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PA
Ed Policy Roundup Aug 24, 2017:
We're
spending too much on testing our students - and not getting enough back |
Opinion
Penn Live Guest Editorial By Andy Dinniman Updated on August 23, 2017 at 11:35 AM Posted on
August 23, 2017 at 10:40 AM
State Sen. Andy Dinniman, a
Democrat, represents the Chester County-based 19th Senate District. He is the
ranking Democrat on the Senate Education Committee.
I know that when one challenges the policy of an administration,
especially of one's own party, you risk entering the danger zone. But for 12 years in the Senate, I have fought
tooth and nail against standardized testing regardless of whether the
administration has been Republican or Democratic. And I'm not about to stop
now. It's just too important of an issue. Harrisburg always revolves
around spin and the recent announcement of Pennsylvania's Every Student
Succeeds Act (ESSA) Plan was spin at its finest. Gov. Tom Wolf and
Education Secretary Pedro Rivera only focused on one part of the ESSA plan and
patted themselves on the back for ending the "test culture." Here are
a few questions about the whole ESSA plan that reveal the lack of candor in
their claims:
Scott
Wagner: Claim that the state is running out of cash is a scare tactic |
Wednesday Morning Coffee
Penn Live By John L. Micek jmicek@pennlive.com Updated on August 23, 2017 at
6:02 PM Posted on August 23, 2017 at 8:13 AM
Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers.We're now nearly three months into Pennsylvania's Great Budget Impasse of 2017 (because that's what it is), and the state, as we're credibly told, is on the verge of running out of cash to pay its bills. But don't try telling that to Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott Wagner, of York County, who blasted out at an email to his supporters on Tuesday dismissing it as Chicken Little rhetoric designed to scare voters into backing a tax increase authored by the leaders of his own party. It's the latest escalation in what some observers have described as a family squabble between Wagner, a small government conservative who makes his living from big government contracts, and senior Senate GOP leadership.
Pa.
public school retirement system significantly underfunded: think tank study
Penn Live By Paul Vigna pvigna@pennlive.com Posted on August 23, 2017 at
6:08 PM
The Rockefeller
Institute of Government released a report Wednesday that finds the Pennsylvania Public
School Employees' Retirement System (PSERS) is deeply underfunded and faces
greater challenges than other pension funds the group examined recently. At the
end of the 2016 fiscal year, according to a press release, the system had a
market-value funded ratio of 50 percent and an unfunded liability of
approximately $50 billion. PSERS currently uses a 7.25 percent earnings
assumption. Recently it has fallen short of this assumption: its one-year, three-year,
five-year, and 10-year annualized rates of return were 1.29 percent, 6.24
percent, 6.01 percent, and 4.94 percent, respectively, for periods ending on
June 30, 2016.
Public
forum on school property tax elimination proposals to be held in Lancaster
County
Lancaster Online by SAM JANESCH | Staff
Writer August 24, 2017
Eliminating property taxes is at the top of the wish list for many
voters, and some state lawmakers are once again trying to reignite the momentum
behind that decades-long effort. At the center of the conversation is what has
been known in recent years as Senate Bill 76, which would shift billions in
state revenue off the shoulders of property tax owners by increasing the sales
and income taxes. The state personal income tax would increase from 3.07
percent to 4.95 percent and the sales tax would increase from 6 percent to 7
percent, as well as cover more goods and services that are exempt. The plan was
narrowly defeated in the Senate in November 2015 and little has changed nearly
two years later. The bill was reintroduced in the current legislative session
that began in January but it has not been considered yet in committee. The
bill’s momentum stalled earlier this year as school boards and school
administrators put up a major counter-offensive because it would take their
revenue stream out of their control, as reported by The Caucus, a publication
of LNP Media Group. Now, Lancaster County’s state Sens. Ryan Aument, of
Landisville, and Scott Martin, of Martic Township — who are co-sponsors of SB76
— will discuss the plan and other options during a public forum Aug. 30 at 7
p.m. at Pequea Valley High School, 4033 E. Newport Rd. in Kinzers.
Hoping
the auditor general's audit, Manheim Township school board's 'teaching moment,'
has a lasting impact
Lancaster Online Editorial by The LNP Editorial Board August 24,
2017
THE ISSUE In response to an unfavorable audit by Pennsylvania Auditor
General Eugene DePasquale earlier this summer, the Manheim Township school
board last week officially approved a corrective action plan, detailing ways it will
improve transparency and accountability. DePasquale lambasted the school board
for operating in secrecy and mishandling taxpayer dollars in its termination of
former Superintendent John Nodecker in 2016 at a press conference in June at which he
unveiled the results of his audit. Manheim Township school board President Mark Anderson still
seems to be smarting from the auditor general’s smackdown of the board’s past
practices. “We acknowledge there was a mistake made,” Anderson said last week,
using the often employed “mistakes were made” sentence construction to keep
responsibility at arm’s length. Anderson said DePasquale’s tone at the June
press conference was “unnecessary,” given the work the board had done to
improve communication. But the board had to be held accountable for past practices. And DePasquale was right to
highlight the board’s shortcomings. Elected officials don’t get extra credit
for doing what they should have done in the first place.
'You
Woke?' In orientation, new teachers confront issues of race
The notebook by Dale Mezzacappa August 23, 2017 — 7:30am
It is a time, said Cristina Hart, for “courageous conversations.” On
this Thursday afternoon, about 30 newly hired Philadelphia School District
teachers filed into her elective session during their weeklong
orientation. It was called “You Woke? An Exploration of Culture Clashes and
Conflicts in the Classroom.” The orientation took place the week before
the wrenching events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a woman was
killed while protesting against white supremacists. But Hart, a 22-year veteran
of the District and an experienced teacher coach and mentor, had long ago decided
that too much goes unspoken in too many classrooms in Philadelphia and other
urban areas. Angry, disengaged young people, mostly students of color, resist.
The teacher, usually but not always white, struggles to respond. To understand.
To teach. “One of the things I noticed at Bartram [High School] mentoring
new teachers as [Teach for America] got started is that there is a gap in
experience and in culture with what the teachers have lived and what our
students lived,” she explained. “Basic things. Like coming to school prepared.”
Meet
five new Philly District teachers
The notebook by Dale Mezzacappa August 23, 2017 — 7:34am
Nicole Dranoff, 23, who just graduated from Temple, will be
teaching Spanish at Jay Cooke Elementary. Dranoff grew up in Warminster
and went to Central Bucks High School, which she readily admitted is “very
different” from Cooke. “I went to school [college] in Philadelphia and I
learned a bit about how it needs a lot of help from passionate young teachers who
are going to stay,” Dranoff said. She said she was making a commitment to do
that. “I always wanted to be a teacher. I would teach my dolls math,” she
said. “When I learned Spanish, I loved the culture. I lived in Spain for a
year. Maybe at the end, one student will end up loving Spanish. I’m concerned
for the students. They have hard lives. I hope to help with that. I am looking
forward to seeing what being a teacher is really about.”
Essay:
Philadelphia students get dirt under their nails producing fresh fruit for
their neighborhoods
WHYY Newsworks COMMENTARY BY AARON KASE AUGUST 22, 2017 SPEAK
EASY
In a city where far too many lack access to fresh fruits and
vegetables, opportunities for communities to create their own sources of
healthy food are invaluable. Outside of Tilden Middle School in Southwest
Philadelphia, a group of students plants a row of fruit trees on a grassy strip
that runs along the sidewalk. On a gray, cloudy spring morning, the kids help
shovel compost and mulch, and dig holes to place the young saplings. They're
making an investment in food equity in one of the most impoverished sections of
Philadelphia. "This is about knowing the food system, accessing the food
system, and having the ability to change it as well," says Tykia Jerry,
18, then a junior at John Bartram High School."In five to 20 years,
there's going to be a whole lot of fruit around here." Jerry and her
classmates are collaborating with the Philadelphia Orchard Project, working to
increase fresh fruit availability in low-wealth neighborhoods, provide outreach
on food education and build community bonds.
Blogger
note: Mike Crossey is the former statewide president of the PA State Education
Association
Democrat Mike Crossey Announces Congressional Run Against
Tim Murphy
KDKA CBS Pittsburgh August 21, 2017 5:49 PM By Jon Delano
GREEN TREE (KDKA) — In 2014 and again in 2016, Republican
Congressman Tim Murphy ran unopposed for reelection. Democrats vow
that won’t happen again in 2018. “I am a teacher, and I am running for
Congress,” declared former Allegheny County councilman Mike Crossey of Mt. Lebanon.
Before a cheering group of supporters at the Aiken Elementary School in Green
Tree, Crossey announced his candidacy for Congress, and he took on Murphy
directly. “Tim Murphy has voted against our students’ needs. Tim
Murphy has voted against our seniors’ needs. Tim Murphy has
voted against women’s health issues. Tim Murphy votes against working
families.” The 18th congressional district stretches across four counties —
Allegheny, Greene, Washington, and Westmoreland. Crossey signaled that Murphy’s
vote for the House Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act is likely
to be a big issue. “I believe in an America where quality health care is
accessible to all, where health care decisions are made by doctors and
patients, not insurance companies, and certainly not politicians,” declared
Crossey. And the former statewide president of the Pennsylvania State Education
Association took a swipe at the Republican congressman for not holding town
hall meetings.
Lawsuit: Pa. school created culture of
abuse and excessive force
Morning Call by DAKE KANG Associated Press August 23, 2017
A Pittsburgh-area school with a history of racial tension created
a culture of verbal abuse and excessive force that allowed resource officers to
shock students with stun guns and body-slam them, according to a civil rights
lawsuit filed Wednesday. The lawsuit by the guardians of five black former
students of Woodland Hills High School also says school administrators
"intentionally discriminated" against students because of their race
and filed false charges to cover up abuse. The suit seeks compensatory damages
and legal fees from the defendants, named as the district, the Churchill
borough government, a security contractor and six individuals, including a
former principal, two school resource officers and the district superintendent. In April, the Allegheny County district attorney said he was
reviewing allegations that Steve Shaulis, a resource officer at the school,
punched and knocked out the tooth of a 14-year-old freshman accused of stealing
another's student cellphone. Pictures of the freshman's bruised face appeared
online.
Former
students file lawsuit against Woodland Hills School District
ELIZABETH BEHRMAN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Lbehrman@post-gazette.com 12:22 PM
AUG 23, 2017
Five former students sued the Woodland Hills School District in
U.S. District Court on Wednesday, alleging a culture of abuse at the hands
of high school administrators, security members and school resource officers. The
lawsuit names the school district, Superintendent Alan Johnson, former
principal Kevin Murray, Assistant Principal Patrick Scott,
Churchill borough, Churchill police officers Stephen Shaulis and Chris
Lewandowski, and Dynasty Security, which provides additional security at
the school, as defendants. The former students accuse Mr. Murray, the two
officers and the security team of physical assault, intimidation and filing
false criminal charges against them in separate incidents. They accuse the
district leadership and other administrators of ignoring the alleged abuse. Two
of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, Todd Hollis and Timothy O’Brien, argue that the
defendants violated the students’ rights under the U.S. Constitution, the
Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act.
York Daily Record Published 7:00 a.m. ET Aug. 24, 2017Online Database by Caspio
About the data: The Pennsylvania Department of Education keeps a database of
educators' salaries around the state. The searchable data above is for the
2016-17 school year, the most recent available. The salary numbers reported are
only base salary, excluding any additional duties, PDE said. The numbers don't
represent take-home pay, because the amounts teachers pay for health care or
other benefits would still be subtracted. If you believe there is an error in
the data, please email news@ydr.com.
Pediatricians
say teens should sleep in. Schools won’t let them.
Washington Post By Moriah
Balingit August 23 at 4:41 PM
Pediatricians have been clear:
Early bell times can spell sleep deprivation for teens and, in turn, a decline
in academic performance, an increased risk of car accidents and physical and
mental health issues. But according to a recent report by the National Center
for Education Statistics, only a fraction of high schools are starting later
than 8:30 a.m., which is what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends. The
average start time for high schools in the United States is 7:59 a.m.,
according to the report, published Tuesday. For middle and elementary schools,
it’s a little later: 8:04 a.m. and 8:17 a.m. The data came from a survey
conducted in the 2015-2016 school year of a nationally representative sample of
8,300 school principals. Only about 13 percent of high schools start later
than 8:30. Nearly half — 46 percent — start before 8 a.m.
Keep
the federal government out of school choice
Washington Post Opinion by By Lindsey Burke, Neal
McCluskey and Vicki Alger August 22
Lindsey Burke directs the Heritage Foundation’s Center for
Education Policy. Neal McCluskey directs the Cato Institute’s Center for
Educational Freedom. Vicki Alger is a research fellow at the Independent
Institute, a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum and the author of
“Failure: The Federal ‘Misedukation’ of America’s Children.”
School choice has many benefits. It frees people to select
the type of education that will best serve their families. It makes educators
accountable to the people they are supposed to work for. And study
after study proves it typically leads to
improved academic outcomes. But despite these advantages, that does not mean
the federal government should push choice in a nationwide program. The dangers
may be too great. The Trump administration has made clear that it wants to
support school choice. In his
February address to Congress, the president
called education “the civil rights issue of our time,” and he has pledged to
direct $20 billion to advance choice. He also picked school choice stalwart
Betsy DeVos as his education secretary. Trump deserves credit for seeing the
need to weaken a government monopoly, let parents choose the best education for
their unique children and leave educators free to teach as they see fit. But
there is great risk in federalizing choice: He who pays the piper calls the
tune, and federal control could ultimately impose the same regulations on
once-independent schools that have stifled public institutions.
Number
of Students Using D.C. Vouchers Drops, Report Finds
Education Week Politics K12 Blog By Alyson
Klein on August 23, 2017 8:10 PM
President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education
Betsy DeVos have heaped praise on the District of Columbia's school
voucher program. But a report released Wednesday by
FutureEd, a think tank housed at the McCourt School of Public Policy at
Georgetown University, finds that the number of students who actually used the
vouchers dropped to 1,154 in the 2016-17 school year, from 1,638 four years
prior. About a third of the students who had already snagged vouchers through
the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program didn't use them. And more than
half of the students who received vouchers through the 2016 lottery didn't up
enrolling in a private school. The drop in program participation may be
partly due to problems with the program's design, the report notes. The
voucher program exists at the pleasure of Congress, which means some school
administrators and parents could be reluctant to count on the money. The
District gets about $45 million in federal funding, spread between the voucher
program, charters, and public schools. What's more, the vouchers are
sometimes provided after the city's private schools have completed their
admissions process. And the voucher program is getting "stiff
competition" from the city's charters and from rapidly improving public
schools, the report notes.
High
Schoolers Still Start School Earlier Than Younger Students, Data Show
Education Week By Sarah
D. Sparks on August 21, 2017
11:56 AM
More than 4 in 5 U.S. high schools start earlier than
doctors recommend for teenagers to learn best, new federal data show. In
its third
report on the 2015-16 National Teacher and Principal Survey, the National Center for Education Statistics shows U.S. high
schools start on average at 7:59 a.m., nearly 20 minutes earlier than
the average elementary school. While research on the importance of teenagers
getting more sleep has prompted many schools to consider later start times, the
average high school start timeis unchanged since 2011-12, federal data show. The chart below details the percentage of
schools by their start times as of 2015-16:
In Defense of Charter Schools
Charters are losing public support. Here's how to win it back.
Bloomberg View By The Editors August 22, 2017, 9:00 AM EDT
Charter schools have
traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support. That's because they deliver results:
Students who attend nonprofit charter schools on average learn
more and have higher college
graduation rates than kids at traditional public schools. There are signs, however, that this support is in need of shoring up.
According to a survey of 4,200 Americans released this month, public support for
"the formation of charter schools" has declined by 12 percentage
points over the last year, to less than 40 percent. For the first time, more
Democrats oppose charters than support them. Even among Republicans, who once
hailed charters for introducing competition into the public-school system,
support has fallen to less than 50 percent. Charter schools are, to an extent,
victims of their own success. The number of students attending charter schools
has doubled in the last decade, to more than 2.5 million. In 14 big
cities, including Philadelphia, Washington and Detroit, charters now enroll
more than 30 percent of all public-school students.
This has not made them immune to attack. Because charter schools
operate independently, their growth poses an existential threat to teachers'
unions. The country's largest union has called for a moratorium on the establishment of some new charters, a cause picked up
by other advocacy groups. Last fall, opponents of charters helped defeat a ballot referendum in Massachusetts that would have lifted
caps on the number of new charters in the state. That President Donald
Trump and Betsy DeVos, his education secretary, support charter schools,
meanwhile, has soured Democrats on them even more, tarring charters
unfairly by association.
“But
the larger effect of Trump’s remark is not that it is wrong but rather that it
is part of a pattern of his — and of DeVos’s — to disparage public education as
they promote programs that take resources away from public school systems.”
There
Trump goes again bashing public schools — and why it matters
Washington Post Answer Sheet Blog By Valerie
Strauss August 23 at 5:05 PM
He can’t seem to help himself. Just
about anytime President Trump talks about or does something in regard to public
schools, it is in a disparaging manner. He did it at
his January inauguration — saying America has “an education system flush with cash,
but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.” In
February, he invited 10 teachers and parents to the White House, but
less than one-third were involved in traditional public schools, which
educate the vast majority of America’s children. In
March, he made his first trip as president to a school — a Catholic
elementary school in Florida, a visit in which he promoted alternatives to
public education. In
April, he welcomed the Teachers of the Year to the White House but
didn’t, as past U.S. presidents have done, give time for the National
Teacher of the Year to make a speech. In
May, he released his first budget, which slashed Education Department
funding and promoted school choice. Both Trump and Education Secretary Betsy
DeVos are big supporters of charter schools, publicly funded but privately
operated, sometimes by for-profit companies, and of voucher/voucher-like
programs, which use public funds for tuition and educational expenses at
private and religious schools. Let’s jump to this month, where on Tuesday, in
Phoenix, he did it again.
PSBA Officer Elections: Slate of
Candidates
PSBA Website August 2017
PSBA members seeking election to office for the association were
required to submit a nomination form no later than June 1, 2017, to be
considered. All candidates who properly completed applications by the deadline
are included on the slate of candidates below. In addition, the Leadership
Development Committee met on June 17 at PSBA headquarters in Mechanicsburg to
interview candidates. According to bylaws, the Leadership Development Committee
may determine candidates highly qualified for the office they seek. This is
noted next to each person's name with an asterisk (*).
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.
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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Registration Opens Tuesday, September 26, 2017
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