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State Education Coalition
PA
Ed Policy Roundup Oct. 17, 2017:
The PA Ed Policy Roundup may be late and/or intermittent
for the next few days while we attend the PASA/PSBA Leadership Conference in
Hershey. Hope to see many of you there. On Thursday afternoon at 2 pm I will have the
pleasure of introducing Senate Ed Committee Chairmen Dinniman and Eichelberger
and House Ed Committee Chairman Roebuck as they discuss Education Policy in the
113th PA Legislature. Come say hello.
Reprise June 2016: Charter Advocacy Groups Want Higher
Standards for Online-Only Schools
Education Week By Corey
Mitchell on June 16, 2016 5:45 AM
Three of the
nation's leading charter school advocacy groups are calling for a complete
overhaul of state policies governing online-only charter schools. A new report
from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the National Association
of Charter School Authorizers, and the 50-State Campaign for Achievement Now
(50CAN) outlines the challenges facing the online-only, or virtual, schools and
offers recommendations to hold their authorizers accountable for student
performance and financial decisions. The three groups largely crafted the
report's recommendations in response to sweeping research findings released
last fall that showed that students who took classes through virtual schools
made dramatically less progress than their peers in traditional schools. It was
the first national study of the cybercharter sector and was conducted by the
Center for Research and Educational Outcomes at Stanford University, the Center
on Reinventing Public Education, and Mathematica Policy Research.
In a review of
online charter school performance, the charter school advocacy groups
found that:
·
On average, full-time virtual charter students make
no gains in math and less than half the gains in reading of their peers in
traditional brick-and-mortar public schools.
·
All subgroups of students, including those in
poverty, English-language learners, and special education students, perform
worse in full-time virtual charters than in traditional public schools.
·
Students who leave full-time virtual charter schools
are apt to change schools more often after they leave cyber charters than they
did before enrolling.
"If
traditional public schools were producing such results, we would rightly be
outraged," the report introduction reads, in part. "We should not
feel any different just because these are charter schools."
School
Performance Profile Scores for PA Cyber Charters 2013 - 2016
Source: PA
Department of Education website; A score of 70 is considered passing
Total cyber charter tuition paid by PA
taxpayers from 500 school districts for 2013, 2014 and 2015 was over $1.2
billion; $393.5 million, $398.8 million and $436.1 million respectively. Not one of Pennsylvania’s cyber charters has
achieved a passing SPP score of 70 in any of the four years that the SPP has
been in effect.
|
School Name
|
2013
|
2014
|
2015
|
2016
|
|
21st
Century CS
|
66.5
|
66.0
|
69.2
|
62.2
|
|
Achievement
House CS
|
39.7
|
37.5
|
44.8
|
54.5
|
|
ACT
Academy Cyber CS
|
30.6
|
28.9
|
36.1
|
40.7
|
|
Agora
Cyber CS
|
48.3
|
42.4
|
46.4
|
37.6
|
|
ASPIRA
Bilingual CS
|
29.0
|
39.0
|
38.4
|
41.9
|
|
Central
PA Digital Learning Fdn CS
|
31.7
|
48.8
|
39.3
|
46.7
|
|
Commonwealth
Connections Academy CS
|
54.6
|
52.2
|
48.8
|
47.5
|
|
Education
Plus Academy Cyber CS
|
59.0
|
50.0
|
|
67.9
|
|
Esperanza
Cyber CS
|
32.7
|
47.7
|
31.7
|
50.7
|
|
PA
Cyber CS
|
59.4
|
55.5
|
65.3
|
51.0
|
|
PA
Distance Learning CS
|
54.7
|
50.9
|
49.2
|
53.9
|
|
PA
Leadership CS
|
64.7
|
59.3
|
54.7
|
57.5
|
|
PA
Virtual CS
|
67.9
|
63.4
|
64.6
|
49.7
|
|
Solomon
CS
|
36.9
|
|
|
|
|
Susq-Cyber
CS
|
46.4
|
42.4
|
45.5
|
49.3
|
Cyber Charter School Application; Public Hearing November 20
Pennsylvania Bulletin Saturday, October 14, 2017 NOTICES - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Pennsylvania Bulletin Saturday, October 14, 2017 NOTICES - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
The Department of
Education (Department) has scheduled one date for a public hearing regarding a
cyber charter school application that was received on or before October 2,
2017. The hearing will be held on November 20,
2017, in Heritage Room A on the lobby level of 333 Market Street, Harrisburg,
PA 17126 at 9 a.m. The hearing pertains to the applicant seeking to operate a
cyber charter school beginning in the 2018-2019 school year. The purpose of the
hearing is to gather information from the applicant about the proposed cyber
charter school as well as receive comments from interested individuals
regarding the application. The name of the applicant, copies of the application
and a listing of the date and time scheduled for the hearing on the application
can be viewed on the Department's web site at www.education.pa.gov. Individuals who
wish to provide comments on the application during the hearing must provide a
copy of their written comments to the Department and the applicant on or before
November 6, 2017. Comments provided by this deadline and presented at the
hearing will become part of the certified record. For questions regarding this
hearing, contact the Division of Charter Schools, (717) 787-9744, charterschools@pa.gov.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Education
Cyber Charter School Application for Commonwealth Education Connections Cyber
Charter School 2017
Charter School
Application Submitted: September 27, 2017
Blogger
note: Here is the website for the outfit that has submitted a cyber charter application
to PDE that was posted yesterday.
According to the “Schools” section of their website it does not appear
that they have any operating schools at this point.
Commonwealth Education Connections. Inc
DeVos champions online charter schools, but the
results are poor
Pennsylvania's
virtual charters have a 48 percent graduation rate.
Politico by
Kimberly Hefling October 8, 2017
Education Secretary
Betsy DeVos has touted online learning as a school-choice solution for rural
America, saying that virtual charter schools provide educational options that wouldn’t
otherwise exist. But in Pennsylvania, an early adopter where more than 30,000
kids log into virtual charter schools from home most days, the graduation rate
is a dismal 48 percent. Not one virtual charter school meets the state’s
“passing” benchmark. And the founder of one of the state’s largest virtual
schools pleaded guilty to a tax crime last year. As DeVos seeks to expand
school choice nationwide, including online options, Pennsylvania serves as a
case study in the shortcomings of the virtual charter school model, or cyber
charter schools, as they are known there. The state’s 14 virtual charter
schools have flourished in rural communities over the last 15 years — so much
so that Pennsylvania, along with Ohio and California, now account for over half
the enrollment in the nation’s full-time virtual charters, according to
the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
Charter schools and traditional public schools must
work together to deliver on 21st century promise to students
Public Source By
Ron Sofo OCT. 16, 2017
Dr. Ron Sofo has served as CEO and Principal
of City Charter High School since August 2012. Prior to this position, Sofo was
the superintendent of the Freedom Area School District in Beaver County for a
decade.
PART OF THE SERIES The Charter Effect|
In my 31 years in
public education in Pennsylvania, I’ve witnessed public schools, within both
traditional districts and charter systems, that made good on the promise to
provide students with quality education. I have also seen schools that
consistently fail on that mission and I am referring to both, public and
charter schools. I’ve served within both sides of the state’s public school
system. For a decade, I was the superintendent of a public school district in
Beaver County. Since August 2012, I have been the CEO/principal of a highly
effective open-enrollment urban charter high school in Pittsburgh — the City
Charter High School. The mission of public education in the 21st century is to
maximize the probability that all students upon graduation will be college- and
career-ready. This ambitious goal requires a rethinking and redesign of our
public school system and most schools within it if we truly desire this quality
outcome for all students. For charter schools, this means our 20-year-old
charter school law needs to be improved.
“According
to a report by the U.S. Department of Education, Black male teachers represent
about 2 percent of the educators found in schools nationwide. The majority of
schoolteachers are female (75 percent) and white (83 percent) despite the fact
a majority of public school students are minorities, the federal data found.”
Great minds meet to uplift Black male teachers
Philly Trib by John
Mitchell Tribune Staff Writer Oct 14, 2017 Updated Oct 15, 2017
What started as a
small gathering in a local restaurant in West Philadelphia a few years ago to provide
African-American male educators with a space to network and vent, bloomed in
full during the weekend at the inaugural forum by The Fellowship of the National
Black Male Educators for Social Justice. Starting Friday afternoon, seminars,
panel discussions, workshops, receptions, professional development and, most
importantly, programs geared toward attracting more African-American men into
the education field kept the more than 300 participants occupied at the
Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel. The activities closed out Sunday morning
with Roland Martin, the host of NewsOne Now on TV One, giving the keynote
address. “The fellowship is excited to invite our peers and allies to
Philadelphia for our inaugural national convening,” said Vincent Cobb II, CEO
and co-founder of the Black male educators’ group. “We are confident our
program will be noted as a historical gathering of great minds that lead to
even greater action.”
“Philadelphians
are the only Pennsylvanians who are not permitted to democratically choose who
represents them on an elected school board. Since 2001, this undemocratic
body has consistently underserved the children and parents of Philadelphia.
Commission members have decimated our traditional public schools by turning
over dozens of them to outside providers and charters, been unable to get
anything that even faintly resembles equitable funding from Harrisburg, and
made unaccountable decision after decision behind closed doors as they divvied
out more than $3 billion a year.”
Kenney should commit to vote ending SRC before year is
out
Inquirer Letter by George
Bezanis Updated: OCTOBER 16, 2017 — 3:01 AM EDT
George Bezanis is a
social studies teacher at Central High School, the Philadelphia Federation of
Teachers’ representative at the school, and a leader of the union’s Caucus of
Working Educators.
Mayor Kenney
accomplished a longtime personal goal last month by finally unveiling the first
statue of a single African American on Philadelphia public property. The moment
was long overdue, and the mayor should be commended. As an advocate of democracy,
civil rights, and access to high-quality education for all of Philadelphia’s
children regardless of race, Octavius V. Catto deserves a revered space among
the pantheon of great Philadelphians. Just as Kenney toiled for more than 15
years to erect this monument to equality and democracy for all, others have
been advocating for the same amount of time to destroy a Philadelphia
institution that symbolizes the exact opposite. Inequity, corruption, a lack of
public input, and autocratic rule have defined the governing body of the School
District of Philadelphia since the turn of the century. It’s time for the
state-controlled School Reform Commission to go.
“The
Mayor’s Office intends to fight Scavello’s proposal, said Lauren Hitt, Kenney’s
communications director, via email. She listed several of the tax’s
accomplishments, such as sending 2,000 kids to pre-K, creating 250 jobs and
supporting 11 community schools. “If this tax goes away, all of that progress
will go away too,” Hitt said. “With the $1 billion deficit the School District
is facing and the state’s own fiscal challenges, there is no other way to fund
these programs.”
Why
so many people are still fighting Philly’s soda tax months later
The controversial levy is being challenged on four fronts.Billy Penn by MARK DENT OCT 16 2017 1:25 PM
At this point, the soda tax feels permanent. Sugary beverage
prices have been up for months and pre-K seats have been filled for almost as
long. Soon, recreation centers, libraries and parks will receive millions in
funding for improvements. And yet the war over the tax continues to rage. More
than 15 months since City Council approved the bill and nine months since the law
went into effect, the soda tax is
facing arguably as much opposition as it ever has. Mayor Jim Kenney’s signature
piece of legislation is now being challenged on four fronts: from a
Pennsylvania Senate hearing, a potential bill from Sen. Mario Scavello, City
Controller Alan Butkovitz and the American Beverage Association’s lawsuit,
which has twice been defeated but is on its last leg at the Supreme Court level.
Scavello, a former supermarket owner and district manager who represents the
40th senatorial district of Eastern Pennsylvania— which includes his hometown
of Mt. Pocono — is the latest to join the opposition. Last week, he began
circulating a
memo seeking co-sponsors for legislation he claims will invalidate
Philly’s soda tax and prohibit other municipalities from levying similar taxes.
His biggest concern with the soda tax is its effects on grocery stores and
convenience stores.
From
a voice of hard-won experience, a simple argument for early childhood education
| Editorial
By PennLive Editorial Board penned@pennlive.com Updated on October 16, 2017 at
5:51 PM Posted on October 16, 2017 at 12:43 PM
Some things seem so obvious that it's a wonder that they're even a
matter of debate.
We know, instinctively, for instance, that if a child is given the
tools to succeed early on in life that they are more likely to stay in school,
stay out of trouble and go on to become an active and contributing member of
society. And that investment begins before a child even sets foot in the
classroom through access to quality and widely accessible early childhood
education programs. Yet, as a recent
report by the advocacy group Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children reminds, Pennsylvania lags
behind many of its neighboring states when it comes to taxpayer support for
these critical programs.
Pennsylvania GOP leaders seek delay in
redistricting lawsuit
Morning Call by Associated Press October 16, 2017
Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania Legislature have asked a
federal court to delay trial in a lawsuit seeking new congressional maps for
the 2018 midterm election. The lawsuit, filed in early October, alleges that
majority Republicans drew congressional maps
giving the GOP an unconstitutional partisan advantage. Republicans won 13 of 18
congressional seats in 2014 and 2016 despite earning a little over 50 percent
of the vote. The judge scheduled trial for Dec. 5. Lawyers for House Speaker Michael Turzai and Senate President Pro
Tempore Joe Scarnati said Monday that a speedy
trial is unnecessary because similar claims are pending in state court and the
U.S. Supreme Court. They added that even if the suit is successful, there's no
way maps could be redrawn in time for the spring primary.
Erie schools focus on renewed state budget talks
GoErie By Ed Palattella Posted
Oct 15, 2017 at 2:01 AM
The Erie School
District got an assurance last week from Gov. Tom Wolf about its short-term financial
health. The district is hoping for assurances this week about its long-term
prospects. The state House and
Senate reconvene on Monday to try again to pass a revenue package to complete
the state budget, which is 107 days overdue. The budget’s spending package,
which the General Assembly passed on June 30, includes $14 million in
additional funding for the Erie School District in 2017-18 — money that Wolf,
in his visit to Erie on Wednesday, said remains in the budget and will be
available to the school district at some point. “It is one of those things that
I have supported in the past and I will figure out how I can free up the money
to pay for that in a responsible way,” Wolf said. The district is still hoping
that the General Assembly will make the $14 million in additional funding
recurring and permanent, a move that Superintendent Brian Polito said will
remove the district from the brink of insolvency and permanently stabilize its
finances and allow it to improve programs.
Special Thackston board meeting called, third hearing
canceled
York Dispatch David
Weissman, 505-5431/@DispatchDavid Published 11:18 a.m. ET
Oct. 16, 2017 | Updated 1:01 a.m. ET Oct. 17, 2017
Thackston Charter
School will hold a special public board meeting at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct.
17, according to a post on the school's website. The development came hours before the third
of eight scheduled hearings of revocation against Thackston's charter was
canceled, according to a York City School District spokeswoman. Thackston
CEO Carlos Lopez said Monday morning that an agenda for the meeting
would be available, but he later told The York Dispatch that the school's
solicitor advised him not to make an agenda available.
“Experts recommend that school districts
carry a minimum unassigned fund balance of 5 percent and up to 10 percent of
total operating expenditures in order to safeguard against economic
uncertainty, the school administrators group noted in a report earlier this
year. While overall fund balances are on the rise across the Commonwealth,
there are many districts that hold well less than a 5 percent unassigned fund
balance, the group noted. In addition to the 18 districts that report having no
savings, another 31 school districts have savings that amount to less than 1
percent of the operating budgets, the group found.”
Fund balances may raise
questions about schools' underfunding claims
The Daily Item By John Finnerty
CNHI Harrisburg Bureau Oct 14, 2017
HARRISBURG — Almost 20 of
Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts finished the 2015-16 budget year with less
than no money in the bank, Department of Education records show. Those
districts are outliers though, as most districts finished the year with positive
fund balances, in many cases with millions of dollars in the banks. Those
savings undermine the suggestion that schools are under-funded, said Elizabeth
Stelle, director of policy analysis for the Commonwealth Foundation, a
conservative think tank in Harrisburg. “It’s suspect to us,” Stelle said.
“We’re seeing reserves going up,” and in some districts “taxes are going up” at
the same time. Her group identified 13 school districts in the state in which
the district had savings that amounted to more than 20 percent of the
district’s operating budget, but still repeatedly raised local property taxes.
Many, but not all, of those districts were in suburban, more wealthy, areas of
the state. The rural school districts that they identified included the Central
Columbia School District in Columbia County, the Juniata Valley School District
in Huntingdon County, and the Shikellamy School District in Northumberland
County. Her group’s review included money in savings accounts set aside for
specific purposes, along with unassigned fund balances. Stelle said her group
included all of the funds because school administrators can move money into and
out of assigned accounts.
“The attack comes less than a week after
the state auditor general released results of a statewide
survey where a majority of school districts said they are
concerned about cybersecurity but don't have enough resources to prepare for
potential breaches.”
Kiski Area School District reports it was hit by a cyber attack
last week
Trib Live by EMILY
BALSER | Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, 10:12 p.m.
The Kiski Area School District
was the victim of a cyber attack last week, district officials said Monday. A
letter sent to staff and students, also posted on the district's website , said the attack
happened Oct. 10, but few details are being released while it's under
investigation. “I can't release much right now,” said John Tedorski, district
technology director. In the letter, Tedorski said the district's Chromebook and
Google Drive systems were not affected. The student information system and
accounting and payroll software were not affected in the attack because they
are hosted off-site. Tedorski said the district doesn't use Social Security
numbers for its student or employee files as a safety precaution. The district
is working with a third-party vendor to investigate the attack and recover lost
files. As a result of the attack, the district is buying additional protection
software for nearly $29,000. District Superintendent Tim Scott said
the additional software will help protect the district from cyber attacks.
SCASD
seeks more help with the extended school day proposal
Centre Daily Times BY
LEON VALSECHI lvalsechi@centredaily.com OCT 16, 2017
7:51 PM
The State College Area School
District has commissioned an additional transportation analysis to aid with
addressing the transportation needs of students if the district’s extended
school day proposal is implemented. Following school board approval last week,
School Bus Consultants, a Missouri-based company, has begun studying the
district’s transportation plan and will provide an assessment of the financial
impact of the extended school day proposal. The study will cost the district
about $25,000. In April, the district paid Tyler Technologies, of Latham, N.Y.,
about $7,000 to conduct a study of the district’s bus routes, but the contract
did not ask the company to consider the financial impacts of implementing the
extended school day proposal, which adds 44 minutes to the elementary school
day. The SBC study will build upon the work Tyler completed and offer a more
in-depth analysis of the transportation system, which is responsible for
transporting about 6,000 public school and about 1,000 non-public or charter
school students across the 150 square-mile district, according to a district
release.
“The speakers pointed to a 2017 study out
of Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes, which
suggests that effects on both reading (-0.10) and math (-0.25) performance
decreased for students in virtual charter schools regardless of what network
they a part of. “Virtual charter schools don’t work for most kids,” the report
reads.”
Public Educators Share Fallouts on
Personalized Learning, Privatization and Edtech
EdSurge By Sydney Johnson Oct
16, 2017
Educators from around the U.S.
gathered in Oakland this past weekend for the Network for
Public Education’s (NPE) national conference, where several sessions
centered around a common theme: protecting public education amid an era of
federal budget cuts and concerns over the increased presence of technology in
classrooms. After an opening keynote from NPE president Diane Ravitch, the
conference started with a talk Saturday morning led by Mark Miller, former
president of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association; Leonie Haimson, the
Executive Director of Class Size Matters; and Marla Kilfoyle, executive
director of the Badass Teachers Association. The speakers all pressed that
digital learning, and in particular online charter schools, are falling short
for students and teachers. “There has been a huge explosion of online learning
and edtech in our schools… and online education is privatizing education
through for-profit companies and their apps,” said Haimson. “But the reality is
that online learning has not progressed really far.”
Kneeling
during the national anthem: At schools, it’s protected speech
Kappan By
Julie Underwood October 2017
If high school football players —
or other public school athletes — choose to “take a knee” during upcoming
competitions, the First Amendment will support their action. NFL football
differs from public high school football in many ways. Different rules apply —
and not just different rules of play. As employees, professional football
players can be penalized or even fired for choosing to ignore team or league
rules. However, the First Amendment protection of free speech applies to public
schools and means students and spectators have a clear right to NOT stand
during the national anthem. We can draw that conclusion from the clear line of
cases involving standing for the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools. The
U.S. Supreme Court decided 74 years ago that students
could not be compelled to recite, nor be compelled to stand, during the
recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance: West
Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).
The Road to College Success for
Students from Underserved Communities
Philadelphia School Partnership Posted
on October 2, 2017
Wednesday, October 18th 6:30-8pm National Constitution
Center Kirby Theater
525 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
525 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
How do we prepare students for
what comes after their college acceptance? How do we equip them with the skills
they need to graduate and continue into the workforce? For years, author
Richard Whitmire has crossed the country, analyzing how a variety of schools
address this question. Join us as we sit down with him and Drexel Professor
Paul Harrington to discuss how leading urban high schools are helping
first-generation college goers beat the odds and achieve college success. Please
join us! RSVP to info@philaschool.org
Panel: Education
Policy in the 113th PA Legislature at PASA-PSBA School Leadership
Conference Thursday, Oct. 19 2-3:30 p.m.
The Pennsylvania Cable Network
(PCN) will moderate a panel discussion with the four chairs of the House and
Senate Education committees as they share their views about the education
agenda for the future of Pennsylvania’s public schools. Attendees will learn
about pending legislation and policy changes and the impact on their school
districts. Presenters:
·
John Callahan, assistant executive director, PSBA
·
The Honorable John Eichelberger, Senate Education Majority
Chairman
·
The Honorable Andrew Dinniman, Senate Education Minority Chairman
·
The Honorable James Roebuck, House Education Minority Chairman
Free Eye Care for Kids at Jefferson Alumni
Hall on Saturday, October 21, 2017 from 8:30am to 1:00pm
For children 17 years and under,
from Philadelphia and surrounding counties, who have not had, or who have not
passed, an eye screening and/or who are uninsured. For more information
email: gksd@pccy.org or call
215-563-5848 x21. Click here to download English flyer
Hosted by Take Action Give 5 and POWER Saturday, October 21 at 1 PM - 4 PM
Penn Wood Senior High School 100 Green Ave, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania 19050
Help Make Education in Delco More
Fair! Pennsylvania has the most unfair education funding in the US. This
affects every one of us. Join us October 21 to learn how you can make a
difference!
POWER Interfaith and Take Action Give 5 are pleased to invite you to a free event designed to educate and activate Delaware County citizens on issues related to education equity in our schools, county, and state. The Take Action Community Forum on Education Equity will be held Saturday, October 21st from 1-4 pm at Penn Wood High School, 100 Green Avenue, Lansdowne. We will host a panel of dynamic and illustrious speakers to explain why such education inequity exists in PA, offer ways to get involved, and answer audience questions. After the panel, our engaged and motivated audience will learn how to get involved with organizations working for education equity Delco. We aim to connect local activists - those new to the game and those with a lifetime of experience - with education equity advocacy and direct service organizations in Delco. Click here for list of panelists.
POWER Interfaith and Take Action Give 5 are pleased to invite you to a free event designed to educate and activate Delaware County citizens on issues related to education equity in our schools, county, and state. The Take Action Community Forum on Education Equity will be held Saturday, October 21st from 1-4 pm at Penn Wood High School, 100 Green Avenue, Lansdowne. We will host a panel of dynamic and illustrious speakers to explain why such education inequity exists in PA, offer ways to get involved, and answer audience questions. After the panel, our engaged and motivated audience will learn how to get involved with organizations working for education equity Delco. We aim to connect local activists - those new to the game and those with a lifetime of experience - with education equity advocacy and direct service organizations in Delco. Click here for list of panelists.
Seventh Annual Pennsylvania Arts and Education Symposium, November 2, 2017 Camp Hill
The 2017 Pennsylvania Arts and Education will be held on Thursday, November 2, 2017 at the Radisson Hotel Harrisburg Convention Center in Camp Hill. See the agenda here.
Early Bird Registration ends September 30.
https://www.eplc.org/pennsylvania-arts-education-network/
Support the Notebook and see Springsteen on Broadway
The notebook October 2, 2017 — 10:57am
Donate $50 or more until Nov. 10, enter to win – and have your donation doubled!
"This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for." – Bruce Springsteen
You can be a part of a unique Bruce Springsteen show in his career – and support local, nonprofit education journalism! Donate $50 or more to the Notebook through Nov. 10, and your donation will be doubled, up to $1,000, through the Knight News Match. Plus, you will be automatically entered to win a pair of prime tickets to see Springsteen on Broadway! One winner will receive two tickets to the 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24, show at the Walter Kerr Theatre. These are amazing orchestra section seats to this incredible sold-out solo performance. Don't miss out on your chance to see the Boss in his Broadway debut. Donate to the Notebook today online or by mail at 699 Ranstead St., 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
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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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