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Ed Policy Roundup Aug 25, 2017:
PublicSource
In Depth Series: THE CHARTER EFFECT
A PublicSource Special Project Summer 2017
Traditionally, the 20th anniversary is celebrated with china but
we are marking the 20th anniversary of Pennsylvania’s charter school law with
transparency and depth. While other local media outlets have reported on the
sweeping change charter school choice has had on students and traditional
school districts, our series will expand on that by teasing out the root of the
tension between charters and other public schools: money and what appears to be
differing standards of accountability. This series will expose and explain the
data and records behind the charter schools operating in Allegheny County.
“But
they didn't take the creative penmanship sitting down. Both are now
plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging the lines, which gave Republicans 13 of
Pennsylvania's 18 congressional districts and Democrats seven out of eight in
Maryland. As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a landmark
challenge to Wisconsin's
partisan gerrymandering in October, opponents of the process in other states
aren't just waiting for the justices' verdict. They're waging legal and
constitutional battles of their own that also could reach the nation's highest
court.”
Gerrymandering: Political maps under fire as Supreme Court case on
tailor-made districts looms
Richard Wolf, USA Today
Published 3:25 p.m. ET Aug. 24, 2017 | Updated 5:02 p.m. ET Aug. 24
CHESTER, Pa. — Beth Lawn's neighborhood of modest duplexes
has more in common with the rest of this struggling, crime-ridden city
on the Delaware River next to Philadelphia than it does with the Amish
farms of Lancaster County 50 miles away. But the 71-year-old grandmother
awoke one morning to find she had been moved from Pennsylvania's 1st
congressional district to the 7th, a labyrinthine monstrosity that winds its way
through five counties and has been likened to a caricature of Goofy
kicking Donald Duck. "I'm pretty sure I'm in Goofy's thumb," Lawn
says. "I have a vote, but it really doesn't count for anything." Jerry
DeWolf had a similar experience across the border in Maryland when his largely
rural 6th congressional district, home to 40 miles of the Appalachian Trail,
was stretched to include wealthy suburbs of Washington. He wasn't moved
out, but a new congressman was moved in. Both Lawn and DeWolf were victims of
partisan gerrymandering — purposeful line-drawing by state lawmakers to
maximize their political party's strength in Congress and state legislatures
and weaken their opponents. In Lawn's case, Pennsylvania Republicans drew
the maps. In DeWolf's, it was Maryland Democrats.
Here's
how state lawmakers hid $65m worth of earmarks in 2017-18 budget | Thursday
Morning Coffee
Penn Live By John L. Micek jmicek@pennlive.com Updated on August 24, 2017 at
9:54 AM Posted on August 24, 2017 at 8:06 AMGood Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers.
As we noted Wednesday, Republicans who control the General Assembly and the Democratic Wolf administration are a long way from an agreement on how to pay for the $32 billion 2017-2018 state budget that went into effect on July 1. But even if they couldn't figure out a way to pay for it, one of the nation's largest and most expensive legislatures was incredibly efficient at tucking some $65 million in pet projects into the thicket of language in a piece of budget-enabling legislation known as the Fiscal Code. Our friends at the Commonwealth Foundation were kind enough to cull through the document (so we didn't have to), extracting the pearls that your soon-to-be raised taxes will pay for in counties in every corner of the Commonwealth. But if you're trying to figure out exactly what those projects are, good luck. You have to be fluent in Legislativese to divine lawmakers' intent.
Editorial by TRIBUNE-REVIEW | Thursday, Aug.
24, 2017, 11:00 p.m.
As Pennsylvania lawmakers target more things to tax to close a
$2.2 billion gap in a still-incomplete state budget, they've carved out more
than $65 million in earmarks in the Senate-approved fiscal code. Even worse,
they obscured their various procurements by wording them so vaguely as to
render them nearly incomprehensible. But the folks at the Commonwealth
Foundation have a decoder ring, and here's just a sample of what they found:
• $5 million “shall be distributed to a hospital in a city of the
third class in a home rule county that was formerly a county of the second
class A.” Commonwealth's translation: This probably meant Crozer-Keystone
Health System in Chester City.
• “$850,000 shall be allocated to a special rehabilitation
facility in Peer Group Number 13 in a city of the third class with a population
between 115,000 and 120,000 based upon 2010 census data.” Commonwealth's
translation: This likely will go to a facility in Allentown.
It's beyond the pale that millions of dollars in spending are
shielded from public scrutiny — in part, by stuffing them in the fiscal code.
And this, when a Senate-passed revenue package (still without House approval)
jacks up taxes on natural gas, along with telephone and electric utilities.
What's exposed is Pennsylvania's chronic spending problem. Rather
than penning new and higher taxes, what lawmakers need is a good eraser.
House
Republicans are working to protect taxpayers
Post Gazette Opinion by REP. JASON
ORTITAY South Fayette AUG 25, 2017
The writer, a Republican, represents the 46th Legislative
District, which includes part of Allegheny County and part of Washington
County.
The Post-Gazette has it wrong with its depiction of Pennsylvania’s
Speaker of the House Mike Turzai and state House Republicans in recent
editorials and the Aug. 21 editorial cartoon. In April, the House passed a balanced budget that reduced
spending, cut bureaucracy and funded our schools — without increasing taxes. The
Senate took until late June to begin considering the budget, and once it and
the Wolf administration got involved, the cost to taxpayers went up. Meanwhile,
the governor himself has been basically disengaged since his February budget
address, choosing instead to go into campaign mode. Where was the Post-Gazette
reporting — and indignation — about how we got in this deficit situation in the
first place? Why did the governor go on a $1.5 billion deficit spending spree
last year, instead of placing money in budgetary reserve like the four prior
governors? Why did he spend $1.8 million in taxpayer dollars on a consulting
firm to develop “his” last budget proposal? Does that sound like someone with
vision, leadership and passion for this great commonwealth? What has Gov. Tom
Wolf specifically done to build consensus about a revenue plan? As I talk with
my constituents, it’s clear they don’t support the Senate-passed utility taxes,
and that was evident at the hearing I hosted recently in Bridgeville. Thanks to
the efforts of the House Republican leadership team, including Mr. Turzai,
members have gotten more involved than ever, and we are poised to roll out a
new revenue plan in the very near future.
York Dispatch Opinion by State Sen. Andy
Dinniman, Senate Education Committee Published
8:15 a.m. ET Aug. 24, 2017 | Updated
10:09 a.m. ET Aug. 24, 2017
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 this month’s announcement of Pennsylvania’s
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Plan was spin at its finest. Gov. Tom Woolf
and Secretary of Education Pedro A. 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:
·
Does subjecting students as young as 8 and 9 years old to
six-and-a-half days of testing, instead of eight days, really end test culture?
·
Does making eighth-grade students take both the PSSA and the
Keystone Exam end test culture?
·
Does continuing the Keystones as a high school graduation
requirement and forcing students to take the equivalent of 10 days of testing
end test culture?
·
Does maintaining a policy of teacher evaluation and school
performance that still depends on test scores end the emphasis on teaching to
the test?
·
The answer to these questions is obviously no, despite any
attempts at political spin. And, as is often the case, what wasn’t said is much
more telling than what was.
What the governor and the secretary of education didn’t want to
talk about is the problematic continuation of the Keystone Exams and their
graduation requirement in Pennsylvania’s ESSA plan.
Wissahickon’s
KIDS program improves students’ school readiness
Times Herald By Rob Heyman, For Digital
First Media POSTED: 08/24/17, 3:51 PM
EDT
LOWER GWYNEDD >> Efforts to close an achievement gap in the
Wissahickon School District by focusing specifically on students before they
enter elementary school is yielding some payoff, school district officials said
Aug. 21. Dr. Matthew Walsh and Toby Albanese, who are the district’s director
of elementary education and Shady Grove Elementary School principal,
respectively, gave the school board an update on their team’s yearlong work
addressing elementary school readiness. Wissahickon has a 10-year “attack plan”
to address and remedy identified disparities in academic achievement between
students of different demographic and income groups in the district. The
district broke this achievement gap into individual sub-gaps based on those
factors that the district feels contribute to the overall gap. Separate teams
then were assigned to study each sub-gap and report their work to the board. For
example, teams were assigned to look at components like special education,
student behavior and wellness, among other areas where achievement disparities
can occur. Walsh and Albanese’s team was charged with looking at the “entrance”
gap — or what can done to identify and help at-risk students before they enter
elementary school. Albanese said that fundamental to the district’s work as it
relates to this entrance study is closing any achievement gaps as early as
possible in a child’s education by building relationships with each student and
tailoring instruction to their individual needs.
CenClear gets $6 million grant for Head
Start, Early Head Start programs
Centre Daily Times BY BRITNEY MILAZZO bmilazzo@centredaily.com AUGUST 24, 2017
A grant through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
is helping to boost early childhood programs at CenClear Child Services in
Centre and Clearfield counties.
“Without this grant, 877 preschool children in Clearfield and
Centre counties would not have the opportunity to embark on the journey of
life-long learning successfully,” Executive Director Pauline Raab said in an
email. Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Howard Township, recently announced that the
Bigler-based child care provider was given a $6,157,353 federal grant to
specifically benefit Head Start and Early Head Start programs. “These funds
will be instrumental in delivering early childhood education programs,”
Thompson said in a statement. “CenClear can continue to provide quality,
comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition and
parent-involvement services for the region.”
“Pre-K Counts is a federally funded
program designed for children who are considered “at risk of school failure,”
according to the Pennsylvania Department of Education website. Eligibility
requirements include falling within 300 percent of the federal poverty
guidelines, which is a family of four earning up to $72,900. English language
learners and students with special needs are also considered at heightened
risk.”
Class
of 2031 starts school in Beaver Falls
Beaver County Times By
Kate Malongowski kmalongowski@timesonline.com August 24, 2017
BEAVER FALLS -- Future graduates of the class of 2031 entered
Central Elementary School for the first time as prekindergarten pupils
Wednesday morning. Jessica Hammer, who also began her first day as a full-time
teacher, was there to greet her new pupils. Everyone involved had nervous,
first-day jitters. "When those kids came in this morning, we had tears, we
had crying. But the one thing you just have to do is make them feel safe here.
That's it," Hammer said. "They're leaving mommy, daddy, whoever
brought them, for the first time. So it is like the worst feeling for them,
like it's the end of the world, but somehow, I managed to get everyone into the
room, safe, sound and with smiles." Classes at several Beaver County
school districts resumed this week. Ambridge schools began on Monday; Western
Beaver, Blackhawk, Freedom and Rochester schools started on Tuesday; Beaver,
Beaver Falls, Ellwood City and New Brighton students began classes on
Wednesday. Aliquippa, Hopewell and Riverside students resumed classes on
Thursday.
In
Philly, an academic approach to school repairs [photos]
WHYY Newsworks BY AVI WOLFMAN-ARENT AUGUST 25, 2017
The majority of the Allen M. Stearne School in Frankford, built in
1966, looks every bit it's age. But step into one of the school's kindergarten,
first, or second-grade classrooms and you'll feel transported to the 21st
century. There's new smart panel boards, motion-sensitive lights, tabletops
that double as whiteboards, and a gaggle of learning toys too numerous to list
here. "I thought maybe a new bookshelf, new rugs," said
kindergarten teacher Kelly Kaczmarek, recipient of a refurbished room.
"But all this? [I had] no idea." Stearne was one of eight Philly
schools to receive a facelift this summer, but not because they were in dire
need of repairs. Or at least not on the surface. Stearne and the seven other
schools all posted low reading scores, and the fixes are designed specifically
to address that problem. Under Superintendent William Hite, the School District
of Philadelphia has placed extra emphasis on early literacy. Since teaching
literacy in small groups is all the rage, every detail in these new classrooms
pushes teachers toward that model. The desks, for instance, contain detachable
bins so students can easily move from station to station. Parts of the room are
color coded so a teacher could easily instruct students to join the yellow
group or the red group. All this represents a pivot in how the district thinks
about capital projects. Instead of solely using money to fix schools in dire
need of repair or expansion, officials want at least some of their limited
dollars funneled toward projects with an overt academic focus.
“Pre-K
through second-grade classrooms at the schools — Stearne as well as Pennell,
Locke, Lea, Duckrey, Gideon, Meade, and Haverford Learning Center — have gotten
complete makeovers, with everything from flexible seating and new paint to
cutting-edge technology and materials selected to help students learn better.
The schools were chosen based on low literacy scores.”
Philly
district spending $5m to spruce up classrooms
Inquirer by Kristen
A. Graham, Staff Writer @newskag | kgraham@phillynews.com Updated: AUGUST 24, 2017 — 4:22 PM EDT
Teacher Kelly Kaczmarek hardly recognizes her kindergarten
classroom. For years, Room 210 at Stearne Elementary in Frankford featured dim
lighting, old desks and chairs, and the sorts of materials that were standard
issue in Philadelphia rooms for decades. Now, 210 is transformed: new paint,
bright lights, a colorful rug, handmade cubbies, boxes and boxes of new
hands-on learning materials for students to explore, and extensive technology,
including six iPads and a huge smartboard. Kaczmarek was astonished that she
would not have to make her usual back-to-school runs to Walmart to shop sales,
stocking up on supplies so her students would have new materials for the year.
She said she was used to a different kind of classroom — “old tile floors, old
materials, books that might have drawings in them, might have rips and tears.” On
Thursday, the Philadelphia School District unveiled a $5 million initiative to
modernize select classrooms at eight city schools in an effort to boost
achievement there.
South
Park High School to open cafe run by special needs students
Post Gazette by MARGARET SMYKLA 1:25 PM AUG 24, 2017
A new student-run cafe in the South Park High School cafeteria
aims to provide more than coffee and pastries. The cafe will be staffed and
operated by students with special needs as part of their vocational
programming. “We are preparing them for real-world experiences,” said Kathy
Wooddell, director of special education for the district. “It is preparing
them to transition to the work world.” Special needs students in grades
9-12 will work in the cafe as part of their instruction. Their tasks will
include conducting inventory, stocking items and operating the cash register. A
contest to name the cafe will be open to all high school students at the start
of the school year. The school board Aug. 10 approved the creation of the cafe.
The idea was a collaboration among the special education department, food
service and the high school administration.
South
Philly Review By Gloria C. Endres Aug 23
Back in the fall of 2010, a
sensational documentary film was released titled “Waiting for Superman.” It
promoted the oversimplified notion that American public education has been a
gross failure that can be saved only by a free market reform model. Of course
the major blame for this exaggerated failure was placed squarely and solely on
teachers and their union. Whenever Randi Weingarten, the head of the national
teachers’ union, spoke, sinister music was heard. All she needed was a scary
cackle to complete the portrait of evil. Administrators, parents and the
students themselves were spared any responsibility for failure. Special needs
or disabilities did not matter. If only those villainous, incompetent educators
could be brought to submission and lose their union protections, defined
benefit pensions, seniority rights and tenure, the free market would descend
like Superman and magically take care of everything. The star of the film was
former chancellor of the District of Columbia School District Michelle Rhee,
who had formed a PAC called Students First. She shared the same name with
another PAC affiliated with billionaire theocrat Betsy DeVos who had her own
school choice organization called American Federation for Children, formerly
the Alliance for School Choice. Together, Michelle and Betsy worked hard but
failed to get Pennsylvania state Sen. Anthony Williams elected governor of
Pennsylvania with his platform of school vouchers.
Philly
school principals OK contract worth $25 million
Inquirer by Kristen
A. Graham, Staff Writer @newskag | kgraham@phillynews.com Updated: AUGUST 24, 2017 — 9:18 PM EDT
Philadelphia School District administrators Thursday night
overwhelmingly approved a new five-year contract that will give them pay raises
and bonuses, and restore principals as 12-month employees. Ninety percent of
the voting membership of Teamsters Local 502, Commonwealth Association of
School Administrators, approved the deal, union president Robin Pleshette
Cooper said. The deal, which is retroactive to 2016 and runs through Aug.
31, 2021, will cost the School District $25.6 million. Officials said they had
budgeted for that amount in the school system’s five-year plan. “I believe it’s
the best offer that we could have received to get us on the road to recovery,”
Cooper said. All employees — the union represents a range of administrative
employees, from building principals to food service managers — will receive
raises that total 2 percent over the life of the contract, plus bonuses and
“step” increases, which give members pay for years of experience. A deal
roundly rejected last year would have given CASA members raises totaling 1.5
percent over the contract, Cooper said.
End
of public education in Pa.
Daily Item Letter by David L. Faust, Selinsgrove August 24, 2017
If voters in November approve a proposed Pennsylvania
Constitutional amendment allowing the General Assembly to pass a law that would
allow property owners to exclude 100 percent of the assessed value of a
homestead from local taxing authorities, it could signal the end of public
education in Pennsylvania in the very near future. Despite state responsibility
for providing public education, Pennsylvania’s public schools aren’t funded
anywhere near the 50 percent level; and the local school districts, especially
in rural areas, depend on real estate taxes to fund most of that difference in
their costs. In 2011, the Corbett administration cut millions of dollars in
state funding to rural public districts that closed more than 200
neighborhood schools, furloughed more than 20,000 teachers and thousands more
support staff, caused employee pay freezes and increased school real estate
taxes; and it was those taxes that kept the rural schools from closing. What do
you think would happen if Scott Wagner wins the gubernatorial election in 2018?
The private schools for the rich will flourish; and if the
proposed constitutional amendment is approved, it could be the end of public
education in Pennsylvania.
Education Week By Denisa R. Superville August 24, 2017 | Updated: August 24, 2017
Black students and low-income children are more likely to attend schools that get shut down for poor performance, and the majority of students who are displaced by closures do not end up in better schools. But for those students who landed in better schools, their academic progress outpaced that of students in low-performing schools that remained open, according to new research released Thursday by the Center for Research and Education Outcomes, CREDO, at Stanford University. And the academic gains on test scores were particularly significant for black and Latino students who ended up in better schools. Most striking was the finding for Hispanic students: Those who ended up higher-performing schools gained the equivalent of 74 additional days of learning in math. Those findings—from one of the largest studies to date on how shuttering schools affects student achievement—back up smaller, more localized research on the fraught and controversial practice of closing schools.
Education Week By Catherine Gewertz Aug. 23, 2017
Twenty-one percent of U.S.
schools offer courses that are entirely online, without any brick-and-mortar
activities, and charter schools are much more likely than traditional schools
to offer such courses, according to new federal data. The Teacher and Principal Survey, released
earlier this week by the National Center for Education Statistics, reports
that in 2015-16, 20 percent of the country's 83,500 traditional public schools
and 29 percent of its 6,900 charter schools offered courses that took place
exclusively in cyberspace. Charter schools have waded in more deeply than have
traditional schools, too. Fourteen percent of charter schools offer all their
courses in an online-only format, compared to 5 percent of traditional public
schools, the survey found. The report marks the first time the NCES has collected data on the
use of online-only courses. "We recognized that schools were leveraging new
technologies and wanted to be sure that [the teacher and principal survey]
could capture their use," Maura Spiegelman, who oversaw the latest survey
for the NCES, said in an email to Education Week. Unsurprisingly,
online-only courses—also known as distance learning—are far more prevalent in high
schools, and in combined middle/high schools, than in elementary schools. More
than half of all high schools offer such courses, and nearly two-thirds of
schools that span both middle and high school do so.
The use of online-only classes also tilts heavily toward large and
small schools. About 44 percent of schools that enroll fewer than 100 students,
or more than 1,000 students, offer such courses. In-between-sized schools
varied: 13 percent of those enrolling 500 to 749 students, for instance, used online-only
courses, and 29 percent of those with 100 to 199 students offered them. Since the NCES hasn't tracked the use of online-only courses
before, there's no way to quantify the change in recent years.
Here's
What States Are Doing With Their ESSA Block Grant Money
Education Week Politics K12 Blog By Alyson
Klein on August 24, 2017 8:41 AM
UPDATED For decades, district leaders
have been clamoring for more say over how they spend their federal money. And
when the Every Student Succeeds Act passed back in 2015, it looked like they
had finally gotten their wish: a brand-new $1.6 billion block grant that could
be used for computer science initiatives, suicide prevention, new band
instruments, and almost anything else that could improve students' well-being
or provide them with a well-rounded education. But, for now at least, it looks
like most district officials will only get a small sliver of the funding they
had hoped for, putting the block grants' effectiveness and future in doubt. The
Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants—or Title IV of ESSA—only
received about a quarter of the funding the law recommends, $400 million
for the 2017-18 school year, when ESSA will be fully in place for the first
time. To help get bigger bang for the fund's considerably reduced buck,
Congress gave states the option, for one year only, to give the money out
through a competitive process, allowing for fewer, but more-ambitious projects.
Most states, though, still opted to pump the money out through a formula
that assures each district at least some of the pie, an Education Week survey
found. Only seven states have said for sure that they will run a
competition. (More specifics below.) That means most districts will get a
relatively small sum—as little as the required minimum of $10,000 for many
districts—instead of larger grants to a fortunate few. In fact, the program
will receive so little funding that many districts could decide to take another
option in ESSA: directing Title IV funding to another federal program,
including Title II grants for teacher quality, which weathered at a least a
$200 million cut in the most recent budget.
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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