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PA Ed Policy Roundup Sept. 19, 2019
“Most striking and troubling in these
reports is the finding of large-scale underperformance by full-time virtual
charter schools. If traditional public schools were producing such results, we
would rightly be outraged. We should not feel any different just because these
are charter schools.”
REPRISE: A CALL TO
ACTION TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF FULL-TIME VIRTUAL CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS JUNE
2016
A Report by
the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools,
The National
Association of Charter School Authorizers
and 50CAN
…Most
significantly, though, three research organizations – the Center for
Reinventing Public Education,
Mathematica Policy Research, and the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) – released
three separate reports in October 2015 that represented the most complete and comprehensive
examination of full-time virtual charter schools to date. These reports
examined the characteristics and the performance of full-time virtual charter
schools, as well as the policy frameworks in which they operate. Most striking and troubling in these reports is the finding
of large-scale underperformance by full-time virtual charter schools. If
traditional public schools were producing such results, we would rightly be
outraged. We should not feel any different just because these are charter
schools.
·
The
well-documented, disturbingly low performance by too many full-time virtual
charter public schools should serve as a call to action to state leaders and
authorizers across the country.
·
It is time for
state leaders to make the tough policy changes necessary to ensure that this
model works more effectively than it currently does for the students it serves.
·
It is also time for
authorizers to close chronically low-performing virtual charter schools.
·
Our organizations
plan to work actively with state leaders and authorizers as they embark on
these efforts.
New Report: Cyber Charter Waste Grows to $290 Million in
Taxpayer Money Annually
Education Voters PA
Published by EDVOPA on September 16, 2019
Blogger note: According to the PA Dept.
of State’s Campaign Finance website, DeVos’s American Federation for Children
contributed $1.2 million in 2012 via the Students First PAC (Yass, Dantchik,
Greenberg) to fund Pennsylvania candidates who support school privatization,
including Speaker Turzai and the House Republican Campaign Committee.
Secretary DeVos to
Visit Pennsylvania, Participate in Roundtable Where State Legislators are
Fighting to Expand Education Freedom
U.S. Department of Education Website
September 18, 2019
Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov
Event Date : September 19, 2019 - 8:30am
HARRISBURG,
Pa.—U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will travel to Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, on Thursday, Sept. 19 to visit Harrisburg Catholic Elementary
School and participate in an Education Freedom roundtable. The school visit and
roundtable are hosted by Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Mike Turzai, the
Pennsylvania Catholic Conference and the Diocese of Harrisburg. Pennsylvania
made headlines in recent months after Governor Tom Wolf vetoed House Bill 800,
which would have doubled the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) to $210
million annually. The program provides low- and middle-income families private
school and prekindergarten scholarships and currently serves more than 50,000
students. Unfortunately, due to current limits on the program, an estimated
52,000 students were turned away last year.
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Who :
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U.S. Secretary of
Education Betsy DeVos
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What :
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School tour and
education freedom roundtable discussion
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When :
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Thursday,
September 19 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. ET Media Avail – 9:55 a.m. Open Press
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Where :
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Harrisburg
Catholic Elementary School Cathedral Campus
220 Liberty St. Harrisburg, PA RSVP: Please RSVP no later than 7:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, Sept. 19 to press@ed.gov. Press must arrive no later than 20 minutes before the event start time and bring a valid media credential and/or photo ID to ensure entry. |
“Keystone Crossroads compared the contributions received by 151
schools that administer their own EITC/OSTC programs, and compared it with the
demographic data that the schools report for other purposes to the state
Department of Education. It found that 57 of those schools reported
that they had not enrolled any low-income students, and that another 15
reported low-income enrollment of less than 5%. The Shipley School in Bryn
Mawr, for example, reported zero low-income enrollment and $500,000 in
EITC/OSTC contributions eligible for publicly funded tax credits.”
EITC/OSTC: Require data on tax-credit scholarships
Citizens Voice by
THE EDITORIAL BOARD / PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Advocates of
Pennsylvania’s two backdoor voucher programs, which provide public tax credits
for private contributions to private schools, say that they help poor kids who
are trapped in poorly performing public schools. Well, some of the
contributions do so. But as demonstrated by the Keystone Crossroads, a
left-leaning policy think tank in Harrisburg, some of the money helps kids who
are “trapped” in some of the state’s toniest neighborhoods amid some of its
best-performing public schools. Under the Educational Improvement Tax Credit
and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit programs, the state awards tax credits
to companies that contribute to nonprofit scholarship organizations, most of
which are attached to private schools, including religious and secular institutions.
The tax credit is 100% for the first $10,000, 75% for anything above that, and
90% for maintaining the contributions for two consecutive years. Credits are
capped at $200,000 a year per donor, for two years.
Betsy DeVos To
Promote School That Bans Transgender Students And Staff
The
education secretary is set to visit a Catholic elementary school in
Pennsylvania that has an explicit anti-trans policy.
HuffPost By Rebecca Klein09/18/2019
02:22 pm ET
Education Secretary
Betsy
DeVos hit the
road this week for what her department calls a “2019
Back-to-School tour.” Her
itinerary includes a school that bans transgender students and staff. DeVos on Thursday
is scheduled to visit Harrisburg Catholic Elementary School in Pennsylvania,
part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg. The diocese has a specific
policy for students and staff who may be experiencing “gender identity
questions,” applicable in situations where a person wants to “chemically and/or
surgically alter” their biological sex. “This is understood in Catholic moral terms as
self-mutilation and therefore immoral. To attempt to make accommodations for
such persons would be to cooperate in the immoral action,” says the policy, posted on the diocese website. The policy says students will be
unable to enroll or continue to attend diocese schools if they undergo or have
undergone such a procedure. The policy similarly applies to staff. The
diocese also forbids its schools from employing any individual “who promotes,
procures, assists, or performs an abortion.” The diocese did not immediately
respond to questions about the policy.
Where Betsy DeVos started her 2019 back-to-school tour
says it all about her agenda
And she
explains her view of ‘education freedom.’
Washington Post Answer
Sheet By Valerie Strauss September 16, 2019 at 5:05 p.m. EDT
Education Secretary
Betsy DeVos began her 2019 back-to-school tour Monday. Given that she runs a
publicly funded department and that most U.S. students attend schools in
traditional public systems, you might think she would go to one in a district
working hard to improve its academic performance. Nope. She didn’t go to a
public school, and she didn’t choose a city because of the achievements of its
public schools. Rather, Devos went to St. Marcus Lutheran School in Milwaukee
and touted that city as the “birthplace of modern education freedom.” That is a
reference to a program started under a 1989 law that was the first in the
country to give substantial public funding for students to use for private,
nonsectarian schools. It later expanded to include religious schools. That
program was part of what grew to be known as the “school choice” movement,
which seeks to find alternatives to traditional public school districts so
families can decide for themselves where to send their children and to serve as
an escape for children who have poor educational options in their
neighborhoods. For decades, DeVos has played a key role in that movement,
pushing against critics who argue that using public funds to support choice
schools undermines the traditional public system, and that it aims at
privatizing the nation’s most important civic institution.
“This situation is the result of
legislative malpractice. Lawmakers in 2001 shamelessly increased their own
pension benefits by an unheard-of 50% and increased the public employees’
benefits by 25%, grandly and erroneously declaring that investment income would
pay for the largess. That created absurd spectacles such as former Sen. Robert
Mellow of Lackawanna County — a veteran of the state Legislature and federal
prison — receiving a $245,000 annual pension. Then, they increased benefits for
existing retirees the following year on the same faulty premise. When a
recession quickly exposed the folly of that premise, the politicians deferred
the crisis for a decade, until 2012, and still have not corrected the blunder.
Now, even when the pension plans meet their investment goals, they cannot keep
up with the guaranteed growth in benefits.”
Editorial: Your
growing pension bill
Scranton
Times-Tribune BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD / PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Public pension
reform is not even on the Legislature’s agenda this fall because many
legislators, almost all of whom are prime beneficiaries of the status quo,
claim that they already have enacted meaningful pension reforms. The results of
that handiwork are not impressive, however. So far, they have “contained” the
costs of the state employees’ and school employees’ pension systems to more
than $4 billion every year of the $32 billion budget at the state level, and to
an astonishing 34.7% of total payroll for each of 500 school districts. This
year new school and state employees are required to choose a 401(k)-like
defined contribution plan or a hybrid defined-contribution/defined benefit
plan, a change that is projected to produce savings in the distant future. Meanwhile,
the big state plans for state and school employees are underfunded by more than
$70 billion, thus requiring the massive taxpayer contribution rates for 30 more
years.
In first hearing in 3
years, activists agree Pa. redistricting needs a fix. They disagree on how to
get there
By Stephen Caruso September 18, 2019
David Thornburgh
has a message about the state of Pennsylvania’s political maps, and he wants
lawmakers to hear it whether they want to or not. “It sometimes feels there’s
just too much cheating going on,” Thornburgh, president of the good-government
group Committee of Seventy and son of former Republican Gov. Dick Thornburgh,
said Wednesday. Thornburgh made the remarks during an appearance before the
House State Government Committee, as the panel held its first hearing in three
years on redistricting reform. The standing-room-only session featured
Thornburgh, as well as Fair Districts PA Executive Director Carol Kuniholm and
three members of California’s redistricting commission. Their testimony
near-universally decried gerrymandering — or the drawing of district boundaries
for political gain by a political party — for increasing partisanship, leaving
Pennsylvanians feeling disenfranchised and reducing their trust in government. Currently,
the General Assembly draws a new congressional map every 10 years that is
approved by the governor. A panel of legislative leaders, meanwhile, is tasked
with creating the districts they and their colleagues represent.
“Folmer leaves office with nearly two
years left in his term, which expires in 2022. That will require Lt. Gov. John
Fetterman to call a special election later this year to fill the seat
representing the 48th Senate district, which includes all of Lebanon and parts
of York and Dauphin counties. …Folmer was also considered one of the most
conservative members of the General Assembly. He was one of just two state
senators in Pennsylvania to receive an “Award of Excellence” in 2018 from the
American Conservative Union Foundation, which reviews lawmakers’ voting records
in an annual
ranking exercise.”
Pennsylvania state
Sen. Mike Folmer resigns after child pornography charge
PA Capital Star By Elizabeth Hardison September 18, 2019
Pennsylvania state
Sen. Mike Folmer, R-Lebanon, has resigned from the General Assembly one day
after he was charged with possession of child pornography, Republican leaders
announced Wednesday. “We are sickened and disturbed by the charges brought
against Mike Folmer yesterday,” Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati,
R-Jefferson, and Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, R-Centre, said in an
emailed statement shortly after noon on Wednesday. “We have reviewed the
criminal complaint and spoke with Mike Folmer early this morning to insist on
his resignation from the Senate. We are in receipt of his letter of resignation
and the 48th Senatorial District seat is now vacant.” Scarnati and Corman
stripped Folmer of his chairmanship on the Senate State Government Committee
and removed him from other committee assignments on Tuesday night after
Pennsylvania Attorney Josh Shapiro announced the charges. Gov. Tom Wolf, a
Democrat, and members of Folmer’s caucus called publicly for his resignation
Tuesday and Wednesday.
“The county Republican and Democratic
committees in the senatorial district will select their party’s nominee whose
name will appear on the special election ballot. The winner will serve out the
remainder of Folmer’s term, which expires Nov. 30, 2022. Folmer’s departure shrinks the Senate
Republicans’ majority to 27 while the Democrats hold 22 seats.”
Scheduling special election date to fill former Sen.
Folmer’s seat is a balancing act: LG Fetterman
State Sen.
Mike Folmer's resignation from the Senate creates a vacancy in the 48th state
senatorial district that must be filled by special election.
By Jan Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com Updated Sep 18, 4:40 PM; Posted Sep 18, 4:07 PM
With Sen. Mike
Folmer’s sudden resignation now official, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has to decide
when a special election will take place to fill the vacant 48th state
senatorial district seat representing Lebanon County and parts of Dauphin and
York counties. The election code provides Fetterman 10 days to set the date
from when the resignation takes effect, which was Wednesday. The special
election has to be at least 60 days from the resignation date, which eliminates
the possibility of holding it on the same day as the Nov. 5 general election. Fetterman
said he plans to confer with Gov. Tom Wolf and Senate leaders about what date
makes the most sense. “Certainly a priority of mine would be balancing the
expense of special election ... with how important it is that we minimize the
amount of time voters are left without a senator,” Fetterman told PennLive.
Special elections held on dates separate from the primary or general election
day can cost in the six-figures.
A look inside a new Philly charter school where
kindergartners learn Hebrew
Inquirer by Maddie Hanna, Updated: September 18, 2019- 1:03 PM
One morning last
week, parents led their kindergartners and first-graders to the doors of a
former East Falls medical center. “Say ‘Shalom,’” one woman instructed her son,
kissing him on the head. “See you at 3.” It was the second week at Philadelphia
Hebrew Public Charter School, which opened this month in the Falls Center on
Henry Avenue, part of a network of charters that started in New York and teach
modern Hebrew. The publicly funded schools are non-religious, though the
network’s largest philanthropic supporter, billionaire Michael Steinhardt, has
described charters as
a way to build Jewish identity. While the schools promote modern Hebrew, “the primary goal” is “to
provide an amazing education to our kids,” said Hebrew Public CEO Jon
Rosenberg. He said he is “constantly in the position” of explaining that the
network — which started in 2009 with one school in Brooklyn and now manages
four locations and supports six affiliates across the country — is not a
religious or advocacy organization.
Thursday’s Philly school board meeting promises to be
contentious
Building
safety and charter expansion expected to dominate the discussion
The notebook by Dale Mezzacappa September 18 — 6:31 pm, 2019
When the Board of
Education meets Thursday, the members will have to confront two of its most
contentious issues: building safety and charter expansion. Several speakers
among the 50 who signed up by 4 p.m Wednesday are expected to address school
conditions and teacher and student safety, especially after a teacher was
diagnosed with the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma. The teacher has not
been identified, but it is known that she spent 17 years at Meredith Elementary
School. The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers released a “Healthy Schools
Action Plan” for
dealing with asbestos in schools. Asbestos, long used in insulation
through the 1970s, becomes dangerous when damage causes it to flake and create
airborne fibers that can damage lungs. PFT president Jerry Jordan, with some
elected leaders, toured another school Wednesday morning with exposed pipes and
damaged ceilings that could lead to asbestos exposure. “This isn’t a problem at
one or two schools. That’s why we’ve developed a comprehensive action plan for
every building where children and educators are in danger,” said Jordan. He and
the officials earlier asked for $100 million in funding to immediately correct
hazardous conditions in the city’s school buildings.
Philly District’s Comprehensive School Planning process
is just getting off the ground
Concerns
about building safety are taking center stage.
The notebook by Bill Hangley Jr. September 18 — 2:29 pm, 2019
Last week’s
announcement of a teacher’s cancer diagnosis has highlighted an old problem for
the School District of Philadelphia: Its aging buildings are riddled with
asbestos, lead, and other toxins. But in the discussion that followed, little
mention was made of the fact that four months ago, District officials launched
a process that’s meant to eventually address those concerns: a data-driven
assessment designed to identify the most pressing needs in the most heavily
used buildings. If that planning process is drawing little attention now, it’s
because it has barely begun. Key hires are yet to be made, communities and
parents have yet to be engaged, and major questions about priorities and
process have yet to be addressed. That
leaves stakeholders feeling that any solutions offered by the District’s new
process are a long way off – too long, for some. “What I hear from the
people in my district is, what are you doing right now?” said State Rep. Elizabeth
Fiedler, whose South Philadelphia district will be the planners’ first area of
focus. Announced in May, the District’s Comprehensive School Planning Review
(CSPR) is an ambitious effort that aims to use detailed demographic data to
prioritize infrastructure spending.
Philly students will be marked absent if they join
climate strike
WHYY By Catalina Jaramillo September 18, 2019
The School District
of Philadelphia says it will not allow public school students to skip classes
on Friday to join a march to press action on climate change. The climate strike
is part of coordinated action in cities across the globe. The district
says students interested in participating in the youth climate strikes should
work with administrators to hold events on campus. “We will mark students
absent if they are not in class,” said Megan Lello, a spokesperson for the
school district, in an email. On Monday, New York City authorities announced they
would allow students to skip
classes without penalties to join the strike. Philadelphia’s decision
disappointed the student activists. “This statement illustrates ignorance
and apathy towards the students’ wellbeing,” wrote Vyshnavi Kosigishroff of
Pennsylvania’s Youth Climate Lobby, one of the organizers of the Philly
protest.
Neshaminy teachers ratify new five-year contract
Bucks County Courier Times By Chris
English Posted
Sep 18, 2019 at 1:59 PMUpdated
Sep 18, 2019 at 3:15 PM
Teachers and
other professionals in the 620-member union will get annual pay raises
averaging 2.4% under the proposed deal.
Neshaminy School
District teachers and other professionals in their union will get annual salary
increases averaging 2.4% under a new five-year contract overwhelmingly ratified
by the 620-member Neshaminy Federation of Teachers on Tuesday night. The school
board is scheduled to vote on the proposed deal at its meeting 7 p.m. Tuesday
at the district administrative offices, 2250 Langhorne-Yardley Road,
Middletown. District officials released details of the proposed deal and a full
copy Wednesday, nearly a week before the board’s scheduled vote. They can be viewed on the district website, neshaminy.org. The new contract is
retroactive to July 1 and runs through June 30, 2024. It gives NFT members
salary increases of 3.1%, 2.4%, 2.1%, 2% and 2.3%. Those numbers include both
step increases, or movement along a vertical matrix based on years of service,
and also column increases, which is horizontal movement based on college credits
and degrees earned. The deal will mean $1.4 million in additional annual costs,
or a total of $7 million, district officials estimated.
Administration plan on gun background checks draws NRA
opposition
Inquirer by Seung Min Kim, Paul Kane, Josh
Dawsey, The Washington Post, Updated: September 18, 2019- 8:16 PM
WASHINGTON - A
leaked document outlining one Trump administration proposal to expand
background checks on firearms sales prompted an uproar from the right on
Wednesday - underscoring the significant challenges the White House will face
on any additional gun restrictions it tries to advance in Congress. The
National Rifle Association, weakened but still influential among conservatives,
immediately dismissed the plan drafted by the Justice Department as a
non-starter. A White House spokesman denied that the document was a White House
product - even though its top legislative official was briefing GOP senators on
the plan's details. Many Republicans who reviewed the specifics of the
background checks measure remained lukewarm about it, and a handful of GOP
senators who had been directly briefed by Attorney General William Barr on the
plan acknowledged that the proposal was incomplete - at best. "I don't
know who leaked it," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who discussed the
proposal with Barr on Tuesday. "But obviously that wasn't the idea."
New Mexico Announces Plan for Free College for State
Residents
Under the
plan, tuition to all state colleges would be free for students regardless of
family income.
New York Times By Simon
Romero and Dana Goldstein Sept. 18, 2019
ALBUQUERQUE — In
one of the boldest state-led efforts to expand access to higher education, New
Mexico is unveiling a plan on Wednesday to make tuition at its public colleges
and universities free for all state residents, regardless of family income. The
move comes as many American families grapple with the rising cost of higher
education and as discussions about free public college gain momentum in state
legislatures and on the presidential debate stage. Nearly half of the states,
including New York, Oregon and Tennessee, have guaranteed free two- or four-year public college to some students.
But the New Mexico proposal goes further, promising four years of
tuition even to students whose families can afford to pay the sticker
price. The program, which is expected to be formally announced by Gov. Michelle
Lujan Grisham on Wednesday and still requires legislative approval, would apply
to all 29 of the state’s two- and four-year public institutions. Long one of
the poorest states in the country, New Mexico plans to use climbing revenues
from oil production to pay for much of the costs.
Senate Education Spending Bill Would Increase Aid for
School Safety, Charters
Education Week By Andrew Ujifusa on September 18, 2019 11:59 AM
The Senate's
bill to fund the U.S. Department of Education would keep overall spending virtually flat, although grants for
charter schools would get a relatively small increase, as would programs
intended to improve school safety. The legislation to fund the Education
Department would provide $71.4 billion in discretionary funding to the agency
for fiscal 2020, which starts Oct. 1. Another winner in the bill is the Student
Support and Academic Enrichment grant program—officially known as Title IV Part
A in the Every Student Succeeds Act—intended to provide more well-rounded
school experiences to students. The Senate bill would provide a $50 million
boost to these grants, bringing total funding to just over $1.2 billion. However,
one relatively small program popular among Democrats would lose out; see more
on that below. Given how different the Senate bill is from the education
funding legislation passed
by the Democratically-controlled House earlier this year, it's fair to expect a significant amount of political wrangling before
Congress finally reaches a deal on how much Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos
will have to spend next year. Just to name one example, the House legislation
seeks to cut charter school aid by nearly 10 percent.
Watch Robbie Robertson Play ‘The Weight’ With Ringo Starr
and Musicians Across Five Continents
The epic Playing for Change video was the
result two years of work across ten countries
Rolling Stone By
PATRICK DOYLE SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 9:53AM ET
“What key is it in, Robbie?” Ringo Starr,
sitting behind a drum set, asks Robbie Robertson over the phone. Ringo nods. “F-demented!” What happens next is a a
joyous cover of “The Weight,” with Robertson reprising the recording’s soulful
intro lick. A series of musicians from all over the world – Marcus King, Lucas
Nelson, the Japanese guitar virtuoso Char, Congo soul singer Mermens Mosengo
and more – all add their own flavor to the classic from different locations. The
project comes from Playing
For Change, a group
that dedicated to “break down the boundaries and overcome distances between
people.”
Information about the
education sessions for the 2019 @PasaSupts @PSBA School Leadership Conference are now live on our
website! We hope to see you there! #PASLC2019
What: Informal
discussion on cyber charter schools
When: 9 a.m.
refreshments, 9:30 a.m. panel, Oct. 7
Where: Central
Pennsylvania Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, 800 E. Park Ave., State College
AAUW State College
Branch invites you to attend an informational panel discussion to learn more
about background and issues connected with cyber charter schools. Join us on Oct.
7, at the Central Pennsylvania Convention and Visitors Bureau, 800 E. Park
Ave., State College (visitor center off Porter Road). Refreshments, 9 a.m.;
panel discussion, 9:30 a.m.
The American
Association of University Women State College Branch is part of a nationwide
network of about 1,000 branches that are dedicated to advancing equity for
women and girls.
Adolescent Health and
School Start Times: Science, Strategies, Tactics, & Logistics
Workshop Nov 13, Exton
Join school administrators and staff, including superintendents, transportation directors, principals, athletic directors, teachers, counselors, nurses, and school board members, parents, guardians, health professionals and other concerned community members for an interactive and solutions-oriented workshop on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 9:30 am to 3:00 pm
Join school administrators and staff, including superintendents, transportation directors, principals, athletic directors, teachers, counselors, nurses, and school board members, parents, guardians, health professionals and other concerned community members for an interactive and solutions-oriented workshop on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 9:30 am to 3:00 pm
Clarion Hotel in
Exton, PA
The science is clear. Many middle and high school days in Pennsylvania, and across the nation, start too early in the morning. The American Medical Association, Centers for Disease Control, American Academy of Pediatrics, and many other major health and education leaders agree and have issued policy statements recommending that secondary schools start no earlier than 8:30 am to allow for sleep, health, and learning. Implementing these recommendations, however, can seem daunting. Discussions will include the science of sleep and its connection to school start times, as well as proven strategies for successfully making change--how to generate optimum community support and work through implementation challenges such as bus routes, athletics, and more. Register for the workshop here: https://ssl-workshop-pa.eventbrite.com Thanks to our generous sponsors, we are able to offer early bird registration for $25, which includes a box-lunch and coffee service. Seating is limited and early bird registration ends on Friday, September 13.
For more information visit the workshop website www.startschoollater.net/workshop---pa or email contact@startschoollater.net
The science is clear. Many middle and high school days in Pennsylvania, and across the nation, start too early in the morning. The American Medical Association, Centers for Disease Control, American Academy of Pediatrics, and many other major health and education leaders agree and have issued policy statements recommending that secondary schools start no earlier than 8:30 am to allow for sleep, health, and learning. Implementing these recommendations, however, can seem daunting. Discussions will include the science of sleep and its connection to school start times, as well as proven strategies for successfully making change--how to generate optimum community support and work through implementation challenges such as bus routes, athletics, and more. Register for the workshop here: https://ssl-workshop-pa.eventbrite.com Thanks to our generous sponsors, we are able to offer early bird registration for $25, which includes a box-lunch and coffee service. Seating is limited and early bird registration ends on Friday, September 13.
For more information visit the workshop website www.startschoollater.net/workshop---pa or email contact@startschoollater.net
“Each member 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. 23 – Oct. 11, 2019).”
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, 2019, 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 15th 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 (*).
WHERE: Hershey Lodge and
Convention Center 325 University Drive, Hershey, PA
WHEN: Wednesday, October
16 to Friday, October 18, 201
Registration is now open!
Growth from knowledge acquired. Vision inspired by innovation. Impact
created by a synergized leadership community. You are called upon to be the
drivers of a thriving public education system. It’s a complex and challenging
role. Expand your skillset and give yourself the tools needed for the
challenge. Packed into two and a half daysꟷꟷgain access to top-notch education
and insights, dynamic speakers, peer learning opportunities and the latest
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