Thursday, November 21, 2019

PA Ed Policy Roundup for Nov. 21, 2019 In debate justifying voucher bill #HB1800 last night, Speaker .@RepTurzai, rejecting amendments that would create accountability in the bill, says it is difficult to get below 7% proficient in math (Harrisburg). Perhaps he should also look at Chester Community Charter School (6.4%)


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PA Ed Policy Roundup for Nov. 21, 2019



PSBA New and Advanced School Director Training, Haverford
THURSDAY, DEC 12, 2019 • 4:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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HB1800 Voucher Bill: Financial torpedo or academic lifeline? Tuition voucher bill debated by Harrisburg community
Penn Live By Sean Sauro | ssauro@pennlive.com Today 5:30 AM
It’s being hailed as a lifeline for parents frustrated by struggling schools and derided by critics as a body blow to the Harrisburg School District. Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny County, is pushing a plan to establish a tuition voucher program that could help Harrisburg families put their children in private schools. The House Education Committee approved the plan Monday. The full House started a debate on amendments to the bill Wednesday night - all were defeated by Turzai’s majority Republican caucus on a series of party-line votes. But with more amendments still to be considered, final House floor votes on the bill won’t happen before next month. Some in the city see merit in Turzai’s plan, calling it a way to offer a better future for students in the academically underperforming district. But Harrisburg School District’s administrators and community members have sharply criticized the bill (House Bill 1800). Critics such as Rep. Patty Kim, D-Harrisburg, say it’s an untested experiment that could divert desperately needed tax dollars away from the struggling district. Kim has urged her colleagues to join her in opposition of the bill. “This bill only targets school districts with funding problems and then mandates them to pay millions of dollars for vouchers,” she said at a Monday committee hearing. “This, I believe, is the biggest flaw of this bill.” Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has taken a similar position, saying earlier this year that the bill would not receive his signature.


Blogger note: I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the House GOP caucus yesterday afternoon. The House was originally slated to recess until 2:00 p.m. for meeting but the recess was repeatedly extended, not returning until 4:00 p.m.  Presumably an opportunity for Speaker Turzai to gather support for his voucher bill. When they returned to session they began debate on 33 submitted amendments to the bill.  Most of them focused on the lack of any accountability for either academic performance or fiscal transparency. Speaker Turzai called for an end to discussion at 6:30 p.m. after just 9 of the amendments, saying that the hour was getting late.

We were told that further consideration of the bill may resume today (House slated to return to session at 10:00 a.m.) or perhaps never. That remains to be seen. Thank you for your strong advocacy efforts on this legislation thus far. We’re not out of the woods yet, so please keep up the good work.

Here’s a sampling of tweets related to the voucher bill from yesterday:
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"One of the biggest myths about school vouchers is that students use that program to escape failing public schools." In Indiana, 57% of all vouchers fund education for students who have never attended a single day in a public school.”

Every Superintendent in both Delaware and Bucks Counties has signed on to letters urging .@PAHouseGOP .@PaHouseDems .@PaLegis to vote NO on voucher bill #HB1800

In debate justifying voucher bill #HB1800 last night, Speaker .@RepTurzai, rejecting amendments that would create accountability in the bill, says it is difficult to get below 7% proficient in math (Harrisburg). Perhaps he should also look at Chester Community Charter School (6.4%)

Shocking - there are 33 amendments on provoucher #HB1800. After debating 9 of them, the Speaker makes a motion to cut off debate on all remaining amendments & move to a final vote. If your bill can’t stand up to debate on amendments, maybe it shouldn’t be on the floor for a vote

It's a troubling irony that @RepTurzai is willing to give $4,000 of state money to each student that wants to leave Harrisburg SD but won't give Harrisburg the $4,000 per student it owes them in #fairfunding money @RepPattyKim

If you have not called your state representative urging them to vote NO on this bill please do so ASAP.
HB1800: Please continue to contact your representatives immediately and tell them to reject vouchers and vote NO on this bill.
Call your House member - contact info here:

“Rep. Turzai has been commended in the past for his advocacy of school choice. In 2018, the Pennsylvania council for American Private Education presented him the “School Choice Champion” award for leading efforts to generate $100 million in scholarship tax credits.”
HB1800: Controversy over proposed school choice program
FOX43 POSTED 6:38 PM, NOVEMBER 20, 2019, BY JHUGHES43
A bill moving through the state legislature is proposing to create a tuition voucher program to help students in the Harrisburg School District, but district officials are concerned it would cost the district more money and destabilize its already precarious budget. After finally making progress under state receivership, those officials say it could all be undone. The prime Co-sponsor of House Bill 1800, State Rep. Greg Rothman, R-Cumberland County, says the program would give tax dollars to students in the district so they could attend other public, charter, or even private schools. “It’s going to rescue kids from what we’ve seen is now a generational failure in the city’s school district” Rothman told FOX43, “It will actually save the school district money.” According to the state lawmaker, Harrisburg School District receives roughly $22,500 for every child in the district. State Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny County, introduced House Bill 1800. Citing the U.S. Census Bureau, the House Speaker says the Harrisburg School District collected $147 million in revenue during the 2017-2018 school year from its 6,500 students. Under the proposal, the district would pay $4,100 for a student to attend another school, while the remaining $18,400 would stay in the district’s pockets. Another $4,100 would be provided by the state to give said student $8,200 to learn somewhere else. Rep. Turzai said if half of the students in the Harrisburg School District participate in the program, the additional state contribution would be around $13 million, at most.

EdVotersPA Update/Alert: Charter Reform HB355
We have built a statewide movement to reform cyber charter school funding and to eliminate the profit that charter schools reap from tuition payments for students with disabilities. Governor Wolf has proposed reforms that would achieve these goals and result substantial savings for taxpayers. These reforms may be in jeopardy.
Yesterday the Senate Education Committee passed House Bill 355. BUT--it looks like this will be amended and will NOT provide the comprehensive reforms that are needed. This legislation DOES NOT support improved student achievement or greater fiscal transparency and organizational accountability. In short, it is meant to keep real reform from passing.
Any comprehensive charter school reform bill MUST:
  • End the enormous profits charter schools reap from tuition payments for students with disabilities.
  • Provide real cyber charter school tuition savings by making sure that the tuition payments are matched to the actual cost of educating a student at home on a computer, instead of the current set up which has millions of dollars draining out of the public education system. See our recent report.
  • Address academic accountability in PA’s cyber charter schools to hold accountable charters that fail to provide students with a quality education.
A charter school reform bill with watered-down accountability and transparency rules is not worth trading away the substantial reforms that are necessary to protect taxpayers and to ensure that students have high-quality charter options.

“Pennsylvania has what Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera described as the “least diverse” teaching force in the country, with just 4% teachers of color, most of whom are concentrated in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Plus, between 2013 and 2019, the number of those seeking teaching degrees in Pennsylvania has plummeted by 65%, or 12,000 a year. And the enrollment in teacher preparation programs is also just a fraction of what it was six or seven years ago.”
State launches Aspire to Educate program to diversify teaching force
The program is being piloted in Philadelphia.
The notebook by Dale Mezzacappa November 20 — 4:03 pm, 2019
Pennsylvania Deputy Secretary of Education Noe Ortega speaks at the launch of a new initiative to recruit teachers of color. Other speakers included (from right) Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera, Community College of Philadelphia president Donald Generals, and Superintendent William Hite. The Pennsylvania Department of Education, along with several college and university partners, is putting new emphasis on recruiting teachers of color by starting a program that seeks to identify potential recruits as early as freshman year in high school and offer them financial help to pursue post-secondary degrees. The new program, called Aspire to Educate (A2E), will be piloted in the Philadelphia School District. “We need to strengthen the pipeline for educators, particularly educators of color,” said Donald Generals, president of Community College of Philadelphia (CCP), where the news conference about the program’s launch was held. “I can’t say enough how important this will be for the city of Philadelphia.”
Besides CCP, partners include Drexel, Temple, Arcadia, Cheyney, West Chester, and Cabrini Universities, all in the Philadelphia area. The program hopes to attract not only high school and college students into teaching, but also people with some college who now work in schools and career-changers who have bachelor’s degrees.

With financial incentives and extra support, Philly and Pa. plan to recruit more teachers of color
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham, Updated: 19 minutes ago
Plagued by a teacher shortage in general and the nation’s lowest rate of teachers of color, Pennsylvania education department officials Wednesday announced a program to recruit, train and keep a more diverse force of educators. The program, Aspiring to Educate — the first of its kind in the nation, Education Secretary Pedro Rivera said — will provide free or reduced tuition at Community College of Philadelphia, Temple, Drexel, West Chester, Arcadia and Cabrini universities, as well as mentoring support. It will be piloted in Philadelphia, with support from the Philadelphia Youth Network and the Center for Black Educator Development. Pennsylvania’s teaching pool has shrunk by more than 65% since 2013, and the educator force is 96% white, making the state’s teacher ranks the least diverse in the U.S., officials said. “Aspiring to Educate will help Pennsylvania attract, recruit, train and retain a new generation of teachers and school leaders,” Rivera said at a news conference at CCP. The Philadelphia School District will soon identify at least 20 high school seniors with strong grades and a desire to enter the education field; they will have after-school guidance, gain teaching experience over the summer, and enroll in education schools in the fall of 2020. Going forward, juniors will begin the program by partnering with a university to take dual enrollment courses, earning college credits in high school.

Universal lead testing touches ideological nerve in Pa. House panel debate
PA Capital Star By  Stephen Caruso November 20, 2019
A seemingly uncontroversial bill dealing with childhood testing for lead exposure sparked heated debate Wednesday about the balance between public safety and government overreach.  The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mary Isaacson, D-Philadelphia, calls for doctors to make “reasonable efforts” to ensure  kids get their blood tested for lead, either by a finger prick or a vein, around the age one and two. The House Children and Youth Committee voted 17-6 to advance the bill, amid concerns from some of the panel’s Republicans about the proper role of government.  But the research they cited to buttress their points also appeared to indicate that there’s a larger place for government in lead mitigation beyond mandating blood tests. Under Isaacson’s bill, the state would keep a confidential registry of the results, and the Department of Health would develop free literature on the dangers of lead — a known neurotoxin present in old paint, pipes and soil. Lead exposure can lead to learning disabilities and other behavioral disorders in children that can carry over into adulthood, and the results are irreversible.

Cancer in the classroom
Lea DiRusso was exposed to cancer-causing fibers while teaching at two asbestos-laden Philadelphia schools for nearly 30 years.
Inquirer by Wendy Ruderman and Kristen A. Graham, Updated: 25 minutes ago
Every week during the school year, teacher Lea DiRusso climbed on a chair and hung her students’ best work on a clothesline strung between two old heating pipes. As she tugged the line down to clip on artwork or an essay, it tightened, rubbing against the insulation and often sending down fine white flakes. Her 90-year-old school, Meredith Elementary, had leaking pipes, damaged asbestos insulation, and peeling paint, but DiRusso brightened every corner of Classroom 206.5: homey curtains, peel-and-stick stained-glass patterns on the windows, classical music playing low. “When you come into a room on a Monday morning, and you’re starting to set up, and you see dust across your desk, or dust on the ground, or a ceiling tile fell, as a teacher, this is your pride and joy, it’s your room,” said DiRusso, a 28-year veteran of the Philadelphia School District. She would grab her school-issued broom. “You just scoop it up, you clean it up, and you move on." Her fastidiousness, however, put her at greater risk of inhaling or ingesting cancer-causing asbestos fibers, according to medical experts. DiRusso’s classroom had a history of damaged, unrepaired asbestos pipe insulation, School District records show.

Call To Action: Fix Our Toxic Schools! Friday, Nov. 22 11 a.m.
Public Meeting  Hosted by Senator Vincent Hughes
The topic of toxic schools has dominated the headlines in the recent weeks, months and years.
We all know this is a real problem that must be fixed. We also know there are a number of proposals and solutions that would help reinforce the school district’s efforts and bring some much needed relief to our children. I AM ASKING YOU TO JOIN ME TO MAKE A COLLECTIVE CALL TO ACTION
11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 22
Drexel University's LeBow College of Business Rose Terrace – 2nd Floor
3220 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
(Parking Lot at 34th & Market)

Education support
Post-Gazette Letter by RICH ASKEY, President Pennsylvania State Education Association NOV 20, 2019
Sometimes one person can make a difference. A classroom aide who stays after school to help a student understand an algebra problem. A crossing guard who assists a child across a busy street. A cafeteria worker who prepares nutritious meals for students. Nov. 20 is Education Support Professionals Day, a time to celebrate the crucial role that education support professionals play in the lives of our students. Support professionals help meet the needs of the whole child. They work hard to ensure that each student is actively engaged in learning and connected to the school and broader community. Support professionals are often the first to greet our children at the bus stop in the morning and the last ones to see them home at the end of the day. As students learn to think, solve problems and cooperate with each other, our education support professionals are there every step of the way, partnering with educators to help our students grow and succeed. This week is American Education Week. Join me in showing appreciation for the amazing education support professionals in our schools.

“The tax break, which exempts owners of all newly built or rehabilitated properties from paying taxes on the value of the new construction for the first decade after it is complete, was implemented as a development incentive. Its supporters say it pays for itself by expanding the city’s tax base over time. Its critics say it takes much-needed tax money away from the city and School District, and accelerates gentrification and its impact on long-term residents.”
Changes to Philly’s 10-year tax abatement could come before the end of the year
Inquirer by Laura McCrystal, Updated: November 20, 2019- 5:33 PM
With less than a month left in the current City Council term, a push is underway to change Philadelphia’s controversial 10-year tax abatement for new construction. Two bills will be introduced Thursday that would reform the existing abatement, according to sources familiar with the legislation. Their introduction will set off a rush of negotiations and deliberations to get to a final vote before Council’s last meeting of the year on Dec. 12. While several other proposals to change or eliminate the abatement have previously been introduced, the bills coming Thursday focus on limiting the abatement for new residential construction while leaving the tax break untouched for commercial properties and rehabilitation projects, according to sources familiar with their content. The bills, first reported by PlanPhilly, will be introduced on behalf of Council President Darrell L. Clarke. “Following months of review and collaboration, members of City Council are considering scenarios concerning changes to the city’s tax abatement policy as it pertains to new residential constructions in the short and long term,” Clarke said in a statement Wednesday.

Pa. auditor general: PPS’ board must rein in district’s travel costs
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE localnews@post-gazette.com NOV 20, 2019 11:41 AM
Pittsburgh Public Schools' board should rein in the district's "runaway" travel costs, which have nearly doubled over the past three years, state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said Wednesday following a five-month review. He plans to refer the results of his review to the State Ethics Commission. “Fiscal oversight by Pittsburgh’s school board appears to be practically nonexistent when it comes to the superintendent’s penchant for travel,” Mr. DePasquale said in a news release. The auditor general launched the review in May after questions emerged regarding a trip to Cuba taken by Superintendent Anthony Hamlet and several of his top staff. Mr. DePasquale examined PPS administrator travel, vendor-sponsored trips and the district’s no-bid contracts. Per the analysis, the district’s $453,231 travel budget spiked by 179% over three years, even as it struggles to manage a nearly $30 million operating deficit. He noted that the district’s travel spending is roughly twice as large as Philadelphia’s, despite that district enrolling roughly 10 times as many students. On a per-pupil basis, PPS’ travel spending outpaces Philadelphia’s 19-to-1, he said.

Auditor General accuses Pittsburgh schools of ‘runaway travel costs’ amid budget woes, proposed tax hike
Trib Live by NATASHA LINDSTROM   | Wednesday, November 20, 2019 11:44 p.m.
Superintendent Anthony Hamlet and other top Pittsburgh Public Schools administrators have spent more than $450,000 this year on trips to Las Vegas, Nashville and Los Angeles and other travel-related expenses “without clearly demonstrating any benefit for students,” the state’s top fiscal watchdog said Wednesday. In a scathing report, Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale accused the district’s leaders of failing “to control runaway travel costs” while confronting a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall and proposing a 2.3 percent tax increase. “None of the other districts we talked to even come close to spending what Pittsburgh does on administrator and staff travel,” DePasquale said in a statement. “Fiscal oversight by Pittsburgh’s school board appears to be practically nonexistent when it comes to the superintendent’s penchant for travel.” The district’s travel-related budget has ballooned by 179% in the past three years — “which I find to be outrageous, especially for a district with a nearly $30 million operating deficit,” DePasquale said.

 “Public money is public money and it belongs in our public schools.”
Guest Column: Turzai’s ‘gold standard’ for education is lacking
Pottstown Mercury Opinion By Lawrence Feinberg Times Guest Columnist Nov 16, 2019
Lawrence A. Feinberg was just elected to serve his 6th four-year term as a locally elected volunteer school director in Haverford Township. He also serves as Co-Chair of the Delaware County School Boards Legislative Council.
The 2022 governor’s race has begun, and Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai wants to make it clear that he shares Betsy DeVos’ vision for privatization of public education. In a recent opinion piece Speaker Turzai touted our state “as a gold standard with respect to funding public school districts”, completely ignoring the fact that Pennsylvania is home to the widest per pupil funding gap between wealth and poor districts in the country. Under his leadership, the Pennsylvania Legislature has been negligent, willfully and deliberately ignoring the state’s historic gross inequity in the distribution of school funding and locking students in poorer districts into their underfunded and under-resourced predicament. A school funding lawsuit is pending, with the trial tentatively set to begin in summer 2020.

Your View by Boyertown High grad: Protesters won’t silence me on transgender issues
Op-ed by Boyertown High grad: There are good ways to make room for everyone without letting boys enter the girls locker room, restroom or shower area because of their beliefs about their own gender.
By ALEXIS LIGHTCAP THE MORNING CALL | NOV 20, 2019 | 5:50 PM
When I stepped up to the podium at a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court recently, I couldn’t remember a time in my life when I saw so much vitriol and hate. Not five feet in front of me, a middle-aged woman on a bullhorn blared. Several men shouted and chanted. Others, who had elbowed their way into the crowd, yelled slurs and called me names that don’t belong in print.
I had come to speak up for women. To tell my story. To lend my voice. Instead of doing the same, they had come to try to shut me up. Yet even though this was a unique experience — I’m usually not one for rallies, and this experience won’t leave me looking for others — the way it made me feel was all too familiar. This wasn’t the first time I was nearly intimidated into silence. When I was little, my sister and I spent years in the foster care system. I felt lost — hopeless, and nameless, without a place to call my home.

Transgender Legal Update (October 11, 2019)
PSBA Update November 20, 2019
This update includes important information about the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari on appeal from the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Doe v. Boyertown Area School District.
For many years, PSBA has urged its members to work with transgender students and their families to meet the needs of individual students and to provide all students with a safe and supportive school environment. It is essential that public school districts in Pennsylvania stay informed about the evolving legal landscape in the area of transgender students’ rights, and be aware of the trend in favor of supporting those students that has been emerging from court decisions and state agency guidelines.

Wagner Floats RNC Challenge Against Asher
PoliticsPA Written by John Cole, Managing Editor November 20th 2019
A fight is brewing for the position of Pennsylvania’s Republican Party National Committeeman. Bob Asher, who was unanimously reelected to the role along with Christine Toretti in May 2016, has filled the role since 1998, but a GOP source tells PoliticsPA that former state Senator and 2018 gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner is considering a run for the position.  In an email to state Republican committee members on Nov. 18, Wagner shot out an email tiled, the “Asher Agenda” accusing the longtime national committeeman of orchestrating “dirty politics” within the state party, while the focus should remain on defending President Donald Trump during the impeachment hearings. 

Cal Thomas: Whatever happened to teaching history?
Trib Live Opinion by CAL THOMAS  | Wednesday, November 20, 2019 7:00 p.m.
According to a report by the National Assessment of Education Progress , the teaching of U.S. history to American students lags behind all other subject matters. The latest NAEP survey finds that proficiency levels for fourth-, eighth- and 12th-grade students are in the 20th, 18th and 12th percentile, respectively. Part of this, I suspect, is the way the subject is taught. History is boring to many students. It was boring to me in high school and college. Who wants to read about a bunch of dead white men one cannot view on video, or even in high-resolution photographs?

Deep Dive: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren on Charter Schools
Education Week November 18, 2019
Perhaps no education issue has been as divisive among Democrats in recent years as charter schools. Support for charters in the national Democratic Party has diminished in recent years, although many Democratic voters still support them. And in the 2020 campaign, no two candidates for president have criticized charters as sharply as front-runners Sens. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, and Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts. Their stated plans would cause a dramatic upheaval in the charter school community, which includes more than 7,000 schools and roughly 3.2 million students. But how many of their aggressive goals are realistic, and do they accurately describe what happens in charter schools today? You might have noticed by now that you can interact with sections of this article that have been highlighted in yellow. Click on those sections to see our annotations about the parts of the Sanders and Warren platforms that deal with charters to address how (or if) their plans would work, and to share background information about funding, oversight, and more.


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:
  • 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 at the Capitol-- 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
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
Locations and dates

Congress, Courts, and a National Election: 50 Million Children’s Futures Are at Stake. Be their champion at the 2020 Advocacy Institute.
NSBA Advocacy Institute Feb. 2-4, 2020 Marriot Marquis, Washington, D.C.
Join school leaders from across the country on Capitol Hill, Feb. 2-4, 2020 to influence the legislative agenda & shape decisions that impact public schools. Check out the schedule & more at https://nsba.org/Events/Advocacy-Institute

Register now for Network for Public Education Action National Conference in Philadelphia March 28-29, 2020
Registration, hotel information, keynote speakers and panels:

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