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June 26th. Happy Summer!
“The school funding package includes $100 million more for the main regular education subsidy to the state's 500 public school systems, up about 1.7 percent from the current fiscal year, to $6.1 billion. It also contains $30 million in new funds for vocational education programs, to $92 million; $20 million more for pre-k programs, to $192.3 million; and an additional $15 million for special education costs, to $1.13 billion.”
Election year optics drive an early budget for Pa. state government
Penn Live By Charles Thompson cthompson@pennlive.com Updated Jun 19, 2:59 P.M.
No budget wars in Pennsylvania this summer, folks.
Gov. Tom Wolf and legislative leaders have reached agreement on a $32.7 billion spending plan for state government that fits the Webster-Merriam definition of an election-year budget. The plan, as pushed through the state House Appropriations Committee Tuesday, contains no new tax or fee increases, and officially, at least, holds spending growth for 2018-19 to 2.2 percent over last year's enacted budget. It contains modest spending increases for public schools and universities, and two high-profile initiatives:
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$60 million for
targeted spending on school safety improvements.
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A small stream of
new funding ($4.5 million) for home visits and other supports to families whose
lives have been turned upside down by opioid addiction.
The other
objective achieved, of course, is the measure of election-year cover provided
to Wolf, the senators and representatives who will go home this summer with a
completed budget to concentrate on re-election in what could be an extremely
volatile political year. That's a striking difference from 2015 and 2017, when
Wolf and lawmakers found themselves forced to operate the state for months at a
time without adopted budgets due to fights over spending and policy priorities.https://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/06/election_year_optics_drive_an.html#incart_river_index
In the Pa. Capitol, a milestone in the works: An on-time budget
Inquirer by Angela Couloumbis & Liz Navratil - Staff Writers Updated: JUNE 19, 2018 7:22 PM
HARRISBURG — What a difference an election year makes.
For the first time since Gov. Wolf took office, his administration and the Republican-controlled legislature appear to have hammered out a deal on the state budget, days in advance of the June 30 deadline to have a spending plan in place for the new fiscal year. The agreement calls for a $32.7 billion budget that raises no new taxes or fees, and includes $100 million more for public schools, $25 million more for early childhood education, and $15 million for special education. State-related universities, including Temple and Pittsburgh, will receive a combined boost of nearly $17 million. Separately, legislators also are expected to approve an additional $60 million for school safety projects.Absent any eleventh-hour kinks, the budget could be approved by week’s end, a full week before the deadline — a budget milestone. That would be the earliest a budget has been passed in at least 15 years.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/state/pa-budget-no-taxes-more-education-spending-tom-wolf-20180619.html
2018-19 proposed Pa. state budget makes $70 million investment in school safety
Penn Live By Jan Murphy jmurphy@pennlive.com Updated Jun 19, 7:32 PM
In a state that didn't experience a mass school shooting incident like the ones in Parkland, Fla., or Santa Fe, N.M., Pennsylvania lawmakers are counting their blessings and taking proactive steps to keep it that way. The proposed $32.7 billion agreed-to state budget that is teed up for a House vote on Wednesday and possible Senate vote on Friday invests heavily in school safety. It includes $60 million to fund public school and community safety measures and increasing funding for school safety grants by $1.5 million, to $10 million. These grants are available to public and parochial schools to use to hire school police or resources officers or buy safety equipment. "I'm certainly pleased," said Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson County, who championed the effort to create the school safety grants in 2013 in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.
https://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/06/school_safety_a_priority_in_20.html#incart_river_index
Panel OKs budget with increase for early childhood education
ABC27 By: Matt Heckel Posted: Jun 19, 2018 08:28 PM EDT Updated: Jun 19, 2018 08:28 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) -- - Jodi Askins with the Pennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children was one of several early childhood education advocates at the state capitol on Tuesday asking for more funding ahead of the budget deadlines. "What we think is important are the Governor's priorities around child care, pre-K, and home visiting," said Askins. "Brain growth happens most rapidly in the first five years. So, you've got kids who need to be in care." They asked for $30 million in addition funding for pre-k. The budget bill passed by the House Appropriation Committee, gave them $ 20 million. For Head Start, they asked for $10 million and got $5 million. The biggest blow though came in child care services. The Governor requested $27 million in additional funding, but the Appropriations Committee bill gives them less than $7 million.
http://www.abc27.com/news/local/panel-oks-budget-with-increase-for-early-childhood-education/1249866121
School Performance Profiles: Still Not the Sum of a School’s Parts
Authors David Lapp and Lindsey Liu Publication Date June 2018
Associated Project: The Pennsylvania Clearinghouse for Education Research: Translating Research and Analysis for Education Policymakers
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Abstract: Since 2013, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has annually published School Performance Profiles (SPPs), which assign a summative academic performance score for every traditional public and charter school in Pennsylvania by rating each school on a scale from 0 to 100. But many states are moving away from assigning summative numerical or letter grades of public schools given that they can mask important variation both within and across schools. In keeping with that trend, PDE recently announced plans to roll out a dashboard-style Future Ready PA Index for the 2018-19 school year, which attempts to provide a more nuanced and accurate picture of the quality of individual schools. As debates ensue over the benefits and pitfalls of a summative school rating metric vs. a dashboard of multiple indicators, this PACER brief from Research for Action revisits past research about Pennsylvania’s current summative rating, the SPP.
https://www.researchforaction.org/publications/school-performance-profiles-still-not-the-sum-of-a-schools-parts/
Pennsylvania: Home to Unregulated Cyber Charter Frauds
Diane Ravitch’s Blog By dianeravitch June 19, 2018 //
Pennsylvania has many cyber charters. They are all failing schools. The legislature doesn’t care. Two cyber charter operators were arrested and convicted for stealing millions of dollars. One of them–Nicholas Trombetta– is awaiting sentencing for tax evasion on the $8 million he stole from the cyber charter he founded (Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School), the other–June Brown, founder of two cyber charters–was convicted but not sent to jail because the judge accepted her plea that she was too old and frail to be incarcerated (she is younger than me). Trombetta committed a crime by evading taxes, but stealing $8 million from his cyber charter was not a crime under lax Pennsylvania law, according to the article cited here. Greg Windle writes here about the failure of the Legislature to reign in cyber charter corruption, fraud, waste, and abuse of taxpayers’ dollars. Even choice advocates are embarrassed by cyber charters, but they keep on going, collecting tax dollars for rotten services.
https://dianeravitch.net/2018/06/19/pennsylvania-home-to-unregulated-cyber-charter-frauds/
EDITORIAL: Charter oversight was city school district's job all along
The York Dispatch Published 10:00 a.m. ET June 19, 2018 | Updated 1:43 p.m. ET June 19, 2018
York City School District’s superintendent is right. Eric Holmes testified last week that the public deserves to know how Helen Thackston Charter School spent tax dollars and whether that money was spent properly. However, we’d like to point out that oversight of the charter was the York City school board’s responsibility all along. Sure — better late than never, we suppose. Last year the board sought to revoke Thackston’s charter, citing concerns ranging from declining student performance to inadequate staffing certification and a failure to acquire child-abuse background checks from all employees. But chief among these was the charter board's failure to file independent audits for the 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years. Last October, on the eve of a days-long revocation hearing, Thackston's board signed an agreement with the school district to stay open one more year and then close for good in 2019. That was the deal, however, only if the charter completed and turned in the overdue audits by the end of January 2018. If the school couldn’t do that, it would have to close by the end of this month.
https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/opinion/editorials/2018/06/19/editorial-charter-oversight-city-school-districts-job-all-along/709466002/
Babies, young children forcibly separated from parents at US-Mexico border held in 'tender age' shelters
Lancaster Online By GARANCE BURKE & MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press June 20, 2018
Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three "tender age" shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned. Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis. The government also plans to open a fourth shelter to house hundreds of young migrant children in Houston, where city leaders denounced the move Tuesday. Since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy in early May, more than 2,300 children have been taken from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, resulting in a new influx of young children requiring government care. The government has faced withering critiques over images of some of the children in cages inside U.S. Border Patrol processing stations. Decades after the nation's child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is starting up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents. "The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it," said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which provides foster care and other child welfare services to migrant children. "Toddlers are being detained."
https://lancasteronline.com/news/national/babies-young-children-forcibly-separated-from-parents-at-us-mexico/article_1a415f9c-7481-11e8-a2f7-1fbdade76368.html
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey says child separation policy ‘straight from the pit of hell’
Beaver County Times By J.D. Prose Posted at 5:12 PM Updated at 5:12 PM
Democratic senators are looking for Republican support for Keep Families Together Act, while other area politicians weigh in on Trump administration’s immigration policy. Saying the Trump administration border policy of separating migrant children from their parents is “straight from the pit of hell,” U.S. Sen. Bob Casey on Tuesday joined the growing ranks of Americans calling for its immediate end. “There is one resolution for this problem, and that is for the administration to end this policy now. Today,” Casey, D-Scranton, said in a conference call with reporters. “This is not an American policy,” Casey said. “This is a crass, cruel policy by one administration.” The policy has roiled Americans as images of children sobbing for their parents or sleeping in cages in holding centers have swept across social media in the last week. On Monday, an audio tape was released of children crying out in Spanish for their parents. A frustrated Casey scoffed at Trump blaming Democrats for the policy or citing the law to defend taking children from parents who illegally cross the border to seek asylum. “All of that is a bunch of BS,” he said. Neither former Democratic President Barack Obama nor former Republican President George W. Bush enforced a separation policy.
http://www.timesonline.com/news/20180619/us-sen-bob-casey-says-child-separation-policy-straight-from-pit-of-hell/1
Hundreds of protesters picket Pence at Philly fundraiser, decry family separations
By WHYY News Staff June 19, 2018 Updated: 10:56 p.m.
Roughly 1,000 people, many carrying signs and pushing kids in strollers, descended on Rittenhouse Square Tuesday night, to protest a federal immigration policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Coordinated on Facebook by the Youth Caucus of America seven other groups, the gathering drew from a wide swath of the Philadelphia region. “What’s happening at the border is appalling and what’s happening to those kids is a crime,” said Beth York, who lives in Cheltenham and works in Center City. She carried a sign made out of a manila folder that read “STFU About Family Values Forever.” Precious Bonney said reports of family separation spurred her and her 14-year-old daughter Faith Dempsey to come. “I heard about it on the news a few days ago … and honestly, I went to my mom and cried about it,” said Faith. “If I saw my brother, and he was other there and my mom was over here, I couldn’t deal with that.” Inside the Rittenhouse Hotel, Pence was scheduled to speak alongside Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner at a high-dollar fundraiser held by the Republican Governors Association. RGA spokesman Jon Thompson declined to reveal the cost of tickets to the event, but reports have said donors were asked to contribute up to $50,000.
https://whyy.org/articles/protesters-greet-vp-pence-at-rittenhouse-gop-fundraiser/
Pennsylvania House panel adopts some gun-control bills
Morning Call by Steve Esack Contact Reporter Call Harrisburg Bureau June 19, 2018
A Pennsylvania House panel today adopted four gun-control bills that would add more protections for families and individuals dealing with mental health or domestic violence problems. The House Judiciary Committee, however, ran out of time before it could vote on more controversial legislation. One bill the committee did not vote on would ban bump stocks and other mechanisms that speed up firing. Another bill would institute universal background checks on all firearms purchases. Committee Chairman Ron Marsico, R-Dauphin, scheduled another hearing for 9 a.m. Wednesday, to take up the other bills.
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pennsylvania-house-gun-control-bills-20180619-story.html
“The bump stock ban and background check expansion are still on the committee's docket. They're expected to see debate on Wednesday.”
House moves some gun law changes; stops short of broad restrictions
WITF Written by Katie Meyer, Capitol Bureau Chief | Jun 20, 2018 6:00 AM
(Harrisburg) -- A state House committee has begun working through a long list of gun control measures that have accumulated in the chamber in recent months. They've so far moved a few bills that restrict gun ownership in limited situations. However, they ended debate before taking on several broader measures--including a bump stock ban and background check expansion. One of the bills passed would let police or family members request that a court temporarily seize guns from a person in crisis. Another closes a loophole that let people convicted of conspiracy to commit a violent felony own guns. The highest-profile bill that progressed to the House floor is a measure that would make it harder for domestic abusers to possess weapons. The Senate already passed it, and Governor Tom Wolf supports it.
http://www.witf.org/state-house-sound-bites/2018/06/house-moves-some-gun-law-changes-stops-short-of-broad-restrictions.php
Pa. House passes bill creating higher hurdles for public taking of protected lands
Penn Live By Charles Thompson cthompson@pennlive.com Updated Jun 19, 10:11 PM; Posted Jun 19, 5:25 PM
This post was updated at 10:11 p.m. to correct a mistake in the votes cast by House members representing Cumberland Valley School District. Rep. Dawn Keefer, R-Dillsburg, was a yes vote, Tuesday.
The Pennsylvania state House has given a quick and speedy approval to a bill that would require school districts and other public entities to get court approval of any taking of preserved lands. The bill, introduced last month in response to pending issues in Montgomery and Cumberland counties, passed 179-18 Tuesday, and now moves to the state Senate for further action. It was not immediately clear if that chamber will take up the bill before the looming summer recess. Specifically, House Bill 2468 would force school districts and other governmental agencies eyeing land subject to private conservation easements to win prior court approval before starting condemnation proceedings.
https://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/06/pa_house_passes_bill_creating.html
Philly District investing in teacher residency program for 2018-19
Working with four institutions, the District is making another effort to fill shortage areas and increase the diversity of the workforce.
The notebook by Hannah Melville June 19 — 5:17 pm, 2018
Stephen Flemming is among the 4 percent of teachers in Philadelphia District schools who are African American males. In an effort to recruit more teachers for high-need areas like math and science and to attract more men and people of color to the profession, the District is investing $4 million in a teacher residency program in partnership with four institutions. Up to 50 educators will be placed with trained mentor teachers starting in September. The District will pay them, heavily subsidize their tuition, and guarantee them jobs when they are certified. The certifying institution will also provide two years of support after they are hired. Twenty of the residents will be students at Drexel, which is working with the National Center for Teacher Residencies. A nonprofit based in Chicago, NCTR provides programming, support, and research to the teachers, their mentors, and the certifying institution to maximize the effectiveness of the experience. The District will subsidize up to $7,500 of the tuition, so students only pay $2,100 for the 12-month program. During the process, the participants have positions with salaries of $38,000 within District schools and are eligible for full benefits through the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. Besides Drexel, the other participating institutions are Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Relay Graduate School of Education, which was founded by charter operators and seeks to provide an “alternative” approach to teacher education.
http://thenotebook.org/articles/2018/06/19/district-investing-in-teacher-residency-program-for-2018-19/
Deer Lakes School Board to vote on 2018-19 budget
Trib Live by EMILY BALSER | Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 2:51 p.m.
The Deer Lakes School Board is expected to vote on its 2018-19 budget Tuesday night. The proposed $38 million budget would keep taxes the same at 21.953 mills. Officials will pull about $2 million from the district's fund balance to balance the budget, said district spokesman Jim Cromie. A home with a median assessed value of $127,000 will pay about $2,788 in property taxes for the 2018-19 school year. The proposed budget can be viewed online at www.deerlakes.net/BudgetInformation.aspx.
http://triblive.com/local/valleynewsdispatch/13777937-74/deer-lakes-school-board-to-vote-on-2018-19-budget
“Wagner pointed to charter school costs as one of the reasons for the increase. A new elementary charter school opened last year in Easton, and he said 29 students enrolled, bringing the district’s total number of students in cyber and charter schools to 102. He said it amounted to an unexpected increase of about $390,000.”
Wilson Area approves budget, teachers contract with annual increases
Michelle Merlin Contact Reporter Of The Morning Call June 19, 2018
The Wilson Area school board on Monday approved a $41 million budget that calls for an increase of 1.73 mills for the district’s taxpayers in Williams Township, Wilson, West Easton and Glendon. The increase allows the district to pay for a school resource officer from the Wilson Police Department, as well as for rising Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System, charter school and cyber school costs, said board President Judith Herbstreith. It will also pay for the district’s new contract with its teachers. The school board approved the deal unanimously last week. It includes 2.85 percent increases for each of the next four years. “We’ve done a really good job of balancing the academics with the budget and coming up with a budget that’s there that pays our teachers well,” Herbstreith said.
http://www.mcall.com/news/education/mc-nws-wilson-teachers-contract-budget-20180618-story.html
About 2 percent annual raise in PENNCREST's new five-year teacher contract
By Lorri Drumm Meadville Tribune June 19, 2018
A five-year contract with PENNCREST School District's teachers, counselors and psychologists that includes yearly raises and some increases in health care expenses was recently approved by PENNCREST School Board. It was standing room only at Thursday's PENNCREST School Board meeting as approximately 50 staff members watched the board approve the contract by a 6-2-1 vote. Board President Mark Gerow, Jason Bakus, Jeffrey Brooks, Tim Brown, Travis Porter and Robert Gulick voted in favor of the collective bargaining agreement between the board and the PENNCREST Area Education Association (PAEA). Robert Johnston and Bill Mantzell voted no. Board Vice President Luigi DeFrancesco abstained from the vote. Bakus, Brooks and DeFrancesco represented the board on the negotiating committee that met with the teacher's union. Brooks felt the contract is fair, especially in comparison to other local districts. The agreement includes a 2.2 percent raise each year, according to Brooks. "The five-year average is lower than any other district in the area except Erie city, which is 0.01 percent less," he said. Erie city schools average 2.19 and Union City is 2.2, according to Brooks.
http://www.meadvilletribune.com/news/about-percent-annual-raise-in-penncrest-s-new-five-year/article_b32a990e-7340-11e8-a33e-8f212e947a4c.html
Listed: Salaries and fringe benefits for every school superintendent in York County
Rick Lee, York Daily Record Published 10:52 a.m. ET June 19, 2018 | Updated 11:12 a.m. ET June 19, 2018
See what every superintendent in York County earns and what their fringe benefits are.
Current York County school district superintendent salaries average about $166,000 annually with $145,000 on the low end and $192,965 on the upper end. Those salaries were compiled through Right-to-Know requests to the county's 16 public school districts. Fringe benefits across the board include major medical, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, vacation, sick and personal days with various levels of accruals and payouts, and reimbursement for continuing education and professional development. Many superintendents have job-related mileage and expense reimbursement agreements. Only one has a vehicle-lease arrangement. A few have cell phone plans. And one district has an employment clause covering paid professional protection for the superintendent and family members if a viable threat arises. Here are the contract basics for the 16 York County school district superintendents.
https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2018/06/19/york-county-public-school-superintendents-contracts-salaries-benefits-education-compensation-taxes/691684002/
Apply Now for EPLC's 2018-2019 PA Education Policy Fellowship Program!
Applications are available now for the 2018-2019 Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP). The Education Policy Fellowship Program is sponsored in Pennsylvania by The Education Policy and Leadership Center (EPLC).
With more than 500 graduates in its first eighteen years, this Program is a premier professional development opportunity for educators, state and local policymakers, advocates, and community leaders. State Board of Accountancy (SBA) credits are available to certified public accountants.
Past participants include state policymakers, district superintendents and principals, school business officers, school board members, education deans/chairs, statewide association leaders, parent leaders, education advocates, and other education and community leaders. Fellows are typically sponsored by their employer or another organization. The Fellowship Program begins with a two-day retreat on September 13-14, 2018 and continues to graduation in June 2019.
Applications are being accepted now.
Click here to read more about the Education Policy Fellowship Program.
The application may be copied from the EPLC web site, but must be submitted by mail or scanned and e-mailed, with the necessary signatures of applicant and sponsor.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the Fellowship Program and its requirements, please contact EPLC Executive Director Ron Cowell at 717-260-9900 or cowell@eplc.org.
Nominations for PSBA’s Allwein Advocacy Award due by July 16
PSBA Website May 14, 2018
The Timothy M. Allwein Advocacy Award was established in 2011 by the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and may be presented annually to the individual school director or entire school board to recognize outstanding leadership in legislative advocacy efforts on behalf of public education and students that are consistent with the positions in PSBA’s Legislative Platform. In addition to being a highly respected lobbyist, Timothy Allwein served to help our members be effective advocates in their own right. Many have said that Tim inspired them to become active in our Legislative Action Program and to develop personal working relationships with their legislators. The 2018 Allwein Award nomination process will begin on Monday, May 14, 2018. The application due date is July 16, 2018 in the honor of Tim’s birth date of July 16.
Download the Application
https://www.psba.org/2018/05/nominations-allwein-advocacy-award/
POWER 100% SCHOOL FUNDING Day of Action Wednesday, June 20th at 1 PM at the PA Capitol
On Wednesday, June 20th at 1 PM, students, parents, community activists, and faith leaders from different traditions will gather on the steps of the State Capitol Main Rotunda for POWER’s 100% SCHOOL FUNDING Day of Action to demand support for legislation to put 100% of the Commonwealth's Basic Education Budget through PA's Fair Funding Formula. We ask you to join us as we stand in solidarity with one another and continue demanding fair and fully funded education for Pennsylvania’s public school students. In addition to a large rally, we will march to Governor Tom Wolfe's office to pray for his support for 100% through the Formula. Join us as we hold meetings that day with our legislators asking each one to speak out in favor of POWER's 100% plan.
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.
2nd Annual National Black Male Educators Convening, Oct. 12-14,
Philly
Teacher diversity works. Increasing the number of Black
male educators in our nation’s teacher corps will improve education for all our
students, especially for African-American boys.Today Black men represent only
two percent of teachers nationwide. This is a national problem that demands a
national response. Come participate in the 2nd National Black Male Educators
Convening to advance policy solutions, learn from one another, and fight for
social justice. All are welcome. Register to attend. Nominate a speaker.
Propose a workshop. Sponsor the event.
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!
Housing now open!
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.
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