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PA Ed Policy Roundup for Nov. 26, 2019
DePasquale on voucher
bill HB1800: “Most of this money …would go to people who already aren’t in the
school district”
“If a patient is suffering a loss of
blood, you don’t make the bleeding worse and hope for the best. This proposal
would hurt the district financially and it would hurt the kids." That is
true, DePasquale said, because there is no way that the voucher program could
benefit all of the district’s more than 6,000 students. Only “a handful” would
be able to take advantage of it, and still, it would divert millions of needed
dollars from the district, he said. That’s especially true because district
students that are already enrolled in private schools also would qualify for the
vouchers, DePasquale said. “So I want to be clear about this: Most of this money that would go out, would go to people
who already aren’t in the school district,” he said.”
HB1800: ‘This bill would bleed out the Harrisburg School
District’: Pa. auditor general speaks on voucher bill
Penn Live By Sean
Sauro | ssauro@pennlive.com Updated Nov 25, 2019;Posted Nov 25, 2019
At a Monday morning
news conference billed as an update of an ongoing audit of the Harrisburg
School District, state and local officials spent less time taking about the
real-time audit’s findings and more attacking proposed legislation, which they
said could derail the district’s return to success. “I think that the timing is
critical on this,” state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said, referring to
House Bill 1800. “When a district is doing the right thing and heading things
in a positive direction, legislative efforts that would derail that and send it
backward must be stopped.” The bill, proposed by Pennsylvania Speaker of the
House Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny County, specifically targets Harrisburg School
District, and would require its administrators to establish a scholarship
voucher program to cover tuition costs of students in the district whose
parents choose to send them to private or out-of-district public schools.
Rally slated to
"save Chester schools" from charter
Delco Times by Alex Rose November 25, 2019
Chester Upland
School District employees will hold a rally with parents and other community
members next week with the hope of staving off a “charter school takeover” of
all elementary schools in the district. “They’re trying to take over pre-K
through eighth grade,” said Dariah Jackson, a life skills teacher at Stetser
Elementary School and vice president of the local teacher’s union. “We would
just have our high school students.” Chester Community Charter School, the
largest brick-and-mortar charter school in the state with more than 4,300
students, already educates more than half of the district’s elementary school
children. The charter filed a petition earlier this month in the Delaware
County Court of Common Pleas asking the court to direct the district and
Pennsylvania Department of Education to issue requests for proposals for
charters to educate the remaining elementary school students in the district. The
petition cites a “conversion” provision of Act 141 of 2012, which allowed the
state to declare certain districts, including Chester Upland, as being in
“Financial Recovery Status” and place them under receivership.
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)
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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.
BASD approves legal
counsel in charter school expansion
WFMZ69 News by Xiana Fontno Nov 25, 2019 Updated 57 min ago
BETHLEHEM, Pa. –
The Lehigh Valley Academy Regional Charter School (LVA) is reworking a contract
with the Bethlehem Area School District, but the school district is preparing
for potential legal battles. During a meeting on Monday night, the Bethlehem
Area School Board approved the appointment of a legal counsel in the event the
charter appeals a rejection by the board for a location for a new building in
Bethlehem Township, according to Superintendent Joseph Roy. The school district
will be represented by attorney Allison Petersen of Levin Legal Group P.C. Roy
said LVA recently submitted a new charter application, which is a contract
between the district and the charter school. Under the current charter, the
school has to ask for permission for a new location for its facility. Roy said
the current charter doesn’t have an appeal option either should the board
reject it. “If the board says no, the board says no and that’s it,” emphasized
Roy. Roy said LVA is “working angles” and using charter school laws in order to
build a $75 million facility in Bethlehem Township. With the new charter,
they’ll be able to make an appeal should the board reject the location of the
building. “Should the board decline that new application, they have an appeal
ground to the charter appeals board,” Roy said. “So in my view, they’re
circumventing the charter that they have with the Bethlehem Area School
District.”
Rondae
Hollis-Jefferson announces plan to found C.H.A.P. Charter School in Chester
Delco Times By Matthew DeGeorge
mdegeorge@21st-centurymedia.com @sportsdoctormd on Twitter November 26, 2019
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson’s
ascent to the NBA has always been inextricable from his upbringing in Chester.
It’s what makes him the person and player he is today, he’s always quick to
share. So in looking at his hometown, he sought a way to give back to the
community and provide for others the chances that basketball in Chester
afforded him. That desire led to Monday’s announcement of Hollis-Jefferson’s
application to the Chester Upland School District to begin C.H.A.P. Charter
School for fourth- through eighth-graders starting next fall. “I took a strong
look at the community I grew up in and realized there was a need for a
different approach in education,” Hollis-Jefferson said via text message. “The
more educated the youth are, the greater our community will become. I want to
give every kid in Chester an equal opportunity at being successful.”
November is National
Youth Homelessness Prevention Month. Here’s how you can help | Opinion
By Paige Joki and Kate Burdick Capital-Star Op-Ed Contributor November
26, 2019
Paige Joki is a staff attorney at the
Education Law Center in Philadelphia. Kate Burdick is a senior attorney at the
Juvenile Law Center, also a Philadelphia-based nonprofit.
Young people who
experience homelessness are often rendered invisible. Without a safe, warm,
stable place to sleep at night, they may be staying temporarily with a friend
or “couch surfing” every night. Many of these young people have fled abusive
situations, have aged out of foster care or have experience in the justice
system. Often they are completely on their own, without the support of a caring
adult. They are also disproportionately people of color, LGBTQ-identifying
young people, and young people with disabilities. In a classroom of
30 students, about one young person ages 13-17 every year will experience
homelessness on their own. Many will
never be identified as experiencing homelessness. Still, there are steps we can
take to support them in achieving their goals for a bright future. Critical
among those steps is providing youth with the necessary resources to support
their success in school. Youth who experience homelessness face systemic
challenges to accessing the education they deserve often unlawfully turned away
from school and prevented from enrolling because schools condition their
enrollment on proof of a fixed address within the district.
Lead in school drinking water could be worse than we know
WHYY Air
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A recent test
showed extremely high levels of lead at Frederick Douglass Elementary School in
North Philadelphia, but officials didn’t tell parents until reporters with
WHYY’s Keystone Crossroads and PlanPhilly started asking. It turns out the school probably isn’t alone, but Avi Wolfman-Arent and
Ryan Briggs explain why it’s hard to say just how many other older school
buildings in the region could have similar serious problems with their water.
Schools across Pennsylvania are crumbling and toxic.
Senator Hughes’
Website
The most notable
examples are unfortunately found in my home city of Philadelphia. However,
our problem spans the commonwealth. I have seen similar conditions in places
such as McKeesport and Allentown. I have also read reports of numerous schools
fighting issues with lead, asbestos, mold, carbon dioxide poisoning and more. Pennsylvania’s
schools are quite literally fail in regards to
lead safety. And
because of aging
infrastructure and a lack of a comprehensive asset management plan, crumbling and toxic schools will continue to be the norm for districts
with lower funding resources. We cannot let that continue because crumbling and
toxic schools are a public health issue. I am calling on my colleagues in
Harrisburg to step up and make our children’s health and safety our top
priority. We have fought and secured millions for immediate cleanups in
Philadelphia, but we must do more and expand the scope to benefit all of our
schoolchildren.
Across the Philly School District, lockdowns happen as
frequently as every other day
An analysis
of records from the past 10 years shows there’s no real standard for how to
report these incidents, which can leave students with nightmares.
Billy Penn by Michaela Winberg Today, 7:30 a.m.
It had become an
everyday occurrence for Argelis Minaya-Bravo, as ordinary as meeting friends
over the weekend or sitting through math class. First she’d hear the gunshots.
Then, at the instruction of her fourth grade teacher, she’d climb under her
desk or cram into the coat closet with her peers. For 10 minutes, or 20, or
sometimes 45, Minaya-Bravo would wait there and listen for the rippling sound
of gunfire to turn to silence. When it did, she and her fellow 10-year-old
classmates would get back to learning, not missing a beat. By the time she graduated from Philip H.
Sheridan Elementary School in Kensington, Minaya-Bravo had mastered the
routine. In Philadelphia, school lockdowns due to neighborhood shootings are
unfortunately unremarkable. A Billy Penn analysis of district data shows that
over the last decade, Philly schools have called a lockdown as often as 1 of
every 2 weekdays, on average. During the most recent academic year, there was a
lockdown somewhere in the district almost each school day. Some parents say
they were never notified. The most common reason, according to the analysis:
gunfire in the school’s immediate area. “You kind of normalize them,” said
Minaya-Bravo, now a 19-year-old Arcadia University student. “Growing up in
Philly, it’s just something you get used to, something you’ve been experiencing
every day since elementary school.”
Pennsylvania Governor Wolf: $20 Million in PAsmart Grants
Available to Advance Science and Technology Education
Harrisburg, PA (STL.News) Building on the highly successful launch of his PAsmart initiative last
year, Pennsylvania
Governor Tom Wolf today
announced up to $20 million in grants are available to prepare students for the
fast-growing fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and
computer science (CS). “PAsmart is strategically investing in science and
technology education so students get the skills they need for emerging jobs in
high demand,” said Governor Wolf. “The grants encourage businesses and
schools to develop partnerships that focus education on the knowledge students
will need to succeed in growing industries. Through PAsmart, we are developing the most prepared and talented workforce in the
country, which will help students excel, grow the middle class, and strengthen
the economy for everyone,” he said. The governor secured $30 million for
PAsmart last year and $40 million this year. The Department of Education
will award $20 million for STEM and computer science education through PAsmart
Targeted Pre-K-12 grants and Advancing grants. The Department of Labor
and Industry will soon announce applications for $10 million for
apprenticeships and industry partnerships. Funding for career and technical
education also increased by $10 million.
“Most lawmakers, the nation’s
third-highest paid, will see increases of $1,725 to about $90,300 in base pay.
They also receive per diems, pensions and health benefits. Lawmakers in
leadership posts will top out at $141,000 for House Speaker Mike Turzai,
R-Allegheny, and Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson. The
four caucus floor leaders in the House and Senate will each make almost 130,900
while the four caucus whips and the four Appropriations Committee chairs will
receive $121,100.”
Pennsylvania
lawmakers, judges getting raises in 2020
ASSOCIATED PRESS | Monday, November 25, 2019 1:58 p.m.
HARRISBURG —
Pennsylvania state lawmakers, judges and top executive branch officials will
collect another annual salary increase in 2020, with the governor’s salary
passing $200,000 and rank-and-file lawmakers’ base salaries passing $90,000. The
salary increases come as lawmakers consider increasing Pennsylvania’s minimum
wage for the first time since 2009 and a citizen activist presses Gov. Tom Wolf
and lawmakers to increase Pennsylvania’s tax forgiveness threshold for adults
for the first time in two decades. Their salary increase for the year ahead
will be 1.9%, a figure tied by state law to the year-over-year change in the
consumer price index published by the Department of Labor for urban consumers
in the mid-Atlantic region. The boost takes effect Dec. 1 for lawmakers and
Jan. 1 for judicial and executive branch officials. The increase is about
one-third larger than last year’s increase comes at a time of steady growth in
wages for private sector workers.
Pennsylvania Democrats don’t just want to beat Trump in
2020: They want the state House back
Inquirer by Andrew Seidman, Updated: November 25, 2019- 5:07 PM
A Democratic state
senator who represents a Northeast Pennsylvania district that voted for Barack
Obama in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 dropped
his party registration last
week and declared he would caucus with Republicans in Harrisburg. The next day,
a veteran Republican state representative who represents a suburban
Philadelphia district that voted for Mitt Romney and then Hillary Clinton
announced he wouldn’t seek reelection in 2020. The developments underscored
trends that are cleaving Pennsylvania, and much of the country, along partisan
and geographic lines. Even as Democrats have taken
control of the once GOP-friendly suburbs, they’re ceding power outside major metropolitan areas, especially in
rural and white working-class communities. Democrats had considered both chambers
of the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania legislature to be prime targets for a
takeover in 2020. Winning a majority in the state Senate now looks like more of
a long shot, strategists in both parties said last week. Republicans are
expected to have a 29-21 edge there by next fall. But the
retirement of Republican State Rep. Stephen Barrar in Delaware County gave Democrats more momentum in their bid to
take control of the 203-member House. Democrats say they are targeting more
than 40 districts and need a net gain of nine seats for a House majority.
Average cost to
educate a Berks County student is $19,041
Pottstown Mercury By
David Mekeel MediaNews Group November 25, 2019
School finance is a
popular topic in Berks County. It is, after all, the birthplace and ground zero
for Pennsylvania's school property tax elimination effort. How much public
school districts charge residents, as well as how that money is being used, are
often the subjects of heated debates. Larry
Bortz of Reading asked, "What is the cost to educate a student by district
in Berks and surrounding counties?" The cost to educate a student varies
from district to district. It's impacted by a lot of things, including how many
kids are in a district, teacher contracts, transportation needs and the number
of special education students. A review of budget information and enrollment
data from the state Department of Education shows that Berks is smack dab in
the middle of the six counties that border it when it comes to per-student
spending. The county is slightly above statewide averages.
State transitional
loan for Penn Hills School District’s recovery efforts approved
Trib Live by MICHAEL DIVITTORIO | Monday, November 25, 2019 10:28 p.m.
A $1.24 million
loan designed to fund various initiatives in the Penn Hills School District’s
financial recovery process has been approved. The 10-year, no-interest
transitional loan comes through the state Department of Education. School board
members voted 7-0 to approve the loan
agreement Monday
. Board members Cathy Mowry and Kristopher Wiegand were absent. Funds will be
placed into a special account and can only be drawn with approval from
state-appointed recovery officer Dan Matsook. The loan was made available
because of the district’s state-designated status. “They make sure that there’s
money available for districts to be able to do some things and get a jump start
on things,” Matsook said of the education department. “We would be paying out
of our own funds in order to do these things to get out of recovery.” The
district is more than $172 million in debt largely due to the construction of
the high school and elementary school. The state put Penn Hills in financial
recovery status in January and appointed Matsook in February to help turn
things around.
Neshaminy School District can keep ‘Redskins’ name, but
must educate students to prevent stereotypes, state commission says
Inquirer by Maddie Hanna, Updated: November 25, 2019- 7:43 PM
The Pennsylvania
Human Relations Commission on Monday voted that the Neshaminy School District
can continue to use the name Redskins for its athletic teams, but must educate
students about Native American history to prevent stereotypes. The commission,
which met in Harrisburg, also ordered the Bucks County district to cease using
"any and all logos and imagery in the Neshaminy High School that
negatively stereotype Native Americans.” The decision was met with mixed
emotions in the community, where a years-long controversy has mirrored national
debates over whether the term is offensive to Native Americans. Some Native
Americans who contest the term as a racial slur expressed disappointment, while
proponents of keeping the name cheered on social media. While disheartened that
Redskins would stay, critics supported the commission’s requirement that the
district provide education around the term. Other community members, meanwhile,
expressed some confusion about what the decision would mean, including the
order related to logos.
Pa. state commission: Bucks County school district can
keep controversial nickname
WHYY By Aaron Moselle November 25, 2019
A yearslong fight
over a controversial school mascot in Bucks County may finally be over. The
Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission has ruled that Neshaminy School
District can continue calling some of its sports teams the “Redskins,” but must
dump any logos and imagery “that negatively stereotype Native Americans.” Under
a 6-1 decision reached Monday, the district can keep the half-century old
nickname as long as it ensures that “students do not form the idea that is
acceptable to stereotype any group.” This despite the fact that the
commissioners conceded that “Redskins” is a racial slur for Native Americans,
and commission staff agree with that assessment. “At the end of the day …
Redskins will always be a racial slur and a derogatory term. But I’m gonna use
it as an educational opportunity to work with this district,” said commission
executive director Chad Dion Lassiter. The district can appeal the decision to
Commonwealth Court.
JASON KELCE’S EAGLES EDUCATION SEASON
Each week this season, the Super Bowl-winning
offensive lineman compares Philly schools to those of our on-field
competitors—and celebrates a local education innovation. This week, he looks at
Minneapolis
Philadelphia
Citizen BY JASON KELCE
You’ve heard me say
before that there are few places as diverse as an NFL locker room. And you
already know that I think diversity is always
a win, because it
helps everyone understand and communicate with people who may
have different backgrounds or points-of-view. That’s why I love hearing that in
Minneapolis, where we’ll be playing the Minnesota Vikings this weekend, there are
welcoming schools like Wellstone
International High that
serve immigrant students for whom English is a second language. Here in Philly,
I’m inspired by Daniel Peou, the principal at Horace Furness High
School on
South 3rd Street. When Peou moved to South Philly from Cambodia when he was 13,
neither he nor his parents knew a word of English. He hadn’t received any
formal education in Cambodia, because he’d been in labor camps. Once in Philly,
he endured brutal bullying every day—from being spit on to being beat up. He
spent a full year at a school with so little ESL programming that he had no
idea what was going on—and had no way of communicating how badly he was being
attacked. Then, he transferred to Horace Furness, at the time a junior high
school. “There, I blossomed,” he says. He learned the language, and found other
immigrant students who could relate to his experiences. There was still
pervasive racial tension in the city, Peou says, but his friends found safety
and camaraderie eating lunch together in the classroom of his ESL teacher, far
from cafeteria bullies.
Does band class really help develop your brain?
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE NOV 25, 2019 8:00 AM
In 1998, the
governor of Georgia tried to fund a program that would send
every baby Georgian a
cassette tape or CD of classical music. In the ’90s, the so-called “Mozart
Effect” led to a marketing wave pushing gullible parents to play the Austrian
composer’s music for their children, even though the study that inspired the
term wasn’t even about children. In hindsight, this is obviously bonkers,
right? And yet the idea that listening to classical music makes you smarter
remains weirdly
persistent to
this day. Neuroscience has demonstrated that listening to or playing
music has a real effect on brain waves and patterns. This is most directly
applicable to music therapy, but what about music education? Current research
implies — implies, not concludes — that studying music can help children develop
spatial reasoning and listening skills and improve their concentration, but
more study is needed to fully understand this relationship. In Pittsburgh,
thousands of young people study music privately, in school and in
extracurricular organizations. So what are the real, tangible effects of
keeping music education in public schools? How is Pittsburgh’s school system
faring amid tight budgets?
PSBA Special Report –
Key ed bills sent to Gov. Wolf
POSTED ON NOVEMBER 25,
2019 IN PSBA
NEWS
It was a tough
week, but the advocacy efforts of PSBA members and staff were influential in
the fight that led to great success on Capitol Hill. Three PSBA legislative
priorities received final passage last week and are heading to the governor’s
desk. The association and our members also played a major role in halting a
damaging private school voucher bill.
- PSBA aggressively fought to defeat efforts to
pass House Bill 1800, meeting with individual legislators to emphasize the
negative impact of private school vouchers on all public schools and their
students. In addition, hundreds of public school advocates flooded the
House will emails and calls in response to PSBA's Legislative Alerts. For
more information, read PSBA's Special Legislative Report on this
week's activity on House Bill 1800.
- The general assembly passed PSBA’s suggestions
on school safety. Amendments were inserted into House Bill 49 (Rep. Brown,
R-Monroe) that authorize necessary fixes to provisions under Act 67 of
2019 regarding school safety personnel. After some continued negotiations
on specific language, the House and Senate each approved the bill that
will now go to Governor Wolf.
- In response to the need voiced by school
directors, PSBA worked with Rep. Rapp (R-Warren), Sen. Baker (R-Luzerne)
and Sen. Scavello (R-Monroe) to move legislation addressing vaping among
minors. PSBA is pleased to report that Senate Bill 473 and House Bill 97
received final votes last week and are headed to the governor.
- Legislation sought by PSBA to create a level
playing field for all school board candidates received final passage this
week and will be headed to Governor Wolf. House Bill 227 (Rep. Gabler,
R-Clearfield) amends the PA Election Code to require 10 signatures on a
petition to run for school director.
PSBA appreciates
our members continued support and engagement to better public education for all
of Pennsylvania’s students.
Education Savings Accounts: A bill to repeal Tennessee's
school voucher program now has bipartisan support
Natalie Allison, Nashville
Tennessean Published 5:00 a.m. CT Nov. 22, 2019
A bill to repeal
Tennessee's controversial school voucher program now has bipartisan support
after a Republican lawmaker this week signed on to the Democrat-backed
legislation. Rep. Bruce Griffey, R-Paris, said he became a co-sponsor on
Wednesday of a bill filed by Rep. Bo Mitchell, D-Nashville, that would put a
stop to the state's education savings account program. All House Democrats
except Rep. John DeBerry of Memphis, who supported ESAs, have signed on to the
new legislation. The House narrowly passed the voucher bill this spring, a vote
that prompted former House Speaker Glen Casada to leave the vote board open for
40 minutes while trying to find a member to change positions. The rollout
of the school voucher program has begun amid a swirl of rumors of inquiries
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
into whether improper incentives were offered in exchange for legislators'
votes.
Palm Beach County schools sue Juul; vaping scourge
draining resources
Palm Beach Post By Sonja
Isger Posted
Nov 25, 2019 at 4:44 PM
Palm Beach County
school leaders have added their voices to the chorus nationally claiming in
court that the e-cigarette manufacturer Juul has not only imperiled the health
of millions of teens but drained district resources to tackle epidemic-scale
nicotine addiction and
its fallout. In an 86-page suit filed in federal court last week, the school
district reported it has sunk time and money into creating a night class for
students suspended for vaping, redirected staff to revise the student conduct
code to explicitly prohibit e-cigarette use and conducted town hall meetings to
alert parents to the danger vaping poses. Board members agreed to research the merits of
such a suit in
October, just weeks after the first such
lawsuits were filed
by districts in Kansas, Missouri, New York and Washington. The district now is
represented by the same firm which initiated those suits, Wagstaff &
Cartmell of Kansas City, Mo. The expansive suits appear to echo one another. They
trace Juul’s roots to 2004 and a pair of Stanford graduate students, Adam Bowen
and James Monsees, both smokers at the time, who were pursuing masters’ degrees
in product design. “After interviewing fellow smokers on what they liked and
disliked about smoking traditional combustible cigarettes, Bowen and Monsees
presented on, what they called, ‘the national future of smoking,’” the suit
says. The suit outlines Juul’s campaign to lure young adults with cool imagery
reminiscent of Big Tobacco marketing schemes, but deployed with modern twists
that included social media “influencers.”
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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