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PA Ed Policy Roundup for Nov. 19, 2019
Happy American
Education Week! Pennsylvania is celebrating by pushing ways to spend public tax
$$$ with virtually zero fiscal accountability
PA
Schools Work Webinar: Focusing on School Funding Advocacy
Tuesday
November 19th 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Join us for an Education Advocacy Lunch &
Learn webinar Tuesday at noon. It's a brief 30-min session on how to
effectively communicate with your state legislators about doing more to support
our schools, so that all #PASchoolsWork. Register below! http://register.createdacard.me/9zIdB
Yesterday’s PA House
Education Committee Roll Call Vote on HB1800 - Voucher Bill. Passed out of
committee 13 to 12.
All Democrats and
Republicans Rosemary Brown and Meghan Schroeder voted NO
HB1800: Please contact your representatives
immediately and tell them to reject vouchers and vote NO on this bill.
The voucher bill is expected to be fast tracked for a vote by the
full House as soon as Thursday
Call your House member - contact info here:
Send an
email here: https://www.votervoice.net/PSBA/campaigns/69434/respond
Pa. House panel
advances HB1800 bill authorizing vouchers for Harrisburg schools
PA Capital Star By Stephen Caruso November 18, 2019
A plan to let
public school students use school vouchers to attend private schools in
Harrisburg advanced out of the House Education Committee Monday. The bill
sponsored by House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, calls for half of the
state’s per pupil contribution to the troubled Harrisburg School District — a
little more than $4,000 — to go to from the school district to students who
seek a private education. The capital city’s school district has roughly 7,736
students, according to the state Department of Education. The proposed voucher
would be equal to the state’s annual per student appropriation to the district,
split evenly between the school and the state.
HB1800: A tuition voucher program will set Harrisburg
back | Opinion
Penn Live Opinion By Kia Hansard, Carrie
Fowler and Jody Barksdale Updated Nov
18, 2019;Posted Nov 18, 2019
Kia Hansard is the co-founder of Concerned
About the Children of Harrisburg (CATCH), a community/parent group. Carrie
Fowler is a member of the Harrisburg School Board. Jody Barksdale is a
Harrisburg teacher and president of the Harrisburg Education Association.
For the first time
in many years, the Harrisburg School District is on the right track. The
district finally has the right administrative team and a supportive school
board to turn things around after years of fiscal mismanagement by the prior administration.
Challenges still lie ahead, but the path is clear now. Why then would we want
to upend this progress and replace it with an untested tuition voucher program
that will siphon millions of dollars in funding from Harrisburg’s financially
distressed schools? That is what some lawmakers in Harrisburg, led by
Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, want to do. Speaker Turzai
has introduced House Bill 1800, which requires Harrisburg’s receiver Dr. Janet Samuels to establish a
tuition voucher program for students in the district. Harrisburg has been in
receivership for less than six
months now.
When Speaker Turzai first floated this voucher program in August, district
officials rightly pointed out the proposal was ill-timed and could disrupt the district’s
recovery process.
Blogger note: PA Department of Education
Future Ready Index Reports do not show much difference in student academic
performance between Chester Community Charter School and the district’s
elementary and middle schools.
Charter school pushes for takeover of Chester Upland’s
elementary schools
Inquirer by Maddie Hanna, Updated: November 18, 2019- 6:43 PM
If the
school's petition is granted, the share of Chester Upland students enrolled in
charters — already one of the nation’s largest — could grow to roughly 80
percent.
Pennsylvania’s
largest brick-and-mortar charter school, which already enrolls 60% of the
Chester Upland School District’s elementary students, has moved to let charters
take over the fiscally distressed district’s primary schools. Chester Community
Charter School has asked Delaware County Court to order the district and state
to issue requests for proposals for charters to educate Chester Upland’s
prekindergarten through eighth grade students. The charter did not ask that it
be the only operator considered, but its management company said it is
positioned to expand if the court moves ahead with the plan. Charters have
increased their presence and faced heightened controversy in school districts
nationwide. More than half of Chester Upland’s approximately 7,000 public
school students attend charters, one of the largest such shares nationally. If
the petition is granted, that number could grow to about 80%. Without
elementary students, the district’s enrollment would drop from about 3,000 to
1,400. Chester High School would not be affected. It would also send millions
of more tax dollars to charters and leave the Chester Upland district with less
control and money, a prospect that district teachers say will further erode
their mission and ranks.
Blogger note: One of the best things
about having a charter management company is that those pesky Right-to-Know
laws don't apply. So taxpayers know virtually nothing about how the $18 million
management fee (for just one year) noted on this 2018 990 was spent.
2018 Form 990 for
Chester Community Charter School
CauseIQ
“The trust is linked to Philadelphia
lawyer and charter school entrepreneur Vahan Gureghian and his wife, Danielle,
a lawyer. Mr. Gureghian didn’t respond to a request for comment sent to his
education management firm, CSMI LLC.”
Once Asking $84.5M,
Oceanfront Mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, Enters Contract
The
35,000-square-foot new build was last listed for $59.9 million
MANSION GLOBAL BY FANG BLOCK | ORIGINALLY
PUBLISHED ON JUNE 6, 2019 |
A never-occupied
oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, that was once the island’s most
expensive home on the market with a price tag of $84.5 million has found a
buyer, according to listing records. The 35,000-square-foot mansion, custom
built in 2016, was last listed by Douglas Elliman in October for $59.9 million.
Its status changed to “pending sale” or “contracted” on the Multiple Listing
Service as of June 3. Listing agents Ashley McIntosh, Gary Pohrer and Vince
Spadea of Douglas Elliman declined to confirm the sale or disclose any
information about the parties involved. The home first came onto the market in
March 2015 for $84.5 million, making it the most expensive home for sale in
Palm Beach. The price was reduced to $70 million, then to $65 million later
that year, listing records show.
Blogger note: here is a December 2013
letter to the editor worth repeating for background and context as we consider turning
Chester Upland into Pennsylvania’s own little charterized New Orleans. But instead
of Katrina, it appears that we’ve had a flood of campaign contributions…
“In Palm Beach, Fla., the governor's
(Corbett) largest individual campaign donor ($384,000) is building a new 20,000
square-foot mansion on a $29 million beachfront lot. For over six years he has
been fighting a Right-to-Know request regarding financial details of his
management company's operation of Chester Community Charter School, the state's
largest brick-and-mortar charter school. A charter school amendment passed by
the House in June included a clause that would have exempted contractors like
him from Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know laws. In Chester, standardized-test
scores dropped precipitously at that Chester Community Charter School after an
investigation of possible past cheating brought new scrutiny to the school's
testing practices. Results for 2012 state tests show that, schoolwide, scores
fell about 30 percentage points in math and reading, with double-digit drops in
every grade. Some fell more than 40 percentage points. The odds that erasure patterns were random on the reading portion of
Chester Community Charter School seventh-graders' 2009 PSSAs were one in a
quadrillion but somehow the state left the charter to investigate itself.”
Reprise Dec. 2013: Letters:
Charter school bill: A disaster for education in Pennsylvania
Delco Times By
LAWRENCE A. FEINBERG Times Guest Columnist Dec 7, 2013
Pennsylvania's
20-year experiment with charter schools has had mixed academic results at best
for our kids but has been a veritable bonanza for some adults and politicians.
Senate Bill 1085,
the latest attempt at 'charter school reform,' includes multiple provisions
that would strip local control over tax dollars from school boards elected by
their taxpaying neighbors, and permit colleges, universities and the state to
spend local tax dollars with no authorization or oversight by local officials.
SB 1085 also strips language from the law requiring charter schools to be
models of innovation for public schools. That begs the question: What, then, is
the purpose of charter schools?
Analyzing
Pennsylvania's new School Performance Profiles, Philadelphia-based nonprofit
Research for Action recently found that cyber-charters are some of the very
lowest-performing schools in the state. Of the 11 cyber-charters for which
information was available, none met the statewide average score for all
publicly funded schools (77.2). The state's cyber-charters received a score of
44.7, far below the scores for both brick-and-mortar charters (67.3) and
traditional public schools (77.8). Researchers also found that for the five
cyber-charter schools with available data, student turnover rates were
extraordinarily high. In 2011-12, 27 percent of the students in these
cyber-charters withdrew from school. By the way, the state is currently
considering applications for six new cyber charter schools.
In Pittsburgh, Nick
Trombetta, founder of the state's largest cyber-charter, is on trial under a
41-count federal indictment for allegedly stealing $1 million. He had
previously used $10 million in taxpayer dollars from his cyber school's fund
balance to help finance construction of a performing arts center for the town
of Midland. That was great for Midland, but should it have been funded by
school taxes from all over the state?
PA Senate Education Committee
Meeting Today
Rules Committee Conference
Room 12:15 p.m.
To consider HB355
(Reese) Charter School Reform – Ethics Requirements for Charter Trustees and
Administrators
Education Advocates Oppose New Voucher Bill
HB 1800
allows private/religious schools to exclude students with special needs.
Public News Service
by Andrea Sears November 19, 2019
HARRISBURG, Pa. —
Education advocates say a new school voucher bill would drain district
resources and allow discrimination against students with special needs. House
Bill 1800 would
provide tuition vouchers worth up to $8,200 to students in the financially
struggling Harrisburg school district to attend private schools, including religious
schools. But according to Susan Spicka, executive director of Education
Voters of Pennsylvania, unlike
public schools that must accommodate all students, the bill allows those
schools to refuse students with disabilities. "This bill gives choice to
private and religious schools to choose the students they want and then to
discriminate against students that they don't want, all using taxpayer
dollars,” Spicka said. State House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Marshall, sponsored
the bill and said it would provide students in one of the state's
worst-performing school districts with immediate access to a better education. But
Spicka noted after years of financial turmoil, the district went into
receivership in June, and now students and educators are optimistic about the
changes they are seeing. "The voucher program would undermine all of that
by draining millions and millions of dollars out of the school district just as
it's beginning to get back on its feet,” she said.
Curmuducation Blog by Peter Greene Monday,
November 18, 2019
HB 1800, the bill intended to pilot vouchers in Pennsylvania, made it out of
committee today. The vote
was 13-12, with two GOP representatives (Rosemary Brown and Meghan Schroeder)
voting no. The precipitating excuse for this bill is the school system of
Harrisburg, a system that has suffered from financial mismanagement and so was
put in financial
receivership, a sort of state takeover, last June. By August, House Speaker Mike Turzai was chomping at the bit, because
after all, the state had had almost two whole months to turn things around. Turzai
is a Betsy DeVos
fanboy with a
long-standing dislike for
public education, so Harrisburg's vulnerability must strike him as a great
chance to once again try to sell vouchers to a GOP-dominated legislature that
has already grabbed onto plenty of choice-flavored assaults on public ed. The
foot in the door is the classic voucher approach. It's generally "these
will just be for the poor families" or "just for those trapped in a
failing school." Turzai has always been a fan of the "We spent all
this money on these schools and where are the shiny test scores?" line of
reasoning, and Harrisburg schools don't have a lot of friends or political
support right now, so they must look like a great chance to start the voucher
train rolling in PA.
The last time the legislature tried to
run a voucher bill was SB1, eight years ago in 2011. Here’s an OPED that is
just as fresh today as it was then….
“Public schools are required to accept
and expected to educate every student who shows up, regardless of economic
status, English proficiency, disabilities, or behavioral problems. It's the
law. Here's where "choice" really comes in: Private schools can
choose to accept or reject any prospective student, and they can choose which
students they retain or expel.
S.B. 1 demands accountability, but only
from traditional public schools. While voucher proponents hold the
accountability banner high, accusing high-poverty public schools of failing,
there is no accountability whatsoever imposed under this bill's voucher scheme.
It would allow private schools to receive tax dollars without being accountable
for students' academic performance, requiring no standardized tests and making
no scores available to the public.
Nor does the bill impose any
accountability for how private schools spend tax dollars. There would be no
transparency, public budgets, or right to know.
Meanwhile, S.B. 1 would dismantle
neighborhood schools by siphoning off motivated students and parents, leaving
behind a truly concentrated population of failing students, including those who
are less motivated, "hard to educate," disabled, troubled, and able
to speak little English. S.B. 1 offers absolutely nothing to help those
students or improve their schools.
Ultimately, S.B. 1 and its so-called
opportunity scholarships would provide our state legislators with an
opportunity to wash their hands of their responsibility to provide a thorough
and efficient system of public education for all.”
Reprise 2011: Pa.'s unaccountable voucher bill
Inquirer Opinion by
Lawrence A. Feinberg Posted: February 21, 2011
Lawrence A.
Feinberg is a school board member in Haverford Township, the chairman of the
Delaware County School Boards Legislative Council, and a co-chairman of the
Keystone State Education Coalition. He can be reached at lfeinberg@thelocalgroup.com.
In support of
Pennsylvania's Senate Bill 1, which would provide taxpayer-funded vouchers to
private schools, voucher evangelists have been citing a report by the
Foundation for Educational Choice, "A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence
on How Vouchers Affect Public Schools." However, a review of the report by
the National Education Policy Center finds no credible evidence that vouchers
have improved student achievement. Located at the University of Colorado at
Boulder, the National Education Policy Center aims to provide high-quality
information on education policy. Its review found that the "Win-Win"
report, "based on a review of 17 studies, selectively reads the evidence
in some of those studies, the majority of which were produced by voucher
advocacy organizations.
"Moreover, the
report can't decide whether or not to acknowledge the impact of factors other
than vouchers on public schools. It attempts to show that public school gains
were caused by the presence of vouchers alone, but then argues that the lack of
overall gains for districts with vouchers should be ignored because too many
other factors are at play." The review goes on to note that "existing
research provides little reliable information about the competitive effects of
vouchers, and this report does little to help answer the question." Voucher
proponents tout the supposed benefits of competition, but the playing field is
not even close to level. The state's public schools operate under the
bureaucratic weight of the Pennsylvania School Code's thousand pages (also
created by the legislature) and another thousand pages of No Child Left Behind
requirements. They face a virtual army of special-education attorneys with
another thousand pages of laws. They are subject to right-to-know and sunshine
laws. And they must bear the costs of complying with all of them. Religious and
other private schools are relatively unaffected by any of this red tape,
rendering the notion of fair competition ludicrous.
Aiming for equity: PPS pursues a laudable, lofty goal
Paying lip
service to equity is easy, even trendy. But actually achieving equity requires
long, hard work
THE EDITORIAL BOARD Pittsburgh Post-Gazette NOV 19, 2019 5:59 AM
Pittsburgh Public
Schools’ new plan to reduce racial disparities within the district takes aim at
a laudable and important goal. But PPS must proceed cautiously, regularly
checking the successes and failures of its 27-step plan and reacting
accordingly to ensure that every student is afforded the opportunity to succeed
in a more equitable environment. Racial achievement gaps are an issue at many
schools throughout the state and the country, and PPS is no different. But the
district has made meaningful strides in recent years with a set of small policy
changes meant to chip away at the problem. For instance, the school’s overall
graduation rate improved by nearly 10%, growing from 70.4% in 2015 to 79.8% in
2016, and the rate of graduation for African American students rose more than
12% during that same period. But the 77.4% overall black graduation rate still
lags behind the 87.1% graduation rate of white students, just one sign that
there is work to be done. PPS’ plan, called “On Track to Equity, Integrating
Equity Throughout PPS,” presents a bold, sweeping vision of the district’s
future, outlining a set of changes meant to improve the school’s racial
disparities.
Unknown number of Philly schools should stop drinking
from tap and bring in ‘safe water,’ physician tells parents
WHYY By Kevin McCorry November 18, 2019
Gale Glenn is just
one mother, but she says she speaks for 698 children.
Glenn came to
Mastery Frederick Douglass Elementary in North Philadelphia Monday night to
discuss recently revealed reports of high lead levels in drinking fountains at
the school attended by her three children. The only parent in attendance, she
sat in the second row of the auditorium and spoke informally with a panel of
Mastery staffers and lead experts. “I just want things to be right. This school
— we do have some issues here. We don’t want our kids to be sick,” Glenn said.
“It’s better to know that not to know.” The meeting occurred in response to an
investigative report last week by Keystone Crossroads/PlanPhilly that found a legacy of
disturbing water quality issues at the school over 15 years. Most recently,
after three water fountains failed city-mandated lead tests in April —
including one 350 times the district’s 10 parts per billion limit — Mastery
failed to inform parents of the results. Mastery says it decommissioned the
fountains immediately, but it didn’t notify parents about the potential hazard
to their children until months later — only when reporters began asking
questions.
EDITORIAL: When it comes to substitute teachers, the law
of supply and demand still rules
York Dispatch Published 4:37 a.m. ET Nov. 19,
2019
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- York
County school districts are facing a shortage substitute teachers.
- To
attract quality substitutes, school districts are offering various
incentives.
- Some
districts are offering bonuses, food and drink incentives and pay raises.
It’s a scene that
had to send chills down the spine of every parent of a school-age child.
A female substitute
teacher in Texas in seen in a viral video beating a 15-year-old female high school student. Apparently, the
students in the class were being a little loud and the situation escalated when
the teacher cursed at them. The girl reportedly told the teacher not to talk to
her that way. The teacher responded by striking the student several times on
her head before she stomped on the girl’s head. The girl was treated for severe
injuries and the teacher was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. So,
you might ask, what does this have to do with us here in York County? Well, it
shows you the importance of hiring competent, professional substitute teachers.
Right now, substitute teachers are mighty hard to find in these parts. In
fact, there’s a serious shortage. The reason for the shortage is pretty simple.
It stems from a drop in the number of full-time teachers, which first started
around 2014 or 2015. Fewer full-time teachers means there’s going to be a need
for more substitute teachers, and right now there simply are not enough to
go around.
Eyes on the Philly Board of Education: November
21, 2019
Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools by
Karel Kilimnik November 17, 2019
APPS members
continue to ask when the Board will institute real education reform.
Rebuild District infrastructure. Stop hollowing out the central administration
and diverting that work to outside vendors. Fund smaller class size and the
restoration of school libraries. The Board needs to step up and provide
leadership in righting the direction of this District. There is a wealth of
knowledge and experience within this District–use it. Stop bringing in
outsiders with no commitment to the community. Fill 440 with
administrators who can answer our questions, respond to parents, students,
school staff, and community members when concerns are raised and questions
asked. It is time for the Board to step up and show us that they have the will
and capacity to rebuild our District.
East Penn’s
project-based ‘school within a school’ gets green light
By MICHELLE MERLIN THE MORNING CALL | NOV 18, 2019 | 6:02 AM
Some Emmaus High
School freshmen will be able to try out a new project-based learning program
next year. School board members last week unanimously approved a “school within
a school” pilot that would offer college prep-level classes along with the same
curriculum as the rest of the district. But students would be getting that
information delivered via project-based learning and would work on projects
together, sometimes with partners in the community. Mike Mihalik, supervisor of
secondary curriculum and instruction for STEM, told school board members last
month that he stumbled across such a project recently with his wife, who works
with the Lehigh County Humane Society. She mentioned the Humane Society has
boxes going back to 1906 that tell the history of the organization, which
originally was devoted to protecting children and horses, he said. Digging into
those files could be part of an American history project or a writing
assignment, he said. The school within a school program also would aim to
partner with the community. For older students, it could entail an internship
or externship, Mihalik said. The district is hoping to have 32 to 48 students
for the pilot group.
'Running out of room': How old turf fields raise
potential environmental, health concerns
As fields
are replaced, billions of pounds of rubber and synthetic fiber are piling up
because the U.S. has no plan for disposing of this product.
Candy Woodall, York Daily Record Updated 9:13
a.m. EST Nov. 18, 2019
The hulking wall of
rubber was first discovered by a borough maintenance crew. About 6,000
rolled pieces were neatly stacked about 10 feet high, covering more
than an acre of private land, according to the mayor of Cleona, Pennsylvania. The
green blades of artificial grass peeking through the coiled logs offered the
first clue. “This is what it looks like when someone gets rid of a dozen turf
fields and there’s nowhere to send them,” said Mayor Larry Minnich. A York
Daily Record/York Sunday News investigation has found an unregulated industry
that is growing exponentially and dumping several hundred old athletic fields
across the U.S. every year.
135 days later:
Hempfield teachers have a new contract, and it includes a 2.8% salary increase
Lancaster Online by
ALEX GELI | Staff
Writer November
19, 2019
It took 135 days,
but Hempfield teachers finally have a new contract.
The Hempfield
school board and the Hempfield Education Association representing 520 educators
districtwide passed a five-year collective bargaining agreement last week —
nearly four and a half months after the previous contract expired. It includes
a 2.8% salary increase over five years. Teachers had been working under the old
contract’s final year until this point. They invoked "work to rule,"
meaning they wouldn’t do more than the absolute minimum required, as negotiations
dragged on. In a
statement on the district’s website, school board President Bill Otto said
adopting a contract that balanced "the need to employ and retain high
quality educators and critical personnel" and "the community’s
ability to shoulder associated costs" was the objective. "Via a collaborative
process with HEA, we believe we have achieved those goals," he said. Neither
Otto nor union President Rik Appleby responded to requests for comment. A post
on HEA’s Facebook page, however, thanked the community for its support and said
that "both sides feel that the contract is fair and is in the best
interest of students and teachers."
114,000 Students in
N.Y.C. Are Homeless. These Two Let Us Into Their Lives.
New York Times Written
by Eliza Shapiro; Photographs by Brittainy Newman NOV. 19, 2019
Darnell, 8, lives
in a homeless shelter and commutes 15 miles a day to school.
Sandivel shares a
bedroom with her mother and four brothers. She is 10 and has moved seven times
in the past five years. The number of school-age children in New York City who
live in shelters or “doubled up” in apartments with family or friends has
swelled by 70 percent over the past decade — a crisis without precedent in the
city’s history. By day, New York’s 114,085 homeless students live in plain
sight: They study on the subway and sprint through playgrounds. At night, these
children sometimes sleep in squalid, unsafe rooms, often for just a few months
until they move again. School is the only stable place they know.
Education in the 2020
Presidential Race
Education Week –
Ongoing Updated Coverage
The 2020
presidential campaign has put key education issues in the spotlight, sometimes
in unexpected ways. This interactive Education Week tracker gives you one-click
access to where the Democratic and Republican candidates stand on nearly a
dozen major education topics including school safety, civil rights, teacher
pay, charter schools, education funding, and more, along with biographical
detail on each of those seeking the White House. You can search either by topic
or candidate. This tracker will be updated throughout the campaign based on
what the candidates say and do.
A Networking and Supportive Event for K-12 Educators of
Color (teachers, school counselors, and administrators)! Thursday, December 12, 7:00-8:30 pm Villanova University,
Dougherty Hall, West Lounge
You are cordially
invited to this gathering, with the goal of networking and lending support and
sustenance to our K-12 Educators of Color and their allies. This is your chance
to make requests, share resources, and build up our community. Please feel free
to bring a school counselor, teacher, or administrator friend! Light
refreshments provided.
Where: Villanova
University, Dougherty Hall, West Lounge (first floor, back of building)
Directions, campus
and parking map found here
Parking: Free
parking in lot L2. Turn on St. Thomas Way, off of Lancaster Avenue. You will
need to print a parking pass that will be emailed shortly before the event to
all who register.
Questions? Contact
an event organizer: Dr. Krista Malott (krista.malott@villanova.edu), Dr.
Jerusha Conner (Jerusha.conner@villanova.edu), Department of Education &
Counseling, and Dr. Anthony Stevenson, Administrator, Radnor School District
(Anthony.Stevenson@rtsd.org)
PSBA Alumni Forum: Leaving school board service?
Continue your connection and commitment to public education by joining PSBA Alumni Forum. Benefits of the complimentary membership includes:
Continue your connection and commitment to public education by joining PSBA Alumni Forum. Benefits of the complimentary membership includes:
- electronic access to PSBA Bulletin
- legislative information via email
- Daily EDition e-newsletter
- Special access to one dedicated annual briefing
Register
today online. Contact Crista Degregorio at Crista.Degregorio@psba.org with questions.
Save the Date: PSBA/PASA/PAIU Advocacy Day -- March 23, 2020
Registration
will open on December 2, 2019
PSBA New and Advanced
School Director Training in Dec & Jan
Do you want
high-impact, engaging training that newly elected and reseated school directors
can attend to be certified in new and advanced required training? PSBA has been
supporting new school directors for more than 50 years by enlisting statewide
experts in school law, finance and governance to deliver a one-day foundational
training. This year, we are adding a parallel track of sessions for those who
need advanced school director training to meet their compliance requirements.
These sessions will be delivered by the same experts but with advanced content.
Look for a compact evening training or a longer Saturday session at a location
near you. All sites will include one hour of trauma-informed training required
by Act 18 of 2019. Weekend sites will include an extra hour for a legislative
update from PSBA’s government affairs team.
New School
Director Training
Week Nights:
Registration opens 3:00 p.m., program starts 3:30 p.m. -9:00 p.m., dinner with
break included
Saturdays: Registration opens at 8:00 a.m., program starts at 9:00 a.m. -3:30 p.m., lunch with break included
Saturdays: Registration opens at 8:00 a.m., program starts at 9:00 a.m. -3:30 p.m., lunch with break included
Advanced
School Director Training
Week Nights:
Registration with dinner provided opens at 4:30 p.m., program starts 5:30 p.m.
-9:00 p.m.
Saturdays: Registration opens at 10:00 a.m., program starts at 11:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., lunch with break included
Saturdays: Registration opens at 10:00 a.m., program starts at 11:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., lunch with break included
Locations
and dates
- Saturday, December 7 — AW Beattie
Career Center, 9600 Babcock Blvd., Allison Park, PA 15101
- Saturday, December 7 — Radnor
Township School District, 135 S. Wayne Ave., Wayne, PA 19087
- Tuesday, December 10 — Grove City
Area School District, 511 Highland Avenue, Grove City, PA 16127
- Tuesday, December 10 — Penn Manor
School District, 2950 Charlestown Road, Lancaster, PA 17603
- Tuesday, December 10 — CTC of
Lackawanna County, 3201 Rockwell Ave, Scranton, PA 18508
- Wednesday, December 11 — Upper St. Clair
Township SD, 1820 McLaughlin Run Road, Upper St. Clair, PA 15241
- Wednesday, December 11 — Montoursville
Area High School, 700 Mulberry St, Montoursville, PA 17754
- Wednesday, December 11 — Berks County
IU 14, 1111 Commons Blvd, Reading, PA 19605
- Thursday, December 12 — Richland
School District, 1 Academic Avenue, Suite 200, Johnstown, PA 15904
- Thursday, December 12 — Seneca Highlands
IU 9, 119 S Mechanic St, Smethport, PA 16749
- Thursday, December 12 — School
District of Haverford Twp, 50 East Eagle Road, Havertown, PA 19083
- Saturday, December 14 — State College
Area High School, 650 Westerly Pkwy, State College, PA 16801
- Saturday, January 11, 2020 — PSBA
Headquarters, 400 Bent Creek Blvd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
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