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Monday, November 20, 2017

PA Ed Policy Roundup Nov. 20: Property taxes likely here to stay in Pa. Here's why

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Update: the PA Department of Education hearing on a new cyber charter application scheduled for Monday November 20th has been cancelled. The applicant has withdrawn the application.


CHIP: Pennsylvania wrestles with uncertainty over children’s health insurance funding
WHYY By Elana Gordon November 18, 2017
For more than two decades, The Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, has provided health coverage to millions of kids nationwide. But lawmakers have yet to reauthorize it, and that’s putting states whose funding expires soon in a bind. In Pennsylvania, that could jeopardize health care for upwards of 150,000 kids come February. “It’s really frustrating,” Teresa Miller, Pennsylvania’s acting Human Services Secretary, said. “We really thought we would see action taken before the end of September.” CHIP’s budget runs at about $450 million in Pennsylvania, with 90 percent of that coming from the federal government. The state has one of the biggest programs in the country, with more than 176,241 kids enrolled, according to Miller.

Blogger note: SB2, an Education Savings Account” voucher bill was blocked coming out of the PA Senate Education Committee by a tie vote back on October 24th.  It is anticipated that we will see another attempt to move the bill.
'Precious Little Evidence' That Vouchers Improve Achievement, Recent Research Finds
Education Week By Arianna Prothero on November 17, 2017 1:15 PM
There's been surging national interest in private-school-voucher programs with the Trump administration's embrace of the idea. But newer research on large-scale voucher programs has complicated the debate over private-school choice—policies which allow families to use public money or aid to attend private schools, including religious ones. What does the research say? In a nutshell: The most recent findings are mixed, but they lean more toward negative. I spoke at length with researchers from most of these studies for story I did on how private schools receiving public money in Florida face little state oversight.

HB722: Redistricting reform plan stalled in committee by Rep. Metcalfe
Morning Call Letter by Mary Jo and Russell Miserendino, Bethlehem November 18, 2017
In spite of a growing bipartisan citizens' movement across Pennsylvania for redistricting reform to end gerrymandering, House Bill 722 is stalled in committee. As the majority chairman of the House State Government Committee, Rep. Metcalfe is the only person who can move this bill forward. We are urging him to schedule HB 722 for action. A call to his office to find out why he has not moved on a bill that will restore integrity to our election process so that every person's vote counts has gone unanswered. Without changes to the process of redistricting, Pennsylvania will remain the third most politically gerrymandered state in the nation. As participants in three of the educational presentations on gerrymandering in Easton, Bethlehem and Allentown as well as the Oct. 14 conference in Harrisburg attended by 275 people, we know firsthand that more and more Pennsylvania citizens are clamoring for redistricting reform. In addition, HB 722 has an impressive number of bipartisan cosponsors — 98 House members already support the bill. For comprehensive information on gerrymandering in Pennsylvania go to FairDistrictsPA.com.

“Virtually every state relies on property taxes to some degree,” he said. “Nobody likes taxes, but as far as taxes go, property taxes are a pretty efficient way to raise revenue.” Michigan confronted the issue in a dramatic manner in the 1990s, when state lawmakers eliminated the school property tax without having any replacement revenue in place. “We jumped out of the plane without a parachute and knitted it on the way down,” said Doug Roberts, who served as the state treasurer at the time under then-Gov. John Engler. Michigan today still uses the solution that lawmakers found and voters approved — but it does still involve some property taxes.”
Property taxes likely here to stay in Pa. Here's why
Inquirer by Laura McCrystal, Staff Writer  @LMcCrystal |  lmccrystal@phillynews.com Updated: NOVEMBER 19, 2017 — 8:42 AM EST
The earliest known property tax records were kept on clay tablets.
Now some Pennsylvania lawmakers and grassroots groups — along with a majority of voters who approved a constitutional amendment on Election Day — want to go against about 8,000 years of history and eliminate a tax that today is a primary means of paying for schools and local government. But if history is any indication, property taxes are here to stay in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania’s constitutional amendment grew out of the efforts of homeowners who organized groups and attracted attention from lawmakers in Harrisburg. Keystone State residents are hardly the first to rally against the wildly unpopular real estate levy. Yet it remains a staple in all 50 states. It is a predictable source of revenue, less susceptible to the caprices of the economy than sales or income taxes. And efforts to move away from it bump into a reality, said Isaac Martin, a sociology professor at the University of California San Diego. “The reason that no one has gone whole hog to get rid of the tax,” he said, “is that we need the things the tax pays for.”

The Network for Public Education releases Charters and Consequences, a 48 page report that is the result of investigations, visits and interviews over the course of a year. 
Network for Public Education November 2017
From San Diego, California to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, NPE learned about the consequences of loosely regulated charter policy and the effects that charters are having on democratically controlled, true public schools.  We have concluded that this unregulated, taxpayer-funded business model of education is a fiscal and educational disaster. Whatever the benefits it offers to the few, the overall negative consequences must be addressed.

“You can find a complete list of charter applications here. The table below shows all new proposed schools and the number of students they would serve at capacity.  The new charter applications will be reviewed by the Charter Schools Office. The SRC is expected to decide on the nine applications in February.”
Nine new charter schools apply to open in Philly
WHYY By Avi Wolfman-Arent November 17, 2017
The School District of Philadelphia received applications for nine new charter schools that would, if approved, open up more than 7,000 new charter seats. The nine applications represent a spike from last year, when just four schools asked for a charter — and only one was approved. Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission has final say over application approval, but this is likely the commission’s last year before it’s replaced by a local school board. This year’s batch of applications features some familiar names, including Mastery, the city’s largest charter network.

"We are excited about Pittsburgh’s emergence as a global innovation center. However, we cannot watch another generation of low-income and African-American students be shut out of opportunity because they don’t have access to a high-quality public school," he said in a press release.
Two new charter schools hope to open within Pittsburgh Public
MOLLY BORN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette mborn@post-gazette.com 11:27 AM NOV 17, 2017
​Two new proposed charter schools have applied to open within the boundaries of Pittsburgh Public Schools starting in the 2019-20 school year. Catalyst Academy wants to set up in the former Urban League Charter School building in East Liberty, and Career Tech is eyeing the Energy Innovation Center in the Hill District. The brick-and-mortar charter school application deadline was Wednesday. Catalyst has planned a fall 2019 debut serving kindergartners and first-graders and eventually including students up to 8th grade, said its founder and CEO Brian Smith, formerly an administrator in the Pittsburgh Public Schools.

“Cooper and others like her might have a point-- if there were a speck of evidence that the PSSA was a valid measure of what is needed for a kid to succeed in today's economy, or college, or anything. There was no such evidence for the PSSA, nor is there any such evidence for the Keystone. And the PSSA, which is still given in lower grades, is a norm-referenced test with cut scores reset every year -- so somebody has to fail.”
PA: Graduation Test In Trouble (Again)
Pennsylvania's education bureaucrats had high hopes for the Keystone exams.
Curmuducation Blog by Peter Greene Saturday, November 18, 2017
Back in 2010, the idea was that there would be at least ten of them-- one for each major course-- and students would take them at the end of the year as a final qualifying test for course credit (and therefor graduation). Donna Cooper (now of Public Citizens for Children and Youth) was part of the Rendell administration pushing for the tests, and like all good reformsters of the era, all she wanted was perfect standardization so that every student in every state was learning exactly the same thing.  "It would seem to me that a parent in Norristown and a parent in Johnstown, their kids should know the same things to graduate.”  And like good reformy bureaucrats, neither the Rendell administration that cooked this up, nor the Corbett administration that cemented it into law, envisioned the state providing any resources at all to help students over this new hurdle. The Keystone exam system was the biggest unfunded mandate the state had ever seen. The fiddling began immediately. Maybe the Keystones would count for a third of the full year grade. And somehow we'd have to roll the tests out over several years, only they turned out to be hard to just whip up quickly. And they were expensive, too.

Wolf Starting to Look Like 'Two-Term Tom' as 2018 Approaches
He's starting to look like two-term Tom, as Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's polls now resemble those of former Gov. Ed Rendell's, the Democrat who won a second term in 2006.
US News by By MARC LEVY, Associated Press Nov. 18, 2017, at 2:09 p.m.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — He's starting to look like two-term Tom. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf likely has wrapped up his biggest first-term fights with the Legislature's huge Republican majorities and his record is largely set a year before voters decide whether to give him a second term. He now heads into the 2018 election year with political winds at his back. Wolf's polls currently resemble those of former Gov. Ed Rendell's, the Democrat who won a second term in 2006, rather than former Gov. Tom Corbett's, the Republican who Wolf beat in 2014 to make the first Pennsylvania governor to lose re-election and the original "one-term Tom." "That is a decent spot to be in for an incumbent governor who's been through lots of fiscal battles the last three years," said Christopher Borick, a pollster and political science professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown. "All in all, you probably take that if you're Tom Wolf." In recent days, eyes increasingly have turned to next year's election. The budget battle of 2017 ended, if four months late, and the four-candidate Republican primary field appears set with the entry of House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny.

Mike Turzai is running for governor. But why? | John L. Micek
Penn Live By John L. Micek jmicek@pennlive.com Updated Nov 17; Posted Nov 17
Conversations with two candidates this week drove home for me the choices that Pennsylvania voters will have to make during next year's very important campaign for the Governor's office. We'll start with Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai, who, this week, finally stopped talking to the bleached skull, dropped the Hamlet act, and jumped into a now four-way race for the Republican nomination to the top spot. So there's this: Turzai is holding himself out as the reform candidate in the race. Yes, that Mike Turzai. He's the same one who's been serving in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 2001; the one who stood athwart Budget Debacle 2017 hollering "No!" even as he kited off (briefly) to Atlantafor a conference; the one who more than occasionally drives Senate Republicans bonkers during negotiations on the big-ticket issues. Putting aside the sheer ludicrousness of casting yourself as the reformist outsider when you're the senior Republican in the state House and have spent years raising geysers of largely unregulated cash for yourself and other Republicans, Turzai is doing the least reform-y thing that any reformer can do. Namely, hedging his bets to the absolute max by running for both the GOP guv nomination and his 28th House District House seat at the same time.

John Baer: Pa. Lt. Gov. Democratic primary may be exciting - really
Morning Call Opinion by John Baer, Philly Daily News November 17, 2017
Oh, the possibilities. A race for an office nobody cares about. An incumbent who only got attention through misbehavior. And the prospect of The Hulk of Pa. politics vs. the dandy of the Democratic Party. Also, with women candidates on the rise, it could include a savvy, popular Montgomery County pol who, while a member of the horrid Legislature, really isn't one of them. It's all too much to hope for. But it sure could make for tons of fun. Which is odd, since we're talking about a primary for lieutenant governor, something that never gets noticed and rarely affects the race for governor. Yet here we are on the cusp of Democratic Gov. Wolf's re-election bid with a genuine battle taking shape over who will run with him. Braddock Mayor John Fetterman, he of national note and mountainous mien, on Tuesday announced he's in — black work clothes, tats, shaved head and all. Madeleine Dean, former LaSalle assistant prof, lawyer and progressive Montco lawmaker, tells me she's seriously thinking about getting in. (By the way, she too has ink. On her foot. The signature of John Baptist de la Salle, patron saint of teachers.) And Philly's Mike Stack, current occupant of the office, former ward leader and state senator, part-time thespian and colorful fashionista, is, says his spokesman, running for re-election.

For a better Pennsylvania: Part 2 - reduce incumbent protections
Philly Daily News by John Baer, STAFF COLUMNIST  baerj@phillynews.com Updated: NOVEMBER 20, 2017 — 5:00 AM EST
This is the second of five planned weekly columns, each dealing with one area that, if reformed, would make state government and politics better.
If you’re a state lawmaker or member of Congress seeking reelection, odds are with you.
In fact, odds suggest you can stay in office as long as you want. Just look at Pennsylvania.
During the last 30 years, over 15 election cycles, the average reelection rate for state House and Senate incumbents is 97.5 percent. Why so high? Three choices: first, voters are wildly appreciative of their elected lawmakers; second, voters don’t know or care about their elected lawmakers; third, there are powerful advantages to incumbency. Let me suggest there’s little of the first, lots of the second and tons of the third. This column focuses on the third. It links to last week’s column on campaign finance that noted there are no limits on what’s raised or spent in Pennsylvania — one of only 11 such states, and the lone Northeastern state.

Governor looks to emphasize computer science studies
By Eric Scicchitano and Rick Dandes The Daily Item November 19, 2017
HARRISBURG — The Wolf Administration seeks the adoption of computer science standards for Pennsylvania schoolchildren, a request that comes with the support of local educators. Gov. Tom Wolf asked the State Board of Education to adopt “Computer Science for All” standards, a set of learning objectives designed to develop a foundation for a computer science curriculum at all grade levels, kindergarten through 12th. The standards would be voluntary for schools to adopt but the governor said he’ll seek mandates, too. “I have asked the Department of Education to work closely with the State Board of Education to adopt Computer Science for All standards for Pennsylvania and I will work with the legislature to codify computer science standards into law,” Wolf said. In urging the State Board to adopt the standards, the Wolf Administration pitched its push on the future of the state’s economy. According to a press release from the governor’s office, approximately 300,000 jobs will require STEM skills and knowledge by 2018 — science, technology, engineering and mathematics. According to the Wolf Administration, seven in 10 new jobs will require computer science skills over the next decade.

Erie schools wait on financial monitor
GoErie By Ed Palattella November 20, 2017 Posted at 12:01 AM Updated at 4:44 AM
State expected to start selection process soon.
If the state put out an advertisement to fill the job of financial administrator for the Erie School District, the notice might look something like this: WANTED: Someone with a background in business administration and budget development to monitor the finances of the largest school district in northwestern Pennsylvania as the district emerges from a protracted budget crisis. Would work for governor and state secretary of education. Length of service to be determined. Those are some of the key details listed in the legislation, passed in Harrisburg in late October, that created the state-paid post of financial administrator for the 11,500-student Erie School District. Not yet clear is who will fill the job and when, and how much the state will pay the person. The General Assembly passed the financial-administrator legislation in conjunction with another bill that guarantees the Erie School District will receive $14 million in additional annual state funding starting this fiscal year.

Springfield (Delco), teachers OK new five-year labor contract
Delco Times By Susan L. Serbin, Times Correspondent POSTED: 11/19/17, 11:04 PM EST 
SPRINGFIELD >> A five-year contract was approved by the school board and ratified by the Springfield Education Association teachers. The parties were nearly a year in negotiations which led to the agreement effective Nov. 17, 2017-June 30, 2022. Among the agreement’s major factors are 2.5 percent salary hikes in each year of the contract. Progressive increases are structured in employee costs for health care from 13 percent currently to about 15 percent. In years four and five of the contract, the district will implement a health care plan with a higher deductible but no employee contribution to premiums. Although some minor changes were made in the other areas, salaries and benefits constituted the major elements of the agreement. School Director Bruce Lord is chairman of the personnel committee and leader of the board’s negotiating team. He called the contract a win-win. “The teachers have the increases they wanted and very competitive salaries which they deserve. They play the key role in what we have done in the district. On the board side, we were able to implement the health care plan with a high deductible which will result in significant cost savings.”

Perk Valley caps tax hike at 2.8%, but 5.6% hike would close $4M budget gap
By Evan Brandt, The Mercury POSTED: 11/16/17, 7:47 PM EST 
A 7-1 vote of the Perkiomen Valley School Board Monday night capped any potential tax hike in next year’s budget at 2.8 percent, but a big budget deficit remains. The 2.8 percent cap is the limit set by the state, beyond which the board would need to seek voter approval. Outgoing board member Lynn Bigelow cast the only dissenting vote, arguing the decision about whether to live within the limit — called the index — or seek exceptions that would allow the budget to raise taxes above 2.8 percent without a public vote, is a decision that should be made by the incoming board.

Philly area students travel to Syria, visit Mars - virtually
Inquirer by Kathy Boccella, Staff Writer  @Kathy_Boccella |  kboccella@phillynews.com Updated: NOVEMBER 19, 2017 — 10:29 AM EST
The sixth grade English class at the Westtown School in West Chester was buzzing with kids eager to talk about all the things they’d just seen in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp – one of the world’s largest, teeming with people fleeing violent conflict in neighboring Somalia. “In the camp, it was so crowded,” said Stella Costabile, talking about the family of seven she’d seen sleeping on the floor of the cramped living quarters. A classmate voiced surprise at the large buses and trucks rolling down streets, just like in a large city, while others talked about how most of the people they saw were women and children. The sixth-graders had plunged themselves into the refugees’ world without ever leaving the comforts of their Chester County classroom: They explored the Dadaab camp through the computer-generated technology of virtual reality – donning high-tech goggles and headphones to explore 360-degree footage of the camp shot by the New York Times. The students at the K-12 Quaker school this fall joined a small but rapidly growing number of classrooms in the Philadelphia region turning to virtual reality (VR), or its less immersive cousin, augmented reality (AR), as a teaching tool that energizes kids by taking their class on artificial field trips to ancient cities halfway around the world, and on expeditions to Mars, scuba dives on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, or on fantastic voyages inside the human body.

“On Monday night, the school board is poised to pass a new program of studies that adds American Sign Language as a foreign language option for high school students.”
How a Liberty student helped bring sign language into Bethlehem schools
By Sara K. Satullo ssatullo@lehighvalleylive.com, For lehighvalleylive.com Updated Nov 19, 8:36 AM; Posted Nov 19, 8:36 AM
Learning sign language broadened and enriched Liberty High Schoolsenior Jake Weikert's circle of friends so much it got him thinking.  Weikert, 17, of Hanover Township, started teaching himself sign language the summer before his freshman year. Seeing his interest, his mom Courtney Weikert, a Bethlehem Area School District kindergarten teacher, suggested they take lessons along with his sister. Weikert picked up American Sign Language quickly and began volunteering at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, where his mom taught, with both deaf and hearing students. At Liberty, he began eating lunch with some of his classmates, who were deaf and hard of hearing, leading some of his friends to pick up some sign language as well.  "It was amazing to see how it changed their daily lives," Weikert said. "If two or three kids can make that much of a difference to them, what difference could it be for an entire school?" So, Weikert began researching if school districts offered American Sign Language as a foreign language like Spanish or French. Turned out that the Parkland School District did.

Schools have become adept at rapidly shoring up security at any hint of danger
Post-Gazette by CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press 6:00 AM NOV 20, 2017
It’s a familiar scenario: A school official, hearing about a potential danger that’s too close for comfort, locks down the building. A nearby bank may have been robbed. Officers might be serving a warrant in the neighborhood. There are reports of shots fired in the area.
For a northern California elementary school, the quick action is credited with thwarting greater disaster Tuesday when a gunman on a deadly rampage was kept from walking through the school’s doors. Schools have become adept at rapidly shoring up security, measuring responses against the toll it could take on students’ learning and sense of safety.

“Prior to Sandy Hook, architects would mainly integrate with administrators, such as Ed Poprik, who is the director of the Office of Physical Plant for the State College Area School District, but now architects are including aspects in the design process such as school safety personnel, local law enforcement and first responders. “It used to be that we would build a building and the police would come in afterward and have zero input through the process,” Straub said. “Now we have law enforcement and EMS walking the site and letting us know how they would approach a building and what are their concerns when you’re putting a building together.”
New SCASD schools are designed to protect against gun violence
Centre Daily Times BY LEON VALSECHI lvalsechi@centredaily.com NOVEMBER 18, 2017 04:40 PM UPDATED NOVEMBER 19, 2017 12:08 AM
When architect Jeff Straub was in the process of designing the new State College Area High School, the news of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary shocked the nation and changed the way school design was approached. The four SCASD projects he’s designed since each have elements that reflect a detailed approach to student safety. For almost 18 years, Straub has specialized in school design for the architectural firm Crabtree, Rohrbaugh and Associates, where he led the design of the high school and more recently the three elementary school projects that are beginning next month. Design elements inside and outside of schools have changed to address a culture where school gun violence is on the rise, but the communal approach to design is what Straub says has changed the most.


California NAACP calls for the choice of community schools
Cloaking Inequity Blog Posted on November 16, 2017 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 
When the words school choice are said… what comes to mind? We know that the majority of charter schools are privately-managed. The evolution of the school choice movement has resulted in charter-management organizations (CMOs) coming on the scene and essentially franchising schools like McDonalds and Burger King all over the United States. Considering that charter schools are becoming less popular and they often neglect to deal directly with the challenges of inequality and poverty while subscribing to the achievement ideology… there are many people searching for alternative school models. Are there democratically-controlled school choice alternatives to the private control that dominates the current education reform conversation (charters and vouchers) that address the needs of students faced with unequal conditions? YES! The California NAACP believes that community schools are one such option. At the recent California NAACP convention in Los Angeles, the following resolution was passed.

Meet the Texas pastor who opposes public funding of religious education — and fights the Koch agenda
Washington Post Answer Sheet Blog By Valerie Strauss November 17 
If you don’t know who Charles Foster Johnson is, here’s your chance to get acquainted. Johnson is the executive director of the nonprofit organization called Pastors for Texas Children, an independent ministry and outreach group that comprises nearly 2,000 pastors and church leaders from across Texas. Its mission, according to its website: To provide “wrap-around” care and ministry to local schools, principals, teachers, staff and schoolchildren, and to advocate for children by supporting our free, public education system, to promote social justice for children, and to advance legislation that enriches Texas children, families, and communities. Johnson and his organization come at their mission in a way that is very different from  that of other Christian faith leaders who support the use of public funds for private and religious education through voucher and similar programs. He doesn’t, and he has been a powerful voice in support of traditional public education in Texas. And that has made him a target for people who oppose his views, which Johnson addressed in a post this month on the organization’s website:

DeVos Won’t Publicize a School Voucher Downside, But It’s Leaking Out Anyway
Deutsch29 Blog by Mercedes Schneider November 18, 2017
US ed sec Betsy DeVos is willing to exploit individual stories to promote school choice. She wants to sell school choice no matter what, and she conceals any downside to that choice. Consider this story from Chalkbeat. It concerns a couple whose son DeVos used as an example of the wonders of school choice for students with special needs. In this case, the parents of a special needs student sued the school district regarding the rights of students with disabilities. It turns out that the parents did not appreciate DeVos using their son’s situation as a school voucher sales moment. I invite readers to read the entire article. However, in this post, I want to offer two critical issues noted by the parents in this particular case.

The ‘DeVos effect’ on the November elections
Washington Post Answer Sheet Blog By Valerie Strauss November 19 at 10:37 AM 
The slew of Democratic victories in November’s state and local elections were seen as a rebuke of President Trump, whose approval ratings have hit historical lows. This post looks at where his education policies, led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, were part of the debate during the election season. This piece was written by Darcie Cimarusti, a  New Jersey public school activist who blogs at Mother Crusader and is communications director at the Network for Public Education, and Carol Burris, a former award-winning New York high school principal who is executive director of the Network for Public Education, a nonprofit advocacy group. Burris was named the 2010 Educator of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York State, and the same organization named her the New York State High School Principal of the Year in 2013. Burris has been chronicling problems with modern school reform and school choice for years on this blog.

November School Leader Advocacy Training
PASA, PASBO, PSBA, the Pennsylvania Principals Association, the PARSS and PAIU are offering five, full-day School Leader Advocacy Training sessions at the following locations:
Friday, November 17 – Westmoreland I.U. 7 (Greensburg)
Take advantage of this great opportunity – at NO cost to you!
REGISTER TODAY at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SchoolLeaderTraining. 


Register for New School Director Training in December and January
PSBA Website October 2017
You’ve started a challenging and exciting new role as a school director. Let us help you narrow the learning curve! PSBA’s New School Director Training provides school directors with foundational knowledge about their role, responsibilities and ethical obligations. At this live workshop, participants will learn about key laws, policies, and processes that guide school board governance and leadership, and develop skills for becoming strong advocates in their community. Get the tools you need from experts during this visually engaging and interactive event.
Choose from any of these 10 locations and dates (note: all sessions are held 8 a.m.-4 p.m., unless specified otherwise.):
·         Dec. 8, Bedford CTC
·         Dec. 8, Montoursville Area High School
·         Dec. 9, Upper St. Clair High School
·         Dec. 9, West Side CTC
·         Dec. 15, Crawford County CTC
·         Dec. 15, Upper Merion MS (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m)
·         Dec. 16, PSBA Mechanicsburg
·         Dec. 16, Seneca Highlands IU 9
·         Jan. 6, Haverford Middle School
·         Jan. 13, A W Beattie Career Center
·         Jan. 13, Parkland HS
Fees: Complimentary to All-Access members or $170 per person for standard membership. All registrations will be billed to the listed district, IU or CTC. To request billing to an individual, please contact Michelle Kunkel at michelle.kunkel@psba.org. Registration also includes a box lunch on site and printed resources.

Save the Date! NSBA 2018 Advocacy Institute February 4-6, 2018 Marriott Marquis, Washington D.C.
Registration Opens Tuesday, September 26, 2017


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