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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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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:
(If you are not on twitter and you are
interested in following PA Ed policy, you should sign up)
"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:
Send an
email here: https://www.votervoice.net/PSBA/campaigns/69434/respond
“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)
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.
https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/deep-dive-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-charters.html
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 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
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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