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“In 2013, 16,631 students graduated from teacher-training programs; by 2015, that number had dropped to 6,125”
100-plus new teachers hired amid PA teacher shortage
Pottstown Mercury By Evan Brandt ebrandt@21st-centurymedia.com @PottstownNews on Twitter August 25, 2018
There will be no shortage of new faces on the first day of school this year.
August is the season for new hires and a review of personnel votes in area districts show more than 100 new teachers have been hired in the eight public school districts covered by The Mercury. That review also shows that some districts are weathering more staff changes than others. …CBS News reported Wednesday that nationally, fewer college students are studying education. Enrollments dropped by 35 percent between 2009 and 2014, according to the Learning Policy Institute, a nonpartisan organization that focuses on education policy. That number is almost doubled in the Keystone State, where data from the Pennsylvania Department of Education shows that from 2013 to 2015, the number of students graduating from teacher-training programs plummeted by 63 percent. In 2013, 16,631 students graduated from teacher-training programs; by 2015, that number had dropped to 6,125, according to the state’s figures. That may be due to two major economic factors, the fact that teacher salaries were cut during the Great Recession and never recovered, and the fact that college students face increasing student debt when they graduate, Linda Darling-Hammond, the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute, said during a press call Wednesday. CBS reported that nationally, “teachers are earning almost 2 percent less than they did in 1999 and 5 percent less than their 2009 pay, according to the U.S. Department of Education. “ "There are studies about this that show people choose careers based on the salary in relation to the debt they have from college,” Darling-Hammond said. "People can't stay in a profession where they can't afford to support their own families."
https://www.pottsmerc.com/news/plus-new-teachers-hired-amid-pa-teacher-shortage/article_b00a80c8-a7e7-11e8-8805-6746b2a1ac3c.html
Ex-Wall Streeter found his passion teaching at Northeast H.S. | Jenice Armstrong
Inquirer by Jenice Armstrong | @JeniceArmstrong | armstrj@phillynews.com Posted: August 26, 2018
We're in a crisis when it comes to the dearth of black male teachers.
It's a travesty how nationwide just 2 percent of the country's teachers are black males. In Philly, just under 5 percent of teachers are African American males even though 54 percent of the student population is black. That's why I have to hand it to men like Howard Brown, a second-year teacher at Northeast High School. He heard the call. He understood the need. And he made the ultimate sacrifice to do what needed to be done. A former exec at Goldman Sachs, the 36-year-old once earned more money than he even knew what to do with. He had a fly condo with marble floors, a Jacuzzi, and a fabulous view of Manhattan. He had season tickets to the Eagles and Yankees games. He was traveling with friends to South America and Europe. But when you're living as large as he was back then, sometimes people get to the point where they realize there's more to life than collecting material things like the latest BMW convertible he once considered purchasing. Now, he's back in Philly and is about to start his second year teaching at Northeast High School. Classes start Monday and he can hardly wait. "I will tell you the truth. I love it," he told me. "I don't have to do it, to be quite honest. But it's pretty cool."
http://www2.philly.com/philly/columnists/jenice_armstrong/howard-brown-northeast-high-school-philadelphia-black-male-teachers-jenice-armstrong-20180826.html
They’re Young and They Want Change. Now They’re Ready to Vote for the First Time.
New York Times By Dan Levin Aug. 25, 2018
LANCASTER, Pa. — On an overcast afternoon this month, a block party was in full swing, the hot dogs were going fast, and Chris Underhill, freshly graduated from high school, was savoring a new milestone: He had registered to vote for the first time. Filling out the form offered by a political activist not much older than him took about three minutes. But its significance was not lost on Mr. Underhill, 18, who grew up in this city on the edge of Amish country, 75 miles west of Philadelphia. An aspiring actor who helped organize a local march following this year’s deadly mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., Mr. Underhill said his everyday worries mirror those that fuel the anxieties of his generation, such as how to pay for college and losing access to health care. And then there’s the presidency of Donald J. Trump. “This country’s just gone off the walls since Trump got elected,” he said, echoing the impressions of thousands of new Pennsylvania voters his age. “But now I have the power to vote and make it better, starting with Lancaster and then going bigger.” Weary of a political system that many young Americans see as rigged against their generation, and fired up to elect candidates who they believe support the issues they care about, a surge of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 have registered to vote this year, according to data from 39 states compiled by Targetsmart, a Democratic polling firm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/us/pennsylvania-young-voters.html
For first time in nearly 10 years, new charter operator opens school in Philly
Inquirer by Maddie Hanna, Posted:August 25, 2018
A junk-removal crew hauled old desks past teachers in freshly decorated classrooms at the Deep Roots Charter School, readying for the first day at the new school in Kensington.
The school, off Frankford Avenue, had planned to locate down the street. But construction there "revealed issues with a transformer," which would have delayed its opening, said G. Logan Blyler, Deep Roots' 29-year-old leader. Instead, the school moved into a former Catholic school building that was just vacated by another charter — save for its furniture. The last-minute purge on Tuesday was just one of many steps along the way to Deep Roots' opening, after it was approved last May as Philadelphia's first new charter-school operator in nearly a decade. While other charters have opened in recent years in Philadelphia — where brick-and-mortar charter schools serve one-third of public school students — they have been started by operators already running schools in the city.
http://www2.philly.com/philly/education/philadelphia-new-charter-school-deep-roots-kensington-20180825.html
Western Pa. school districts ramping up security, technology
Trib Live by Jamie Martines August 26, 2018
What happens if a shooter opens fire during outdoor recess? How do I assist an injured child? Do the district’s oldest buildings have the hardware — doors that lock, windows that aren’t accessible — to keep us safe? These are just a few of the questions teachers gathered for a back-to-school safety meeting at Southmoreland School District in Westmoreland County asked Officer Greg Keefer, a school police officer who manages district security, ahead of the first day of school Monday. Southmoreland is one of many area districts instituting expanded safety-related policies this year. Schools across Southwestern Pennsylvania faced at least 50 threats in the six weeks following the Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., when 17 people were killed, according to Tribune-Review reports. That incident ignited a nationwide debate over school safety and gun violence, carried out locally by students who led walkouts, marches and letter-writing campaigns to elected officials.
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/14012374-74/western-pa-school-districts-ramping-up-security-technology
State passes on reduced school costs
Scranton Times-Tribune BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD / PUBLISHED: AUGUST 26, 2018
A majority of Pennsylvania school districts have raised taxes for the impending school year and the Scranton district — one of just two in the state on a calendar-year budget — has estimated an increase of nearly 8 percent for 2019. State lawmakers continue to enjoy their two-month-plus summer vacation. And they have scheduled so few session days before the November election that there is zero chance that they will do much to alleviate the local burden, much less the heavy lifting necessary to truly reform obsolete school governance and financing. There are many moving parts to the state’s over-reliance on local property taxes to finance public education, not the least of which is legislators’ reluctance to transfer more of the burden to the state government and, therefore, to their own political prospects.
https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/state-passes-on-reduced-school-costs-1.2378169
A portrait in data of the typical Philadelphia teacher
WHYY ByLijia Liu, The Philadelphia Notebook August 27, 2018
The typical Philadelphia teacher is a white woman with a bachelor’s degree, about a decade of teaching experience, and a median annual salary of $63,000, an analysis of the city’s workforce shows. This portrait is based on the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s 2016-17 demographic data on all personnel in public education. The Notebook has examined the general characteristics of the Philadelphia teaching force derived from the data, which include background information on all District and charter school educators, such as gender, annual salary, and years of experience. Racial data is not included in the online data, but was provided via email after the Notebooksubmitted a Right-to-Know request to the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Research for Action (RFA), a nonprofit education research organization, provided technical assistance for data analysis. The Notebook, with RFA and WHYY’s Keystone Crossroads, will be analyzing teacher data in Philadelphia and across the state to illuminate trends in the teacher workforce.
https://whyy.org/articles/a-portrait-in-data-of-the-typical-philadelphia-teacher/
Money will only solve part of the problem for Pa. school districts | Editorial
By PennLive Editorial Board penned@pennlive.com Updated Aug 24; Posted Aug 24
There's no doubt that Pennsylvania has made strides in increasing taxpayer support for public education over the last three years. According to one news organization's analysis, for instance, lawmakers have increased state funding for K-12 education by $2 billion since 2015, But a pair of recent news stories are a vivid reminder that, despite all that progress, there's so much more work that needs to be done. Earlier this week, the state Commonwealth Court moved a landmark challenge to the way the state pays for public education closer to trial. There, a grand battle over whether the state is living up its constitutional responsibility to provide a "thorough and efficient system of public education" will be fought. The plaintiffs in the case, which include six families, six school districts, and some statewide associations, say Pennsylvania isn't living up to that commitment, even though the state recently implemented a new funding formula that's supposed to level the playing field between Pennsylvania's richest and poorest school districts.
https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2018/08/money_will_only_solve_part_of.html#incart_river_index
“Each year feels better”
Superintendent Hite feels optimistic at start of new school year.
The notebook by Dale Mezzacappa August 24 — 7:47 pm, 2018
As he enters his seventh school year as head of Philadelphia’s schools, William Hite thinks he can finally concentrate on adding things rather than subtracting them. The District has a brief window of fiscal stability, and for the first time in his tenure, it is governed by a local Board of Education rather than a state-imposed body. Test scores are moving in a positive direction, and all schools this year will have access to an instrumental music teacher, a big reversal after arts programs were decimated during the District’s funding crisis early in his tenure. Restoring arts programs is a big deal for the District. At the end of the annual induction week for new teachers, the newly hired music teachers rocked it out for their colleagues. “Each year feels better,” said Hite, who took over leadership of the District in June 2012 and has extended his contract through 2022.
https://thenotebook.org/articles/2018/08/24/each-year-feels-better/
On tap for Philly schools this year: Local control, toxin cleanup and consistency
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham, Posted: August 25, 2018
As Philadelphia public schools prepare to open the academic year for 128,000 students Monday, everyone is asking Superintendent William R. Hite Jr.: What's on tap for this year? Entering the seventh school term of his superintendency — that's approaching the tenure of Constance Clayton, the storied Philadelphia schools chief who served for a decade — Hite wants you to know that the most important thing he can do is not upset the apple cart. There will be a few new bells and whistles, including instrumental music at all 215 schools, expanded art opportunities generally, more modernized classrooms in pockets around the city, and ninth-grade academies expanded to 28 high schools, up from 19 last year. But Hite, in an Inquirer and Daily News interview and editorial board meeting, said he wasn't going to "jump around and do new things just to say we're doing new things." In Philadelphia summers past, Hite was facing financial catastrophes, years-long teachers' contract stalemates, and other sundry crises. Now, he said, "we're able to focus on things like instructional practice, professional development, social and emotional learning — the things that we should always have been focused on as a school district but we weren't able to, because we were looking at 'Are we going to open on time?' and 'What can we do without?' "
Bethlehem school district taking drastic measure to recoup student meal debts after state bans 'lunch-shaming'
A new Pennsylvania law says that school districts must provide all students with a meal, regardless if students owe money on their accounts. But local school districts say their meal debt is now rising.
Morning Call by Jacqueline Palochko August 24, 2018
When hungry students line up with their lunch trays in school cafeterias next week, they’ll be invited to fill their plates with a heaping hot lunch — even if they owe $50 or $500 on their accounts. That generosity is because of a new state law that bans schools from stigmatizing children for having debt, a practice commonly known as “lunch shaming.” The law, passed late last year, says any communication about money owed on meal accounts has to be done between school officials and parents, and not involve the student. But sometimes parents don’t respond to requests for money owed, local school districts have found. Since the law was passed, meal debt in Lehigh Valley school districts has jumped, particularly in the Bethlehem Area School District. In the past, districts had a limit on how many meals students could receive with a negative account; districts can no longer do that. Bethlehem Area parents may have racked up more debt than parents in any other Lehigh Valley district, $154,590 — a 50 percent jump since the law went into effect. More than 3,370 accounts owe money to the district — with seven students owing more than $1,000 each. District officials say they have tried everything to recoup the money — sending weekly notices to parents after five unpaid meals; providing information on how to apply for free and reduced lunch; even setting up reimbursement plans where families can pay as little as $5 a week. As a last resort, the district has contracted with a collections agency to contact the 600 or so households that have a lunch debt of $50 or more.
http://www.mcall.com/news/education/mc-nws-bethlehem-school-district-unpaid-lunches-20180814-story.html
Bensalem school officials discuss later start times
Intelligencer By Chris English Posted at 6:00 AM August 27, 2018
Bensalem Township School District psychologist Gail Karafin said letting high school and middle school students sleep longer and start school later would have many benefits. A sleepy student is often an unmotivated and unproductive one, many medical and educational experts believe. And Bensalem Township School District psychologist Gail Karafin joined the chorus with a presentation at a recent school board meeting on the benefits of letting middle and high school students sleep longer and start school later. Citing studies from The National Sleep Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and many others, Karafin said teenagers need between 9 and 9½ hours of sleep a night. Since it’s hard for them to go to sleep before 11 p.m., Bensalem School District start times of 7:15 a.m. at the high school and 8:05 a.m. in the middle schools make it very hard for those students to get enough sleep, Karafin said. “Chronic sleep deprivation is associated with a number of cognitive, educational, emotional, physical, athletic, risk-taking, substance abuse and safety problems,” she said in her presentation. “The biological changes in adolescence are in direct conflict with school starting before 8:30 a.m.,” Karafin added. “Teens have a predisposition to wake at 8 a.m. or later. Early wake times rob teens of REM sleep which is critical for learning and memory.”
http://www.theintell.com/news/20180827/bensalem-school-officials-discuss-later-start-times
As many Lancaster County students and teachers return to school today, we offer some advice
Lancaster Online Editorial by THE LNP EDITORIAL BOARD August 27, 2018
THE ISSUE: Today is opening day for many of Lancaster County’s public schools. Columbia Borough schools, however, opened Aug. 20 — and were the first of the county’s public schools to open the 2018-19 academic year. The Warwick School District will be the last, opening on Sept. 5, LNP staff writer Alex Geli reported. Brace yourself, everyone. Today, for many, marks the beginning of what will be a marathon of homework, extracurricular activities, ride requests and packed lunches. Some parents will want to cry as their little ones, and not-so-little ones, board the yellow buses. Some may want to rejoice. Some may be jittery because their teenagers are driving themselves to school for the very first time. In any case, try to remember that these school years go by in a blink. Holding onto that thought will help you when that packet of forms you need to complete comes home in your child’s backpack this afternoon — or when your child calls you at work because he forgot his trumpet, or she forgot her mouthguard and her field hockey coach won’t let her practice without it, and please, please, please, can you drop it off at school before 2:30 p.m.? Someday, you are going to miss being needed so much. Trust us on that. We know you may not miss back-to-school nights and parent-teacher conferences. But they’re important, even when your kids are in high school. You don’t want to bombard your children’s teachers with emails and phone calls, but keeping the lines of communication open will make it easier for you to deal with any issues that come up.
https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/editorials/as-many-lancaster-county-students-and-teachers-return-to-school/article_114d0b4c-a7ea-11e8-8340-5be71804199f.html
Brian Dickerson: Betsy DeVos’ lunatic scheme will take student tax money
Delco Times By Brian Dickerson Detroit Free Press (TNS) Aigust 25, 2018
Sometimes I think U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is the ultimate sleeper agent — a mole deployed by clever Democratic strategists to make sure no student, parent, or private citizen concerned about public schools ever sits out another election day. Certainly no Republican (with the possible exception of the president who nominated her) has done more than DeVos has to antagonize and energize Democratic and independent voters, and particularly the student and parent activists awakened by the Parkland, Fla. school shootings. Confirmed by a single vote in February 2017 when Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaker, DeVos has spent most of her first year-and-a-half in office trying to emasculate the department Donald Trump selected her to lead. This is not an act of insubordination, but a sabotage mission that has enjoyed the White House’s enthusiastic support. The big idea: Slash billions of dollars earmarked for public schools and divert part of the savings to initiatives to expand for-profit charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools. It is of a piece with the agenda DeVos and her clan promoted with their privately-bankrolled Great Lakes Education Project before Trump handed them the keys to the U.S. Department of Education.
https://www.delcotimes.com/opinion/brian-dickerson-betsy-devos-lunatic-scheme-will-take-student-tax/article_44c288a6-13b2-520c-b7c6-0ade6a2074eb.html
The DeVos School for the Promotion of Student Debt
The education secretary is working hard to protect the scandal-ridden for-profit education industry from accountability.
New York Times By The Editorial Board Aug. 26, 2018
Say this for Betsy DeVos: The secretary of education has shown an impressive commitment to rescuing her friends in the for-profit college business from pesky measures to rein in their predatory behavior. As pet projects go, it lacks the sulfurous originality of her emerging idea to let states use federal dollars to put guns in schools. But it is a scandal nonetheless. Given the choice between protecting low-income students — and, by extension, American taxpayers — and facilitating the buck-raking of a scandal-ridden industry, Ms. DeVos aggressively pursues Option B. This summer has been a fertile period for the secretary. A couple of weeks back, her department formally introduced its plan to jettison so-called gainful employment rules. These 2014 regulations require that, to receive federal student-aid dollars, for-profit colleges — along with certain programs at nonprofit and public institutions — must maintain a reasonable debt-to-income ratio among graduates. If a program’s attendees typically rack up massive student debts and then cannot find decent jobs, the program is deemed a failure. Programs that fail in two out of three years become ineligible to receive the taxpayer-backed loans and grants with which so many students finance their schooling. The rules also require for-profit programs to make clear in their promotional materials whether or not they meet federal job-placement standards.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/opinion/editorials/betsy-devos-student-debt.html
Here's What DeVos and Trump Have Said About Giving Guns to Teachers
Education Week Politics K12 Blog By Andrew Ujifusa on August 24, 2018 5:07 PM
Student safety has never been too far from the headlines since the Parkland, Fla., school shootings in February, but the issue grabbed public attention in a new way this week with the news that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is considering allowing districts to use certain federal grants to buy firearms. he federal grants at the heart of the controversy are the allowed under Title IV of the Every Student Succeeds Act. They were designed to allow districts to pay for a range of student-support services, from counseling to education technology. However, Texas passed along a question from some of its districts to the U.S. Education Department as to whether they could use it to buy guns for educators. Department officials have been mulling that request over but have not provided a definitive answer. The Trump administration said the story—first reported by the New York Times—has been "blown way out of proportion" and pointed out that the idea didn't originate with DeVos. But many in the education community, as well as Democrats on Capitol Hill, have loudly condemned arming school staff to keep students safe. It's difficult to figure out whether DeVos views the inquiry from Texas districts as a chance to give direction to curious districts, or to encourage schools to arm educators, or a mixture of both. However, we do know what the president and his education secretary have said about the issue in the past. Let's review their comments.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2018/08/trump-devos-guns-teachers-essa-past-comments.html
Trump rejected plans for a White House statement praising John McCain
Trib Live by THE WASHINGTON POST | Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018, 9:54 p.m.
WASHINGTON — President Trump nixed issuing a statement that praised the heroism and life of Sen. John McCain, telling senior aides he preferred to issue a tweet before posting one Saturday night that did not include any kind words for the late Arizona Republican. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Chief of Staff John Kelly and other White House aides advocated for an official statement that gave the decorated Vietnam War POW plaudits for his military and Senate service and called him a “hero,” according to current and former White House aides, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. The original statement was drafted before McCain died Saturday, and Sanders and others edited a final version this weekend that was ready for the president, the aides said. But Trump told aides he wanted to post a brief tweet instead, and the statement praising McCain’s life was not released.
https://triblive.com/politics/politicalheadlines/14014352-74/trump-rejected-plans-for-a-white-house-statement-praising-john-mccain
EdPAC reception helps support election of pro-public education leaders
Do you want to help strengthen public education in the commonwealth? Join with EdPAC, a political action committee that supports the election of pro-public education leaders to the General Assembly. EdPAC will hold a fundraising reception at the 2018 PASA-PSBA School Leadership Conference on Wednesday, Oct. 17 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Cocoa 2-3. More details to come! Visit the conference website to register online.
PSBA Officer Elections: Slate of Candidates
PSBA members seeking election to office for the association were required to submit a nomination form no later than June 1, 2018, to be considered. All candidates who properly completed applications by the deadline are included on the slate of candidates below. In addition, the Leadership Development Committee met on June 17 at PSBA headquarters in Mechanicsburg to interview candidates. According to bylaws, the Leadership Development Committee may determine candidates highly qualified for the office they seek. This is noted next to each person's name with an asterisk (*). Voting procedure: Each school entity will have one vote for each officer. This will require boards of the various school entities to come to a consensus on each candidate and cast their vote electronically during the open voting period (Aug. 24-Oct. 11, 2018). Voting will be accomplished through a secure third-party, web-based voting site that will require a password login. One person from each member school entity will be authorized as the official person to register the vote on behalf of his or her school entity. In the case of school districts, it will be the board secretary who will cast votes on behalf of the school board. A full packet of instructions and a printed slate will be sent to authorized vote registrars the week of August 7. Special note: Boards should be sure to add discussion and voting on candidates to their agenda during one of their meetings in August, September or October before the open voting period ends.
https://www.psba.org/2018/07/psba-officer-elections-slate-candidates/
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.
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!
“Not only do we have a superstar lineup of keynote speakers including Diane Ravitch, Jesse Hagopian, Pasi Sahlberg, Derrick Johnson and Helen Gym, but there will be countless sessions to choose from on the issues you care about the most. We will cover all bases from testing, charters, vouchers and school funding, to issues of student privacy and social justice in schools.”
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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