PA Ed Policy Roundup May 9: A six point primer on the indefatigable PA school funding lawsuit

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PA Ed Policy Roundup May 9, 2018

A six point primer on the indefatigable PA school funding lawsuit


Proposed voucher program for military families expected to feature in defense bill debate
Intelligencer by David Levinsky Posted May 8, 2018 at 6:34 PM Updated May 8, 2018 at 8:48 PM
The bill would allow military families to receive funding from federal impact aid to create education savings accounts that they could use to pay for private school tuition, preschool or even college. There’s a political battle brewing on Capitol Hill over a proposal to allow military families to use a portion of federal aid awarded to schools on or near military installations or other federal lands to create voucher-like accounts to help pay for private schools or college tuition. The controversial measure, known as the Education Savings Accounts for Military Families, was introduced in the U.S. House in March by Indiana Republican Jim Banks but is widely expected to be considered as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that’s being drafted and debated by the House Armed Services Committee. The massive annual military policy bill spells out how much funding the military will receive for the upcoming 2019 fiscal year as well as set military policy on a host of issues ranging from service member pay and benefits to how many new ships or aircraft the different branches will purchase. Bank’s bill would allow military families to receive funding from federal impact aid to create education savings accounts that they could use to pay for private school tuition, preschool or even college.
http://www.theintell.com/news/20180508/proposed-voucher-program-for-military-families-expected-to-feature-in-defense-bill-debate

TAKE ACTION! Stop Betsy DeVos’s National Voucher Program Before Congress Approves It.
Network for Public Education April 22, 2018 by Darcie Cimarusti
Help stop a federal voucher bill that has NPE and other national allied organizations very concerned. Send an email with a click to Congress to stop money being drained directly from public schools to fund a national voucher program. 
Here is the link: https://bit.ly/2J8Rd9P
This program will bring vouchers to your state, whether or not your own state law allows them. And this bill would be a first step in a broader national program, which is of course the dream of Betsy DeVos and the Koch Brothers.
Here’s a bit of background.
https://networkforpubliceducation.org/2018/04/stop-betsy-devos-national-voucher-program-congress-approves/

A six point primer on the indefatigable Pennsylvania school funding lawsuit
Morning Call by Steve Esack Contact Reporter Call Harrisburg Bureau May 8, 2018
A Pennsylvania school funding lawsuit on Monday survived another challenge after a state court rejected attempts by Gov. Tom Wolf and state lawmakers to toss it. Here are six historic facts about school funding and what is alleged in the lawsuit that the Commonwealth Court ruled could continue:
1. Constitution: The lawsuit centers on the poetic but vague language of Article III of the Pennsylvania Constitution: “The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public education to serve the needs of the Commonwealth.”
2. Precedent: For decades, Pennsylvania courts have been reluctant to attempt to interpret that phrase through court orders that mandate certain funding levels or rules. In 1999, the Commonwealth Court ruled budget matters for schools are the purview of the legislative and executive branches, not the courts. The new lawsuit, first filed in 2014, was originally rejected under the old precedent. In 2016, the state Supreme Court reversed that ruling and sent it back to Commonwealth Court for more legal debate and analysis.
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-nws-six-point-primer-school-funding-lawsuit-20180508-story.html

Dispute over how Pa. schools are funded to be decided at trial
WFMZ By: Jamie Stover  Posted: May 08, 2018 06:57 PM EDT
A 2014 lawsuit alleges Pennsylvania's education funding formula is inadequate and unfair.
The lawsuit includes six families and six school districts, including Panther Valley in Schuylkill County and Shenandoah Valley in Carbon County.  The defendants include Gov. Tom Wolf, the state's Department of Education and various lawmakers. The chief complaint is that the state doesn't fork up enough for education, making districts rely on their local taxes. Those suing say this has caused the widest educational disparity between the have and have-nots in the country. The government tried to put the issue to bed arguing to judges that the legislature already addressed this issue by adopting a new funding formula in 2016. "It's still not fair funding, there is still a lot of inequality and inequity in the way the funds are distributed," said Emily Schenkel. Schenkel is not part of the suit but she's part of a group that advocates for the Bethlehem School District. An attorney for those suing says Pennsylvania's new funding formula doesn't scratch the surface and says they look forward to addressing it in court.
http://www.wfmz.com/news/poconos-coal/dispute-over-how-pa-schools-are-funded-to-be-decided-at-trial/739786664

Commonwealth Court denies objections in education funding lawsuit
Delco Times By Kevin Tustin, ktustin@21st-centurymedia.com, @KevinTustin on Twitter
POSTED: 05/08/18, 8:51 PM EDT | UPDATED: 3 HRS AGO
A state appellate court has overruled preliminary objections brought in the education funding lawsuit led by the William Penn School District. A memorandum opinion by Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson issued Monday afternoon shot down objections brought by the defendants concerning the constitutional rights at issue and the level of judicial scrutiny to be applied in the landmark suit alleging that the state is not upholding its constitutional duty to adequately and equitably fund public education. However, the court would allow discovery to continue on the aforementioned issues though these objections will eventually be overruled outright. The court overruled objections brought by respondents from the state in regard to sovereign immunity and a separation of powers doctrine. The latter point, brought by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, was an issue that was settled by the state Supreme Court in September 2017 where it reversed the Commonwealth Court’s decision that the case was non-justiciable. The Supreme Court’s decision there remanded the cast back down to Commonwealth Court to start the trial.
“We are persuaded by our Supreme Court’s reasoning and conclude that the doctrine of separation of powers does not bar petitioners’ claims,” read Simpson’s memo opinion on the objection of justiciability. Finally, the court deferred action on an objection by state House Speaker Mike Turzai regarding the case pending further arguments.
http://www.delcotimes.com/general-news/20180508/commonwealth-court-denies-objections-in-education-funding-lawsuit

Pennsylvania School Funding Lawsuit Survives Again
Education Week By Steve Esack, The Morning Call (Pa.) May 8, 2018
A Pennsylvania school funding lawsuit survived another challenge after a state court rejected Gov. Tom Wolf's and lawmakers' attempts to toss it. Seven parents and six school districts, including Panther Valley School District in Carbon and Schuylkill counties, are suing Wolf and the Legislature to try to get the state to provide more financial aid to poor districts with low local tax bases. The lawsuit, filed in 2014, claims the state’s funding formula is too low, too outdated, and too unfair in light of specific math and reading standards set by governors and lawmakers on mandatory, standardized exams. On Monday, Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson ruled the lawsuit could continue despite objections from the Democratic governor and leaders of the Republican-Controlled House and Senate. In trying to get the lawsuit thrown out, Wolf’s lawyers argued that state constitution’s separate of powers doctrine gives the governor and lawmakers the right to make budget decisions, not the court.
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/05/08/pennsylvania-school-funding-lawsuit-survives-again.html

“Next year’s largest increases in general expenditure involve an additional $1,265,359, or 4.5 percent, for employee salaries and $1,404,632, or 7.3 percent, more in benefits that includes medical and other types of insurance, plus a higher mandated contribution to the state Public School Employee Retirement System. The district’s PSERS requirement continues to increase steadily each year, growing from 32.57 percent to 33.43 percent for next year.”
Mechanicsburg School Board OKs proposed 2018-19 budget, 2.4% tax hike
Phyllis Zimmerman The Sentinel May 8, 2018
The Mechanicsburg Area School Board passed a proposed final general fund budget for 2018-19 on Tuesday night that would increase real estate taxes by 2.4 percent. Next year’s proposed $70.5 million district spending plan would increase the district’s real estate tax levy from its current rate of 13.0560 mills to 13.3693 mills. A property owner assessed at the district’s average value of $176,025 would pay an annual total of $2,353 in real estate taxes next year, an increase of $55. he 2.4-percent tax increase would meet the index set for the district by the state Department of Education for the 2018-19 fiscal year from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019. The school board is mandated to finalize next year’s budget before July 1. School directors passed the proposed final general fund budget on Tuesday with an 8-0 vote. Board member Joshua Rhodes was absent. Money raised by the tax increase would go toward operational costs and capital projects in the district, said Gregory Longwell, the district’s business administrator. Financial advisers recommended earlier this year that the district should raise taxes by at least 1 percent over the next three years to help finance several capital improvement projects now underway or planned within the next few years in the district.
http://cumberlink.com/news/local/communities/mechanicsburg/mechanicsburg-school-board-oks-proposed---budget-tax-hike/article_ddb2623d-4b94-5e4c-85ba-d4f534f1cd2d.html#utm_source=cumberlink.com&utm_campaign=%2Femail-updates%2Fbreaking%2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=8F4B2832BB2DFB7D166580A63A303F99A66452A7

Passion for public education leads Hannah to advocacy ambassador role
The Almanac by Jacob Calvin Meyer May 7, 2018
Lena Hannah didn’t realize the importance of education until after she graduated high school.
Neither of her parents graduated high school, and she had to get a job to help support her family when she was 16 years old. Now, Hannah, a three-term member of the South Fayette School Board and one of six advocacy ambassador for the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, spends most her days talking about public education. “It wasn’t until after I got married and then went back to school myself and had kids that I understood the importance of having an education and how it opens doors,” Hannah said. “Kids are literally our future and our foundation.” PSBA, a nonprofit organization that represents pubic school boards and lobbies for public education, started its advocacy ambassador program last October. Each ambassador works 20 hours a week, and the paid position ends in July. The six ambassadors represent PSBA in a specific region; Hannah is the ambassador for Western Pennsylvania, which covers 10 counties, 125 school districts, 46 state representatives and 11 state senators. In her role, Hannah meets with legislators, school districts and school boards to be the “liaison” between public education and Harrisburg.
https://thealmanac.net/news/passion-for-public-education-leads-hannah-to-advocacy-ambassador-role/article_e043ea42-4fc0-11e8-a7ad-6b2ea850772b.html

Blogger note: Back in 2010, David Shulick was named as a member of the Corbett administration’s education transition team. http://thenotebook.org/articles/2010/11/30/corbett-names-34-to-education-team
Alternative-school chief with ties to Fattah Jr. guilty of embezzling $800K in Philly school funds
Inquirer by Jeremy Roebuck, Staff Writer  @jeremyrroebuck |  jroebuck@phillynews.com Updated: MAY 8, 2018 — 7:51 PM EDT
A federal jury on Tuesday convicted the head of a now-shuttered for-profit education firm with ties to Chaka “Chip” Fattah Jr. of bilking the Philadelphia School District out of $800,000 meant to educate some of its most at-risk teens. While his students were struggling with teen pregnancies, complicated home lives, and learning disabilities, David T. Shulick — the former president of the Bala Cynwyd-based Delaware Valley High School Management Corp. — was spending money intended for their education and counseling on upgrades to his beach house in Margate, N.J., and his $1.1 million, 13-room Gladwyne home. “He took money specifically allocated for these laudable purposes and spent it selfishly on himself,” U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain said. Jurors also found that Shulick lied about many of those expenses on his personal and corporate income taxes, listing money he spent on landscapers, housekeepers, and a $9,000 top-of-the-line speaker system as costs incurred by his business. The panel of nine men and three women took about two hours Tuesday to find him guilty on each of the 11 counts of conspiracy, embezzlement, fraud, and tax violations with which he was charged. He faces a possible prison sentence at a hearing Aug. 16. The case stemmed from money that Shulick – an accountant and lawyer — stole from a $2.1 million contract his company held between 2010 and 2012 to run an alternative school in Southwest Philadelphia for students at risk of dropping out. “He ripped off those kids, cheating them of the educations he had promised to deliver,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Donovan in his closing argument to jurors on Monday. “It’s greed, pure and simple and ugly.”
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/philadelphia/chaka-chip-fattah-jr-david-shulick-alternative-school-chief-guilty-embezzling-800k-philly-school-funds-20180508.html

In Harrisburg, Dems seek to neuter controversial House GOP committee chairman Metcalfe
Philly Daily News by John Baer, STAFF COLUMNIST  baerj@phillynews.com Updated: MAY 8, 2018 — 3:48 PM EDT
The famed Running of the Bulls in Pamplona doesn’t happen until July. But in Harrisburg, a Democratic-driven romp is underway right now. Let’s call it the Chasing of the Daryl. Maybe you know of State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R., Butler), the controversial, some say bullying, chairman of the powerful House State Government Committee. He’s a feeder of red meat to many Republicans. A waving red flag to many Democrats. They call his committee a good-government graveyard. Most recently regarding redistricting reform; over time, anything any Democrat likes. Now, Democratic leaders, after years of weak-kneed efforts to loosen Metcalfe’s ironclad control, are publicly pressing for dramatic action. In a letter to House Speaker Mike Turzai, House Democratic Leader Frank Dermody asks that Democratic legislation no longer be referred to Metcalfe’s committee, and suggests Metcalfe be stripped of his chairmanship.
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/john_baer/pennsylvania-legislature-daryl-metcalfe-lgbt-bulls-pamplona-20180508.html

'It's a black hole' Dem leader says of Daryl Metcalfe's committee | John L. Micek
Penn Live By John L. Micek jmicek@pennlive.com Updated 1:53 PM; Posted May 7, 4:54 PM
Once.
That's the number of times that House Democrats say they've successfully managed to get a bill out of the chamber's State Government Committee in the eight years that Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, the notoriously touch-averse Republican from Butler County, has held the reins. And it was ...  a land-transfer bill. In 2014. "It's a black hole," fumes House Democratic Leader Frank Dermody. "It's outrageous," chimes in Rep. Dan Frankel. The two Pittsburgh pols, both Democrats, summoned Capitol reporters to Dermody's fourth-floor office on Monday for a bit of primal scream therapy on Metcalfe, the iron-fisted, Commandant of Nyet from Cranberry Township, who's admitted that nothing gives him greater joy than stymying Democrats. "I block all substantive Democrat legislation sent to my committee and advance good Republican legislation!" Metcalfe wrote in a truly epic Facebook rant last month. "Liberals continue their lying attacks in an attempt to stop my work in defense of taxpayers and our liberty."
http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2018/05/its_a_black_hole_dem_leader_sa.html#incart_river_index

Teachers don't need appreciation weeks or muffins; they need a living wage | Opinion
by Carly Berwick, For the Inquirer Updated: MAY 8, 2018 — 11:47 AM EDT
This week, parents and students are baking cookies and buying gift cards for teachers around the country. As sweet as these gestures are, Teacher Appreciation Week provides little material comfort to many teachers, including the 59 percent who work a second job to pay the bills. Muffins don’t tangibly help teachers — but they do assuage community guilt about poor pay. Parent associations deploy their power organizing breakfasts in elementary school, while high school students bring their teachers doughnuts and even, at the school where I teach, carol from room to room. It’s heartwarming, but I love to hear them sing anytime, not just at appointed appreciation periods. As one friend whose parent association sends flowers for her children’s teachers told me, “Call me a cynic, but nothing says ‘So sorry you are underpaid’ like an enormous bouquet.” The average teacher salary across the country is $58,950, down from seven years earlier and $2,000 less than the average annual salary for all college graduates. Averages hide a lot, including higher salaries for teachers with master’s degrees or doctorates who have been in schools for decades. In states such as Arizona and Colorado that have seen walkouts this year, the averages are below $50,000.
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/teacher-appreciation-week-day-donors-choose-teachers-strike-20180508.html

Allegheny County school superintendents’ contracts filled with perks and quirks
MATT MCKINNEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette mmckinney@post-gazette.com MAY 8, 2018
School superintendents carry big-time responsibilities. Between decisions on spending, staffing, facilities and curriculum, they carry out the school board's vision for their district. Those duties typically come with a multi-year deal and a six-figure salary, the terms of which are detailed in their contracts. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette submitted Right-to-Know requests to more than 40 Allegheny County school districts to compile a database of local superintendent salaries, along with district enrollment figures. The agreements shed light on each school board’s expectations, evaluation process, start date, compensation and the benefits to sweeten the deal. Among the perks: annual raises, performance-based bonuses, clauses that permit outside consulting work while still employed by the district, and $100,000-plus salaries in districts smaller than some local high schools.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2018/05/08/Allegheny-County-school-superintendents-salaries-contracts-search/stories/201805010113

Why does Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion High School only enroll 235 out of 2,267 eligible students?
The notebook Commentary by Ken Derstine May 8, 2018 — 7:50pm
At the School Reform Commission Meeting on April 26, Philadelphia School Superintendent William Hite stated that of 2,267 students in its catchment area only 235 students are enrolled in the Strawberry Mansion High School. His theme echoed a flyer the School District has circulated in the Strawberry Mansion community “Envisioning the Future of Strawberry Mansion High School.” The premise is that the Strawberry Mansion community is not supporting the comprehensive High School and therefore it must be phased out and replaced with a yet to be defined “Education Complex.” The flyer says “Few students are choosing Strawberry Mansion now,” citing an enrollment of just 294 students. The implication is that the students and the community are to blame for the school’s current lack of support.  In April of 1992, Strawberry Mansion had 1,600 students. The school was known for its science club named Science Force 2000 that won many awards. It had thriving art and music programs. It had begun to revive its football team that had been suspended for many years. Heroic efforts were made in the recent past to turn the school around with little support from the District
http://thenotebook.org/articles/2018/05/08/why-does-philadelphia-s-strawberry-mansion-high-school-only-enroll-235-out-of-2-267-eligible-students

Activists want PILOTs and end to abatements, not property tax hike, for Philly schools
The notebook by Greg Windle May 8, 2018 — 11:25pm
As City Council heard testimony Tuesday about Mayor Kenney’s proposal to generate nearly $800 million in additional funds over five years for schools largely by increasing property tax rates, a coalition of activists demanded measures that would raise revenue primarily from the wealthy and corporations instead.  The Our City Our Schools Coalition was formed nearly a year ago by groups of activists, advocates and labor unions who fought to bring down the state-dominated School Reform Commission.. Last fall, the Mayor agreed that the District should return to local control and vowed to raise more city revenue to fund them adequately and avoid constant cutbacks in programs and services.   But after Kenney announced his tax package in March,  the Coalition proposed to raise funds in ways that don’t burden working and middle class families. Primarily they are calling for an end to the 10-year real estate tax abatement on new construction and want large tax-exempt institutions to make Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOTs) to the city. Along with several other measures, the plan would raise over $250 million annually, the advocates say, more than the mayor’s package.
http://thenotebook.org/articles/2018/05/08/activists-want-pilots-and-and-end-to-abatements-not-property-tax-hike

As vaping gathers steam with students, school districts struggle to keep up
Vaping in Lehigh Valley schools
Carol Thompson Contact Reporter Of The Morning Call May 8, 2018
For some students, dismissal time at Emmaus High School means congregating at a corner known as “Smoker’s Island” to do what generations of American high schoolers have done: fire up an after-school cigarette. But the tradition has changed. Acrid clouds of tobacco smoke are increasingly giving way to blooms of sweet-smelling vapor from electronic cigarettes. Puffing on an e-cigarette is known as “vaping,” and health officials describe it as an emerging public health issue among teens. They warn that vaping could lead to nicotine addiction, serve as a gateway to tobacco smoking and carry unknown long-term health risks. Despite the warnings, vaping is increasingly common in the Lehigh Valley, said Kathleen Halkins, Bethlehem Area School District supervisor of health services. Many students don’t recognize the possible health risks that worry her and other experts.
http://www.mcall.com/news/education/mc-nws-juul-vaping-schools-20180409-story.html

Schools must strategize on e-cigs
Altoona Mirror EDITORIALS MAY 8, 2018
Area school district s should set aside time this summer to deal with the issue of electronic cigarettes. For those districts that already have implemented policies and actions, the summertime task should consist of evaluating what’s been done so far and the success of those efforts, plus ascertaining what further steps might be helpful for the future. For school systems that haven’t had to give serious attention to the issue, school boards and administrators should look toward what other districts have witnessed and how they’ve responded and determine how those districts’ responses might be helpful to theirs someday. It’s clear that electronic cigarettes aren’t going to be a brief fad. Beyond attracting adults who laudably are trying to give up smoking, they’ve become a temptation to young people — some well under the age of 18 — who
shouldn’t have access to them. For many young people, the e-cigarettes have become a status symbol, without regard to what negative health impacts might be lurking as a result of their use. Electronic-cigarette usage among young people is described as “exploding” — sweeping through high schools and middle schools across America — despite federal regulations that prohibit anyone under the age of 18 from purchasing the devices.
http://www.altoonamirror.com/opinion/editorials/2018/05/schools-must-strategize-on-e-cigs/

Tickets: PCCY Celebration of the 2018 Public Citizen of the Year
Elizabeth Murphy and Romona Riscoe Benson of PECO
Wednesday, May 16, 2018, The Franklin Institute, 6:00-8:30pm
On Wednesday, May 16, 2018, Elizabeth Murphy and Romona Riscoe Benson from PECO, will be honored by Public Citizens for Children and Youth as the2018 Public Citizens of the Year.  Join us at the celebration to thank these two amazing women and PECO for their longstanding and visionary commitment to improving the quailty of life for children in our region. 
Tickets are $150 per person.   Event will be held at the Frankin Institute, 222 N. 20th Street, Philadelphia, Pa 19103 from 6:00pm to 8:30pm.
Questions: contact Steven Fynes at 215-563-5848 x11 or email:stevenf@pccy.org.
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Thank you for your support!
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Our Public Schools Our Democracy: Our Fight for the Future
NPE / NPE Action 5th Annual National Conference
October 20th - 21st, 2018 Indianapolis, Indiana
We are delighted to let you know that you can purchase your discounted Early Bird ticket to register for our annual conference starting today. Purchase your ticket here.
Early Bird tickets will be on sale until May 30 or until all are sold out, so don't wait.  These tickets are a great price--$135. Not only do they offer conference admission, they also include breakfast and lunch on Saturday, and brunch on Sunday. Please don't forget to register for your hotel room. We have secured discounted rates on a limited basis. You can find that link here. Finally, if you require additional financial support to attend, we do offer some scholarships based on need. Go here and fill in an application. We will get back to you as soon as we can. Please join us in Indianapolis as we fight for the public schools that our children and communities deserve. Don't forget to get your Early Bird ticket here. We can't wait to see you.

Electing PSBA Officers:  Applications Due by June 1st
Do you have strong communication and leadership skills and a vision for PSBA? Members interested in becoming the next leaders of PSBA are encouraged to submit an Application for Nomination no later than June 1, 11:59 p.m., to PSBA's Leadership Development Committee (LDC). The nomination process
All persons seeking nomination for elected positions of the Association shall send applications to the attention of the chair of the Leadership Development Committee, during the months of April and May an Application for Nomination to be provided by the Association expressing interest in the office sought. “The Application for nomination shall be marked received at PSBA Headquarters or mailed first class and postmarked by June 1 to be considered and timely filed.” (PSBA Bylaws, Article IV, Section 5.E.).
Open positions are:

·         2019 President Elect (one-year term)

·         2019 Vice President (one-year term)

·         2019-21 Eastern At-Large Representative – includes Sections 4 and 8 (three-year term)

·         2019-20 Sectional Advisors (two-year term) – includes Sections 2, 4, 6 And 8

In addition to the application form, PSBA Governing Board Policy 302 asks that all candidates furnish with their application a recent, print quality photograph and letters of application. The application form specifies no less than three letters of recommendation and no more than four, and are specifically requested as follows:
https://www.psba.org/2018/03/electing-psba-officers/

Gerrymandering: Fair Districts PA Statewide Calendar of Events

https://www.fairdistrictspa.com/events

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD! Join the PA Principals Association, the PA Association of School Administrators and the PA Association of Rural and Small Schools for PA Education Leaders Advocacy Day at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at the Capitol in Harrisburg, PA.  

A rally in support of public education and important education issues will be held on the Main Rotunda Steps from 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Visits with legislators will be conducted earlier in the day. More information will be sent via email, shared in our publications and posted on our website closer to the event.

To register, send an email to Dr. Joseph Clapper at clapper@paprincipals.org before Friday, June 8, 2018.

Click here to view the PA Education Leaders Advocacy Day 2018 Save The Date Flyer (INCLUDES EVENT SCHEDULE AND IMPORTANT ISSUES.) 

SAVE THE DATE for the 2018 PA Educational Leadership Summit - July 29-31 - State College, PA sponsored by the PA Principals Association, PASA, PAMLE and PASCD.  

This year's Summit will be held from July 29-31, 2018 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, State College, PA.

http://dlvr.it/Q5d0c8 

Save the Dates PASA/PSBA School Leadership Conference – Hershey, Oct. 17-19, 2018 

Mark your calendar! The Delegate Assembly will take place Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, at 2:30 p.m.
Housing now open!

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