "successful" without taking into account the differences in
resources available to both. Philadelphia's public school district has
been chronically
underfunded for years. It's hardly fair for Boys Latin to collect millions in extra
revenue, then brag about their college persistence rate compared to schools
that don't have enough funding to provide an adequate education.
“HB
97 does not address the continued abysmal academic performance of the state’s
cyber charter schools — none of which have met the minimum proficiency standard
on the state’s school performance profile.
HB
97 strips local control from school districts and ties the hands of school
boards. If HB 97 becomes law, local school boards would be prohibited from
requesting any information from charter applicants beyond the information in a
state-created application form; local school boards would be subjected to the
whim of charter operators to amend their charter; and local school board
decisions regarding charter applications and renewals would be at the mercy of
the state’s Charter Appeal Board, which would be stacked with charter school
supporters.”
#HB97: Senators protect charter schools at expense of local
districts
Public Opinion Online Opinion by Susan
Spicka Published 9:32 a.m. ET July 20,
2017
Susan Spicka is Executive Director, Education Voters of PA
At 10 p.m. on Sunday, July 9, while many Pennsylvanians were
asleep, the PA Senate passed a controversial charter school bill with the
support of Franklin County Senators Alloway and Eichelberger. HB 97, a bill backed by the deep-pocketed
charter school industry, is touted by its supporters as “reform.” However, this
bill offers no benefit to taxpayers or students in Franklin County and fails to
fix many of the most egregious problems in Pennsylvania’s charter school law.
In Franklin County, taxpayers spend more than $6.6 million on
cyber charter school tuition bills every year. Under PA law, school districts
(i.e., local taxpayers) are responsible for 100% of charter school tuition
payments. The original version of HB 97
would have reduced school district overpayments to cyber charter schools by
using a formula to more accurately calculate the actual cost of cyber
education. This recalculation would have offered $27 million in immediate
relief to cash-strapped school districts that have been forced to make deep
cuts and raise local property taxes to balance their budgets.
Letters
from the Editor: Pa.’s natural gas industry taxed enough
Delco Times Opinion by David
Spigelmyer, Marcellus Shale Coalition, Pittsburgh, Pa. POSTED: 07/20/17, 9:36 PM EDT | UPDATED: 4 HRS AGO
To the Times:
We’re disappointed in the lack of leadership from several
lawmakers – and some editorial pages – who continue to call for massive energy
tax increase that’ll cost jobs and harm Pennsylvania’s economic competitiveness
(“How fiscal follies rule in Harrisburg,” Jul. 16). Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry is
already taxed. Period. The impact tax structure is a national model for success
as its generated more than $1.2 billion in new revenue, benefitting every
county and investing hundreds of millions in statewide environmental programs.
Last year alone, Pennsylvania’s impact tax on drillers – which is paid on top
of every other business tax in the Commonwealth – was the equivalent of a 9.16%
effective rate on production. When
compared to other states, Pennsylvania’s impact tax was the highest effective
rate in the nation, generating more revenue in 2016 than the severance tax in
Ohio, West Virginia, Colorado and Arkansas – four of the top energy producing
states – combined. Think about that. In fact, states whose budgets heavily
depend on severance tax revenues have suffered in recent years as the energy
market continues through a historic downturn that’s resulted in deep and
painful job loss.
Gerrymandering: Politicians are choosing
their voters. So, what about it?
Centre Daily Times Letter by BY CARL EVENSEN JULY 20, 2017 10:16
PM
Democracy is in crisis. Only 20 percent of the country approves of
the way Congress is doing its job. There
appears to be no compromise, no general agreement, no civility. Voting turnout
is down, and too often the candidate with the most votes doesn’t get elected.
What’s happening? The strength and integrity of our electoral process has become
more vulnerable. Stories of Russian cyberattacks and meddling, aging voting
machines, outdated software and our own indifference undermine integrity. But
there is another cause that’s real, proven, growing and the most immediate. It
is partisan gerrymandering: when the majority party draws boundaries
(districts) that concentrate supporters of the opposition into a few voting
districts (“packing”) or spreads them thinly across many districts
(“cracking”). The way the lines are drawn determines who controls the governing
body, shapes legislative priorities and behavior and defines which bills get
passed into law and which never receive a vote.
York Dispatch by Junior
Gonzalez, 505-5439/@JuniorG_YD Published 9:35 a.m. ET July 20, 2017 | Updated 5:12 p.m. ET July 20, 2017
The York City school board quietly appointed a hearing officer
Wednesday night for the upcoming charter revocation hearings for Helen
Thackston Charter School. Ellen C.
Schurdak, an attorney with the Bethlehem, Lehigh County, law firm King, Spry,
Herman, Freund & Faul LLC, will oversee the public proceedings that
are set to begin in a matter of weeks. The
board meeting, which lasted less than 20 minutes, did not include discussion
of the appointment, which was approved unanimously with other consent
agenda items.
Pensions,
special education and debt: why are these three school districts raising taxes
much higher than their peers?
Penn Live By Nora Shelly nshelly@pennlive.com Posted on July 20, 2017 at 8:15
AM
Most central Pennsylvania school districts raised taxes an average
of 2 percent in their 2017-18 budgets, but there are a few districts where
property owners are seeing much larger increases in their tax bills. Residents of West Perry, South Middleton and Central
Dauphin school districts in particular will see their property taxes increase 5
to 7 percent. Under law, school boards
can't raise taxes above a state-determined index unless they hold a public
referendum. In practice, however, such referendums are rare because districts
can apply to the state for exceptions that allow them to raise rates above the
index if their rising costs are driven by pension system payments, special
education, or debt services.
School
officials thwarting property tax reform | Letter
Express-Times
Letters to the Editor by Brian Fake Upper Mount Bethel Township Updated on July 20, 2017 at 9:01
AMPosted on July 20, 2017 at 9:00 AM
The Property Tax Independence Act, HB/SB 76, is legislation
proposing to replace school property taxes, dollar for dollar, with a broader
sales tax and increased personal income tax. Its purpose is to put controls on
school districts that continue to raise taxes well beyond the rate of inflation
or the ability of homeowners to pay. The
bill protects homeowners from property seizure and eviction for unpaid property
taxes, which happens to 10,000 Pennsylvanians each year. They include widows,
disabled veterans and the sick living on fixed incomes, who have to choose
between paying their taxes and keeping their homes, or buying medicine and
preserving their health. It's a fair bill that fully funds school districts
while protecting the vulnerable.
Vo-tech
students on path to top-rung colleges, even Ivy League
Inquirer by Kathy
Boccella, Staff Writer @Kathy_Boccella | kboccella@phillynews.com Updated: JULY 20, 2017 — 5:04 PM EDT
Matt Love was a puzzle no one knew how to solve. He had been traumatized by his father’s
drowning death a week before his fourth birthday. By second grade, he was
bored and acting out, so unruly that the private school he attended asked him
to leave halfway through the year. Told her son probably would never amount to
much, Joyce Love home-schooled him, waiting until eighth grade to send him back
to the classroom, this time at a public middle school in Gloucester Township. It did not go well. The socially awkward boy was bullied. And
while his mother pleaded with administrators to challenge him academically with
honors courses, they instead placed him among low achievers, many with
behavioral problems. Failing at school
“destroyed my self-esteem,” said Love, now 18, a shy teen with braces who lives
with his mother and younger brother, Tyler, in a neat Cape Cod in Blackwood,
with a wishing well out front. College seemed out of the question, so his teachers suggested a
familiar track for kids without academic aspirations: vocational school. At
Camden County Technical Schools, he and his mother decided he would learn HVAC
repair, prepping for a career working on heating and air-conditioning ducts. It
was a fateful decision, but not in a way anyone could have imagined.
Kenney,
Hite announce Block by Block Party with Minecraft
Inquirer by Adia
H. Robinson, STAFF WRITER Updated: JULY
20, 2017 — 5:58 PM EDT
On Thursday, Mayor Kenney and Philadelphia School Superintendent
William R. Hite Jr. announced the Block by Block Party, a partnership among the
city, the School District, Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY), and
the University of the Sciences. And then
they played some Minecraft. The Block by
Block Party will bring 1,500 children to USciences on Sept. 16 and 17 to play
the game in which children build their own worlds and go on adventures. Tickets
are $35 for gamers and $20 for those who just want to attend the block party,
where there will be vendors, arts, crafts, and scientific demonstrations. “This event will raise funds for a new grant
program to bring innovative technology to district schools, as well as support
PCCY,” Hite said at the announcement. Kenney
spoke about the popularity of the game among his favorite constituents,
children. “Educators across the country
and worldwide are noticing that Minecraft has the power to help our kids
learn,” he said. “They learn things like natural sciences, construction
skills, math, problem solving, and, the best of all, they explore their own
creativity.”
Philly
District officials honored in D.C. with sustainability award
by the Notebook July 20, 2017 — 3:47pm
Since introducing its first-ever sustainability plan
called GreenFutures in 2016, the School District of
Philadelphia has been working to improve the health and wellness of its
schools, students, and staff. On Wednesday that work was honored when
representatives from the District received the U.S. Department of Education’s
2017 Green Ribbon School District Sustainability Award during a ceremony in
Washington, D.C. The District is one of
just nine school districts nationwide to receive this recognition, which
highlights the work of schools, districts, and postsecondary institutions for
their innovative efforts to reduce environmental impact and costs, improve
health and wellness, and ensure effective sustainability education. “The District made significant efforts this
year to make our schools more sustainable,” said Superintendent William Hite in
a statement. “We are grateful to the support of our dedicated partners and
staff that helped make this exciting award possible.”
Legendary
football coaches say Catholic/private school teams are problem
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by MIKE WHITE mwhite@post-gazette.com 11:28 PM JUL 20, 2017
What if I told you some of the greatest coaches in the history of
WPIAL football got together for lunch and shared stories, opinions and laughs?
OK, so it might not make for a “30 for 30” edition, but it was “10 for 49.” Seated around a few tables inside the
restaurant at the Grand View Golf Course Monday were 10 of the WPIAL
great ones — some retired, some still active coaching. It was a unique lunch,
and it had nothing to do with the food. Between the 10 coaches were 49 WPIAL
football championships. Every coach won at least three and some grabbed
sandwiches with a hand that had a championship ring. Oh yeah, there were also 2,535 wins between
this group, three of the four winningest coaches in WPIAL history and seven of
the top 14. Their ages ranged from late 40s to 80s.
Education Week By Rachel Lerman, The Seattle Times July 19, 2017
More girls than ever took an AP computer-science exam this year, Seattle nonprofit Code.org announced Tuesday, calling the results “incredible.” Code.org crunched the numbers from the AP College Board, which shows that 29,708 girls in the U.S. took an Advanced Placement computer science exam this year, more than double the number from 2016. Girls made up about 27 percent of the 111,262 students who took an AP computer-science exam in 2017. The number of minorities underrepresented in the tech industry—black, Latino, and Native American—who took the exam nearly tripled from last year, reaching 22,199 students this year. That was about 20 percent of the total. Code.org, which develops curriculum and trains teachers to teach computer-science courses, heralded the results. The technology industry has struggled with diversity issues for decades, a fact that increasingly has been brought to light in recent years. Part of Code.org’s mission is to bring coding education to women and minorities who are underrepresented in the industry.
DeVos
tells conservative lawmakers what they like to hear: More local control, school
choice
Washington Post By Emma
Brown July 20 at 5:05 PM
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos blasted Washington, teachers
unions and “defenders of the status quo” Thursday as she pledged to shrink the
role of the federal government in U.S. schools and colleges. “This drives the big-government folks nuts,
but it’s important to reiterate: Education is best addressed at the state,
local and family levels,” DeVos said, winning applause from lawmakers gathered
in Denver for the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange
Conference (ALEC), an influential group known for promoting conservative policy
goals nationwide. DeVos has long been an
ardent proponent of giving states more power over education, but some
conservatives questioned her local-control credentials in recent weeks as the
Education Department began reviewing state plans to implement a sweeping new federal
law, the Every Student Succeeds Act. State
officials viewed some of the department’s feedback as overreaching and
nitpicking criticism seemingly out of line with DeVos’s pledge to get
Washington out of the way. In her remarks Thursday, she assured state
legislators from across the country that she had no intention of overstepping
and was actively seeking ways to shrink the federal footprint in education. “The time of inefficient, top-down,
one-size-fits-all mandates is over,” DeVos said. “This approach does not work,
it has not worked, and it will never work.”
Remarks from Secretary DeVos to the
American Legislative Exchange Council
U.S. Department of Education Website JULY 20, 2017
Thank you, Lisa, for the kind introduction.
It's good to be here at ALEC, with so many friends and quality
leaders shaping policy across all 50 states. A special thanks to my fellow
Michiganders, thanks so much for joining us and for your hard work in the Great
Lakes State. I'm no stranger to
state-based advocacy; it was a primary focus of mine for 30 years before I
entered public service. After my husband
Dick and I acknowledged our philanthropy could only directly help a limited
number of kids, we jumped into the policy arena to empower as many students and
parents as possible. It was the only way to help foster the fundamental – and
necessary – shift in how we approach education in America.
This advocacy has led to some... let's call it...
"excitement" on the Left. You're certainly no strangers to organized
protests by defenders of the status quo. But, it's the first time in recent
history I've been to an event where the protesters aren't necessarily here just
for me! But I consider the "excitement" a badge of honor, and so
should you. Our opponents, the defenders of the status quo, only protest those
capable of implementing real change. You represent real change. You have led the way in helping states across
the nation craft innovative solutions to today's problems: in healthcare,
taxes, regulations, entitlements, and importantly, education.
Instead of seeking today's headlines, you've played the long game.
We've all benefitted from this patient approach. Through your leadership, your
respective states have truly become the laboratories of democracy our Founders
intended. Thank you for putting their vision into practice.
Betsy
DeVos Urges States to Take Reins on K-12 Policy
Education Week By Jackie Zubrzycki on July 20, 2017
5:46 PM
Denver At a conference of the
conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, U.S. Secretary of
Education Betsy DeVos encouraged states to take the lead in creating new,
more-flexible education policies and pledged that the U.S. Department of Education
would focus on clearing away regulations and obstacles to state autonomy. Along the way, DeVos criticized the American
Federation of Teachers and the previous administration's Education Department,
which she said had issued inappropriate regulations. She also put in a strong
plug for her signature issue of school choice—but said that the federal
government would not mandate a particular approach. "States are best equipped to solve the
unique problems each of them faces," she said to an audience of state
legislators, lobbyists, representatives from private companies, and other
members of ALEC, which prepares model legislation and policies. "My job is
to get the federal government out of the way so you can do your jobs."
NAACP
Leaders Meet This Week. What Will They Say About Charter Schools?
Education Week Charters and Choice Blog By Arianna Prothero on July
20, 2017 4:12 PM
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
kicks off its annual convention on Saturday, and school choice advocates will
be watching to see if the venerable civil rights group will change its
hardening posture toward charter schools.
This time last year, NAACP state leaders took the extraordinary step of calling for a ban on
opening any new charter schools. Soon after, the Movement for Black Lives (a coalition of groups
that includes Black Lives Matter) announced its own push for a moratorium on
charter schools. The back-to-back
announcements were a public relations blow to the charter movement, a visible
segment of which devotes itself to serving low-income, mostly black and Latino
students. The anti-charter stance of the civil rights groups also further
exposed rifts in support among African Americans for charter schools.
This friction has surfaced periodically since then, as the NAACP conducted a nationwide "listening tour" to hear from families,
teachers, and other community members in cities with large numbers of charter
schools, such as New York, New Orleans, and Los Angeles. A report on the findings from the listening
tour will be released during the group's upcoming meeting.
2017 Pennsylvania Arts and Education Symposium
November 2, 2017 - Radisson Harrisburg Hotel & Convention Center
Submission Deadline: 5:00 p.m. on Friday, July 28, 2017
The Pennsylvania Arts Education Network Steering Committee invites arts educators, artists, and arts advocates to submit education and advocacy session proposals for the 7th Annual Pennsylvania Arts and Education Symposium to be held on Thursday, November 2, 2017, at the Radisson Harrisburg Hotel & Convention Center. Proposed Sessions should be for 60 minutes. Presenters may express a preference for a morning session (starting approximately 10:00 am) or afternoon session (starting approximately 2:00 pm).
The Symposium Planning Committee will review all proposals. The final decision for inclusion in the Symposium will be made by the Committee. If invited to present, Session presenters must register for the Symposium at the "Very Early Bird Rate" ($50.00) by September 15, 2017.
The
deadline to submit cover letter,
resume and application is August 25, 2017.
PSBA seeking experienced education
leaders: Become an Advocacy Ambassador
POSTED ON JUL 17, 2017 IN PSBA NEWS
PSBA is seeking applications for six Advocacy Ambassadors who
have been involved in day-to-day functions of a school district, on the school
board, or in a school leadership position. The purpose of the PSBA Advocacy
Ambassador program is to facilitate the education and engagement of local
school directors and public education stakeholders through the advocacy
leadership of the ambassadors. Each Advocacy Ambassador will be an active
leader in an assigned section of the state, and is kept up to date on current
legislation and PSBA position based on PSBA priorities to accomplish advocacy goals. PSBA Advocacy Ambassadors are independent
contractors representing PSBA, and serve as liaisons between PSBA and their
local and federal elected officials. Advocacy Ambassadors also commit to
building strong relationships with PSBA members with the purpose of engaging
the designated members to be active and committed grassroots advocates for
PSBA’s legislative priorities. This is a
9-month independent contractor position with a monthly stipend and potential
renewal for a second year. Successful candidates must commit to the full
9-month contract, agree to fulfill assigned Advocacy Ambassador duties and
responsibilities, and actively participate in conference calls and in-person
meetings
September 19 @ 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Hilton Reading
Berks County Community Foundation
Panelists:
Carol Corbett Burris: Executive
Director of the Network
for Public Education
Alyson Miles: Deputy Director of Government
Affairs for the American
Federation for Children
James Paul: Senior Policy Analyst at
the Commonwealth Foundation
Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig: Professor
of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and the Director of the Doctorate
in Educational Leadership at California State University Sacramento
Karin Mallett: The WFMZ TV anchor and reporter
returns as the moderator
School choice has been a hot topic in Berks County, in part due to
a lengthy and costly dispute between the Reading School
District and I-LEAD Charter School. The topic has also been in the
national spotlight as President Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy
DeVos have focused on expanding education choice.
With this in mind, a discussion on school choice is being organized as
part of Berks County Community Foundation’s Consider It initiative. State Sen.
Judy Schwank and Berks County Commissioners Chairman Christian Leinbach are
co-chairs of this nonpartisan program, which is designed to promote thoughtful
discussion of divisive local and national issues while maintaining a level of
civility among participants. The next
Consider It Dinner will take place Tuesday, September 19, 2017, at 5 p.m. at
the DoubleTree by Hilton Reading, 701 Penn St., Reading, Pa. Tickets are available
here. For $10 each, tickets
include dinner, the panel discussion, reading material, and an opportunity to
participate in the conversation.
Apply Now for EPLC's 2017-2018 PA Education Policy Fellowship
Program!
Education Policy and Leadership Center
Applications are available now for the 2017-2018
Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP). The
Education Policy Fellowship Program is sponsored in Pennsylvania by The
Education Policy and Leadership Center (EPLC). Click here for the program calendar of sessions. With more than 500 graduates in its
first eighteen years, this Program is a premier professional development
opportunity for educators, state and local policymakers, advocates, and
community leaders. State Board of Accountancy (SBA) credits are available
to certified public accountants. Past participants include state policymakers,
district superintendents and principals, school business officers, school board
members, education deans/chairs, statewide association leaders, parent leaders,
education advocates, and other education and community leaders. Fellows are
typically sponsored by their employer or another organization. The Fellowship Program begins with a two-day
retreat on September 14-15, 2017 and continues to graduation
in June 2018.
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.
Using Minecraft to Imagine a Better World
and Build It Together.
Saturday, September 16, 2017 or Sunday,
September 17, 2017 at the University of the Sciences, 43rd & Woodland
Avenue, Philadelphia
PCCY, the region’s most
influential advocacy organization for children, leverages the world’s greatest
video game for the year’s most engaging fundraising event for kids. Join us
on Saturday, September 16, 2017 or Sunday,
September 17, 2017 at the University of the Sciences, 43rd & Woodland
Avenue for a fun, creative and unique gaming opportunity.
Education Law Center’s 2017
Annual Celebration
ELC invites you to join us
for our Annual Celebration on September 27 in Philadelphia.
The Annual Celebration will take place this year on September
27, 2017 at The Crystal Tea Room in Philadelphia. The
event begins at 5:30 PM. We anticipate more than 300 legal,
corporate, and community supporters joining us for a cocktail reception, silent
auction, and dinner presentation. Our
annual celebrations honor outstanding champions of public education. This proud
tradition continues at this year’s event, when together we will salute these
deserving honorees:
·
PNC Bank: for the signature philanthropic cause of the PNC Foundation, PNC
Grow Up Great, a bilingual $350 million, multi-year early education initiative
to help prepare children from birth to age 5 for success in school and life;
and its support of the Equal Justice Works Fellowship, which
enables new lawyers to pursue careers in public interest law;
·
Joan Mazzotti: for her 16 years of outstanding leadership as the Executive
Director of Philadelphia Futures, a college access and success program serving
Philadelphia’s low-income, first-generation-to-college students;
·
Dr. Bruce Campbell Jr., PhD: for his invaluable service to ELC, as he rotates out of
the chairman position on our Board of Directors. Dr. Campbell is an Arcadia
University Associate Professor in the School of Education; and
·
ELC Pro Bono Awardee Richard Shephard of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
LLP: for his exceptional work as pro bono counsel, making lasting contributions
to the lives of many vulnerable families.Questions? Contact Tracy Callahan
tcallahan@elc-pa.org or 215-238-6970 ext. 308.
STAY WOKE: THE INAUGURAL
NATIONAL BLACK MALE EDUCATORS CONVENING; Philadelphia Fri, Oct 13, 2017 4:00 pm
Sun, Oct 15, 2017 7:00pm
TEACHER DIVERSITY WORKS. Increasing the number of Black
male educators in our nation’s teacher corps will improve education for all our
students, especially for African-American boys.
Today Black men represent only two percent of teachers nationwide. This
is a national problem that demands a national response. Come participate in the inaugural National
Black Male Educators Convening to advance policy solutions, learn from one
another, and fight for social justice. All are welcome.
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
Registration now open for the
67th Annual PASCD Conference Nov. 12-13
Harrisburg: Sparking Innovation: Personalized Learning, STEM, 4C's
This year's conference will begin on Sunday, November 12th
and end on Monday, November 13th. There will also be a free pre-conference on
Saturday, November 11th. You can
register for this year's conference online with a credit card payment or have
an invoice sent to you. Click here to register for the conference.
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