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Ed Policy Roundup July 6, 2017:
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note: #HB97 Charter Expansion bill is in the Senate Appropriations Committee. If your state senator is a member of that
committee please consider contacting them regarding the charter bill.
PASA Update on Status of HB97 Charter
School Bill
PA Association of School Administrators Website July 3, 2017
PASA recommends the following changes in
charter school law:
*The funding formula for charter
school entities must be changed to reflect the actual cost needed to educate
students in these alternative environments.
*The cost of special education
students attending charter school entities must reflect the actual cost to
instruct the students through the IEP process.
*Over-identification of special
education students by charter school entities must be addressed.
*Professional educators in
charter school entities must meet the same certification requirements as
educators in traditional public schools.
*Charter schools must be
evaluated by the same measures as traditional public schools to ensure the
public can compare the effectiveness of all educational entities supported by
public tax dollars.
*Public school districts must
have the authority to properly oversee and evaluate charter schools.
*The Charter School Appeal Board
must consist of neutral, bi-partisan members that will be objective in the
hearing process.
*Billing discrepancies between
school districts and charter school entities should be reconciled between the
two agencies. The process of automatic
withholding of subsidies from school districts based on a charter school entity
claim must cease.
*Charter school entities must
display the same level of transparency with their finances that are required of
traditional public school districts.
*The enrollment and selection
process of charter school entity students must be transparent and free of any
form of discrimination.
*More scrutiny and review must be
applied to cyber charter school entities as their academic performance is
significantly lower than brick-and-mortar charter schools and traditional
public schools.
Pennsylvania's budget still not finished
Legislative leaders and staffers met behind closed doors Wednesday
to negotiate tax, bond borrowing and other bills that will enable the state to
spend money in the nearly $32 billion 2017-18 budget bill lawmakers approved
Friday.
Morning Call by Steve
Esack Contact
Reporter Call Harrisburg Bureau July 5, 2017 2:45 p.m.
The 4th of July fireworks have come and gone and Pennsylvania
still lacks a way to pay for its $32 billion, four-day-old spending plan. Closed-door negotiations are ongoing in the
Capitol among the Legislature’s political bosses, their top aides and
Gov. Tom Wolf’s staff as rank-and-file lawmakers
are back in their home districts. If a deal is struck, the lawmakers will be
given six hours to drive to Harrisburg for votes on tax, bond borrowing,
gambling expansion, financial transfers and other bills that enable the state
to spend taxpayer money outlined in the budget. “There’s certainly general conversations going on to engage with
the General Assembly,” Wolf spokesman J.J. Abbott
said. On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, emailed lawmakers
in his chamber to report for session at 11 a.m. Friday. “At this point, the
floor leaders and governor’s office are still meeting on key issues,” Turzai
wrote.
Pennsylvania
lawmakers told to stay away as budget talks continue
Post Gazette by ANGELA COULOUMBIS
AND KAREN LANGLEY Harrisburg Bureau 8:32 PM JUL 5,
2017
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's Capitol hallways looked deserted
Wednesday, even though the state is nearly a week into the new fiscal year
without a complete budget. Budget
negotiators on Wednesday said that talks are continuing, but Gov. Tom Wolf and
Republicans who control both legislative chambers have yet to strike a deal on
a plan to pay for the nearly $32 billion in spending approved last week. As they hash it out, legislative leaders have
told House and Senate members to stay put in their districts, at least through
Thursday. And it remains a question mark whether they will return to the
Capitol on Friday. In the meantime, Mr.
Wolf, a Democrat, has until day's end Monday to decide whether to sign, veto or
withhold his signature from the $31.99 billion spending bill that the
legislature approved late last week. If he does nothing, it would become law
after midnight Monday.
Overly
optimistic projections lead to $1 billion deficit reality for Pa.
WHYY Newsworks BY KATIE MEYER, WITF JULY 5, 2017
The last month of the fiscal year was a decent one for
Pennsylvania, revenue-wise, with returns coming in slightly higher than
expected. But it comes at the end of a year of unexpectedly dismal earnings. The commonwealth ended 2016-17 with its
revenues over a billion dollars below projections. Its expectations for the new
fiscal year are more modest. The three
primary tax categories are sales, personal income, and corporate income taxes.
All three finished well under initial estimates; sales taxes missed the mark by
2 percent, personal income taxes by 3 percent, and corporate income taxes by
6.6 percent. The state revenue
department confirms that this means the commonwealth is starting the 2017-18
fiscal year short $1.1 billion, plus another $400 million that it ended up
spending over initial budget projections.
That leaves a shortfall of a $1.5 billion going into this fiscal year.
And a spokesman for the revenue department said the state will also need to
find an additional billion to "balance out future year budgets, not just
this fiscal year."
How
much money will your school district get?: Pa. budget 2017-18
Penn Live BY JAN MURPHY jmurphy@pennlive.com Updated on July 6, 2017 at 5:46
AM Posted on July 6, 2017 at 5:45 AM
The $32 billion state spending plan that is awaiting Gov. Tom
Wolf's signature t includes $7.1 billion for basic education and special
education funding. You can look here to
see about how much of that money will be going to your school district, and how
much of an increase that is from 2016-2017. Database:
How much money will your school district get in Pa.'s 2017-18 budget?
The data also reflects the amount of Ready to Learn block grant
money a district will receive to use for initiatives aimed at raising
student performance such as preschool, full-day kindergarten and customizing
instruction with the use of technology.
PA
budget includes an extra $45 million for early childhood initiatives
Intelligencer by Joan
Hellyer, staff writer July 5, 2017
Pennsylvania's estimated $32 billion budget for 2017-18 includes
an extra $45 million for early childhood funding initiatives above previous
spending levels. Most of the additional
funding will be used to serve more than 3,300 extra students enrolled in
prekindergarten programs throughout the state. Plus, about $5 million of it
will be used to increase evidence-based home visiting services. The remaining $10 million in extra funding
will be used to serve about 1,800 children in Pennsylvania who are on the
waiting list to get a child care subsidy from the state. The subsidy, which
amounts to about $5,555 per child this fiscal year, helps parents and
caregivers pay for quality child care. To
qualify for a child care subsidy, a family of four must have $49,200 or less in
annual income, according to the human services website.
In Bucks County, a bit more than 2,600 children receive the child care
subsidy and more than 670 kids are on a waiting list, said Rachel Kostelac, a
spokeswoman for the human services department. About 200,000 preschool children
receive the subsidy across the state.
“The
statewide Safe Schools Targeted Grants program by the Department of Education
has a $3.9 million budget. Schools are eligible for an individual grant of
$60,000 for a school resource officer or $40,000 for a school police
officer.”
$32 Billion State Budget Renews Security
for Jewish Day Schools
Jewish Exponent By Rachel Kurland July 5, 2017
What has been a contentious will-they, won’t-they battle in the
Pennsylvania General Assembly has now given many a brief sigh of relief. A threat to cut funding for school security
in the 2018 fiscal year — specifically reaching Jewish day schools across the
state — has now been put back in the education section of the budget. “In the wake of bomb threats, religiously
motivated vandalism and other anti-Semitic attacks, the Pennsylvania
legislature should be looking to increase and expand the Safe Schools Targeted
Grants program, rather than eliminate it,” wrote Arielle Frankston-Morris,
director of Teach PA, a project of the Orthodox Union. The general appropriations budget reached $32 billion June 30. Pennsylvania House and Senate Appropriations
Committees, Gov. Tom Wolf and legislative leadership agreed to the budget,
which was passed by the House and Senate 173-27 and 43-7, respectively.
Gerald
Zahorchak | Lawmakers must realize they have to invest in schools, students
Tribune Democrat By Gerald Zahorchak jzahorch@pitt.edu Jun 25, 2017
Gerald Zahorchak of Johnstown is interim chairman of
Pitt-Johnstown’s education division. He formerly was superintendent of Greater
Johnstown School District and Pennsylvania Secretary of Education.
Pennsylvania’s economy and well-being are at great risk,
especially when it comes to preparing the future for our No. 1 resource:
people. Sadly, hundreds of Pennsylvania
school districts are at, or near, financial failure. Districts are suing the commonwealth over the
constitutional responsibility for school funding. It should not take a lawsuit
to force the necessary investment in all children. Students in many districts do not have access
to the same quality education as students who reside in wealthier districts.
What happens if, due to inadequate state funding, schools close their
doors? The fact is that the inequity in
school funding is a failure, and the many underfunded schools are victims, not
failures, of the inadequate funding. All
should fear the outcomes related to the failure of the state’s school system to
educate all children to grade level. These are terrible outcomes: less in
payroll and related taxes, less consumption and less productivity, as well as
the increase of the collective burden on many of our state-funded systems, e.g.
health and prisons. Once (2002-2009) in
the commonwealth’s history, students achievement was rising year after year;
Pennsylvania was the only state making gains, for all tested students and
subgroup populations, on the state and national assessments. During that time,
the state enacted, by law, new funding targets to ensure every school district
would have the necessary money to ensure all students’ success.
Times Tribune BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD / PUBLISHED: JULY 6, 2017
Facing a legislative election in 2016, state legislative leaders
scrupulously avoided the wrath of voters by unscrupulously passing a fraudulent
state budget that, they claimed, was “balanced.” Final numbers from the fiscal year that ended June 30 demonstrate
the legislators’ penchant for legerdemain. Now lawmakers are trying to figure
out how to fill the hole they dug last year.
Total revenue collections increased by 2.5 percent over the previous
fiscal year, which would be good news but for the budgetary context. To make
the budget appear to be balanced, legislators plugged in an anticipated revenue
projection of a whopping 6 percent.
That is the same bogus method that the legislators use to make the
state’s pension calamity appear less severe than it is.
Pa.
high court's tax ruling could affect school budgets
Inquirer by Kathy
Boccella, Staff Writer @Kathy_Boccella | kboccella@phillynews.com
Updated: JULY 5, 2017 — 5:18 PM EDT
In a ruling that ultimately could affect school budgets across the
state, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Montgomery County
Court to reconsider a decision that allowed the Upper Merion Area School
District to appeal the assessments of four apartment buildings. The owners of the complexes sued the district in May 2014 after
the district appealed their assessments, which it argued were too low. After
county court dismissed the case, Commonwealth Court concurred, saying a school
district does not violate the state constitution’s “uniformity clause,” which
requires that all taxes be uniform, when it seeks to increase revenue by
appealing certain high-valued properties that it considers under-assessed. Although state tax stipulates that except for
new construction and certain improvements, assessments can be set only through
a mass countywide appraisal, Pennsylvania courts have repeatedly ruled that
school districts are permitted to appeal selectively. In 2011, the legislature
passed Act 93, which agreed with the courts and says: “A change in assessment resulting
from an appeal … shall not constitute a spot assessment.”
Trib Live by JAMIE
MARTINES AND NATASHA LINDSTROM | Saturday, July 1, 2017, 10:09 p.m.
A bill in the Pennsylvania Legislature to let school districts arm
teachers has plunged local educators into the debate over guns. "Each and every community has different
circumstances, challenges and resources to best prepare for emergency
situations and protect their students, staff and visitors," said Timothy
Gabauer, superintendent at the Mt. Pleasant Area School District, which serves
about 2,000 students. Mt. Pleasant has its own district police force,
consisting of two full-time and one part-time officers. The state Senate passed S.B. 383 in a 28-22 vote last
week. The state House will not take up
the bill until this fall at the earliest, House Republican spokesman Stephen
Miskin said. Gov. Tom Wolf said in April he would veto it.
EDITORIAL Teachers should keep their guns
at home
Observer Reporter Editorial July 5, 2017
It’s summertime, so imagine you’re planning a vacation and the
country you’re thinking of traveling to has a lot going for it – opportunities
for outdoor adventures, if that’s what captures your fancy, museums, shopping,
bustling cities, bucolic countrysides, you name it. There’s one catch, though – everyone walks
around armed, like the denizens of lawless towns in old Westerns. You would
probably think that, wow, a place like that must be pretty tense and unstable,
like some kind of anarchic banana republic, and decide to spend your tourist
dollars elsewhere. But that’s the United
States that some people envision – a place where everyone is packing heat,
where everyone is in a state of heightened alert no matter where they are or
what they are doing, because a mass-shooter or terrorist could be lurking just
around any corner. This sort of fear-mongering has become the primary business
of the National Rifle Association, and now some lawmakers want to take this
misguided idea into our schools. By a
28-22 vote last week, the Pennsylvania Senate approved a measure that would
allow teachers, administrators and other employees to bring their guns with
them to school. They would have to be trained to use the weapons and undergo
the same type of psychological evaluations that are applied to police and other
law-enforcement officers. Six Republicans sensibly dissented, but Camera
Bartolotta and Guy Reschenthaler, senators from our region, were not among
them.
New law allows vo-tech students to skip
Keystone Exams
Students enrolled at Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School,
pictured here, and other vo-techs are now exempt from the state's Keystone Exam
graduation requirements under a new bill.
Michelle
Merlin Contact
Reporter Of The Morning Call July 5, 2017
Pennsylvania students looking for a career in carpentry,
automotive repair, cosmetology or other trades won’t have to pass a statewide
academic test to graduate. Gov. Tom Wolf has signed a bill that
allows career and technology students to rely on their trade exams to graduate,
instead of the Keystone Exams, which are expected to be a graduation requirement starting in the 2018-19
year. Instead of the Keystones, students
could pass the NOCTI (National Occupational Competency Testing Institute) or
NIMS (National Institute for Metalworking Skills) exams, which are tailored to
their particular trade and include a written, multiple-choice section as well
as a performance component. Nearly all seniors enrolled in career and technical
schools are already required to take the tests.
New state law amends assessment,
graduation requirements for technical education students
Centre Daily Times BY BRITNEY MILAZZO bmilazzo@centredaily.com JULY 05, 2017 7:56 PM
Many local educators are applauding changes made at the state
level to help career technical education students succeed. Last month, Gov. Tom Wolf signed House Bill
202, also known as Act 6, into law. It amends the requirement for CTE students
to take and pass the Keystone Exam in order to graduate; Instead, they’ll have
to demonstrate competency based on grades and alternate assessments or
industry-based certifications. Central
Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology President Richard Makin said
CPI students will still be expected to take the Keystone Exam but will have
other means of demonstrating readiness for high school graduation.
Trib Live by JAMIE
MARTINES | Monday, July 3, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
A reprieve from standardized testing could be in sight for the
state's students. Lawmakers are
considering a bill — sponsored by the minority chairman of the Senate Education
Committee, Chester County Democrat Andrew Dinniman — that seeks to end the
Keystone Exams and replace them with the SAT.
“It's to end high-stakes testing, because there are many bright students
who do well in courses but simply can't take tests,” Dinniman said. The bill would eliminate the Keystone
Exams, which are administered in algebra I, literature and biology. It also
would end the use of any graduation exams in the state. Local districts would be allowed to determine
criteria for graduation, but they would not be allowed to use a single test or
series of tests to determine whether a student can graduate, Dinniman said.
U.S. House passes bill introduced by Rep.
Thompson to help strengthen career technical education
Centre Daily Times BY BRITNEY MILAZZO bmilazzo@centredaily.com JULY 05, 2017 7:46 PM
In an effort to strengthen career and technical education, a local
congressman helped draft a bill that would reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins
Career and Technical Education Act. U.S.
Reps. Glenn Thompson (R-Howard Township), co-chairman of the House
Career and Technical Education Caucus, and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Illinois)
introduced the Strengthening Career and Technical Education
for the 21st Century Act. It was passed last month by the House of Representatives. “(The) vote is a win for the American
worker,” Thompson said in a statement. “Given the dramatic evolution of our
nation’s workforce, it is imperative that we create clear pathways to education
and training for students interested in pursuing careers in high-demand
industries and technical fields.” Calling
the act, “a well-engineered, bipartisan re-authorization aimed at permanently
closing our nation’s skills gap,” Thompson said the bill will “work to restore
rungs on the ladder of opportunity for every American regardless of age or
background.”
The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act provides
federal support to state and local career and technical education programs.
As Lehigh Valley districts face cafeteria
debt, feds serve up new rule on unpaid school lunches
Sarah
M. Wojcik Contact
Reporter Of The Morning Call July 5, 2017
At its peak this past school year, Northampton Area School
District amassed $10,305 in school meal debt — the equivalent of more than
4,000 unpaid lunch entrees. Frustrated,
the school board adopted a policy in April to try to get the figure down,
according to Superintendent Joseph Kovalchik.
Elementary and middle school students would continue to get alternate
meals that meet nutritional requirements after five non-paid lunches. But high
schoolers would be cut off altogether after five non-paid meals. How schools handle meal debt has become a
topic of discussion across the country. A 2014 federal report found 39 percent
of districts nationwide hand out cheap alternative meals with no nutritional
requirements and up to 6 percent refuse to serve students with no money. That’s why the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it will require
districts to adopt policies this month addressing meal debts, including coming
up with a better way to inform parents about the rules at the beginning of the
school year.
SRC
to vote Thursday on downsized proposal for new special education program
Advocates say it is an improvement, but they still have concerns.
The notebook/Newsworks by Avi Wolfman-Arent and Dale
Mezzacappa July 5, 2017 — 5:58pm
The School District of Philadelphia has significantly downsized
its plans for a new special education program after advocates and lawmakers
raised objections. But those advocates
aren’t ready to completely support the revised proposal, which is scheduled for
a School Reform Commission vote on Thursday morning. The debate centers on a small number of
students with emotional disabilities, but highlights larger disagreements about
how the District should educate some of its most challenged and vulnerable
students. The current proposal creates
an Alternative Special Education Program to serve 100 students starting in
September. The program would temporarily be run by a company called Catapult
Learning Inc. at a cost of $10 million over the next three years and focus
on emotionally disturbed students. During that period, Catapult would train
District staff to eventually take over the program. That’s a major change from the original
vision that District officials laid out in mid-June.
New,
$10M special-ed school for Philly kids draws fire
Inquirer by Kristen
A. Graham, Staff Writer @newskag | kgraham@phillynews.com
Updated: JULY 5, 2017 — 6:45 PM EDT
After an outcry from parents, advocates, and politicians, the
School Reform Commission last month shelved a decision to spend up to $54
million to establish a school for up to 600 Philadelphia special-education students
now attending private schools on the school system’s dime. On Thursday, the SRC is scheduled to consider
a scaled-back contract — $10 million for 100 students — but it is still drawing
fire. Opponents’ initial concern, they
said last month, was that the Philadelphia School District was essentially
building a segregated school. The
intent, school officials said, was to get city students out of placements in
Wordsworth Academy Inc., a private provider that lost its license to operate a
residential school after a teenager in its care died in a struggle with
staffers. The teenager’s death was ruled a homicide. The SRC ended its contract
with Wordsworth, which has filed for bankruptcy, on June 30.
In
front of live audience, Toomey defends health care bill
Inquirer by MARC
LEVY, The Associated Press
Updated: JULY 5, 2017 — 9:29 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Questions about the U.S. Senate's health
care legislation dominated an appearance by Pennsylvania's Republican
Sen. Pat Toomey in front of a live audience Wednesday night, as he
defended the bill as guaranteeing the survival of Medicaid against accusations
that it would deliver devastating cuts. Toomey
cautioned that multiple bills will be required to get it right. He repeatedly
insisted that it was unlikely that Congress would simply repeal former
President Barack Obama's health care law without passing a replacement. And he
touted a forthcoming addition to the bill that would commit $45 billion over
the next 10 years to fight addiction treatment.
Toomey's appearance in the Harrisburg studios of WHTM-TV came as the
legislation awaits a Senate vote. He also took questions on medical marijuana
and Republican President Donald Trump, among other topics, but most
questions focused on the health care bill he's defending.
Greg Toppo ,
USATODAY Published 9:37 p.m. ET July 3,
2017 | Updated 10:54 a.m. ET July
5, 2017
The USA’s largest teachers’ union is poised to take a hard line
against charter schools, publicly funded but often privately run K-12
schools that now educate about one in 16 public school students. Meeting in Boston this week, the National
Education Association (NEA) is expected to vote Tuesday on an overhaul of
its policy statement on charter schools. A policy statement is the
highest-level position the union can adopt on an issue. Though it is 160
years old, NEA has policy statements on fewer than a dozen issues. The new statement is NEA’s first since it
took up the matter in 2001. At the time, charter schools were something of a
curiosity: They were less than a decade old and enrolled around 571,000
students. The statement took a wait-and-see attitude, recommending that
educators evaluate charter schools on a case-by-case basis.
NEA's
New Vision for Charters Looks a Lot Like Traditional Public Schools
Education Week By Stephen
Sawchuk on July 4, 2017 7:15 PM
The nation's largest teachers' union endorsed a much tougher
stance on charter schools, opposing "as a failed and damaging
experiment" charters run by for-profit or nonprofit organizations. Under its new policy, the National Education
Association will accept only charters that look a lot more like traditional
public schools. The policy
statement, approved by delegates to the union's annual convention July 4,
allows the NEA to support only those charters that are authorized by school
districts and are subject to the same open-records laws, safety rules, and
accountability measures as other schools. It would effectively rule out any
charters run by private entities, including those operated by major networks of
charters, such as KIPP, Achievement First, or Uncommon Schools. Via a significant amendment added during
floor debate, the union now expects any charter authorized by a district with a
teachers' contract to hire teachers who are also covered by a bargained
contract (but not necessarily the same one).
And the NEA supports a moratorium on the authorization of any charters
that don't meet these criteria.
NEA Policy Statement on Charter Schools
Adopted by the 2017 Representative Assembly July 4, 2017
Introduction Charter schools were initially
promoted by educators who sought to innovate within the local public school
system to better meet the needs of their students. Over the last quarter of a
century, charter schools have grown dramatically to include large numbers of
charters that are privately managed, largely unaccountable, and not transparent
as to their operations or performance. The explosive growth of charters has
been driven, in part, by deliberate and wellfunded efforts to ensure that
charters are exempt from the basic safeguards and standards that apply to
public schools, which mirror efforts to privatize other public institutions for
profit.
Charters have grown the most in school districts that were already
struggling to meet students’ needs due to longstanding, systemic and ingrained
patterns of institutional neglect, racial and ethnic segregation, inequitable
school funding, and disparities in staff, programs and services. The result has
been the creation of separate, largely unaccountable, privately managed charter
school systems in those districts that undermine support and funding of local
public schools. Such separate and unequal education systems are
disproportionately located in, and harm, students and communities of color by
depriving both of the high quality public education system that should be their
right.
Gerrymandering: Fair Districts PA
Statewide Calendar of Events
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.
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.
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
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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