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PA Ed Policy Roundup for Nov. 25, 2019
In Chester Upland, 3
out of 4 district schools outperform GOP megadonor Vahan Gureghian's CCCS
charter. He wants to privatize them too.
This chart summarizes
the PA Dept. of Education’s Future Ready Index reports for the Chester
Community Charter School (CCCS) and the four Chester Upland School District
elementary/middle schools.
|
Indicator Name
|
CCCS
|
Main Street
|
Stetser
|
Sch of Arts
|
Toby Farms
|
|
Percent
Proficient or Advanced on ELA/Literature (All Student)
|
16.3
|
31
|
52.3
|
18.2
|
12.5
|
|
Percent
Proficient or Advanced on Mathematics/Algebra 1 (All Student)
|
6.4
|
7.6
|
13.8
|
10.2
|
2.3
|
|
Percent
Proficient or Advanced on Science/Biology (All Student)
|
22.8
|
36.7
|
59.5
|
59.6
|
13.7
|
|
Meeting Annual
Academic Growth Expectations (PVAAS) ELA/Literature (All Student)
|
63
|
78
|
94
|
76
|
50
|
|
Meeting Annual
Academic Growth Expectations (PVAAS) Mathematics/Algebra 1 (All Student)
|
78
|
100
|
77
|
81
|
54
|
|
Meeting Annual
Academic Growth Expectations (PVAAS) Science/Biology (All Student)
|
50
|
69
|
70
|
97
|
50
|
|
Percent Advanced
on ELA/Literature (All Student)
|
1.2
|
1.9
|
15.6
|
1.2
|
0.6
|
|
Percent Advanced
on Mathematics/Algebra 1 (All Student)
|
1
|
0
|
1.8
|
3
|
0.6
|
|
Percent Advanced
on Science/Biology (All Student)
|
2.8
|
8.3
|
16.2
|
7.7
|
0.9
|
|
Percent English Language Growth and Attainment (All
Student)
|
22.9
|
IS
|
IS
|
IS
|
IS
|
|
Percent of
Students with Regular Attendance (All Student)
|
48.7
|
59.2
|
59.8
|
53.4
|
42.1
|
|
Percent Grade 3
Reading (All Student)
|
14.5
|
24.4
|
37
|
20.7
|
DNA
|
|
Percent Grade 7
Mathematics (All Student)
|
6
|
DNA
|
DNA
|
DNA
|
1.7
|
|
Percent Grade 5,
Grade 8, and/or Grade 11 Career Standards Benchmark (All Student)
|
98
|
98
|
98
|
98
|
98
|
Join educators,
parents and Chester community members who want to save Chester Upland schools –
Tuesday, December 3rd, 4:30 p.m.
Chester High
School, 200 West Ninth Street, Chester, PA 19013; administration side of
building
This rally will occur
on the eve of an important court hearing on the future of the district’s public
schools
More info: www.facebook.com/SaveChesterSchools
Charter school pushes for takeover of Chester Upland’s
elementary schools
Inquirer by Maddie Hanna, Updated: November
18, 2019
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.
Flooding from Katrina precipitated the charterization of NOLA schools.
Will a historical flood of campaign contributions do the same for Chester
Upland SD? Follow the Money.
Keystone State Education Coalition PA Ed
Policy Roundup for Nov. 20
Blogger Commentary: Flooding from Katrina
precipitated the charterization of NOLA schools. Will a historical flood of
campaign contributions do the same for Chester Upland SD? PA Department of
Education Future Ready Index reports show that 3 of the 4 Chester Upland school
district’s elementary/middle schools are outperforming the Chester Community
Charter School. Why would the charter school operator want to charterize all
the elementary schools in the district? There is no Right-to-Know requirement
for private charter management companies like Vahan Gureghian’s CSMI, but the
990 for Chester Community Charter School for last year alone lists $18 million
in management fees.
PA Ed Policy Roundup June 1, 2011: Follow the Money:
Campaign Contributions by Vahan Gureghian 1/1/07 - 5/31/11
Keystone State
Education Coalition - This post was last updated on March 29, 2013
2007
YTD $224,620.00
2008
YTD $267,205.93
2009
YTD $330,302.76
2010
YTD $421,025.00
2011
YTD $77,500.00
Total 2007-2011:
$1,320,653.69
PA Ed Policy Roundup July 16, 2019: Follow the Money:
Campaign Contributions by Vahan Gureghian 2013-2019; the intersection of money,
politics, government and schools
Keystone State
Education Coalition July 16, 2019
Blogger commentary:
In an effort to gain a better understanding of the dynamics in Harrisburg, from
time to time over the years we have published “Follow the Money” charts using
data from the PA Department of State’s Campaign Finance Reporting website:
https://www.campaignfinanceonline.pa.gov/Pages/CFReportSearch.aspx
We’ll leave it up
to our readers to draw their own conclusions regarding how such contributions
may or may not influence policymakers as they go about the people’s business in
Harrisburg.
The chart below lists over $470,000 in
campaign contributions made by Mr. and Mrs. Gureghian for PA state offices from
2013 through 2019.
Highlights include
$205,000 to the House Republican Campaign Committee, $37,000 to the Senate
Republican Campaign Committee, $30,000 to House Speaker Mike Turzai, $82,000 to
Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman’s Build PA PAC, $85,000 to Senate President
Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati and$16,000 to House Majority Leader Bryan Cutler.
The award winning
documentary Backpack Full of Cash that explores the siphoning
of funds from traditional public schools by charters and vouchers will be shown
in three locations in the Philadelphia suburbs in the upcoming weeks.
The film is
narrated by Matt Damon, and some of the footage was shot in Philadelphia.
Members of the
public who are interested in becoming better informed about some of the
challenges to public education posed by privatization are invited to attend.
At all locations, the film will start
promptly at 7 pm, so it is suggested that members of the
audience arrive 10-15 minutes prior to the start of the
screening.
………………………………………….
Backpack Full of
Cash hosted by State
Senator Maria Collett, and State Representatives Liz Hanbidge and Steve
Malagari
Monday, December 2,
2019
Wissahickon Valley
Public Library, Blue Bell
650 Skippack Pike Blue
Bell, PA 19422
………………………………………….
Backpack Full of
Cash hosted by
Montgomery County Democracy for America (Montco DFA)
Thursday, December
5, 2019
Jenkintown Library
(Park and enter at rear.)
460 York Road
(across from IHOP) Jenkintown, PA 19046
………………………………………….
Backpack Full of
Cash hosted by State
Representatives Mary Jo Daley, Tim Briggs, and Matt Bradford
Monday, January 6,
2020
Ludington Library 5
S. Bryn Mawr Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Philly’s school nurses say district changes could put
kids at risk
Inquirer by Kristen A.
Graham, Updated: November 22, 2019
The message from
the school nurses to the Philadelphia Board of Education was stark:
It’s been more than
a month since the district’s physician left and hasn’t been replaced. There’s
no policy handbook to guide them. Administrators with zero medical experience
are handing out medications and altering student records. “We are experts in our field,” veteran school
nurse Anne Smith told the school board at its meeting Thursday night. “Our
nursing practice is being interfered with by an administration that does not
value our input, puts our nursing licenses at risk, and ultimately puts the
health of the children we serve at risk.” Smith was among a small contingent at
the meeting who said they speak for many of the 200-plus nurses who care for
nearly 200,000 students in the district’s traditional and charter schools.
Their warning stunned some school board members.
“She was interested in physics while at
Phoenixville Area High School, and was drawn to neuroscience at Harvard because
“it allowed me to kind of ask questions about humanity. I’m really interested
in the question of what is the self.” She also is editor-in-chief of a magazine
that aims “to show the similarities between science and art.”
Phoenixville native and Harvard senior awarded Rhodes
Scholarship; Penn, Princeton students also winners
Inquirer by Maddie Hanna, Updated: November
24, 2019- 8:05 PM
A senior at Harvard
University, Olivia McGinnis of Phoenixville, was selected over the weekend for
the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She was one of 32 Americans awarded the
honor, chosen from a pool of 963 applicants nominated by their colleges and universities.
They will begin studying at Oxford University in England in September 2020. McGinnis,
21, who was notified of her selection at an event Saturday night with other
finalists from the region, said she was “excited and proud and shocked.” “All the other finalists were just so kind,”
she said in a phone interview Sunday. “They all wanted good things in the
world. .... To be chosen among them is the real honor.”
Bill restoring school
police arrest powers headed to Wolf
PA Capital Star By Elizabeth
Hardison November 22, 2019
A bill that will
let school police officers in Pennsylvania resume making arrests is headed to
Gov. Tom Wolf’s desk, after securing final approval from the state Senate on
Thursday. The chamber’s 39-14 vote reverses a mistake lawmakers
made in June, when they approved a bill that inadvertently
stripped school
police officers of that authority. The snafu became clear to school
officials over the summer, leading Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate
to craft legislation correcting the error. The top Democrat in the
Republican-controlled Senate expressed resigned approval for the House bill
that arrived in the Senate Rules Committee on Thursday — its last stop before
proceeding to the Senate floor for a vote. Minority leader Jay Costa,
D-Allegheny, said his caucus would have preferred to see a bill that
strengthened firearm training requirements for school security personnel.
New Philly Council
bill would change real estate tax abatement
By John N. Mitchell Special to the Capital-Star November
25, 2019
PHILADELPHIA — City Council has
introduced long-awaited legislation aimed at phasing down the city’s 10-year residential property tax
abatement over 10 years. Under the proposed legislation, which was introduced
by Councilwoman Cindy Bass on behalf of Council President Darrell Clarke, new
construction of residential housing would be eligible for a 100% abatement in
the first year, 90% in the second year, and so on, decreasing to 10% 10 years
after construction. “This day and this bill is long overdue,” Bass said. “It
will begin to address many of the economic inequalities that exist in our city,
particularly some of the long-term residents who have found it more and more
difficult as taxes have increased.” The
bill does not alter the existing tax abatement for commercial properties or
rehabilitation. Those projects would continue to receive tax exemptions on 100
percent of their new building value for 10 years.
Peduto vs. Pittsburgh Public Schools: Tensions rise after
Pa. auditor general's report
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE NOV 23, 2019 11:41 PM
Long-standing
tensions between Mayor Bill Peduto and the Pittsburgh Public Schools district
came sharply into focus in recent days when his comments on spending and
lack of accountability were bolstered by a Pennsylvania auditor general report.
In early November, the administration released a $665.6 million budget proposal that called for a 2.3% tax increase — that’s a millage increase to
10.07 mills from the current 9.84 mills, or an additional $23 on every $100,000
of assessed real estate value. The schools face a $27.3 million operating
deficit under the proposal. Mr. Peduto criticized the district’s “spending at
the highest level ever,” despite a drop in student population. On Wednesday,
Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale revealed that the district’s
$453,231 travel budget spiked by 179% over three years. At the budget
proposal’s unveiling, Superintendent Anthony Hamlet’s administration suggested
a “thoughtful alternative” — that PPS could avoid further taxing the public
until 2023 if the city returned a quarter mill of the wage tax that the
district ceded 15 years ago as the city faced state financial oversight.
Rep. Steve McCarter
(D-Montgomery) Announces He Will Retire At End Of His Term
Crisci Associates
Capital Digest November 23, 2019 via Facebook Post
Fix Philly schools: Meek Mill and friends offer vague
‘millions’; PA officials offer action plan
“Don’t just
buy a school to say, ‘Oh, yeah, I bought a school,'” said one Philly parent.
Billy Penn by Layla A. Jones Nov. 22, 2019, 3:45 p.m.
When Meek Mill had
an idea to enlist his rich friends and lend a hand to the Philadelphia School
District, he posted it on
Twitter. The Philly
rapper’s tweet was met with much fanfare, and several genuine bids for
collaboration from local personalities already working on education reform,
including GreenLight Fund
Executive Director Omar T. Woodard, U School
founder Neil Geyette and Pa. Senator
Vincent Hughes. “I’m down
with Meek if he got some billionaire friends, good for him, okay?” Hughes said
at a press conference on Friday. “If they want to get involved in this space,
it can be very simple. We have a model, all it needs to be done is to be
replicated.” Since they got like 30 abandoned schools in Philly .... can we buy one
and build a super school in our own neighborhood! I hang wit a lot of
billionaires that really care about education .. “all we need is one school to
start! “ A day earlier, on
Thursday, billionaire and 76ers co-owner Michael Rubin had announced he and Meek are committing an undisclosed amount of funds to an
unreleased list of Pennsylvania schools. Whether or not Meek, 32, and Rubin,
47, will revamp a shuttered school building in Philadelphia remains unclear. Speaking
on “The Breakfast Club,” a popular New York City-based radio show, Rubin
referred to an ambiguous Pa. tax incentive program through which they would
route the schools funds. Asked by Billy Penn for details about the plan, a
spokesperson declined to elaborate further. Sen. Hughes, whose district
includes parts of North Philly, was not about to wait. On Friday, he announced
a plan of his own. It leans on tapping into unused state funds and following in
the footsteps of a private-public school funding partnership to start repairing
Philly schools now.
These 9 retired
Lancaster County educators have received $1.3M in pension benefits despite
losing their teaching certificate
Lancaster Online by
ALEX GELI | Staff Writer November 24, 2019
Todd Sheerer, a
former teacher and band director at Warwick High School, was sentenced to
three to nine years in prison for having sexual contact with a 15-year-old
student. Former Elizabethtown Area High School science teacher Robert Evans
Jr. was sentenced to
three to six years for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old and offering her
$10,000 to not press charges. Richard Russell, formerly a guidance counselor at
Landis Run Intermediate School, was sentenced to 37 months for possessing child
pornography. None of them are allowed to teach in Pennsylvania. All of them are
collecting taxpayer-funded pensions. And they’re not alone. An LNP
investigation found at least nine retired Lancaster County educators still
collect pension benefits despite losing their teaching license due to serious
allegations or criminal convictions. Using data from the Pennsylvania
Department of Education, the Public School Employees Retirement System, court
records and newspaper archives, LNP found these retired educators have
collected $1.3 million in pension benefits since 2003.
“The problem is more fundamental:
students do not seem to understand why it is important to preserve a religious
freedom principle as foundational as the non-establishment of religious
practice by public schools.”
Guest column: Teacher-led
prayer: Unconstitutional but appropriate?
Pottstown Mercury
Opinion By Benjamin Marcus
Guest columnist Nov 23, 2019
There is no
question that Americans could use a lesson or two on the Constitution and its
amendments. The Freedom Forum Institute’s 2019 State of the First Amendment
survey found that only 29 percent of respondents could name freedom of religion
as one of the five freedoms safeguarded by the First Amendment. To protect
religious freedom, we must educate the public about our inalienable rights. But
what should educators and legal literacy advocates do when people know the law
but do not care if authority figures violate it? That is the question raised by
a recent survey of teenagers, ages 13 to 17, conducted by the Pew Research
Center. Pew recently published the results of a national survey of American
teenagers designed to provide insight into religious activities conducted in
American public schools. Their findings are a treasure trove for those who care
about religion and education, not least because it is the first large-scale,
national survey that asks teens themselves about their experiences with
religion in schools.
“
Blogger comment: I’m no fan of the Koch
Brothers-funded Commonwealth Foundation and have engaged David Hardy in some
lively discussion. Tax credits divert millions
of dollars to unaccountable private and religious schools, skirting the Pennsylvania
constitution’s explicit prohibition on using tax dollars for sectarian
schools. Every Pennsylvania student
deserves an adequately funded, well resourced, safe public school.
Every Pennsylvania Student Deserves a Shot at a Great
Education
National Review By DAVE
HARDY & CHARLES
MITCHELL November 22, 2019 6:30 AM
Dave Hardy is the executive director of
Excellent Schools PA and the founder of Boys’ Latin of Philadelphia Charter
School. Charles Mitchell is the president and CEO of the Commonwealth
Foundation, a free-market think tank based in Harrisburg, Pa.
The state’s
tax-credit-scholarship program has helped hundreds of thousands of students
escape failing public schools. It should be protected and grown.
‘Every male in my
entire extended family has been incarcerated.”
That’s how Anthony
Samuels of North Philadelphia describes his lineage: a cycle of crime and
hopelessness. But thanks to his mother’s vision for his education, Anthony
broke that cycle. Today he owns a day-care center and has begun a successful
entertainment career, starring in commercials for Red Bull and Nike. Things
easily could’ve been different for Anthony. He grew up in the Strawberry
Mansion neighborhood in Philly, doomed to attend the high school with the
lowest test scores in Pennsylvania. The steady stream of assaults, shootings,
and robberies that dogged the school became so severe that it was the subject
of a Diane Sawyer exposé on ABC News. People started asking questions, and there
was an outcry that led to the principal’s replacement. Soon, investors such as
the rapper Drake started pouring money into recording studios and a new
football team for the school, prompting media puff pieces and optimistic
administrators to declare “problem solved.” But, of course, it hasn’t been. The
school scored a seven out of 100 on the Philadelphia School District’s ratings
scale last year. Thankfully, Anthony’s mother knew a bad school when she saw
one. She and Anthony sought out one of Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement
Tax Credit scholarships, which enabled him to transfer to a nearby private
school, Abington Friends, and eventually graduate from Temple University.
Pennsbury, Hatboro-Horsham get clean energy grants for
buses
Bucks County Courier Times By Chris
English Posted
Nov 20, 2019 at 4:39 PM
Pennsbury
will get $68,000 and Hatboro-Horsham $25,000 to help convert their bus fleets
to propane.
The Pennsbury and
Hatboro-Horsham school districts were among those benefiting from $681,000 in
clean energy vehicle grants recently awarded in Southeastern Pennsylvania by
the state Department of Environmental Protection. Pennsbury will get $68,000 to
convert eight old diesel school buses to propane, and Hatboro-Horsham will get
$25,000 to help pay for three new propane buses. Three other awards impacting
the region were $300,000 to Waste Management Inc. for eight heavy duty
compressed natural gas vehicles for use at company sites in Bucks, Montgomery
and Lackawanna counties; $49,769 to Tri-County Transit Service Inc. to support
construction of a new propane fueling station in Montgomery County; and
$100,000 to Comcast to convert 20 trucks based at company locations in
Philadelphia to plug-in hybrid vehicles for use statewide. “Replacing gasoline
or diesel-powered vehicles with lower-emissions alternative fuel vehicles makes
a world of sense,” DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell said. “It makes
Pennsylvania’s communities and environment healthier, helps to slow the
increasingly urgent impacts on climate change we’re seeing and saves owners
money on fuel costs.” State lawmakers who represent Pennsbury applauded the
grants.
Centennial superintendent named best in the state
Centennial’s
David Baugh has been named 2020 Pennsylvania Superintendent of the Year by a
state association.
Bucks County Courier Times By Chris
English Posted
Nov 11, 2019 at 7:30 AM
Centennial’s David
Baugh has been named 2020 Pennsylvania Superintendent of the Year by a state
association. Centennial School District top administrator David Baugh has been
selected 2020 Pennsylvania Superintendent of the Year by the Pennsylvania
Association of School Administrators. Reached on Friday, he credited others for
the honor. “I wouldn’t be getting this if I didn’t work with a really strong
team,” said Baugh, who assumed the top
administrative role in Centennial in 2015 after being the superintendent in the Bensalem and Neshaminy
school districts. “I get a lot of support from the school board,” he added. “I
am honored and humbled to be in this company. There are a lot of good
superintendents in this state.” Association Executive Director Mark DiRocco
said Baugh was picked from among eight nominees. A committee reviewed the
applications and recommended two finalists to the PASA board, which voted for
Baugh, DiRocco said. “Since 2015, Dr. Baugh has demonstrated visionary
leadership in education to positively impact administrators, teachers,
families, students and the larger community stakeholders,” an association news
release said.
Massachusetts education funding overhaul awaiting action by Gov. Baker
SFGate Updated 12:39 pm
PST, Saturday, November 23, 2019
BOSTON (AP) —
Legislation awaiting Gov. Charlie Baker’s signature would provide $1.5 billion
in new spending on the state’s K-12 education system. The bill was approved by
the Massachusetts House and Senate this week and sent on to the Republican
governor. Supporters of the bill say it would make sure public schools have the
resources to provide high quality education for students across the state,
regardless of zip code or income level. Legislative leaders say the bill
unveiled Thursday would help schools that serve high percentages of low-income
students while benefiting districts across the state with updates to the
existing — and contentious — school funding formula. The proposal would also
increase spending on other school programs such as special education
transportation and school construction.
“First, she proposes quadrupling Title I
funding so that it rises to levels that have long been pledged by Washington
politicians but never reached. Secondly, and similarly, she would more than
double federal funding for students with special needs served under the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) — again aiming for levels
long promised but never fulfilled.”
Um, that’s not what Warren actually said about charter
schools
Washington Post Answer
Sheet By Valerie Strauss Reporter November 22, 2019 at 6:00 a.m. EST
No, this isn’t
about Wednesday night’s debate among the Democratic presidential candidates,
which, incidentally, did not have a single substantive discussion about
education. The moderators didn’t ask a single question about it, but then
again, that has happened in most of the Democratic debates this year. This post
is about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) recently announced pre-K-12 school reform plan or, rather, the reaction to it. Last month, the presidential
candidate unveiled her reform, which calls for spending hundreds of billions of
dollars to improve public schools from prekindergarten through 12th grade — and
getting America’s wealthiest individuals to pay for it. One of the features in
that plan is ending federal funding for the U.S. Charter Schools Program. The
program provides money to states to create new charter schools, which are
publicly funded but privately operated. In recent years, the charter movement,
which once enjoyed bipartisan support, has become controversial, with many
Democrats pulling back from it even as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has made
expanding school “choice” her top priority.
Briefs in Key School
Choice Case Present Dueling Religious Freedom Arguments Ahead of January
Supreme Court Hearing
The74 by CAROLYN
PHENICIE November 19, 2019
For the second time
in three years, the Supreme Court will grapple with two seemingly contradictory
aspects of the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees on religion and how they apply to
education. At issue, once again, are the dueling ideas that government may not
establish a religion but also cannot prohibit its free exercise. On one side
of this case, Espinoza
v. Montana Department of Revenue, are parents who benefited from a Montana
tax-credit scholarship program that helped pay tuition for their children to
attend Christian schools. They’re opposed by the state department of revenue,
which invalidated the program based on a provision in the state constitution
banning state aid to religious education. The Montana Supreme Court in December
not only upheld the state revenue department’s decision to ban the use of
tax-credit scholarships at religious schools, but invalidated the program
entirely. It’s one of 38 states that has a Blaine Amendment, or “no-aid
provision” language, in its state constitution blocking public support of
parochial schools, which opponents say dates from an era of anti-Catholic bias.
JOIN EDUCATORS,
PARENTS, AND CHESTER COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WANT TO SAVE CHESTER UPLAND SCHOOLS
TUESDAY, DEC. 3, 2019 4:30 P.M.
CHESTER HIGH SCHOOL
200 WEST NINTH STREET CHESTER, PA 19013 (ADMINISTRATION SIDE OF BUILDING)
PSEA Flyer November
22, 2019
This rally will
occur on the eve of an important court hearing on the future of the district’s
public schools. The Chester Community Charter School has filed a petition with
the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas asking a judge to convert all Chester
Upland public schools for prekindergarten through eighth-grade students to
charter schools under the district’s Financial Recovery Plan.
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)
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Save the Date: PSBA/PASA/PAIU Advocacy Day at the Capitol-- March 23, 2020
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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
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
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